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  I mean, the world still holds to pretty regionalised history teaching. The Cambodian regime and its massacres is just as much world history as the Holocaust, but it's hardly taught in European or American schools. In the West, people tend to focus on the holocaust a lot, and it's of course deservedly, but it's still a genocide campaign by Europeans, against Europeans, in European soil, so non-Westerners don't exactly feel the same connection to the event as Westerners do, in much the same way Westerners don't feel connected to the Cambodian genocide.
context: I have to admit to some cynicism at the headline, but the article backs it up in a pretty uplifting way. 
  
  According to the embassy, the content of the studies on Nazi Germany's genocidal murder of six million Jews during World War II will be developed in collaboration with Israel's official Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and will be included in the curriculum of primary and secondary school students.
  
  That’s progress, real progress. >
  
  Whoa. That’s actually a pretty big deal. A mostly Islamic middle eastern country working directly with Israel to teach about history that affects an opposing religion and that disproportionately affects Jews/Israel? Definitely progress. >
  
  Judaism and Islam are not opposing religions. Many Arab countries, including the UAE, have small Jewish populations, some of which are growing.
  Don't mistake Arab animosity towards Israel as a country for animosity towards the Jewish people writ-large. >
  
  
  Many Arab countries, including the UAE, have small Jewish populations,
  
  3 countries isn't many, and non of them have more than 2000 people. 800,000 Jews used to live in the Arab world, but not anymore - all were ethnic cleansed.
  
  Don't mistake Arab animosity towards Israel as a country for animosity towards the Jewish people writ-large.
  
  They don't see the difference either. >
  
  Odd. A lot of my Googling leads to the ethnic cleansing of several hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Palestine, but I’m struggling to find much information about ethnically cleansed Jews from Arab countries except from Jewish sources.
  So far, from what I’ve gathered, the Arab world feared Jews would strengthen the “Zionist movement”, that they saw as a threat, and prohibited Jews from leaving Arab countries in fear they would move to Israel. Some allowed emigration, and others had forced expulsion, such as after the events of the Suez Crisis, whereby Israel, backed by the UK and France, invaded Egypt. Iraq prohibited Jews from leaving until the 1990’s. Suggesting that the animosity towards Jews were less about Jews, at least on a state level, and more geared towards anti-Zionism. I’ve found instances where Jews were attacked in Arab countries, so I understand that many, if not all, Jews lived in fear when they were forced to remain where they were.
  Do you have any non-Jewish sources that I can use for a clearer picture as to what happened? I’m only seeing half the story. It’s important to look at a wide variety of sources in order to have an informed view of what happened. >
  
  Emirati guy here, holocaust was always taught in school. This is news because it's in partnership with isreal. >
  
  ? I know someone who taught in a school there, they were not allowed to mention it, to mention Israel, to show any jewish symbols, or the Israeli flag....the gov had really strict requirements as to what was prohibited.
  I'm glad its changing, but it was still restricted when they left about 4 years ago. >
  
  I attended kindergarten to highschool (american and British schools) in Dubai and everything you stated is correct. No mention of the Holocaust at all and Israel was by law blacked out on every map, atlas or Globe >
  
  Sounds like an awful backwards country. >
  
  Well it's changing, as per the news article. >
  
  Let's see them out Israel on a map. >
  
  Is teaching accurate history ever a bad thing. >
  
  Depends on your point of view. Accurate history gets in the way of the necessary illusions of societies. 
  Many in the us would be very uncomfortable with the reality that the word “oligarch” could be used to describe most of the founding fathers. That our society at its conception was based on the very richest man being the most powerful. Both in the military, and then politically. Defining the transition from monarchy to “democracy”
  Or I could give some accurate information on the famine in Ukraine back around ww2. 
  Some very unkind things would be said to me for stating some historical facts about a genocide and the demographics of the people committing it. 
  Every group of people has dirty laundry. We almost unanimously get angry and deny historical truths we do not like and could be used agaisnt us. 
  Truths get people killed every day >
  
  You are absolutely right sir. Good points. I share your pain. For example I love American Civil War history. I try to read a lot of primary sources on why soldiers on both sides volunteered.  I get skewered up north for expressing the reasons the rank and file confederate soldiers signed up. >
  
  As a yankee bastard. I would be curious to hear some nuance on the reasons confederate enlisted fought. >
  
  Well, that would open pandoras box. I'm also considered a Yankee from mass and vt. But I live in the South now. But that has nothing to do with how I formed my opinions, except I'm a member of the Brunswick County Civil War round table. It's one of the largest left in the US. It is bipartisan, and many of its members are from the north. Our monthly meetings and lectures attract 200 to 300 attendees. Up north, i saw nothing even close. Down here, the ACW is remembered. We live amongst parts of cities that were only rebuilt in the 1890s and, in some cases, the early 1900s. They remember it down here because it was fought on their home ground. In the same way, we remember Rev war in mass.
  As to reasons confederates fought IMO it depends on whether they came from the planter class or were a yeoman farmer. Its a broad statement, but I believe the planter class and politicians absolutely believed in slavery and believed abolition would destroy their way of life. And most of them were racist as hell (but not all). The outback farmer or tradesmen did not own or depend on slaves. They hated the planter class and couldn't care less about blacks or slavery. BUT, when the North invaded the South after Lincolns first mobilization, it was a rush by all male southern men to enlist to protect their states from the barbarian yankees. We call it vain glory or war fever. Anyway, that's enough. This subject is hotly debated today, but there is a civil way to discuss it. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 77%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  This initiative comes just over two years after the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel and the UAE and following the establishment of the first and only Holocaust museum in the Arab world in Dubai.
  The UAE's decision to integrate studies about the Holocaust into its schools marks the first ever time an Arab country introduces the subject into the education system of its own volition.
  The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education, a pro-Israel organization that monitors school textbooks for antisemitism and anti-Israel bias, mentioned in November the introduction of the Holocaust in the Emirati school curricula.
  
  
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  Hooray on teaching history? >
  
  History classes are usually focused on the history of the respective region. 
  In Germany at least, the more recent the history, the smaller the region we learned about was. In ancient history we learned about Egyptians, Greeks and Romans mostly. In the middle ages and beginning of the modern times it was very much focused on the HRE with a bit of British Empire mixed in. With regards to 19th century and 20th century we almost only learned about German history. 
  I do not remember learning a single word on for example the Armenian genocide, the Native American genocide, the Pacific theater of WWII or anything at all about Asia, South America or Africa really. >
  
  Not teaching the Holocaust is like teaching about objects that orbit Earth and leaving out the Moon…it’s world history, not regional.