It is possible that some of you may have received the "In memoriam" email which claims that the UK has banned the teaching of the Holocaust because it offends Muslim students. The BBC got wind of it, got an official comment, and the claim is not true. What is true is that there is a serious vein of anti-semitism and holocaust denial in certain English Muslim communities. That truth is disturbing.
If you get one of these emails, please respond to the sender and give them the facts. If we want to memorialize the Holocaust for the foreseeable future, we must do so with a rigorous examination of the facts, not by making it into a myth. Fables are easily toppled.
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