Antisemitism in schools must be stamped out |
Antisemitism in schools must be stamped out
June 21, 2026 — 6:00am
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The news that some teachers in NSW schools are shying away from teaching the Holocaust because of pushback from students is perhaps not surprising, but it is disturbing.
History teacher Gregory Keith delved into the topic and found that almost a quarter of the fellow teachers he surveyed encountered racism and antisemitism in the classroom when the topic of the Holocaust was broached.
Teaching the Holocaust is a key part of the NSW history curriculum, but more than 10 per cent of the 80 teachers surveyed by Keith said they did not teach it in years 9 and 10.
Just over 30 per cent spend less than two hours covering it, The Sun-Herald’s education editor Christopher Harris reported.
Keith’s study, published last year before the horrific Bondi........