LONDON: Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has called for the genocide in Gaza to be taught in schools.
The 22-year-old, speaking while participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla that is delivering humanitarian aid to Palestine, said: “I think (schools) should bring up early warning signs of genocide, such as the Holocaust, and apply those to what we are currently seeing to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
“The current education systems have absolutely failed us in teaching an understanding of the historic times we are living in.”
Teaching pupils about the Holocaust as part of the high school history curriculum is a legal requirement in England. Schools also mark Holocaust Memorial Day on Jan. 27 in commemoration of the millions of people murdered during the Second World War by the Nazis, as well as the victims of later genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
Thunberg said that she had been inspired by the example of British people who have protested against the UK government ban on the activist group Palestine Action, The Times newspaper reported.
