As part of the Albanese government’s heel-dragging response to the Bondi terror attack, Federal Education Minister Jason Clare vowed to embed Holocaust education in the curriculum. The aim was to give students “an understanding of the evils of anti-Semitism, of the horrors of the Holocaust and the importance of Australian values’’.
Not if the teachers have anything to do with it, though.
The Australian Education Union claims it is harder to teach about the Holocaust during war in the Middle East, despite outrage over some teachers refusing to teach Muslim students about the mass murder of six million Jews in World War II.
And that is how Bondi was allowed to happen...
The Australian Education Union has made it crystal clear where its priorities lie. Federal president Correna Haythorpe demanded “more guidance’’ from ministers because of the “diverse lived experience’’ of students, which she didn’t even have the guts to elaborate on. When pressed on whether she supported teachers refusing to teach the Holocaust to avoid upsetting Muslim students, she dodged. Instead she waffled about “complex and emotionally charged environments’’ and the need for “consistent national guidance’’ on the Middle East conflict.
By which she means, the unrepentant Islamic Antisemitism.
This is the Long March through the institutions in its final, rotten stage. Education faculties have spent decades churning out activists who view the classroom as a venue for ‘social justice’, not the transmission of hard facts. The result is a teaching workforce that treats Jewish history as optional when it clashes with imported sensitivities.
A PhD thesis by NSW history teacher Greg Keith laid bare the scale of the surrender. One teacher admitted that “the nature of his student cohort, which included a significant Arabic-speaking population … meant he was not prepared to try to have conversations about antisemitism as they might not be productive’’. Another skipped The Diary of Anne Frank entirely “because of their views on Jewish people in the Israeli-Palestine conflict’’. A third simply could not teach the Holocaust “because the (October 7) conflict had created such a volatile situation’’.
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare on Monday said “there is no place for the poison of antisemitism anywhere in our society’’.
“The Holocaust is already part of the curriculum but there is more we can do to make sure students are learning about it and the evils of antisemitism,’’ he said.
Clare seems like a decent bloke and one of the few redeemable characters in the Albanese shit-show. But he’s simply dreaming, here.
The truth is as unmistakable as it is disgusting. Teachers are not merely ideologically sympathetic to the antisemitism raging through sections of the Muslim community. They are actively terrified of it. They know that pushing back against Jew-hatred in the classroom risks real violence from students marinated in the propaganda of their mosques, social media and family networks.
So much for the endlessly repeated claim that the “peaceful majority’’ will keep the extremists in check.
This is multiculturalism’s inevitable harvest. Decades of importing incompatible cultures without any serious demand for assimilation have created parallel societies inside the same suburbs and schools. The same people who spent years branding Pauline Hanson a bigot for warning exactly this are now watching her prediction play out in real time: division, tribal loyalty and the quiet abandonment of core Western values whenever they become inconvenient to the newest arrivals.
The Albanese government’s response has been the usual performative theatre. A taskforce chaired by David Gonski will no doubt produce another report nobody reads while the same captured unions and education departments continue to nod and wink to their Muslim fellow-travellers. The problem is not lack of curriculum content. It is the ideological capture of the people who are supposed to teach it.
The fix is not another taskforce or more ‘guidance’. It is the ruthless reassertion that Australian schools exist to transmit the culture and history of the host society, not to tiptoe around every imported grievance. Multiculturalism has failed. A multiracial nation with a confident, dominant Western culture remains the only workable alternative. Everything else is just expensive self-delusion paid for in rising division and, eventually, blood.
