For the “what the.” file, from the Daily Mail:
Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a [British] Government-backed study has revealed.
It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.
In the U.S., in most jurisdictions there isn’t a significant problem with teaching evolution in science classes, even when a nontrivial portion of the population denounce the concept, in the name of religion You’d think it would be a no-brainer to teach about perhaps the greatest atrocity in history even if it steps on the toes of one or two folks.
If there’s a concern about offending sensibilities, perhaps balancing the holocaust in the curriculum could be remembering to discuss the Palestinians’ point of view in the founding of the State of Israel, background that is very useful to understanding a nontrivial part of the current political situation in the Middle East .