DUBAI (AP) – The United Arab Emirates will begin teaching about the Holocaust in history classes in primary and secondary schools across the country, the country’s embassy in the United States said.
The embassy provided no details on the curriculum and education authorities in the Emirates, a federation of seven sheikhdoms, on Monday did not acknowledge the announcement.
However, the announcement comes after the UAE normalized relations with the Zionist regime in 2020 as part of a deal brokered by the administration of former U.S. president Donald Trump.
“In the wake of the historic (hashtag)AbrahamAccords, (the UAE) will now include the Holocaust in the curriculum for primary and secondary schools,” the embassy said in a tweet, referring to the normalization deal that also saw Bahrain and ultimately Morocco also recognize the occupying regime.
The announcement comes as a meeting of the Negev Forum Working Groups, which grew out of the normalization, began in Abu Dhabi on Monday. Officials from Bahrain, Egypt, the Zionist regime, Morocco, the UAE and the U.S. are to attend. Egypt has diplomatically recognized the occupying regime for decades.
Other Arab nations have refused to diplomatically recognize the regime over its decades-long occupation of land Palestinians want for their future state.
The announcement by the UAE also comes after the federation and other Arab nations condemned an extremist Zionist cabinet minister for visiting a flashpoint Al-Quds holy site last week, for the first time since prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new far-right cabinet took office.