Arab teachers and Holocaust education: Arab teachers study Holocaust education in Israel

This article examines whether a change has taken place in the attitude of Arab teachers in Israel towards Holocaust education following an in-service study course. The research findings show that after the course the teachers had a better understanding of what took place during the Holocaust and their willingness to know about the tragedy that befell the Jewish people in the Holocaust increased. Nevertheless, the study indicates that the major difficulty with Holocaust education for Arab teachers derives from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and from the teachers' difficulty in ceasing to view the Holocaust and the ' Nakba ' [the Arab downfall in 1948] as equivalent tragedies.