AKEL described the Education Ministry’s student creative expression contest on the Holocaust and its victims as a praiseworthy initiative. New generations must learn the truth about the misanthropic nature of Hitlerite fascism and the unimaginable barbarities it inflicted on humanity, with Jews as the primary victims.
However, co-organising the contest with the Embassy of Israel, a state currently answerable before international criminal justice for the crime of genocide it commits in Gaza, reverses all logic. It insults the very victims of the Holocaust and aligns Cyprus with the perpetrators of contemporary crimes against humanity.
The Ministry of Education should realise that Holocaust memory must serve truth while educating consciences that neither accept nor justify new genocides, ethnic cleansing or atrocities against civilians and children.
Millions of Jews worldwide oppose the Israeli state’s crimes against Palestinians, something the Ministry and the Christodoulides government apparently fail to grasp. Meanwhile, today’s far-right, the political descendants of the Holocaust perpetrators, openly side with Netanyahu and his brutal war against the Palestinian people.
AKEL calls on the Education Ministry to end co-organisation of the contest with the Israeli Embassy and continue it without elements that offend and undermine the messages it should convey.
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