Required Education on the Holocaust and Genocide (NE and IA)

Required Education on the Holocaust and Genocide (NE and IA)

The Issue

To require the educational institutions in Nebraska and Iowa to make it mandatory to teach, acts of genocide across the globe in history and social science curriculum frameworks for United States and world history to address the notion that national, ethic, racial, or religious hatred can overtake any nation or society, leading to calamitous consequences. To reinforce that lesson, such curriculum unit shall include, but not be limited to, the Nazi atrocities of 1933 to 1945 known as the Holocaust, the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine known as Holodomor, the Armenian Genocide, the Pontian Greek Genocide, and more recent atrocities in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan. The studying of this material is a reaffirmation of the commitment of free peoples from all nations to never again permit the occurrence of another genocide and a recognition that crimes of genocide continue to be perpetrated across the globe as they have been in the past, and to deter indifference to crimes against humanity and human suffering wherever they may occur.

 

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The Issue

To require the educational institutions in Nebraska and Iowa to make it mandatory to teach, acts of genocide across the globe in history and social science curriculum frameworks for United States and world history to address the notion that national, ethic, racial, or religious hatred can overtake any nation or society, leading to calamitous consequences. To reinforce that lesson, such curriculum unit shall include, but not be limited to, the Nazi atrocities of 1933 to 1945 known as the Holocaust, the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine known as Holodomor, the Armenian Genocide, the Pontian Greek Genocide, and more recent atrocities in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan. The studying of this material is a reaffirmation of the commitment of free peoples from all nations to never again permit the occurrence of another genocide and a recognition that crimes of genocide continue to be perpetrated across the globe as they have been in the past, and to deter indifference to crimes against humanity and human suffering wherever they may occur.

 

The Decision Makers

Former Governor
2 Members
Terry Branstad
Former Governor - Iowa
Pete Ricketts
Former Governor - Nebraska
U.S. Senate
2 Members
Deb Fischer
U.S. Senate - Nebraska
Joni Ernst
U.S. Senate - Iowa
Donald Bacon
U.S. House of Representatives - Nebraska 2nd Congressional District
Mike McDonnell
Former Nebraska State Senate - District 5
Ako Abdul-Samad
Former State House of Representatives - Iowa-35

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Petition created on October 6, 2017