Well, according to a news report I read from IsraelNationalNews 82% of Israeli youths think another Holocaust could happen.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/12925182% of the Youth: Another Holocaust is Possible
Tevet 10, 5769, 06 January 09 11:11
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) A poll of teenagers, students and soldiers conducted in 2008 by the Massuah Institute for the Study of the Holocaust finds that 82% of Israel’s youth believe another Holocaust can occur.
More significantly, however, the poll found that the youth viewed Holocaust survivors more with pity than with admiration. Massuah Director Aya Ben-Naftali says this was likely the result of the much-publicized struggle for State support for the survivors, and "we are awaiting the results of this year's poll," which is to be released this month in honor of the upcoming International Holocaust Day, on January 27.
The poll encompassed 536 respondents: 370 junior and high school students from around the country, religious and not, as well as 85 students of education and 86 IDF soldiers and officers.
Nearly three-quarters of the junior and high school students said they agree with this statement: “Most of the Holocaust survivors in Israel are helpless, and their voice in society is not heard.” Among the older respondents, more than 70% did not agree.
Only 26% of the younger respondents agreed that “most of the Holocaust survivors rebuilt their lives and made important contributions in industry, research, defense, society and culture to the State of Israel.”
Ben-Naftali was disappointed with these results: “The media publicization of the just struggle for State support of the survivors has gravely affected their image in the eyes of today’s youth. The admiration for their great wealthspring of strength and courage that allowed them to survive the horrors and rebuild their lives, has been replaced of late by an attitude of compassion and pity. The youth are not aware of the survivors’ great contributions to the establishment and growth of the State of Israel in the various disciplines of life.”
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Asked where they get their Holocaust knowledge and information from, only 12% credited their schools’ mandatory Holocaust studies. Nearly 20% said it was from movies, while 40% see the March of the Living delegations to Poland as a “central factor” in Holocaust studies (54% of the youth, and 26% of the students and soldiers).
More than 90% said Israel should lead efforts against the genocide in Darfur, while 98% of the respondents agreed that any society could perpetrate a Holocaust. Asked if they feel Israeli society is racist, 39% said yes.
“Israeli youth today do not relate to the Holocaust merely as a historic event,” Ben-Naftali said, “but also as a topic with ramifications for our lives today. They feel that any society can perpetrate a Holocaust.”
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