The government commissioner Felix Klein calls for improvements in teacher training on the subject of anti-Semitism. He also wants compulsory reporting of anti-Semitic incidents in schools.
The federal government’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, has warned against hatred of Jews in German schools and has called for improvements in teacher training. “We are finding that anti-Semitism is also being spread in schools,” Klein told the newspapers of the Funke media group. “It comes not only from the students, but also from the teachers. There are sometimes terrible comments – everywhere in the classroom.” You have to act urgently.
The government commissioner called for a nationwide obligation to report anti-Semitic incidents in schools. Dealing with anti-Semitism and racism must become a mandatory, exam-relevant part of teacher training throughout Germany. And thirdly, you have to take a close look at how schoolbooks explain Judaism.
In some school books, Jewish life is described “as it was 2,000 years ago: boys read the Torah and girls grind grain,” Klein criticized. “There are also devastating pictorial representations, for example in religious books: Jews listening to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount are portrayed somberly.” This often happens unconsciously, but it shouldn’t get stuck in the children. “School books must make it clear that Jews belong to Germany.”
Source: Stern
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