British high school pupils were asked to explain bias against Jews in an official religious studies exam, British media reported on Friday.
More than a thousand religious studies students sitting a General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exam last Thursday, set by one of the U.K’s three major examination boards, AQA, were asked, “Explain, briefly, why some people are prejudiced against Jews.”
Education Secretary Michael Gove told the U.K.’s Jewish Chronicle that suggesting that “anti-Semitism can ever be explained, rather than condemned, is insensitive and, frankly, bizarre,” adding that the examination board needed to explain how and why this question was included in an exam paper. Read more.
All behavior is explainable. Just because something is explainable doesn’t mean it’s justifiable, and without explaining why a behavior happens it makes it very hard to change it. It’s like saying “cancer is alway bad” but not investigating its causes. You can’t prevent it without knowing where it comes from. Just because we know the causes of cancer doesn’t make cancer acceptable.
Source: haaretz
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