i

They say, 'As we stand
beside your graves, we
;71edge that we will always
defend the State of Israel,
and will never leave it,' and
then they read the 'reply' of
the dead: 'Yes, this is what
we command you to do.' "
Holocaust survivors travel
with the students, said Mr.
Segev, "and I remember that
one, who was the head of the
Kach office in Beersheba,
told them that the lesson of
the Holocaust was that
Arabs have no place in
Israel. And you can't argue
with her because she's a
Holocaust survivor."
Teachers accompanying
the students, said Mr. Segev,
have quite a bit of say in the
,__c.ontent of the visits, but
they must still comply with
the ministry's basic outline.
The tour he joined had
students from "a good, lib-
eral school in Jerusalem"
who asked their teachers,
"Why do we have to wave
the Israeli flag all the time?"
Mr. Segev said he asked a
tour official why students
were required to wear purple
sweatshirts with "Israel"
printed on them. The official
replied, "So people on the
streets of Poland will know
they're still alive."
The visits, said Mr. Segev,
teach that anti-Semitism
caused the Holocaust, that
its lessons are that Jews are
never safe from their
murderous enemies, and
that Israel can never be too
militaristic or too suspicious.

Students on the trips
learn, he said, "that Arabs
are the new Nazis, and that
Israel is a victim forever.
They also get the notion that
anything the government of
Israel does, if it can be inter-
preted as serving the securi-
ty needs of the state, is
O.K."
Mr. Segev added that the
trips totally ignore the
other, "universal" lesson of
the Holocaust — that all
civilized human beings, in-
cluding non-Germans and,
even, Jews, are capable of
the hatreds that created it
since it was perpetrated by
"civilized human beings"
overcome by racism.
"A trip to Auschwitz," he
said, "can also teach
students to protect democ-
racy and human rights, to
fight racism, and to come
back with a higher estima-
tion of the Israeli law that
says they must disobey il-
legal orders in the Army."
Ms. Aloni would like to
transform the concentration
camp visits into something
more along the lines that
Mr. Segev recommends. ❑

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