More and more, communities across the United States and the world are getting a better understanding of where Tim Walz stands exactly on the topic of Holocaust education.
The Minnesota Governor and running mate of Vice President, Kamala Harris, is currently on the campaign trail while news stories and headlines are beginning to shed some light on his strong experience and background in public education in the Midwest, where Walz emphasized the importance of genocide and Holocaust education. According to The Jewish Agency, while teaching in Nebraska Walsh was part of an inaugural conference of U.S. educators convened by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and also wrote a thesis in Minnesota arguing for changes in Holocaust education.
Both of those acts led to Walsh's next move as Governor of Minnesota: backing a push to mandate teaching about the Holocaust schools in the state, as his consistent advocacy and fight for Holocaust education remains rooted in a long personal history with the Jewish community.
It's one thing to delve into the complex history of past holocausts. It's something else to navigate the troubling talks and questions that arise from students, staff, or the general public for that matter when analyzing present day actions and incidents like that that took place at the Nova Music Festival near Gaza. Which brings up the question: How do we tell the story of the Holocaust after October 7?
Walz's name may not have stolen headlines after Harris announced him as her running mate in pursuit of the presidency, but the further people look into his academic accomplishments and learn about Governor Walz -- and in particular his open understanding and insight about antisemitism, genocide, and the Holocaust -- the more Jewish communities are realizing that the focus on Holocaust education should be a front-and-center conversation for this coming election.
It just might shed some light on an area that needs serious illuminating.
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