Activist Thunberg calls for teaching about the Gaza genocide: I didn't learn about Palestine in schools.

Environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who participated in the "Madeleine" ship mission and was arrested by the Israeli occupation, called for teaching school children about the genocide in Gaza.

In statements made by the Swedish activist, reported by The Times correspondent Georgia Lambert, she urged schools to stop teaching false narratives that ignore or distort the facts of genocide.

Thunberg spoke days before two ships from the fleet were targeted in a drone airstrike while docked in a Tunisian port. It was reported that one of them was flying the British flag.

Thunberg (22 years old) said: "I believe that schools should highlight the early warning signs of genocide, such as the Holocaust, and apply them to what we are currently witnessing to ensure it does not happen again" and "we must teach children from a young age that this is a very dangerous slope. It is crucial to understand the reality of our world if we want to change it."

She added, "Current education systems have completely failed to teach us an understanding of the historical times we live in and to learn from history to prevent these things from happening over and over again."

In England, teaching the Holocaust is a legal requirement in Key Stage 3, and the Labour Party's review of the curriculum and assessment is examining how to ensure all young people receive a broad and comprehensive education.

The Department for Education states that schools can teach a wide range of issues, including difficult or controversial topics, but insists that this must follow strict rules regarding political balance and integrity.

Schools across Britain commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27, which marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.

On Holocaust Memorial Day, millions of victims who fell, as well as victims of Nazi persecution and subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur, are remembered.

Thunberg, who gained fame at the age of fifteen for organizing a school strike demanding the Swedish government take climate action, said she was inspired by the protests in the UK against the government's ban on the "Palestine Movement."

She said: "I was inspired by the massive mobilization happening in the UK for the people of Palestine, from which I believe we can learn a lot" and "people of all ages, not just camp students, but also those brave enough to face terrorism charges just for saying they support the Palestine Movement, the UK government is a disgrace to everything we know."

She said: "I did not learn in school about what was happening in Palestine, because it was always portrayed as a conflict. Then when you discover that this is genocide and occupation and apartheid and ethnic cleansing, that is not what we learned in school at all."

Genocide is defined under international law as acts committed with the intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, in whole or in part.

While the British government refuses to consider what is happening in Gaza as genocide according to this definition, a special committee at the United Nations found that Israel's actions in Gaza "align with the characteristics of genocide."

Nevertheless, Thunberg argued that "the occurrence of genocide cannot be denied."

She also spoke about her struggles with "anxiety and depression due to climate change."

She said: "We learned that to change this situation, we can provide paper and turn off the lights to save energy. It was like a light pat on the back, as if we were saying: 'No, no, don't exaggerate, don't worry about anything, everything is under control,' while it was very clear that we are not in control of anything. That was a kind of extreme arrogance."

She followed her school's advice and then became a vegetarian, which led her to avoid flights and reduce her consumption before engaging in political activism.

She said: "The best remedy for anxiety and feeling overwhelmed is to take concrete action about it."