Prime Sponsor Rep. Travis Couture, R-Allyn, said that polling, conducted following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, that showed that a fifth of Americans aged 18-29 believe the Holocaust is a myth demonstrated to him that the curriculum should be required, instead of the current “strongly encouraged.”
Amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, the bill became the center of a debate about the nature of genocide education and who should be responsible for developing this curriculum. Although some legislators say the bill’s connection by many to current events detracted from its original goal, activists say it was killed due to an inadequate investment in inclusion.
Legislators say the bill
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