ALGEMEINER
By Joshua Levitt
April 29, 2014
Muslim praying at Auschwitz
“I believe our trip made a big crack in the Palestinian wall of ignorance and indifference about the Holocaust. The recent statement by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recognizing the Holocaust as the ‘most heinous crime’ against humanity in modern history made another crack. Perhaps one day soon this wall will collapse.”
The program, entitled ‘From Stone to Flesh,’ was a joint effort of three institutions, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena; Tel Aviv University; and Ben Gurion University of the Negev, along with a Palestinian civil-society group founded by Dajani called “al-Wasatia,” which means “moderation” in Arabic.
Barakat said the week-long trip to Poland was funded by the German Research Foundation. Al-Quds University, Dajani’s home institution, played no role in the program, she said.
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