‚The Holocaust is a huge part of Israeli society. We live so close to them and we need to understand them better if we are ever to live in peace.‘
Growing up in the West Bank, Mujahid Sarsur knew next to nothing about the Holocaust and saw little ground to sympathize with a people he saw as his occupier.
But thanks to an Israeli roommate overseas, the 21-year-old Palestinian student learned about the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews during World War II and discovered a new understanding of his Israeli neighbors.
Now he wants other Arabs to do the same. Sarsur heads one of a handful of Palestinian grass-roots groups seeking knowledge about the Holocaust.
Artikel in der linksliberalen israelischen Zeitung HAARETZ vom 19. August 2010
