We were certainly surprised to learn about the Arab Institute for Holocaust Research and Education. It’s run by Israeli-Arab lawyer Khaled Kasab Mahameed, whose goal is “to educate Palestinians about the Jewish Holocaust,” according to the New Nation (Bangladesh):
Mahameed’s epiphany on the Holocaust occurred three years ago, when he took his two children to see the massive 20-foot high concrete wall that Israel has erected around parts of Jerusalem to keep out Palestinians. It is so high in places that it seems to slice in half the blue sky. “I told my son to break off a piece of the wall as a souvenir. It was very difficult, and while he was trying, I asked myself, what would drive the Israelis to do such a thing to us, build such a monstrosity as this wall?” He gathered his son and daughter and drove them to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum. “It was very moving. I couldn’t breathe. Six million, it’s like something off another planet,” he recalls.