The Holocaust is a very controversial subject for many different reasons but the use, and abuse, of the word/subject in Jewish/Palestinian dialogue is a matter of ongoing conflict.
In this Guardian article we see the playing out of an ongoing struggle one Palestinian academic found himself embroiled in when he took his students to Auschwitz in an attempt engage with the Jewish experience of the Holocaust.
“Mohammed Dajani knew he was on sensitive ground when he took a group of students to visit the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland in March. But it took the furore that followed to make the Palestinian academic realise that he had entered a political and psychological minefield.
Dajani resigned from his post at Jerusalem’s Al-Quds University this week after failing to win the unequivocal support of his employers in a row which highlighted the darkest taboos of the conflict with Israel and each side’s enduring sense of victimhood…”
To read the article in full please see:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/13/palestinian-professor-resigns-students-auschwitz
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