Posted on 04/14/2026 5:57:35 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
When Murad Awadallah, 55, from the village of Ein Naqquba west of Jerusalem, used to pass by the nearby Yad Vashem museum, he thought the Holocaust was “a closed club of today’s elite — people who came from Germany and other European countries.
We, the Arabs, did not enter the museum, because we didn’t know what it was about or what it had to do with us,” he recalls. “For me, it was an internal discourse among Jews, unrelated to me.”
“I first heard about the Holocaust from my father...He told me about a friend he worked with — an Auschwitz survivor who had a number tattooed on his arm. Later, in 11th grade, I studied a lesson on the Holocaust as part of Land of Israel studies and Jewish history — just to check a box, studying between seven and 14 pages in the history books. That was it.”
Years later, Awadallah became a lawyer fluent in five languages, working with the Foreign Ministry and teaching Arabic and Islamic culture. Then, eight years ago, an unexpected job offer changed his life — and his relationship with the tragedy of the Jewish people.
“In 2018, a friend named Nati Brooks told me there was a job tailored for me — and that it was important I start working at Yad Vashem..."
Awadallah applied and was accepted as coordinator for Arabic-speaking audiences at Yad Vashem where he was responsible for guides, development, content and adapting materials into Arabic.
“As I immersed myself in the Holocaust, I realized there is something we Arabs do not know… I understood that the Holocaust is not properly accessible to Arabs.”
“When I set foot in Auschwitz for the first time, I saw darkness and blood… an image that never leaves me.”
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It would be healthy for Arabs to watch the movie Schindler’s list.
In that spirit, I posted this story yesterday:
Schindler in Persian: Iranian heroes who painted the Holocaust with light
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4374766/posts
It would be healthy for Muslim Arabs to be intellectually honest and admit their Grand Mufti of Jerusalem’s role in killing Jews in Europe and killing Jews in British Mandate Palestine.
First the Arabs (not Christians) have to pull their collective heads out of their arses and begin to join the human race for all it’s good.
Second, they have to learn this most magic of words and concept in the Western world...COMPROMISE.
They’d just masturbate.
Unlikely, as they are mired in a 7th century socio-political system based on hate of all who are not like them and masquerading as a religion.
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