Genocide confronted

Martin Chulov | July 24, 2008 ONCE a month for the past year, Khaled Kassab Mahamid has driven into the West Bank carrying a red plastic folder brimming with photos as evidence to convince Palestinians of an event he considers to be the most instructive in their history: the Holocaust. Mahamid, an Israeli Arab Muslim, pins up aged prints of Nazi atrocities on the wall of any town hall that will receive him and begins to speak about a subject few in his audience have heard of, let alone confronted. Two hours later, he surveys the room for a reaction. Few of the 100 or so who gather to hear his message have received an education about the Holocaust and its effects on the 20th century. Most of those who know anything about it cling to a world view cloaked in conspiracy. Many believe the carnage is exaggerated; others think it... [read full story]