A group of Palestinian students and their professor who visited Auschwitz in March have returned home to sharp criticism from their university, The Washington Post reports.
Dr. Mohammed Dajani, a professor at the Palestinian Al-Quds University, lead a group of 27 students on what may have been the first organized visit of Palestinian students to a Nazi concentration camp. The program — entitled Hearts of Flesh – Not Stone — came about as part of a joint program on Reconciliation and Conflict Resolution run by the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Hareetz reports.