Aziz Abu Sarah
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And you can hear a pin drop in the room.
Nobody knew how to deal with it.
And then my good friend, our good friend, Ramil Hanan, whose father was in Auschwitz, he stood up and he said, I don't want you to believe in something you never learned about.
If you're willing, I'll have my dad, who was in Auschwitz, take you to the Holocaust Memorial and walk you through it and listen to the story.
Listen to what he went through.
And that's what we did.
70 other Palestinians went with my dad to the Holocaust Memorial with the parent circle who organized this.
And it was incredible.
It wasn't easy.
There were moments that were very tense.
A whole day, people cried, people were hurt at times, people were upset at times.
Two weeks later,
the Israelis a week or two later in the same organization came and said,
You did this.
We want to do the same.
Can we come to a Palestinian village that was destroyed in 1948?
We want to hear your story.
And again, it was not easy.
It was really difficult.
But unless we ask the difficult questions, unless we're willing to not just walk on eggshells, which many people do, even the peace movement sometimes, we can't walk on eggshells.