Khaled Kasab Mahameed

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Khaled Kasab Mahameed is an Arab Israeli Muslim lawyer living in Nazareth. In March 2005 he established The Arab Institute for the Holocaust Research and Education, a Holocaust Memorial located in Nazareth. The small museum documents the horrors of the Holocaust, showcasing photographs acquired from Yad Vashem, the world-renown Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. The Arab Institute for the Holocaust Research and Education along with its website [1] was established by Mahameed in order educate Arabs about the Holocaust.[2] According to Mahameed the museum is the first of its kind.[3] He regards educating Arabs on the Holocaust as a contribution to promoting Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Mahameed has been criticized from the Arab side e.g. for focusing on Isreali problems rather than the problems of the Palestinian people,[4] as well as for instance by the Anti Defamation League (ADL), which accuses him of making an improper connection between the situation of the Palestinians and the Holocaust. The ADL argues that Mahameed's museum generates the impression that Palestinians are suffering as a result of the Holocaust by having to accept an illegal Israeli state, which the ADL regards as anti-Israeli.[5][6] Since, ADL's senior associate national director Kenneth Jacobson has described the initiative as "very good", after visiting Khaled Kasab Mahameed and his museum.[7]