Israel-based Nonprofit Sows Seeds of Peace Between Peoples Divided by Centuries of Conflict

Arabs and Israelis travel together through an immersive program of Jewish history and Holocaust education.

Sharaka delegates participate in the March of the Living, a two-mile walk from Auschwitz I to Auschwitz II, Poland, on April 24, 2025. Courtesy of Sharaka

“There’s this thing called Jewish propaganda, where they say that a German leader killed six million Jews … But he actually should have done it, because they are evil.”

Those haunting words, spoken by his uncle when Luai Ahmed was a teen, marked his first introduction to the Holocaust.