A German fund established to compensate victims of forced labor under the Nazis sponsored a project that produced anti-Israel propaganda.
The Memory, Responsibility and Future Fund sponsored an exchange program between high school students in Nazareth and eastern Germany. The students prepared a booklet of anti-Semitic propaganda and drawings at the end of the program, the Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Achronot reported.
The booklet was to compare the educational rights of young Germans and Israeli Arabs. Instead, it questioned Israel’s right to exist, according to the newspaper.
The fund, a joint effort of German industry and government, was established 11 years ago after international pressure forced large German industrial companies to agree to compensate Jewish and non-Jewish forced laborers during World War II. — jta