"Get out of Palestine!" The Polish Holocaust trip gone awry

How not to do peaceful reconciliation.

Holocaust Memorial trips to Poland are a part of the Israeli educational way of life. They haven’t necessarily given Israeli youth the most glowing of reputations in the eyes of Polish hoteliers; they cower just thinking about how their hotel rooms may end up by the time of check out. Now stereotypes are stereotypes. But the thing about stereotypes is t…