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A Palestinian professor who took his students on a field trip to Auschwitz has resigned after a months-long campaign of death threats, campus riots and intimidation against him.

Professor Mohammed Dajani, the head of American Studies and director of the library at Al Quds University, was denounced as a “traitor” and “collaborator” by some of his colleagues, students and members of the public, after he organized the trip to the site of the Nazi concentration camp in Poland.

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It was announced that Prof Dajani was also “fired” from the university staff union, despite never having joined the organization in the first place. Twenty-seven Palestinian students took part in the visit in March as part of a project to learn more about the Holocaust and teach tolerance and empathy.