Daily Times

Former justice minister of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Mohammed al-Issa led a prayer at Auschwitz concentration camp to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the former concentration camp. A video showing the prayer has gone viral on Twitter.

The press release stated that Issa headed a delegation of 62 Muslims in which 25 were prominent religious leaders. The committee claimed that it was the first time in decades that a senior Islamic leadership delegation visited Auschwitz. Whereas, the AJC delegation comprised 24 people, including AJC President Harriet Schleifer, past president John Shapiro and his wife, Dr Shonni Silverberg, and Roberta Baruch and Steven Zelkowitz, members of AJC’s Executive Council.

A post of the Muslim World League’s Twitter feed showed Jews and Muslims praying side by side at the site in southern Poland.

Al-Issa’s outreach to Jewish organisations coincides with a broader alignment of interests and ties emerging between the Arab Gulf states and Israel, which share a common foe in Iran.

On Friday, members of the delegation visited the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and attended Muslim and Jewish religious services there.