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Exhibit on Displaced Palestinians Set to Open at Human Rights Museum Amid Criticism
The multimedia display centers Palestinian Canadian voices and includes replicas of property deeds, house keys and video interviews, while critics say it lacks broader historical context.
- On Saturday, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights opens 'Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present' to the public, featuring personal artifacts and video testimonials from Palestinian Canadians displaced during the 1948 Nakba.
- Representing the forced displacement of about 750,000 Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the exhibit results from four years of development addressing the underrepresentation of Palestinian Canadian stories at the museum.
- Longtime museum board trustee Mark Berlin resigned earlier this week, alleging the exhibit promotes an 'activist ideological narrative,' while Jewish advocacy groups criticized it for omitting the estimated 850,000 Jews displaced from Arab countries.
- Defending the project on Friday, CEO Isha Khan stated, 'Sharing the experiences of one community doesn't diminish or negate the experience of another,' and encouraged critics to view the display, which runs at least two years.
- The museum's second-floor gallery already acknowledges the 1948 displacement of Jewish people in its timeline of 100 historical moments, and the institution has committed to telling further stories of Jewish displacement.
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Jewish groups expressed their concerns that the exhibition could fuel anti-Semitism.
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Exhibit on displaced Palestinians set to open at human rights museum amid criticism
WINNIPEG - The head of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights says it's unfortunate a trustee resigned over an exhibit about displaced Palestinians but she stands by the decision for
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