Human Rights Museum's Palestinian Displacement Exhibit 'Falls Short of the Facts,' Report Claims

Human rights museum's Palestinian displacement exhibit 'falls short of the facts,' report claims

A new study claims that the Nakba exhibit at the Canadian Human Rights Museum “falls short of the facts,” arguing that the displacement of Palestinian people was the result of a complex conflict that forced hundreds of thousands of Jews and Arabs alike from their homes. In a report co-written by David Bercuson and Logan Jaspers for the Calgary-based Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy, the authors lay out a detailed history of the causes and …

David Bercuson: Human rights museum can still admit Nakba exhibit distorts history

The museum refuses to name the consultants who contributed to the exhibit. Its supporters claim that the government, which owns and funds the museum, should have nothing to say about the exhibits that are put on by it, even though Culture Minister Marc Miller, who visited the exhibit at the time of its opening, criticized aspects of the exhibit, specifically that it should have identified Hamas as a terrorist organization and that it should have…