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Adam Katz: I visited the 'Nakba' exhibit, and it is every bit as anti-Jewish as feared

It is propaganda endorsed by the Canadian state

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WINNIPEG — Our government is officially failing Jews and Palestinians. That’s what I came away with thinking after touring the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ newest exhibit, Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present.

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At first glance, this may appear to be another disagreement over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is not. It is a question about the responsibilities of a democratic government and the values it chooses to advance through institutions that speak with its authority. A federally supported national museum is entrusted with pursuing historical truth through accuracy, balance, and scholarly rigor. It is not another advocacy organization free to advance a political narrative as settled history.

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That obligation is precisely what makes Palestine Uprooted so alarming. The exhibit, which opened to the public on Saturday, does far more than recount the “catastrophe” of mass Palestinian displacement during the 1948 Arab Israeli War, as the official website’s definition of the “Nakba” term states. It’s important to note that this definition has only been in popular use for about 40 years. Originally, the Arabic term was used to describe the Arab League’s embarrassing military defeat largely at the hands of Jewish socialist farmers, Holocaust survivors, and former refugees, all with little international support.

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Rather than inviting Canadians to wrestle with one of the world’s most complex conflicts, it teaches visitors to understand the conflict as solely a consequence of Israel’s creation. In doing so, genuine Palestinian........

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