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Adam Katz: The 'Nakba' exhibit's contempt for history is worse than you think

The Canadian Museum of Human Rights left out the entire context of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war

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WINNIPEG — Rather than telling the story of the Arab refugee crisis as a tragic consequence of a complex war, the new “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights presents it as an unprovoked expulsion, encouraging visitors to view Palestinian displacement as the product of Israeli intent alone. 

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The term “Nakba,” meaning “catastrophe,” once referred to Israel’s victory over the five Arab nations that invaded it in 1948; now, at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and beyond, it’s used to refer to the Arab Palestinian interpretation of 1948 war history, which focuses almost exclusively on what the Jews did to Arabs.

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The museum’s omission-ridden narrative paints an incomplete picture, leading visitors to make faulty assumptions about both the 1948 and the current Israel-Hamas war — assumptions that have alarmingly led to a rise in support for targeted violence.

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The first assumption encouraged by the museum is that there was never an off-ramp in the lead-up to the 1948 conflict. One of the........

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