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Avi Benlolo: Human rights museum's Nakba exhibit must be suspended

The Jewish community shouldn't support public projects in this climate of state-backed antisemitism

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There is a powerful and probably controversial warning to the Jewish community that comes with the so-called, “Nakba” exhibit opening at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg: the dream of opening a human rights museum in Canada by the late Israel Asper was well-intentioned and may still have a future, but these days funding public institutions must come with a buyer-beware sticker.

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The Jewish community has consistently been at the forefront of leading and participating in human rights advocacy. “Tikkun Olam,” the repair of the world, has been part of our heritage for millennia. It’s at the core of our religion. Our bible commands us to pursue justice: “Justice, justice you shall pursue” (Tzedek, Tzedek, tirdof — Deuteronomy, 16:20). Jewish women like Gloria Steinem played an outsized role in the feminist movement in the 1960s while Rabbi Abraham Heschel........

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