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Terry Newman: Is anyone responsible for the Nakba exhibit's anti-Zionist propaganda?

Museum erases history, yet no one — from the CEO to Miller and Carney — has taken responsibility

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This past weekend, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) unveiled “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present,” and the exhibit turned out to be exactly what critics had feared. Instead of providing a balanced historical examination, the exhibit memory-holes key context — including Arab rejection of the UN partition plan and the full scope of the 1948 war — in favour of a politicized, one-sided narrative that focuses on catastrophe and “ongoing dispossession.” And I didn’t even have to visit the exhibit to reach this conclusion. The proof is right there on the museum’s website for anyone willing to compare it with the full historical record.

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The CMHR’s website refers to the exhibit as “a moving exploration of the ongoing forced displacement of Palestinians.” But what it moves people with is not history, but narratives, personal stories and emotional videos. Notably, the small portion of history that the exhibit — which the museum plans to run for almost two and a half years — includes exists in a vacuum.

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