Israelische Gruppe verklagt kanadisches Menschenrechtsmuseum wegen „Nakba“-Ausstellung
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/legal-action-looms-over-nakba-portrayal-at-cmhr-in-winnipeg
Israelische Gruppe verklagt kanadisches Menschenrechtsmuseum wegen „Nakba“-Ausstellung
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/legal-action-looms-over-nakba-portrayal-at-cmhr-in-winnipeg
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It’s impossible to talk about human rights without talking about politics, and I don’t think the President of Shurat HaDin would accept a similar argument regarding virtually any other exhibit. Imagine trying to depoliticize a Holocaust exhibit, for example.
As an aside, the museum is a fascinating place and totally worth the visit if you’re in Winnipeg. I can’t speak for the surrounding parkland because I visited it in November and wasn’t keen to hang out on the riverbanks for any longer than I had to.
>According to the CMHR’s public description, the exhibit explores “ongoing forced displacement and dispossession of Palestinians” through artwork, artifacts, photographs, videos and personal stories from Palestinian Canadians.
Notably, the complaint does not contest that forced displacement occurred or is continuing to occur.
> Shurat HaDin argues the exhibit presents a one-sided political narrative while omitting key historical context, including Jewish historical ties to the region, Arab rejection of the United Nations partition plan, the broader regional war in 1948 and the displacement of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
I don’t see how that context in any way negates the need to discuss the forced displacement of Palestinians. Being treated poorly has never been a solid excuse to treat others poorly, particularly when they are not necessarily those who are responsible for your woes.
What happened to Jewish persons at the time was atrocious, but that does not somehow provide moral sanction for Jewish persons to harm others.
>“The creation of the State of Israel pursuant to international legal and diplomatic processes is not, in itself, a human rights violation,” the letter states.
The creation of the state may not have been while the forced displacement of individuals already living there could be considered so. These are different actions, albeit related, that ought not be conflated.
> Among its demands, the organization is calling on the CMHR to suspend work on the exhibit in its current form, commission an independent legal and scholarly review, create a more balanced advisory process and publicly clarify that the creation of Israel should not be characterized as a human rights violation.
I’m sure they would not accept anything less than full apologia for the harm done or perhaps a full _erasure_ of the harm from the exhibit; leaving in its stead only a tale of the glorious creation of the state of Israel amidst regional adversity and bigotry towards Jewish persons.
Once again the Zionists groups want to shut down free speech, expression in western countries.
The Nakba is a factual historical event. They were so proud when they carried it out, drove Palestinians into exile and and stole Palestinian lands. Why aren’t they proud of that history now? Ohh it doesn’t fit their fantastical revisionist narrative that has completely falling apart.
In my opinion this is complete bullshit. An Israeli group has no right to sue a Canadian human rights museum over a Palestinian exhibit. The point of this exhibit is to focus on Palestinian lived experiences. Consultations with Palestinian Canadians and scholars was done and that’s for you consult if you want to show Palestinian lived experiences.
>The legal group further alleges the exhibit could create a “hostile or poisoned environment” for Jewish Canadians
I’m not a hate crime expert but i’m pretty confident people going to a human rights museum would have enough understanding that committing hate crimes or spreading hate is not right and would be counterproductive to the exhibits goals