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David Bercuson: Human rights museum can still admit Nakba exhibit distorts history

When the Canadian War Museum faced similar controversy, it engaged experts and corrected its mistakes

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The Canadian Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg has been under much scrutiny since the opening of its “Nakba” exhibit on June 27.  (The “Nakba” is the controversial term used by Israel detractors to assert that the exodus of 700,000 Arabs from Israel in the 1947-1948 war was a war crime).

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One way of looking at the actions of the museum is to contrast it with the actions of the Canadian War Museum in the early 2000s when faced with a controversy of its own. Both museums report to Parliament through the minister responsible for Canadian Identity and Culture, both are Crown corporations. The war museum controversy ended with contrition and correction, in sharp contrast to the attitude of the human rights museum to criticism it is now facing.

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In the case of the Canadian War Museum, a large exhibit displaying the story of the Allied bombing of Germany in the Second World War contained a wall display that asserted — correctly — that the Commonwealth Air Forces (including the Royal........

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