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Canadian Museum for Human Rights opens ‘Nakba’ exhibit amid pushback from Jewish leaders
After weeks of backlash from Jewish groups and leaders, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights this weekend opened its exhibit on the Nakba, the narrative of Palestinian defeat and displacement upon Israel’s founding. The Winnipeg, Manitoba, exhibit is called “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” and features photography, poetry and everyday objects that document the […]
A Jewish hero’s elevation to the French Panthéon uncorks simmering divisions over who wears the mantle of resistance
The symbolic internment in France’s Pantheon mausoleum of Marc Bloch, the Jewish French scholar and World War II resistance fighter executed by the Nazis, has been haunted by persistent divisions over who in France gets to commemorate the terrors of its Nazi occupation. Bloch’s descendants asked the government to ban far-right leaders — who have […]
