"My dad never had a problem with telling the whole story. I think he'd be disgusted at how the telling of this story has become weaponized in the antisemitism game."

"The Palestinians were offered a state, their own state, and rejected it. Not only did they reject it, but they also attacked Israel and started a war. They lost the war. Start a war, lose a war and now I;m going to be the victim, just like October 7."

"It's putting the fox in the henhouse. They were all partisans. There are historical facts that are facts, not feelings. We've moved into the realm of feelings, not facts."

"This is a highly, highly sophisticated, organized propaganda machine that has been making the Palestinians victims for a very, very long time."

"And now they've got the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, hook, line and sinker, with no serious critical context or analysis." 

David Asper, Winnipeg lawyer, businessman

 

"As a national, publicly funded institution, the CMHR has yet to provide a meaningful resolution to the concerns raised through numerous communications and meetings aimed at upholding national standards and addressing community concerns."

"National institutions must be held accountable. At a time of rising antisemitism and extremism, the museum must not be instrumentalized in service of a dangerous political agenda."

"Its very legitimacy depends on its leadership's ability to demonstrate rigorous adhesion to the highest standards of professionalism and integrity." 

Gustavo Zentner, vice-president, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs 

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Photo by Richard White for Postmedia

 

Nothing, it appears, will dissuade the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) from proceeding with its monumentally controversial Nakba exhibit set to open on June 27. 'Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present' is meant to be an exploration of the 'ongoing forced displacement and dispossession of Palestinians' -- according to the CMHR advance publicity -- through artwork, photographs, video testimonies and personal stories from Palestinian-Canadians. 

 

In response to a formal legal threat from Shurat HaDin, Israeli advocacy group, and calls emanating from Jewish organizations to pause and review the exhibit, Amanda Gaudes, the museum's spokesperson, and Isha Khan, the museum's chief executive officer, remain unmoved and determined to proceed with an exhibit that is geared to demonize a legitimate state, re-established on its own authentic ancestral land, which Palestinian colonizers claim as theirs and theirs alone. Palestinian public relations present themselves as hapless, helpless victims of Israeli 'occupation'. 

 

A victimhood that has, since 1948, plotted the overthrow of the Jewish state, initially with the military assistance of neighbouring Arab states, and more latterly reduced to the assistance of Iran, Qatar and Turkey, funding, arming and supporting terrorist groups whose sole reason for existence is their ongoing efforts to disable and destroy the state, in the process murdering as many Jews in Israel and abroad as they can plot and carry out under the banner of a global intifada dedicated 'from the river to the sea Palestine will be free'.

 

Now, a museum that was the brainchild of a philanthropic Jewish family meant to educate the public primarily about the World War II Holocaust that systematically murdered six million European Jews through the deliberate planning and execution of a state mandate for a Final Solution reflecting Nazi Germany's ambition to destroy Jewish life throughout Europe, and by extension showcase egregious human rights violations worldwide, has been occupied and preempted by anti-Israel zealots whose scheme is to turn the museum's purpose on its head.

 

Late Winnipeg media magnate and Jewish philanthropist Israel (Izzy) Asper's focus on human rights and in particular the Holocaust through a dedicated public museum saw him directing a funding campaign to build that museum which opened in 2014. Private subscription and matching government funding saw its dedication to an aspiration of solemn and respectful historical rendering of actual ruinous events that contradicted the very existential human rights of entire populations, made the museum a reality. One that is now turned in on itself in a mockery of what it was meant to be.

 

Israel Asper's son decries the sacrilegious corruption that is taking place in the very institutional dream his father held dear. Instead of continuing its original purpose of memorializing the world's worst massive atrocity that brought antisemitism to the height of savage depravity the new exhibit  seeks to perpetuate more broadly and deeply for a credulous audience a classic narrative of fraud posing as a victim-oppressor tale for the ages. It is a tale of raw vengeance against a people returning to their ancestral home after millennia in exile in a world-wide diaspora that left them vulnerable to the world's most ancient curse.

 

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs has asked the museum board to commit to full transparency of the external review said by the CMHR to have commissioned; a stop to educational and resource materials associated with the exhibit until such time the review has been completed; and proper historically professional training for docents. "This exhibit risks legitimizing and normalizing these extreme narratives and those who use them to target Jews here in Canada", pointed out Gustavo Zentner.

 

Isha Khan, CEO of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, said the Palestine Uprooted exhibit is still in development and will get the same academic and curatorial rigour as all exhibits. (CBC)

 

 

"At the end of the day, it's a spineless board. The CEO supports the exhibit, and the minister and the entire government are pandering for Muslim votes, and so they stand for nothing."

"The Liberal MO is to try to make everybody happy, say everything and stand for nothing."

"You know what the recipe for failure is? That."

"The safest thing is to say and do nothing. But the safest thing isn't always the right thing. And that's what I mean about leadership: if you're going to be a leader, sometimes people will be unhappy."

"And if you're not that leader, you shouldn't be in the game."

David Asper 

"My dad never had a problem with telling the whole story. I think he'd be disgusted at how the telling of this story has become weaponized in the antisemitism game."

"The Palestinians were offered a state, their own state, and rejected it. Not only did they reject it, but they also attacked Israel and started a war. They lost the war. Start a war, lose a war and now I;m going to be the victim, just like October 7."

"It's putting the fox in the henhouse. They were all partisans. There are historical facts that are facts, not feelings. We've moved into the realm of feelings, not facts."

"This is a highly, highly sophisticated, organized propaganda machine that has been making the Palestinians victims for a very, very long time."

"And now they've got the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, hook, line and sinker, with no serious critical context or analysis." 

David Asper, Winnipeg lawyer, businessman

 

"As a national, publicly funded institution, the CMHR has yet to provide a meaningful resolution to the concerns raised through numerous communications and meetings aimed at upholding national standards and addressing community concerns."

"National institutions must be held accountable. At a time of rising antisemitism and extremism, the museum must not be instrumentalized in service of a dangerous political agenda."

"Its very legitimacy depends on its leadership's ability to demonstrate rigorous adhesion to the highest standards of professionalism and integrity." 

Gustavo Zentner, vice-president, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs 

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Photo by Richard White for Postmedia

 

Nothing, it appears, will dissuade the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) from proceeding with its monumentally controversial Nakba exhibit set to open on June 27. 'Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present' is meant to be an exploration of the 'ongoing forced displacement and dispossession of Palestinians' -- according to the CMHR advance publicity -- through artwork, photographs, video testimonies and personal stories from Palestinian-Canadians. 

 

In response to a formal legal threat from Shurat HaDin, Israeli advocacy group, and calls emanating from Jewish organizations to pause and review the exhibit, Amanda Gaudes, the museum's spokesperson, and Isha Khan, the museum's chief executive officer, remain unmoved and determined to proceed with an exhibit that is geared to demonize a legitimate state, re-established on its own authentic ancestral land, which Palestinian colonizers claim as theirs and theirs alone. Palestinian public relations present themselves as hapless, helpless victims of Israeli 'occupation'. 

 

A victimhood that has, since 1948, plotted the overthrow of the Jewish state, initially with the military assistance of neighbouring Arab states, and more latterly reduced to the assistance of Iran, Qatar and Turkey, funding, arming and supporting terrorist groups whose sole reason for existence is their ongoing efforts to disable and destroy the state, in the process murdering as many Jews in Israel and abroad as they can plot and carry out under the banner of a global intifada dedicated 'from the river to the sea Palestine will be free'.

 

Now, a museum that was the brainchild of a philanthropic Jewish family meant to educate the public primarily about the World War II Holocaust that systematically murdered six million European Jews through the deliberate planning and execution of a state mandate for a Final Solution reflecting Nazi Germany's ambition to destroy Jewish life throughout Europe, and by extension showcase egregious human rights violations worldwide, has been occupied and preempted by anti-Israel zealots whose scheme is to turn the museum's purpose on its head.

 

Late Winnipeg media magnate and Jewish philanthropist Israel (Izzy) Asper's focus on human rights and in particular the Holocaust through a dedicated public museum saw him directing a funding campaign to build that museum which opened in 2014. Private subscription and matching government funding saw its dedication to an aspiration of solemn and respectful historical rendering of actual ruinous events that contradicted the very existential human rights of entire populations, made the museum a reality. One that is now turned in on itself in a mockery of what it was meant to be.

 

Israel Asper's son decries the sacrilegious corruption that is taking place in the very institutional dream his father held dear. Instead of continuing its original purpose of memorializing the world's worst massive atrocity that brought antisemitism to the height of savage depravity the new exhibit  seeks to perpetuate more broadly and deeply for a credulous audience a classic narrative of fraud posing as a victim-oppressor tale for the ages. It is a tale of raw vengeance against a people returning to their ancestral home after millennia in exile in a world-wide diaspora that left them vulnerable to the world's most ancient curse.

 

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs has asked the museum board to commit to full transparency of the external review said by the CMHR to have commissioned; a stop to educational and resource materials associated with the exhibit until such time the review has been completed; and proper historically professional training for docents. "This exhibit risks legitimizing and normalizing these extreme narratives and those who use them to target Jews here in Canada", pointed out Gustavo Zentner.

 

Isha Khan, CEO of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, said the Palestine Uprooted exhibit is still in development and will get the same academic and curatorial rigour as all exhibits. (CBC)

 

 

"At the end of the day, it's a spineless board. The CEO supports the exhibit, and the minister and the entire government are pandering for Muslim votes, and so they stand for nothing."

"The Liberal MO is to try to make everybody happy, say everything and stand for nothing."

"You know what the recipe for failure is? That."

"The safest thing is to say and do nothing. But the safest thing isn't always the right thing. And that's what I mean about leadership: if you're going to be a leader, sometimes people will be unhappy."

"And if you're not that leader, you shouldn't be in the game."

David Asper