The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has unveiled a controversial exhibit on the Nakba, the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Still from video, CBC

 

"My dad [Izzie Asper] always said the most important asset you have is  your reputation."

"I think that this exhibit [Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present] is going to have a lot of people lose faith in the museum's trustworthiness for being an honest purveyor of accurate historical and current-day information."

"[The museum piece] deliberately omits key, relevant facts about the conflict [that are crucial to understanding its full context]."

"It's inaccurate, and in my opinion shows bias on the part of the curators of the museum, and is not at the level of scholarship befitting a federal institution." 

Gail Asper founder, Canadian Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg 

Photo: CMHR, Aaron Cohen

 

"The story of the Nakba is a complex one. It's not reduced to a quick little sound bite. There's a lot of nuance with it, there's a lot of history that preceded it and a lot of history that developed over the years of the Nakba."

"Hamas terrorists launched the greatest large-scale massacre against Jewish civilians since World War II, where over 1,150 or so Jewish babies and children and mothers and young people were brutally murdered in the most horrific fashion."

"The failure to describe that horror, and then simply say, Oh, ya, these people were displaced', is an error in judgment."

Mark Berlin, former CMHR board member

 

"The frame, or the scope, of the exhibit is to centre Palestinian experiences of forced displacement. So it's told through their stories, through their lens, and that's an approach the museum takes in a variety of other places."

"Every word in the exhibit is backed up by credible research. We had our research sources academically reviewed internally, and then we took an additional step to have them reviewed externally." 

CMHR chief Executive Isha Khan

A multimedia gallery on the museum's second floor that introduces visitors to a timeline of human rights acknowledges 'hundreds of thousands of people became refugees' in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, including Palestinian Arabs and Jews from surrounding Arab countries. (Tyson Koschik/CBC)

 

The Canadian Human Rights Museum, established in Winnipeg, was the brainchild of Israel (Izzie) Asper, former Canadian media magnate. The initial $24 million required to move the idea of the museum to its actual presence was donated by the Asper Foundation. There was also a public subscription, and later financial support from the federal government. From conception in 2003 to opening in 2014, the museum set out to inform the public of human rights and the world's most egregious assaults against human rights. There were ten permanent exhibits when the museum opened, the Holocaust among them.

 

Most recently the seven-story museum has mounted a Nakba exhibit that includes a collection of photos, video testimonies family heirlooms and artworks to portray the experience of Palestinian Arabs who fled conflict in the area. Keys to Palestinian homes that had been left are among the exhibits. Beginning at the Arab-Israeli war in 1948 when Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Syria attacked the fledgling Jewish state to destroy it in response to the Partition Plan offered by the United Nations empowering Jews to return to their ancestral home, 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled.

 

Most left on the promise by the invading Arab armies that when Israel was destroyed they could return to claim the entire territory; others fled to escape the incipient war situation while others still were forced to leave as enemies of the new state. Over a million Palestinians chose to remain, where there are now 2 million Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel. Concurrently with the re-establishment of the Jewish state, surrounding Arab countries forcefully expelled their Jewish residents who had lived there since antiquity, confiscating their properties. 850,000 Jews found themselves homeless, more than balancing the number of Palestinian Arabs who became refugees through an event they named their Nakba (catastrophe).

 

The exhibit makes no mention of the expulsion of 850,000 Jews from the very Arab countries that went to war on Israel, amidst others. In this mass displacement, the Jews found homes for themselves in Israel or elsewhere in the greater diaspora. The Palestinians who settled in refugee camps in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon were there ostensibly on a temporary basis; none of the neighbouring Arab/Muslim countries offered them permanent status, much less citizenship.

Palestine Uprooted at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Photo: Annie Kierans. Courtesy the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

 

And while there is mention of the infamous October 7, 2023 massacre in southern Israel led by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, joined by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Fatah alongside the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, along with ordinary Palestinian/Gaza citizens, it fails to identify the victims of that mass atrocity as Jews, only as 'people'. That 'people', the Jews and their country, Israel, responded to that horrific event as any other country would do to protect its own, by invading the area responsible -- Gaza -- in search of the murderous terrorists.

 

That time and place in more recent history was included as illustrative of ongoing Palestinian suffering at the hands of Israel's military 'occupation'. It is disingenuous for the chief executive of the museum to declare that there was academic scholarship involved in the setting up of this one-sided, dreadfully canted exhibition in its obvious obfuscation of cause-and-effect, showcasing Palestinian victimhood by a heartless, 'genocidal' neighbour.   

"I think that the board clearly didn't understand the risks of doing inaccurate exhibits on volatile subjects."

"They didn't understand the impact it could have on their reputation, or they were indifferent, or they were too deferential to management."

Gail Asper 

Protesters gathered outside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on June 26 to protest the Nakba exhibit. (Rudi Pawlychyn/CBC)

 

"Despite numerous pleas over many, many months by many different people there has been a very careful effort to provide no context for the Palestinian displacement whatsoever."

"From what I’ve seen from the website, it is a very one-sided, biased narrative that is not befitting a national federal museum." 

Gail Asper whose father Israel Asper founded the Museum of Human Rights

 

"It is difficult to understand how telling the story of Palestinian displacement in 1948 while omitting the simultaneous expulsion of 850,000 Jews from the Arab states can be viewed as anything other than politically motivated."

"In response, the museum has only made a vague commitment to exploring that story as part of a broader exhibit on displacement at some time in the unknown future."

"But the stories are not severable — they occurred at the same historical moment."

Letter of Resignation from CMHR Board, Mark Berlin, McGill law professor, human rights lawyer

Protesters rally outside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, June 26, 2026. (Credit: Izzie Helenchilde)

 

In 1948 when Arab armies joined forces to attack the nascent Jewish state following the UN's 1947 Partition Plan for Palestine declaration, offering an opportunity for both Jews and Arabs to declare their sovereign state intentions, Jews moved directly to form their sovereign nation as a reborn-from-antiquity Israel. Palestinians had chosen to reject the opportunity, in the process refusing Israel's right of existence.

An estimated 750,000 Arab Palestinians fled the fledgling Israel, persuaded by surrounding Arab states to leave, planning to return once the combined Arab militaries had destroyed the Jewish state-that-would-be.

 

When the motley collection of Jewish kibbutz farmers, Holocaust survivors, former refugees and members of the Jewish resistance, hurriedly formed into a new army for a new state somehow, miraculously foiled the Arab League's plan of extinction, leaving the Arab armies to themselves flee, the unexpected debacle was declared by the defeated Arabs to represent a catastrophe, a "Nakba". That word was immediately adopted by the self-exiled Arabs now calling themselves Palestinians to describe the advent of Israel's existence, on Judean ancestral land, that the 'Palestinians' claimed as their very own.

 

While some of the 750,000 Arabs who fled Israel may have been propelled by fear of Jewish threats, most were convinced by Arab leaders they would return triumphant to take possession of the entire geography once Israel was destroyed. At the same time, there were hundreds of thousands of Arabs who made no move to leave, and remained where they were, becoming citizens of Israel, while still calling themselves Palestinians. During that period, Arab countries where Jews had lived throughout the diaspora for millennia were exiled, their properties confiscated, some 850,000 Arabized Jews from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Libya.

 

While Palestinians, aided and abetted by the United Nations, became permanent 'refugees', demanding a right of return and the dissolution of Israel, their Jewish counterparts from Algeria, Tunisia and elsewhere, found refuge in Israel and other destinations around the world. Their loss has never been internationally acknowledged, while that of the Palestinian Arabs became a legendary injustice to be used as a cudgel against Israel. That Palestinian Arabs today make up over 20% of the Israeli population does not stop the compassionate left from labelling Israel an apartheid state, happy to chorus Palestinian propaganda.

 

And it is Palestinian propaganda and the functioning aggressive ill-will of its slanderous campaign to delegitimize Israel and convince the global community that Israel is committing 'genocide' against the Palestinians when it is the Palestinian leadership that has for 70 years incited their population to 'resist the occupation', an 'occupation' necessitated by the patterning of the leadership toward martyrdom in convincing their youth, both male and female of their duty to kill Jews, to destroy the Jewish state, to reclaim 'Palestine', 'from the river to the sea'.

 

That is the packaged message weaponized in the Nakba exhibition at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights which was originally dedicated to educating the public about the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. The very genocide that President Mahmoud Abbas mocked and minimized in his doctoral thesis at the Patrice Lamumba University in Russia. The leader of the West Bank whose martyrs' fund pays the families of Palestinian murderers of Jews as rewards, along with those imprisoned in Israeli jails for crimes against Israel in its 'Pay for Slay' program.

 

Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present’ exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, June 26, 2026. (Credit: Izzie Helenchilde).

 

What the public visiting the exhibit, Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present will see is the juxtaposition of the exhibit against that of the original Holocaust memorialization of a historic tragedy of intense proportions that ended in the death of almost half of the world's Jewish population; most of the Jewish-European diaspora. That is the meaning of genocide. The Nakba exhibit pretends to equate Palestinian trials and tribulations caused by their insistence that murdering Jews will restore the land they claim to be theirs, not that of the Jews of Israel, with the immeasurable loss of Jewish lives through the state channels of an ancient hatred. 

 

"Around 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced during the creation of the State of Israel", the displays proclaim in a perspective that suits the purpose of damning Israel for victimizing Arab Palestinians. That historically, the term Palestinian was always interpreted as Jews living in that area of the Middle East, later shared by others who had migrated to the area by Arabs from Egypt, Syria and Lebanon looking for opportunities, and devout Christians wanting to live where their faith resonated, that designation was totally co-opted by Arabs now claiming the title of Palestinians.

 

Jewish prophets, their burial grounds in memoriam, place names, histories, cultural traditions, history, have all in turn been co-opted by Arab Palestinians claiming all to be theirs. The refusal to recognize and acknowledge Israel's right of existence, the never-ending plaints of victimhood, the inversion of truth and reality, somehow seem to resonate with an international community seasoned by latent leftist 'compassion' for a people whose uncompromising fealty to violence as a solution to all their problems never seems to be recognized by 'progressives'.

 

A memory box containing artifacts and recorded personal stories at the ‘Nakba Past and Present’ exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, June 26, 2026. (Credit: Izzie Helenchilde)

 

In Canada, the Liberal-led government that equates 'Islamophobia' with Antisemitism despite that it is largely the former that commits the latter, and enjoys intoning that immigration groups while adding to Canada's vaunted multiculturalism -- certainly not homogeneity -- must leave their heritage animosities behind when they become Canadian, simply chooses to overlook fact, preferring fiction. That same government has enabled over the past decade and more, the immigration, refugee acceptance and migrant haven claims to people Canada, with groups whose cultures and values are averse to Canada's. Yet their numbers are such that to offend them represents ballot box suicide.

 

That same government has willingly surrendered its obligation under the law to ensure equality and security for all its demographic population groups, in favour of abandoning the human rights of a smaller minority group for the encouragement of a larger minority group, irrespective of outcome. The result being that the Canadian Jewish population now finds itself under constant threat by the venomous actions of some segments of a vocal threatening, Jew-hating Muslim population, guided by Palestinian students on study visas in Canada.

 

When the Nakba exhibit can publish such incendiary statements as "Following the Hamas attack that killed about 1,200 people on October 7, 2023, Israel launched a large-scale military campaign in Gaza. Today, more than 240,000 people have been killed or injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health and UN agencies", without the realization that these figures, the omission of the fact that a terrorist group on Canada's own terror list, Hamas, is being quoted, leaving a public to digest these misconstrued statements as fact, Canada's government itself is complicit in furthering the agenda of Palestinian public relations. 

 

The situation is agonizingly blasphemous, taking place at the very institution in Winnipeg meant to ensure that the world not forget history as it was, the most dreadful human  tragedy enabled by lack of interest or any method of intervention to interrupt a Fascist death-cult from its Final Solution to destroy the lives of world Jewry by a dominant threat to world peace that almost succeeded in installing itself as a world-leading totalitarian presence of ubermensch in command of human rights everywhere. 

 

Gail Asper protested the exhibit ‘Nakba Past and Present” at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, June 26, 2026. (Credit: Izzie Helenchilde)

 

"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 

The Inversed World of Palestinianism

• "The Nakba [Catastrophe] is not a political debate with 'two sides'. It is the foundational event of a continuous, 77-year campaign of displacement, military occupation, and colonization."
• "[Swipe through images] to challenge the false narratives and understand the reality of the Palestinian struggle."
• "Israeli Victim Card: As an Israeli citizen if I am accused of anything I am not criminally responsible. Any accusation against me will be fuelled by ANTI SEMITISM. If in doubt please refer to the Holocaust."
• "Four Israeli hostages were released as part of a prisoner exchange. In stark contrast, Palestinian prisoners often return home with clear signs of physical and mental abuse, a testament to the harsh conditions they endure."
• "As Israel faces humiliation on the battlefield against Iran, it turns its rage toward the most defenceless: the people of Gaza. In a display of cowardice and cruelty, it bombs homes, massacres families, and burns Palestinian children alive. This is not war -- it is a genocidal campaign by a colonial occupier desperate to maintain its grip through terror."                                               Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba (CPAM)

"It is standard museum protocol to work with advisory networks. This advisory network supported the museum in collecting the oral histories and artifacts of the Palestinian Canadians who will be featured in the exhibit [Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present]." Original response.

"This exhibit is the work of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights -- it is not a co-production with another association or organization. There is no agreement with any association for the development of this content." On second thought.

Amanda Gaudes, spokesperson, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

A new exhibit on the Nakba, recounting the personal experiences of Canadian Palestinians who fled or were forced from their homes in 1948, is coming to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. However, at least one Jewish organization is concerned it will lack historical and current geopolitical context.  CBC

 

What irony, the founder of the museum, Israel Asper, visualized its purpose to speak to the world of the horrors of the Holocaust, that it never be forgotten as a signal event in the mid-20th century when state-driven genocide alongside a world war contrived to dehumanize European Jewry on their way to total annihilation. The museum has undergone a change in purpose from highlighting real instances of monumental human rights abuses to become a showpiece for propaganda against Israel, the Jewish state that rose on its ancestral geography from the ashes of six million lives -- half the world's entire Jewish population.

 

Canada, through immigration, refugee intake from war-torn Middle East and North African countries, and illegal migration, has become a cesspool of Jew-hate. Its rise accelerated by the savagery of the 7 October, 2023 flood of Palestinian terrorists into southern Israel from Gaza on a mission to destroy, sadistically terrorize and rape, mutilate and murder 1,200 mostly civilians, comprised of infants, children, the elderly, in farming communities close to the Gaza border. Slaughtered also were foreign farm workers, who were also taken hostage along with Israeli children, their parents, young adults from a music festival and soldiers.

 

Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Fatah and other terrorist operatives along with Palestinian civilians took pride in their atrocities, to the extent of documenting their acts of inhumanity on videos they later posted to social media. Their crimes included burning families alive, mass rapes, mutilation of girls and women amidst the rapes, forcing children to witness their parents being tortured and parents forced to watch their children tortured and murdered. All atrocities that Palestinians later claimed Israelis perpetrated on them.

 

Apologists for Palestinian 'victimhood' in the international community find reasons to overlook the barbarity, with claims that inhumane occupation made for desperate acts of people seeking freedom. Palestinians always had the freedom to choose their own destinies, but they mired themselves solidly in the self-serving delusion that the land on which Israel stood was theirs, resulting in constant murderous attacks on Jews at the very same time they portrayed themselves as victims and Jews their oppressors. In refusing a state alongside that of the Jews, Palestinians held out for destroying Israel and taking all the land -- ancient Judean patrimony. 

 

Gail Asper, president and a trustee of The Asper Foundation, speaks at the grand opening of the Canadian Museum For Human Rights in Winnipeg on Sept. 17, 2014. (John Woods/The Canadian Press)

 

Bringing their lurid grievances with them to Canada, Palestinians and their Muslim-Canadian supporters ply the fiction of victim and oppressor, denying that the atrocities of October 7 took place, irrespective of the much-celebrated videos depicting the horrors, and convincing a wide audience across the world of their 'cause'; being refused a Palestinian state of their own after turning down one Israeli negotiated proposal after another for a state in exchange for recognition of Israel's sovereign presence.

 

That the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has become yet another Canadian institution that supports the 'rights' of Palestinians to what they claim is theirs, and mourning the existence of the state of Israel as an instrument of Palestinian oppression, now engaged in 'genocide' after depriving Palestinians of their state, is yet another milestone for the public relations machinery that grinds away at the legitimacy of the Jewish state, along with that of Canadian Jews, monstrously slandered and threatened and isolated in the very country they have lived in for centuries.

 

The world is willing to acknowledge the 750,000 Palestinians who fled with the re-establishment of Israel in 1948, yet is totally disinterested in the 850,000 Arabized Jews who lived for a millennia and more in Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa who were exiled, their properties and goods taken from them in 1948. The Jews were never considered refugees, were never compensated, never given assistance from the United Nations. The Arab Palestinians, on the other hand, were given the eternal status of refugees, fully financially and politically supported by the United Nations.

 

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)

 

"Our recent victories 4 Palestine: 

• [PM Carney's recognition of a Palestinian state 
• Manitoba raising the Palestinian flag
• Nakba exhibit to "give space to stories long ignored ensuring that the truth of the Naka is taught, remembered and recognized"
• And we are just getting started

"[We are] honoured to contribute through the Palestinian Content Advisory Network ensuring this exhibit [at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights] reflects authentic Palestinian experiences."

Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba  

'Nakba' exhibit, Canadian Museum for Human Rights ... Displaced Palestinians walk along a road in Jabalia, as they leave areas near Gaza City, January 19, 2025. Photo: Omar Al-Qattaa, Getty Images