The central Canadian city of Winnipeg may seem far away to many Americans, but thanks to the internet, it’s really not. And that’s why it’s so disturbing to learn of plans for a vicious anti-Israel exhibit in that city, under the sponsorship of a government agency.
Prof. Bryan Schwartz of the University of Manitoba and Rhonda Spivak, editor of the Winnipeg Jewish Review, have just released a devastating critique of an exhibit called “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present,” which is scheduled to open at the government-sponsored Canadian Museum for Human Rights in June.

An advance description of the exhibit, posted on the museum’s web site, makes it clear that it was intended, from the start, as an anti-Israel hit job, with no sincere search for historical truth.

The museum declares that the exhibit’s purpose is to spotlight “the ongoing forced displacement and dispossession of Palestinians”—as if those are established facts, when in fact they are propaganda smears.

“Five generations later, these people and their descendants still live with insecurity and uncertainty,” the text continues, with no hint of the “insecurity” and “uncertainty” (and mass casualties) inflicted by the century-long Palestinian Arab jihad against the Jews.
The website assures readers that “this exhibition is being developed in collaboration with an advisory network of scholars, artists and community members,” but after reading the results of the investigation by Schwartz and Spivak, we are less then reassured.

Their report exposes, for example, that one of the advisers to the exhibit is Canadian-Arab activist Ramsey Zeid, who has publicly labeled Zionism “a disease that must be destroyed.” Other members of the advisory group have been involved in promoting the BDS crusade against Israel. And the “community members” advising the exhibit are officials of an anti-Zionist group called “Independent Jewish Voices.”

We urge our readers to take a look at the Schwartz-Spivak report: https://tinyurl.com/4p6jmzpu

And we hope that our American Jewish organizations will take an interest, too, because you can bet that before too long, Winnipeg’s outrageous “Nakba” exhibit will be traveling to the United States, not to mention reaching countless viewers around the world through its online version.