Exterior of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, which is facing legal threats over its upcoming Nakba exhibit.
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The Canadian Museum for Human Rights will open its controversial Nakba exhibit on June 27, and it isn’t talking.
Despite a formal legal threat from the Israeli advocacy group Shurat HaDin, calls from multiple Jewish organizations to pause and review the exhibit, and repeated requests for comment from this newspaper, the CMHR has gone silent. The museum’s media relations team confirmed receipt of the legal letter, which gave it 14 days to respond or face potential legal proceedings, but has offered nothing further. A question submitted this week received no reply.
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Children play as Ramsey Zeid, president of the Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba, reads a speech from his phone during the World Awakening Day rally outside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg on Mon., Oct. 7, 2024. About 75 people from the Palestinian community gathered to mourn the human cost of the ongoing war with Israel.
Photo by KEVIN KING/Winnipeg Sun
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