Recognition of one people's suffering should never require the erasure of another people's history.
Members of Winnipeg's Jewish and Israeli communities calling for the whole truth to be told.
We are members of Winnipeg's Jewish and Israeli communities, joined by historians, educators, and concerned citizens. We came together in response to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights exhibition Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present.
We are not asking that Palestinian suffering be ignored or diminished. We are asking that the full history of 1948 be told — including the UN Partition Plan, its rejection, the invasion by neighbouring Arab armies, and the displacement of roughly 850,000 Jews from Arab and Muslim lands.
This is not a campaign against the Museum. It is a call for the Museum to live up to its own mandate: to advance human rights education through complexity, context, and dialogue.
Present the causes and consequences of 1948 for all communities affected, not a single narrative.
Engage the organized Jewish and Israeli communities whose history is directly connected to the subject matter.
Reflect the complexity of the conflict and equip visitors to reach their own informed conclusions.