A Museum of Tolerance we don't need- The Simon Wiesenthal Center should abandon its plan to build a facility on the site of a Muslim cemetery

"In wanting to lay the dead to rest, however, we should think also of the living.

Displacing living people -- something Israel does every single day -- is hardly any better than displacing dead ones. And this disgraceful episode is only part of a much longer history of displacement and dispossession dating to 1948.

The real lesson of Ma'man Allah and the museum project is this: Peace will come to Palestine/Israel only when the blind insistence on displacement ends and both peoples are allowed to belong to the same land." Saree Makdisi

Opinion

A Museum of Tolerance we don't need

The Simon Wiesenthal Center should abandon its plan to build a facility on the site of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem.

By Saree Makdisi

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