The Simon Wiesenthal center is going forward with it's building of a museum of tolerance on top of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem. The petition to save the twelfth century Mamilla cemetery has gone all the way to the United Nations.
Representatives of 15 of the oldest families in Jerusalem who have relatives buried in the cemetery presented their petition to the UN in Geneva. Opponents of the museum plan are upset by the thought of a museum of tolerance being built on the graves of generations of Palestinians.
The article comes with a must watch video
Campaign to preserve Mamilla cemetery
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There is something distasteful and Orwellian about something calling itself a "museum of tolerance". What it really is, I imagine, is an exhibition of things to show how mistreated the Jews were with the silent implication that therefore they uniquely deserve special treatment. I wouldn't call that a museum, nor a matter of tolerance.
All very nasty, really.
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