"This is the fifth article documented this year by CJPME where the National Post tries to deny the Nakba."
To the National Post editorial newsroom,
I am writing to you on behalf of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) to express concern over your latest article on the Nakba exhibit titled “Opinion: Human rights museum director should be fired.”This is the fifth article documented this year by CJPME where the National Post tries to deny the Nakba. Below is an outline of the other anti-Nakba pieces published in your newspaper.
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Terry Newman: “Israel expressed concern about 'Nakba' exhibit. Carney didn't even bother responding”
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Jewish board member resigns over Nakba exhibit at Canadian human rights museum/CMHR
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Human rights museum treating Jewish concerns as an afterthought
The article repeatedly uses language to characterize the Nakba exhibit as an attempt to “distort history” as well as “divisive propaganda.”
The Nakba has been extensively documented by historians across the ideological spectrum, including Israeli historians such as Benny Morris.As outlined by the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association, this rhetoric also constitutes Nakba denial as it delegitimizes Palestinian historical memory and testimony. Minimizing or rationalizing the Nakba should not be normalized in Canadian media.An opinion piece can certainly criticize an exhibit, but the National Post continuously portrays the Nakba as disputed and suggests that real Palestinian history is somehow antisemitism. This is a bad faith campaign at weaponizing the real fight against antisemitism in order to shut down the Nakba exhibit.
CJPME calls on the National Post editorial team to issue a formal correction and allow space for Palestinian perspectives.
Media Analyst
