Talk:Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem

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• Simon Wiesenthal Center. News Release - PLANS FOR NEW CENTER FOR HUMAN DIGNITY-MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE UNVEILED IN JERUSALEM. November 25, 2002.

• Meron Benvenisti. The hypocrisy of tolerance. Haaretz. February 9 2006.

• Shmuel Berkovitz. The cemetery has no sanctity. Haaretz. March 1, 2006.

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• Lori Lowenthal Marcus. A faux controversy - and ironic, too.
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• Amir Mizroch. ADL: Stop building over Muslim graves.
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• Michael Sorkin. Critique: Gehry in Jerusalem. Architectural Record, June 2004.

• Yoav Stern. Islamic Movement rejects J'lem museum's plan to transfer Muslim graves. Haaretz. 27/11/2006

• Tom Tugend. Can museum be built on Muslim cemetery?. The Jewish news weekly of Northern California. Friday March 3, 2006.

• Tom Tugend. Fate of Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance Rests With Israeli High Court. Jewish Journal. 2006-12-08

Haaretz has been running a story on the soon to be built Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem. Specifically the backlash against it within certain areas of Israel (the political left and most of the non-Jewish residents). The issue is that the museum is being built on top of a Muslim cemetery that dates back to at least the 14th century.

Recently a report came out showing that the bodies have been damaged by the company hired to excavate the area. http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/may/19/excavators-accused-of-desecration/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7737047/Israeli-contractors-dig-up-Muslim-graves-at-museum-of-tolerance.html

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/travel/Israel+Contractors+accused+damaging+cemetery/3044884/story.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/world/middleeast/19webbriefs-CEMETERY.html?ref=middleeast

http://www.haaretz.com/magazine/friday-supplement/museum-of-tolerance-special-report-part-ii-secrets-from-the-grave-1.290941

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Purpose: which is...? We don't have a single word about why it's being built, neither the officially declared purpose, nor what critics see as its less visible implications. You can't post an article about a topic lacking a definition! Arminden (talk) 08:34, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Made a start. Now it's up to us to figure out what's hiding behind the weasel words of the SWC. Tolerance for what & whom? Harmony between whom? What's the justification for this mammoth project, just across the street from another weird museum, the FOZ (here)? Forget the cemetery for a minute (and after that read what

Hajj Amin al-Husseini said when his project, quite expectedly, stumbled over old bones – just for the sake of perspective, not for anything else). Arminden (talk) 14:08, 31 May 2022 (UTC)[reply

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