{"id":754327,"date":"2026-06-22T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754327\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:38:10","slug":"human-rights-museum-board-trustee-resigns-over-exhibit-on-displaced-palestinians-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754327\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights museum board trustee resigns over exhibit on displaced Palestinians \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

A trustee for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights says he has resigned over an upcoming exhibit about displaced Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Marc Berlin submitted his resignation in a letter to Heritage Minister Marc Miller.<\/p>\n

Berlin argues the exhibit will fuel anti-Jewish hate in Canada and that it fails to explain the role of Arab states in expelling Jews and fighting those who ultimately established the State of Israel in 1948.<\/p>\n

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The exhibit, set to open Saturday, focuses on people affected by the Nakba, when fighting over control of the area forcibly displaced about 750,000 Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Jewish groups have said the exhibit lacks context and wasn\u2019t created with sufficient consultation and transparency.<\/p>\n

The Winnipeg museum has said the exhibit is about an important topic and isn\u2019t meant to tell the entire history of the region.<\/p>\n

Berlin says the museum isn\u2019t fulfilling its mandate to unite Canadians, and he argues it\u2019s institutionally tainted against Zionism.<\/p>\n

Miller has said it\u2019s not his place to dictate museum policy.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 22, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trustee for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights says he has resigned over an upcoming exhibit about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-754327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}