The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is set to launch its exhibit on the Nakba, titled Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present. The Museum has worked closely with the Palestinian Canadian community to develop this groundbreaking resource, while the broader Palestine movement has been tirelessly advocating for Nakba recognition in schools, cultural spaces, and in Parliament.

The Nakba, or the Catastrophe, marks the forced expulsion, displacement, and ethnic cleansing of around 750,000 Palestinians from their ancestral homeland in 1948 during the creation of the state of Israel. For Palestinians, the Nakba never ended, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank continue to be displaced through Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaigns and ever-expanding settlements. 

However, the Israeli lobby has been relentlessly attacking this exhibit in an attempt to silence Palestinian voices, and is exerting major pressure on Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture Mark Miller to have the exhibition cancelled or postponed. Miller has so far declined to interfere with the Museum’s programming, and it is important that we urge him to stand firm.

Join us in emailing Minister Miller and the CMHR to encourage him to stand firm in support of the Nakba exhibit, defend museum independence, and reject efforts to silence Palestinian histories.