In the first review of the exhibit to appear, the Jewish Star (May 9) predicted that Jewish viewers would be "puzzled, distressed and possibly angered by the show's perspective," which promoted the symmetry of Jewish and Palestinian visions, views and national identities, without offering context.

"The exhibit unhinges the specifically Jewish ties to the land," and "is as much a [political] treatise as an exhibit," the Jewish Star review stated.

In a June 20 statement announcing the early closing of "Imaginary Coordinates", Dr. Howard A. Sulkin, President of Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies (of which the museum is one facet), said that the board of Trustees voted to end the exhibit when they "came to realize that parts of the exhibition were not in keeping with our mission as a Jewish institution and did not belong at Spertus.

Thus a 1942 drawing by a father to his son during the holocaust, that concluded with the hope of the land of Israel was mounted together with a vial containing earth from a destroyed Palestinian village that was gathered in 1992 by an individual born in that village.

A viewer would understandably conclude from this pairing that what the nazis did to the Jews of Europe, is equivalent to what the Jews of Israel did to Arabs in Palestine. The Israelis are today's nazis, was the implication.

I used them in my 'am I an anti-semite' blog post.

http://americangoy.blogspot.com/2008/06/is-americangoy-anti-semite.html

Expose Americans to a non-propaganda point of view?

Americans are not THAT stupid – they are VERY uninformed.

By design.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh?currentPage=all

Iran confirms it will shut down the Persian Gulf if attacked by Amerisrael:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-iran29-2008jun29,0,377280.story

"I see this episode as evidence of the generational split I often talk about here. "Exodus"-generation Jews are clearly threatened by this type of speech. They are actually afraid. … Younger Jews just seem to want the news, even about the right of return, so they can judge for themselves. I think I know who's going to win this one."

Me, too. Indeed, this paragraph could serve as the overview of a book proposal. It would, in effect, be the Jewish version of Harvard professor Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone," which detailed (with incredibly exhaustive research) the Boomers' changing level and style of civic participation, as compared to their parents' generation.

Similarly, younger Jews are questioning or discarding the obsessions of the 'Exodus' generation, as it emerges that some of its bedrock zionist assumptions are flawed, and have been flawed from the beginning. It's going to be a long climbdown from "a land without people for a people without land," which is about as nonsensical and bellicose a slogan as "fifty-four forty or fight." The old dogs bark, but this caravan is moving on without them.

Drive on, Wagonmaster Phil.

Those that only applaud have got it wrong, young or old.

When W & M finally came out with some context after decades
of one-sided public Exodus spiel, what happened? Suddenly, there came a cry for some context–context which hadn't been provided for so long about American foreign policy and the nakba, etc…

Amazing to watch a major bully suddenly cry out for help.

Strawman, thy maker is Witty.