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Controversy over Jerusalem ‘Museum of Tolerance’ featured in the ‘Daily Beast’

Construction continues to move ahead on the site near Jerusalem’s Old City. Critics of the move to build a museum say the process has resulted in the desecration of graves in a historic Muslim cemetery.

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Jewish left continues to take on the Simon Wiesenthal Center

A coalition of progressive Jewish organizations on both coasts yesterday slammed the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s honoring of the civil rights-era Freedom Riders while “engaging in anti-Muslim bigotry that is no less destructive than that against which the Freedom Riders protested,” … Continue reading

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For killing 9 on the flotilla, Israel should apologize to…. Israel!

As many of you know, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is building a museum of “tolerance” on a Muslim cemetery in  Jerusalem. You can see the construction walls in this picture’s middle ground, amidst the gravestones. Another branch of the LA-based … Continue reading

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Jewish groups denounce ‘Museum of Tolerance’ builder Simon Wiesenthal Center for support of Islamophobia

A coalition of four Jewish groups, backed by a wide array of peace and justice organizations, held a demonstration Sept. 16 outside the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in New York, denouncing the organization’s opposition to the Islamic community … Continue reading

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