The Times of Israel skriver att UNESCO utställningen om judarnas koppling till Israels land inte tillåts berätta om de judiska flyktingarna från de arabiska länderna.
UNESCO krävde att informationen om de judiska flyktingarna från arabländerna under 1900-talet inte skulle visas eftersom man antog att arabländerna då skulle ha stoppat hela utställningen.
"Organizers of revived
exhibition on Jews’ ties to Holy Land, which deleted ‘Israel’ from
title, agreed to remove controversial section, saying Arab states would
have blocked entire show.
“It is true that UNESCO officials asked us to
drop the panel because they felt certain that Arab nations would protest
and block the exhibition,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean at
the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which organized the exhibition. The
removed panel consisted primarily of visuals depicting the Jewish
refugees’ absorption in Israel in the 1950s and 60s, he told The Times
of Israel. “We reluctantly agreed,” he explained, adding that the
exhibition’s author, Hebrew University Professor Robert Wistrich, did
insert, in a different panel, “the statistics about Aliyah from Arab
nations, which we insisted be included.”
Since 1948,
roughly 850,000 Jews fled persecution and violence in the Middle East
and North Africa, about 650,000 of whom immigrated to Israel."
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