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Dear John,

For months, our community and our organizations warned about the lack of transparency, consultation, and rigour in the development of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights' controversial Nakba exhibit.

Now that it has opened, our serious concerns have been confirmed, with elements of the exhibit demonstrating an "error of curation" and the Board of Trustees’ failure to review the exhibit as being an "error in governance."

Those are not our words, but those of Marc Miller – the federal Minister who oversees national museums.

He said these failures should be directed to the Board, which must “do its job." Minister Miller also said that failing to identify Hamas as a terrorist organization and failing to state that Hamas intended to kill Jews were "regrettable" errors in curation.

We’ve already seen the real-world consequences of an exhibit that has pitted communities against one another and emboldened audiences to express hatred against Jews.

It is clear where responsibility lies. Now it is up to the Board to act.

Join us in urging the Board to rectify the failures in curation and governance, and hold the Museum’s CEO accountable.

Shabbat Shalom,

The CIJA Team