Terry Newman: Backlash against proposed 'Nakba' exhibit is justified

A controversial exhibit, Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present, is coming to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in June, and at least one Globe and Mail columnists thinks concerned Jews are overreacting — except they aren’t.

In a recent op-ed , Globe columnist Marsha Lederman openly mocked the concerns of several Jewish organizations, which argued that the exhibit “ will lack balanced scholarly research and will ignore key issues of the historical and current geopolitical reality,” or become “tool, or dupe, of only one side of the story,” thereby erasing “Jewish voices.”

As if that weren’t condescending enough, she refers to the “letter-writing campaigns” and “appeals to the museum’s board” and politicians as totally “expected.”

She then dismisses any concerns that the exhibit,