One would expect a “holocaust museum” to oppose every genocide as well as all forms of racism. However, the Montreal Holocaust Museum (MHM) is offering excuses and cover for the perpetrator of what the World Court described as a “plausible genocide” in Gaza, occupied Palestine.
One would also expect governmental and media outrage when directors of this taxpayer-funded museum blame the victims of said genocide. But no, that outrage has been saved for graffiti writers who expressed their horror of what is happening in Gaza by scrawling “fuck Israel, fuck Quebec” on a sign devoted to the museum’s ultra-Zionist leading donor.
Recently political and media elites echoed genocidal Zionist organizations criticism of someone who wrote “fuck Israel, fuck Quebec” on the Azrieli Foundation sign in front of the site that will host the new MHM. According to the photos posted on X, graffitists also “tagged” that sign and an MHM sign.
The Montreal Gazette and La Presse reported on the markings. Heritage minister Pascale St-Onge posted about calling MHM while Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre declared that “hatred against the Jewish people is the world’s ugliest and most enduring form of hatred.”
But the MHM is not simply a museum. It’s promoting a holocaust in Gaza. After over 10,000 Palestinians had been killed in the latest round of Israeli barbarism directed at the besieged coastal strip, MHM released their position “on the continuing conflict in Israel”. The November 15, 2023 statement noted: “The past few weeks have been excruciatingly painful for our Museum community. We have seen the worst terrorist attack committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, an escalating war in a place that many of us call a second home, images of extreme violence, the proliferation of hate propaganda, and the terrorizing of Jews around the world. We share the pain of the Israeli and Palestinian families, equally victimized by the cruelty of Hamas. We are heartbroken thinking of the innocent hostages being held by these ISIS emulators, and we pray for their immediate release back to the loving arms of their Israeli families.” (more...)
Museum defending Israel’s genocide gets government grants
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