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Article: Wiesenthal Center Presses Ahead With Israel Museum Over Mounting Objections
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- Forward
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- February 24, 2006
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Popper, Nathaniel
Forward
02-24-2006
Despite growing Muslim and Jewish objections, the Simon Wiesenthal Center
is moving ahead with the construction of a museum on top of a Muslim
cemetery in Jerusalem.
The Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based institution, is building its new
Museum of Tolerance on a plot of land that was historically used by Muslims
as a cemetery but was more recently turned into a parking lot.
The continuing work on the site -- behind a heavily secured perimeter --
has drawn protests from Muslim organizations, but it is now also attracting
criticism from Jewish lawmakers of all political persuasions in Israel.
Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin, of the right-wing Likud Party, ...