Israel to build ‘museum of tolerance’ on Muslim graves

February 11th, 2006 at 21:34 Björn Hallberg

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre never fails to impress, that is for sure. Here is a real beauty. First you occupy someone else’s land and proceed by legal cons to appropriate a cemetery that has been in use for 15 centuries. Adding insult to injury you then defile burial traditions by exhuming the bodies only to “rebury” them elsewhere. Probably a fancy code for dumping them in a hole in the desert. The crowning achievement of course is having the hucksters and bullies of the Wiesenthal Centre build a “museum of tolerance” on the site. Now that is surely priceless in the most gruesome manner.

Israeli officials are noted as saying that “Israel is more crowded with ancient artefacts than any other country in the world. If we didn’t build on former cemeteries, we would never build.” Well, did you ever consider not building? “Museums of tolerance” don’t seem like a very high priority either, especially since we know its main goal is to spread intolerance and hate rather than quell it. I don’t know how you do things but in the civilized world, we tend to protect historical sites. Not bulldoze them. But this serves the colonial regime in Israel well. First, you get the graves out and you erase one more proof of Palestinian people ever having lived in the area, and particularly Jerusalem, before the massive Jewish settlement began. Second, you provoke a great deal of ill will, ensuring that the conflict will never end and motivating ever more brutal oppression.

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