The opening of Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has generated a national political firestorm. But why has a modest exhibition provoked such angry protests, political interference, and calls for its closure? Owen Schalk and Tanya Cheal examine what the controversy uncovers about whose histories are allowed to be told.
Everyone thinks their own propaganda and bias are fine. It’s everyone else’s that are false and problematic.