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{weblog_name} - Wiesenthal Center’s Poor Choice, Part III
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I’ve written in the past about the poor choice of the Simon Wiesenthal Center – known globally for promoting racial, religious and ethnic harmony – in wanting to build a new museum on disputed Jerusalem land. But I just can’t get over how they are continuing this fight. To quickly recap, the Center purchased some land in the center of the city that is part of an old parking lot adjacent to a Muslim cemetery, part of whose graves were long ago moved and reburied elsewhere. Muslim challenges to the construction of the new building eventually went to the Israeli Supreme Court, which just ruled in the Wiesenthal Center’s favor. But this can only be seen this as a pyrrhic victory. That’s because the way the Center has gone about this has only given more ammunition to the haters… read more