{"id":13004,"date":"2010-03-31T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13004"},"modified":"2010-03-31T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T16:00:11","slug":"john-taylor-museum-of-tolerance-desecrates-graves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13004","title":{"rendered":"John Taylor: Museum of Tolerance Desecrates Graves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by <a title=\"Posts by John Taylor\" href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/author\/john-taylor\/\">John Taylor<\/a>, Antiwar.com, 31 March 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Marvin Hier\u2019s Los Angeles-based Museum of Tolerance, part  of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, is building a $150 million branch in Jerusalem. The Museum, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiesenthal.com\/site\/pp.asp?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&amp;b=4441257\">mission<\/a> is confronting &#8220;global anti-Semitism, extremism, hate \u2026 and promoting unity and respect among Jews and people of all faiths,&#8221; is being built atop part of the Mamilla Muslim cemetery, some of whose burials date  to the 11th century. The graves, which may contain the remains of soldiers who fought with Saladin against the Crusaders, are being uprooted to make way for Rabbi Hier\u2019s new museum.<\/p>\n<p>More than a few commentators, including a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/articles\/14592\/\">Israelis<\/a> and some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findingdulcinea.com\/news\/international\/2009\/feb\/Jewish-Group-Joins-Fight-Against-Construction-of-Wiesenthal-Museum.html\">Israel\u2019s friends in this country<\/a>, have argued strongly that a Museum of  Tolerance built literally upon the bones of Palestine\u2019s indigenous Arab population is hypocritical, intolerant, and wholly absurd. A case could be made, however, that tearing out centuries-old Muslim graves and replacing them with an American-financed Museum of Tolerance symbolizes Zionist policy and practice toward the Palestinians from the birth of modern political Zionism a century ago down to the  present day. It also exemplifies America\u2019s role as an enabler of Israeli ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/john-taylor\/2010\/03\/30\/museum-of-tolerance-desecrates-graves\/\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Taylor, Antiwar.com, 31 March 2010 Rabbi Marvin Hier\u2019s Los Angeles-based Museum of Tolerance, part of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, is building a $150 million branch in Jerusalem. The Museum, whose mission is confronting &#8220;global anti-Semitism, extremism, hate \u2026 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13004\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3nK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13007,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004\/revisions\/13007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}