The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has received piles of feedback about its small exhibition “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba, Past and Present” – both positive and negative. Perhaps the most surprising critique has not yet made it to its inbox.
It’s a report by Anishinaabe scholar and retired justice Harry LaForme and his wife Janice LaForme, a lawyer, written for the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics (NECA), a non-partisan group of university and college faculty concerned about campus antisemitism. Mr. LaForme, the former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, examines the exhibition through an Indigenous lens, specifically an Anishinaabe one. The LaFormes, who are not Jewish, also wanted to assess the exhibit in the context of the museum’s other offerings.
