When the CIJA learned about the museum’s intention to profile the experiences of refugees from the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, “we immediately engaged with the Museum’s leadership,” he says. “We offered to convene leading experts to help ensure that any exhibit presents a balanced, fact-based, and comprehensive narrative, one that reflects the experiences of all refugees, including the more than 850,000 Jews forcibly displaced from long-established communities across the Middle East and North Africa.”
