Frank Gehry Withdraws from Israel Museum

Frank Gehry is a contemporary architectural visionary who is much sought after as a designer for the next symphony or college research facility or your pseudo-tolerance museum.

The L.A.-based Simon something or other Museum of Tolerance likes to feign humanitarianism. It pretends that its mission is to promote inter-faith tolerance and understanding, but its real purpose it to promote Israel and Zionism and smear Arabs and Muslims. It exists for no other reason than to give Israel's American propagandists a self-righteous cover. The speak about tolerance, and yet on their website they have nothing about Islam - a faith of 1 in 4 people on the plant. But they did recently host an anti-Muslim film.

And this so-called Museum of Tolerance [for Zionism only] recently wanted to build a Jerusalem branch on the ruins of a Muslim graveyard and when people dared to protest, it had the temerity to self-righteous accuse them being the bigots:

It is the blind hatred and intolerance of extremists…which impede any prospects for civility and peace.

As left-wing Jewish weekly Tikkun noted at the time:

Since when does a religious adherent who objects to the desecration of the bones of his ancestors become a “blind hater” and “intolerant extremist?” If an abandoned Jewish cemetery in Hier’s Los Angeles hometown were desecrated he’d be the first to scream bloody murder. And he’d be right to do so. But when it’s his ox being gored all of a sudden he gets all holy and indignant and cries ‘Islamic extremism.’

The Museum of Zionism did not heed the protests, but Gehry has decency and has withdrawn from the project:

The avatar of architectural self-expression has announced that he's dropping out of a commission the Museum of Tolerance, and Jewish/Muslim politics appear to have played a major role in the decision. Gehry's design itself came under particular fire. Gehry's office has refused comment, only saying that situation was "politically very sensitive." The trouble started because the site sits upon an ancient Muslim cemetery.

Many prominent Jews have also opposed the site of the museum:

Israeli scholars, cultural figures, Orthodox leaders including Knesset member Rabbi Meir Porush, and American rabbis have joined in vehemently opposing the museum, along with a group of leading British architects who signed a petition condemning the proposed museum as a "blow to peaceful co-existence" in the city. Jerusalem's former deputy mayor, Meron Benvenisti, has denounced it as "so hallucinatory, so irrelevant, so foreign, so megalomaniac."

..."There is something profoundly disturbing about the idea of putting a Jewish Museum of Tolerance on a plot of land where Muslims have been burying their dead for most of the last 800 years," wrote Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism.

This may mean that the museum named after a phony who lied about his Holocaust experience may not be built - or at least not for a while. No comment from the Tolerance Squad, but we can safely guess they'll accuse Gehry of being anti-Semitic for refusing to destroy a Muslim grave site upon command by Zionists.

Gehry's not defunct model for the museum:

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