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Source: http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=194817
German Mayor Fights "One-Sided" Nakba Exhibit
(Jerusalem Post) Benjamin Weinthal - The mayor of Freiburg, Dieter Salomon, pulled the plug on a Palestinian "Nakba" exhibit, which was slated to open Friday in the local library, because "from the perspective of the city of Freiburg, the presentation is one-sided," Edith Lamersdorf, the mayor's spokeswoman, said Tuesday. The Cafe Palestine group filed a lawsuit against the municipality, and on Wednesday a court ruled that the exhibit can be displayed. Salomon told the Badische Zeitung newspaper, "Palestinian Arabs do not appear in the presentation as responsible and active actors in this conflict. There is, for example, no discussion of the anti-Semitically motivated Arab pogroms that took place since the mid-19th century, and especially after 1945, in the Jewish settlement areas in the Arab regions. The other 'Nakba' [catastrophe] meant flight and expulsion for hundreds of thousands of Arab Jews, who had to leave their homes and were taken in by Israel."