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A planned Museum of Tolerance in western Jerusalem is creating another rift between Jews and Muslims.
An American Muslim group says the museum is going up on the site of a Muslim cemetery and it wants construction stopped.
Israel's supreme court, however, ruled that the museum is being built on land that's been used for decades as a parking lot without complaint from Muslims.
The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), a Jewish human rights group, recently won a three-year court battle to continue building its Museum of Tolerance. The $250-million facility is intended to promote "mutual respect and social responsibility," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, SWC's founder and dean.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations in Los Angeles has asked the SWC not to build on the site. In a letter to SWC on Thursday, CAIR-LA said, "the land on which you plan to build is the site of a Muslim cemetery, a historic landmark, and a place revered by many."