National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina says proceeds from book on Sarajevo Haggadah to be donated to Palestinian causes

Profits from the sale of a publication about a historic Haggadah will be donated to help Palestinian causes as a rebuke of Israel’s military actions in Gaza, the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina says.

Income from the sale of the publication “Sarajevo Haggadah – Art and History,” as well as income from tickets to see the Sarajevo Haggadah, will be used to “provide support to the people of Palestine who suffer systematic, calculated and cold-blooded terror, directly by the state of Israel, and indirectly by all those who support and/or justify it in its shameless actions,” the museum says on its website.

The Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript written in northern Spain around 1350, is considered one of the oldest of its kind in the world and the museum’s most important and valuable artifact. Its value was estimated at $7 million for insurance purposes in 1992.

While the gesture is primarily symbolic, the decision reflects rising tensions over antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In June, a meeting of leading European rabbis was canceled in Sarajevo after a public official said it would give “a message of legitimization of the occupation and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people.”