NEW YORK (AP) - A Jewish human rights organization says it hopes
to start building its Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem in the coming months despite a petition to the U.N. to stop construction because the site was once a medieval Muslim cemetery.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Rabbi Abraham Cooper says human
remains found on the site have already been reburied in a Muslim
cemetery. He says workers also discovered part of the Herodian
aqueduct that ran from Hebron to Jerusalem at the time of Jesus.

After the Israeli Supreme Court rejected their 2008 appeal to stop construction of the museum, Palestinian and international human rights activists petitioned the U.N. last month to try to block the museum. But any response from the U.N. would not be legally binding.

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