Pro-Palestinian activists tried to host protest at Holocaust Museum but are forced to cancel: 'Stop the Genocide in Gaza'



Pro-Palestinian activists who planned to hold an event at the Holocaust Memorial Museum this week canceled after facing backlash online.

Doctors Against Genocide, a newly created Muslim activist organization, planned to host a protest at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. Protesters had planned to meet at the museum that morning before moving their demonstration to the White House in the afternoon.

"Stop the Genocide in Gaza," a protest flyer said. "Don't ring in 2024 with an ongoing genocide."

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The event was summarily condemned as "sickening" for reaching "a new level of evil" that "crosses every line of human decency" because it would have "desecrat[ed] the memory of 6 million murdered Jews and tr[ied] to distort and deny history."

On Tuesday, the organization canceled the protest and released a statement attempting to blame outrage for its event on "misconceptions." The organization claimed the event had been "misrepresented as an anti-Semitic gathering."

Those "unfounded accusations," DAG claimed, came from "parties with ill intentions."

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Instead, DAG claimed the event was about educating the health care community about genocide. The group claimed it was not planning "to protest inside or outside the museum," which is misleading because the event poster urged those who planned to attend the protest to obtain a ticket to enter the museum.

The poster, moreover, said nothing about education but said "action is open to all" — language suggesting that it was a planned protest.

Raymund Flandez, a spokesperson for the Holocaust Memorial Museum, said the museum was not aware of the protest but clarified that "holding such an event at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum would have been extremely offensive, particularly to Holocaust survivors."

Doctors Against Genocide was created this year and is connected to Jet-Pac, an organization focused on "building American Muslim political infrastructure," according to the Jerusalem Post. Earlier this month, the group hosted a "ceasefire" protest that included Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Cori Bush (D-Mo.).

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The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center in Maitland, Florida, was founded in 1981 with the help of Tess Wise, a Holocaust survivor from Poland. The Holocaust museum officially opened in 1986 and was the "first Holocaust museum in the Southeast."

Last week, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center opened a new exhibition titled: "Uprooting Prejudice: Faces of Change." "In the wake of George Floyd's murder, we felt it was important to bring the meaning of the aftermath to our museum," the Holocaust Resource and Education Center said.

George Floyd died on May 25 while in police custody, and footage shows ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on the neck of Floyd for over eight minutes. In the days after Floyd's death, photographer John Noltner went to the Minneapolis intersection where Floyd died, and asked people, "What do you want to say?"

The exhibit features "45 black and white photos of individuals depicting their powerful emotions and thoughts in response to racism," according to the museum's Facebook page.

"The world is complex. Historical wounds are deep. In all the heated rhetoric of the day, we forget to listen. I hope that through these stories and these faces, you can understand the events of our day in a new way," Noltner said. "I hope you can challenge some of your own preconceptions and I hope you can see the humanity of each and every person. When I photograph a person—no matter who they are—I strive to leave a simple message: I see you. I hear you. And you matter."

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Floyd's death sparked nationwide protests calling for justice, as well as riots across the country that are reported to be the "most expensive in insurance history," estimated between $1 billion to $2 billion of paid insurance claims.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum describes the Holocaust as the "systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jewish men, women and children by the Nazi regime and its collaborators."

Earlier this month, CNN International anchor Christiane Amanpour compared President Donald Trump's first term to the Nazis' Kristallnacht on her cable news show. The segment was met with swift backlash; critics called the comparison "despicable" and "disgusting."