About Us |
Holocaust Museum Watch was formed as a result of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s failure to expose current Arab anti-Semitism and its danger to world Jewry. In the face of the greatest threat to world Jewry since the Holocaust, the Museum has been silent. A handmaiden of Arab Jew hatred has been Holocaust denial, the use of Nazi era libels and hideous caricatures to portray Jews. About this, too, the Museum has maintained a decade long silence. The Museum has also been derelict in exposing the religious and racial incitement of the Arab world and in particular, the Palestinian Authority, in making the Arab Israeli land conflict into one of racial and religious hatred of Muslims for Jews. In the face of the decade’s long silence about Arab anti-Semitism and its real threat to world Jewry, we have formed this organization to encourage the museum to meet its obligations to speak out. This is the organization which should be leading the fight against Arab anti-Semitism. We intend to see that it does so. Board of Directors, Holocaust Museum Watch Warren Adler |
Mission |
Current Campaign A museum which was built to honor the memory of those who died as victims of antisemitism and to spread awareness of the tragedy caused by the political use of this hatred needs to take a leadership role in exposing Arab antisemitism. Arab antisemitism has not only poisoned the minds of millions of Arabs against Jews, as did Nazi propaganda, and has labeled the Holocaust a fake, it is widely credited with being the engine behind the re-emergence of European anti-Semitism in exactly the areas where Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. The antisemitism of the Arab world is rampant and reminiscent of Hitler’s antisemitism. Unlike the antisemitism on the rise in Europe, which is overwhelmingly denounced by government officials, Arab antisemitism is fueled by Arab governments. As the pre-eminent American institution researching the horrors of the political use of antisemitism, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum should be in the forefront of the fight to disclose the re-emergence of this hatred as a political tool. The absence of programs about Arab antisemitism over the last decade is a failure of the museum and an obscene dereliction of its duty. Our mission is to encourage the museum to fashion important programs focused on Arab antisemitism – its exposition of Jew hatred in schools, media and mosques, using many images directly from Nazi propaganda. |
Community Involvement Holocaust Museum Watch utilizes a number of methods to involve the community. We are a volunteer organization consisting of people in all walks of life and we welcome community participation in our activities, from writing letters to the museum’s Board and Director as well as to members of Congress. If you would like to work with us, we have an email listserv for active discussions. We will publish on this web site letters from the community to members of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum expressing concern over its lack of programs and research on Arab antisemitism. We will periodically sponsor community forums in which prominent community leaders speak out publicly about how the Museum can address current Arab antisemitism and its threat to world Jewry. Please let us know if you would like to work with us by contacting us at info@hmwatch.org. |
Contributions Your support will make it possible for Holocaust Museum Watch (hmwatch.org) to monitor the Museum and to hold the Board and staff responsible for their dereliction and to carry out our programs to educate the Community and the Congress about the Museum’s silence in the face of the re-emergence of virulent anti-Semitism. |