January 20, 2006

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Activists: Museum should acknowledge Arab anti-Semitism

A group of activists has asked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington to do more to acknowledge Arab anti-Semitism.

The fledgling organization, “Holocaust Museum Watch,” believe the government-funded museum should present an exhibit to highlight Arab and Muslim anti-Semitism, both during the Nazi period and today. It criticized the museum Wednesday for not condemning recent anti-Semitic comments by Iran’s president, until pressured to do so.

Carol Greenwald, who started the organization, said it was not until she handed a letter out at the museum’s annual dinner that the museum acknowledged Mahmoud Ahmandinejad’s comments. A spokesman for the museum did not respond to requests for comment.