Dec. 27, 2006

Mr. Fred Zeidman

Chairman

Holocaust Memorial Council

Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Zeidman:

Thank you for sending me the museum’s annual report, appropriately titled “Lessons for Today’s World.”

I am pleased that the museum has begun to put critically needed emphasis on the resurgence of anti-Semitism and genocidal incitement in today’s world. I also agree that the museum, with its unmatched resources, is “uniquely positioned” to counter the spread of anti-Semitic propaganda.

But I’m concerned, based on the tenor of the report, that leaders of the museum may be too quick to engage in self-congratulation and not quick enough in documenting, precisely, fully and vividly, the most worrisome spread of anti-Semitism today – namely throughout the Arab/Muslim world. In confronting that threat, you’ve barely begun much needed work and exposition.

As I’ve stated in earlier correspondence, I feel that the revised version of the exhibit on the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” is an improvement over the thoroughly deplorable earlier version, but still falls far short of spotlighting the depth, extent and full scope of Nazi-type anti-Semitic stereotypes, caricatures and vicious debasement of Jews in Arab/Muslim countries.

Superficial, gentle treatment of this noxious virus is inadequate. The museum needs to demonstrate the same thorough research and uncompromising expose of anti-Semitism in mosques, media, schools, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, sermons and books throughout the Middle East, as it has in documenting the Holocaust itself.

You’ve made a start, but you still have a long way to go.

Sincerely,

LEO RENNERT

5914 Rolston Road

Bethesda, Maryland 20817