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.”
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.”
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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