Pro-Palestinian Protest at Holocaust Museum Sparks Fierce Backlash [View all]
Aplanned protest at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., amid the Israel-Hamas war has been canceled after facing fierce backlash.
Doctors Against Genocide (DAG), a nonprofit organization aimed at confronting and preventing genocide by uniting health care professionals in action, took to X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday to cancel a planned protest at the museum.
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The protest was planned for Thursday as the organization calls for a stop to what it calls the genocide in Gaza. Backlash against the protest was quickly seen across social media as some pointed toward the use of the Holocaust museum to protest the current conflict.
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"The goal of our event was to visit the Holocaust Museum to express our empathy for the horrors of that Genocide," DAG said in a statement on X. "Additionally, we wanted to bring awareness to the ongoing Genocide in Gaza. Our initial communications did not sufficiently convey this, leading to accusations from parties with ill intentions.
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This was the original call for action:
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See also: Doctors planned protest against Israel inside US Holocaust Museum
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