Heritage Florida Jewish News - Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice

The Florida Holocaust Museum responded to a request from the Heritage Florida Jewish News for a statement concerning the mapping project in Massachusetts. Solomon Howard, FHM senior account executive, replied that they are “as alarmed as any by the Mapping Project” and sent the following statement:

There is a healthy debate about when criticism of Israeli policy becomes antisemitism, but no such debate exists with The Mapping Project. Its authors turn their antizionist political crusade into a wholesale allegation of collective guilt against Jews, alleging that Jewish organizations of all kinds are complicit in harms including racism and “colonial subjugation.”

The Project manages to hawk multiple antisemitic tropes at the same time: that American Jews are responsible for Israel’s actions, that Jews are part of an interconnected conspiracy, and that American media outlets are propagandists for the Jewish State.

As a museum committed to preserving the memory of the Holocaust, we have heard them all before, and they are just as repulsive now as they have been for decades.

This is antisemitism, pure and simple, whether or not it wears the mask of activism.