{"id":1465637,"date":"2022-05-05T17:59:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T21:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465637"},"modified":"2022-05-05T17:59:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T21:59:39","slug":"ny-jewish-museum-tells-jewish-group-disinvite-desantis-from-speaking-or-cancel-the-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-jewish-museum-tells-jewish-group-disinvite-desantis-from-speaking-or-cancel-the-event\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Jewish Museum Tells Jewish Group: Disinvite DeSantis From Speaking Or Cancel The Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-jewish-museum-tells-jewish-group-disinvite-desantis-from-speaking-or-cancel-the-event%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465637&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1236742353.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A New York City museum devoted to Jewish heritage told the Jewish leaders of a group hosting Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis, a fervent supporter of Israel and Jewish causes, that the governor should be disinvited from speaking or else the event was not to be held there.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott Abrams, the chairman of Tikvah, and Eric Cohen, the group\u2019s CEO, founded\u00a0the Jewish Leadership Conference, an annual gathering discussing the Jewish people and Israel. They were planning to hold an event at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on June 12 at which DeSantis would speak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought it would be interesting to invite Gov. Ron DeSantis to discuss how the \u2018Florida model\u2019 has contributed to the growth and vitality of Jewish life in his state,\u201d Abrams and Cohen wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/holocaust-memorial-new-york-museum-jewish-heritage-ron-desantis-judaism-florida-cancel-culture-tivka-speech-event-aoc-censorship-11651759681?st=170f97rk8jvz6so&#038;reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were working closely with the museum on the details for the June 12 event\u2014until, out of the blue, we were told by the museum staff that Mr. DeSantis didn\u2019t \u2018align with the museum\u2019s values and its message of inclusivity,\u2019\u201d Abrams and Cohen continued. \u201cEither we disinvite the governor, they said, or our event was unwelcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The authors noted, \u201cThroughout the modern age, Jews have suffered the consequences of this kind of intolerance,\u201d citing college campuses, the boycott, divest and sanctions movement, and the U.N., \u201cwith its odious anti-Israel Human Rights Council and with Amnesty International\u2019s \u2018apartheid state\u2019 calumny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we know things are bad when a Jewish institution\u2014in this case, a museum whose purpose is to keep Jewish heritage alive by remembering the Holocaust\u2014turns on its own and tries to make a virtue of its own intolerance,\u201d they snapped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen pressed for a further explanation of why our event was canceled, the museum\u2019s CEO adopted a common form of doublespeak: We don\u2019t do politics, he told us, whether left or right,\u201d the authors reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot surprisingly, this was false,\u201d they pointed out. \u201cIn August 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, then a Democratic candidate for Congress, was a featured speaker at an event at the museum, sponsored by the Immigrant Arts Coalition. \u2026 The museum has hosted other politicians, including then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and then-Mayor Bill de Blasio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The museum hosted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in April. Thomas-Greenfield \u201crecently described America as a society plagued by white supremacy and lauded America\u2019s re-entry into the anti-Israel Human Rights Commission,\u201d the authors stated.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis has been an extraordinary friend to the Jews of Florida and Israel; in May 2019, DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wjct.org\/news\/2019-05-30\/in-israel-gov-desantis-signs-bill-to-curb-anti-semitism\">signed a measure<\/a> barring anti-Semitic speech in Florida\u2019s public schools and universities. In July 2021, DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2021\/07\/22\/governor-ron-desantis-calls-on-state-board-of-administration-to-place-ben-jerrys-on-the-continued-examination-companies-that-boycott-israel-list\/\">called on<\/a> the State Board of Administration (SBA) to immediately place Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s and Unilever on the Continued Examination Companies that Boycott Israel List and to initiate the process to place both companies on the Scrutinized Companies that Boycott Israel List.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2021\/06\/08\/governor-ron-desantis-speaks-to-the-jewish-federations-of-florida-about-the-importance-of-stopping-antisemitism-and-supporting-israel\/\">secured<\/a> $4 million in the state budget for additional security for Jewish day schools.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams and Cohen concluded, \u201cThe Jewish Leadership Conference won\u2019t be canceled, and the governor of the state with America\u2019s third-largest Jewish population will speak. We will hold our event as planned, at a different, secular venue. But it is sad to see that the misguided leadership of a Jewish museum won\u2019t allow alternative ideas a seat at the Jewish table.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York City museum devoted to Jewish heritage told the Jewish leaders of a group hosting Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis, a fervent supporter of Israel and Jewish causes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1444518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}