The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has been silent on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, despite stating that “genocide prevention” is a key part of the museum’s mission.

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The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is the U.S.’ official memorial to the Holocaust. Over 40 million people have visited the museum, including over 100 heads of state.

The museum “teaches that the Holocaust was preventable and that by heeding warning signs and taking early action, individuals and governments can save lives.” The museum is home to the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, which “works to do for the victims of genocide today what the world failed to do for the Jews of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.”

As of July 2025, the museum lists 23 country case studies where its Center for the Prevention of Genocide has worked. Palestine, the West Bank, and Gaza are nowhere to be seen, despite decades of Israeli occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.

While the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum remains silent on Palestine, multiple genocide scholars and human rights organizations have clearly documented the evidence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The Holocaust was a horrifying crime against humanity in which Germany’s Nazi regime persecuted and murdered six million Jews. But if the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum remains silent on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, then the museum is failing in its mission to “prevent genocide."

It’s time for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to end its silence.

"Never Again" means little if it doesn’t include the Gaza genocide.

Sources:

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, "About the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide," https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/simon-skjodt-center, accessed July 28, 2025

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, "Country Case Studies," https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/countries, accessed July 28, 2025

“A Textbook Case of Genocide,” Raz Segal, Jewish Currents, Oct 13, 2023, https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide

“I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It,” Omer Bartov, July 15, 2025, The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opinion/israel-gaza-holocaust-genocide-palestinians.html

“Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza,” December 5, 2024, https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-international-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/

“Israeli authorities are responsible for the crime against humanity of extermination and for acts of genocide. ” (“Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza, Human Rights Watch, December 19, 2024, https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/19/israels-crime-extermination-acts-genocide-gaza

"Our Genocide," B'Tselem, July 2025, https://www.btselem.org/publications/202507_our_genocide

"Destruction of Conditions of Life: A Health Analysis of the Gaza Genocide," Physicians for Human Rights - Israel, https://www.phr.org.il/en/genocide-in-gaza-eng/