Seven Holocaust museums across the US issued a joint statement denouncing the vandalism at their Seattle counterpart as a “straightforwardly antisemitic” act after the Seattle Police claimed the incident at the Emerald City location didn’t qualify as a hate crime. On Monday, the seven centers said in a joint statement, “The senseless scapegoating of Jews did not begin or end with the Holocaust. It’s been happening for thousands of years, and while the pretext may change, the antisemitic motivation is the same.”
Last month, staff at the Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood arrived the morning of June 18 to find the words, “Genocide in Gaza,” written in red over a photo of a Holocaust survivor named Steve Adler. Adler, who passed away in 2019, spent his life teaching others about hate and antisemitism through speeches at local schools and the center until his…
