Controversy as Holocaust Museum posts pro-Palestine image, forced to retract and apologize

Public opinion has now conclusively turned on Israel/Palestine. Sympathy for Israel skyrocketed after Oct. 7, 2023, but has been rapidly and dramatically eroded as the genocidal horror of what the IDF has since inflicted on innocent civilians has been all over the news and social media.

Polling indicates 60% of Americans of all political persuasions openly disapprove of Israel’s tactics, 58% support official recognition of Palestine as a state, and 65% said the United States has a duty to directly intervene to supply aid to Gaza City against the wishes of the IDF.

Now, even the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum has taken a stand against Israel. They posted an image to Instagram showing hands of many colors supporting one another, with the caption “Never again can’t only mean never again for Jews.”:

Well done to the Holocaust Museum for this. It cannot have been easy. pic.twitter.com/98JO1fM5u8

— Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) September 7, 2025

Though Gaza and Palestine aren’t mentioned by name, the message is clear. “Never again” refers to state-sponsored genocide, and saying this can’t “only mean for Jews” underlines the museum’s stated mission to “think critically about the lessons of the Holocaust and its social relevance today”.

Evil wins

But, unfortunately, even this mild and utterly humanitarian statement opposing mass death could not be allowed to remain. After what was presumably a frantic and furious behind-the-scenes argument, the post was yanked and a truly depressing “apology” was posted in its place:

And then…… pic.twitter.com/7w2KGqTd7D

— Gilly 🖤 (@Gillian275Gm) September 7, 2025

It explains that, actually, their image had been misinterpreted and that this was perhaps a bit too much “social relevance”. They say, “We promise to do better and will ensure that posts in the future are more thoughtfully designed and thoroughly vetted”.

Or, to translate: “We have just received a truly epic scolding from someone and now have to put all future social media posts past them for approval”.

The whole situation is depressing. What exactly is the point of a Holocaust Museum designed to “think critically about the lessons of the Holocaust” if it has to brazenly disregard the extremely relevant and glaringly obvious lesson that’s taking place each night across the daily news?

Replies on X were understandably scathing, saying the museum has “confirmed in a statement that genocide is okay if Palestinians are its victims”, that they “folded like a tent being bombed in a refugee camp,” and that “you can nigh on guarantee that their sponsors threatened to withdraw funding.”

At this point, it’s probably just time to pack up the museum and go home. What exactly is the point of raising awareness of genocide if that comes with an asterisk and the note *uh, but not this genocide.