Museum Mess: Flip-flop on Arafat invitation embarrasses U.S. Holocaust Museum, raises questions over who controls national institution.

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: January 23, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Museum Mess: Flip-flop on Arafat invitation embarrasses U.S. Holocaust Museum, raises questions over who controls national institution.

Since its opening in 1993, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum here has tried to position itself as a respected national institution, not an instrument of Jewish politics.

But this week it became ensnared in just what it hoped to avoid when its top lay and professional leaders spurned an administration request for an official welcome for Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat during his trip to Washington.

Top museum officials first gave a green light to an ...

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