Re: Jewish homosexual heritage museum staff attempt to ban DeSantis from premises: Report

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Staff at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City
attempted to ban Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) from speaking at a
Jewish Leadership Conference, according to its organizers.

Elliott Abrams and Eric Cohen, two executives of the Tikvah Fund
and conference organizers, planned to host the event at the
museum. The staff there reported to them that DeSantis wouldn't
be allowed on the museum grounds.

Staff reportedly told Abrams and Cohen that "DeSantis didn’t
'align with the museum’s values and its message of
inclusivity,'" the two wrote in an opinion piece Thursday.

When the two confronted museum CEO Jack Kliger, he reportedly
told them, “Don't do politics ... whether left or right.”
Meanwhile, it hosted Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and then-
Councilman Bill de Blasio in 2009, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(D-NY) in 2018, and then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2020.

The museum has since denied all allegations in a string of
tweets Friday, claiming the situation was "not a free speech or
censorship issue."

"Today we responded to a factually inaccurate opinion piece in
[the Wall Street Journal] about a proposed rental event. Let us
be clear: No one was banned or cancelled," the museum's tweet
read. "No contract with the Tikvah Fund was ever signed for this
rental event to be held at the Museum and no deposit was ever
made."

"The Tikvah Fund is trying to create a fight where none exists,"
the thread continued. "We welcome Governor DeSantis and elected
officials from across the spectrum to visit the Museum of Jewish
Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust for a tour."

Abrams and Cohen wrote that they still plan to go on with the
event, with DeSantis as a speaker. They claimed to have picked
the Florida governor "to discuss how the 'Florida model' has
contributed" to the recent "Jewish renaissance underway."
Florida is home to the third-largest population of Jewish people
in the nation, according to data from 2020.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jewish-heritage-museum-
staff-attempt-to-ban-desantis-from-premises-report