A major United States Holocaust Memorial Museum study of the Obama administration's Syria policy was put on hold after portions of the study given to the magazine Tablet were greeted with shock and harsh criticism by prominent Jewish communal leaders and thinkers. The study apparently excuses U.S. government inaction in the face of large-scale mass murder, including the gassing of civilians.
From Tablet:
Some Jewish communal leaders suggested both privately to Tablet, and in conversations with board members and staff at the Holocaust Museum, that the Museum's moral authority had been hijacked for a partisan re-writing of recent history, and alleged that the museum had absolved the Obama administration of any moral or political error in its response to mass atrocities in Syria. At least one of the architects of the Obama administration policy in Syria, former deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes, was appointed to the museum's Memorial Councilduring the closing days of the Obama administration. The Council also includes Obama NSC alumni Grant Harris and Daniel Benjamin. Other Obama NSC alumni, including Hudson and Anna Cave, have joined the Museum's staff.
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