Museum of Jewish Heritage Ron DeSantis Decision Damages Its Reputation

After months of planning, New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage was just weeks away from hosting the Tikvah Fund’s Jewish Leadership Conference when it learned that Florida governor Ron DeSantis was among the speakers. It immediately told the conference organizers that Governor DeSantis would not be allowed to speak. As Tikvah’s chairman and executive director Elliott Abrams and Eric Cohen write in the Wall Street Journal, museum staff said that DeSantis doesn’t “align with the museum’s values and its message of inclusivity.”

The governor’s planned speech, “The Florida Model and Why It’s Good for Jews,” could hardly be characterized as offensive to Jews: The whole point of the speech is to welcome Jews to Florida, where they are not subject to hate crimes on a regular basis while an “inclusive” mayor looks the other way, as in New York City.

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Mario Loyola

Mario Loyola is a professor of environment at Florida International University and a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

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After months of planning, New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage was just weeks away from hosting the Tikvah Fund’s Jewish Leadership Conference when it learned that Florida governor Ron DeSantis was among the speakers. It immediately told the conference organizers that Governor DeSantis would not be allowed to speak. As Tikvah’s chairman and executive director Elliott Abrams and Eric Cohen write in the Wall Street Journal, museum staff said that DeSantis doesn’t “align with the museum’s values and its message of inclusivity.”

The governor’s planned speech, “The Florida Model and Why It’s Good for Jews,” could hardly be characterized as offensive to Jews: The whole point of the speech is to welcome Jews to Florida, where they are not subject to hate crimes on a regular basis while an “inclusive” mayor looks the other way, as in New York City.