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February 15, 2018

When Yasir Arafat Almost Came to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

“One of the dumbest ideas in the annals of U.S foreign policy.”

In 1998, the lay chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Council—which supervises the Washington, DC Holocaust Museum—invited Yasir Arafat to pay the museum an official visit. Walter Reich, then the museum’s director, objected strenuously to the invitation. In an interview with Rafael Medoff, he describes what happened:

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