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    'Confronting Hate Together' will finally be displayed, but not at the Wing Luke Museum

    By KUOW Staff,

    2024-08-16

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    "Confronting Hate Together" will return, but won't be held the Wing Luke Museum where a controversy surrounding the exhibit emerged earlier this year. Instead, the Washington State Jewish Historical Society will present the exhibit at an event in September for "the Jewish community alongside our friends and allies."

    "Immense harm has been caused to the Jewish community by not being able to show the exhibit," the group said in a statement . "The anti-Jewish ideas and attitudes that fueled the (Wing Luke Museum) employee walkout (whether conscious or not) have yet to be adequately acknowledged. And, at the same time, the greater Seattle community will be deprived of an important cross-cultural educational opportunity."

    RELATED : Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum closed after staff say exhibit 'frames Palestinian liberation' as antisemitism

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    The Confronting Hate Together exhibit is displayed on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle.

    "Confronting Hate Together" is an exhibit jointly produced by the Jewish Historical Society, the Black Heritage Society of Washington State, and the Wing Luke Museum.

    It aimed to show how Black, Jewish, and Asian-American communities have faced prejudice in Seattle's past, and how hate crimes continue in modern times. For example, such communities faced housing exclusions and were often grouped side by side.

    Jewish families helped Japanese-American families while they were incarcerated during World War II. When a Seattle church refused to host Martin Luther King Jr. in 1961, Temple de Hirsch Sinai stepped in.

    The exhibit initially opened in May at the Wing Luke Museum, but a group of museum staff members objected to material included in the Jewish portion of the display and walked out . They argued that the conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas should be included, and that part of the exhibit framed protest rhetoric as anti-Semitic.

    During the museum employee walkout, the exhibit was put on hold. Wing Luke officials told KUOW that it was being updated. In its statement, the Jewish Historical Society said it has been "open and responsive to feedback from partners, sensitive to the international climate and challenges," and has modified the exhibit.

    In June, the Wing Luke Museum planned to update the displays and reopen . In July, the museum announced the exhibit would be moved .

    At the time, Steve McLean with the Wing Luke Museum told KUOW, "We saw this as an opportunity to explore some of the missing perspectives that were part of the the rationale for the walkout, both amongst the Palestinian and Muslim communities, also some further education about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism."

    This week, the Jewish Historical Society announced it will host "Confronting Hate Together" at an event in September, but it won't be presented by the previous partnership.

    "It is with great disappointment, pain, and sadness we share that, due to circumstances out of our control, the Confronting Hate Together (CHT) Exhibit will not be presented jointly to the community in a public venue by the Black Heritage Society (BHS), Washington State Jewish Historical Society (WSJHS) and the Wing Luke Museum (WLM)," the group said in its statement.

    While the event showcasing the exhibit has yet to be announced, a digital version of it has been posted online.

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    Leslie Saboteire
    08-16
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