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Israeli NGO demands Smithsonian cancel ‘Anti-Israel’ exhibit in D.C.
May 8, 2025

The Shurat HaDin Law Center has formally urged the White House to cancel a Smithsonian museum exhibit it labels as “provocative and anti-Israel,” warning that it promotes a narrative sympathetic to terrorism and detrimental to U.S. interests. In a letter to Vice President JD Vance and other senior U.S. officials, Shurat HaDin President Nitsana Darshan-Leitner criticized the Patterns of Life exhibit, which is currently on display at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. She described it as “emotionally manipulative storytelling using selectively curated data to promote an extremist, anti-American, and anti-Israel agenda under the guise of academic and artistic engagement.”  READ MORE