Speaking Up! Confronting Hate Speech underscores the power of words to lead to discrimination, persecution, and mass violence. Identity-based violence like genocide is rarely—if ever—a spontaneous event. The exhibition provides historical and current examples of the connection between words and mass atrocities, while empowering visitors with strategies to counter hate speech in their own communities.
Rooted in the Museum’s crucial mission to fight antisemitism through education, this exhibition highlights the relationship between hatred of Jews and identity-based discrimination in many forms. Beyond memorializing Holocaust survivors and victims, Speaking Up! provides an interdisciplinary framework to understand the stakes of anti-Jewish sentiment today.
Oriented toward social action, this exhibition responds to the contemporary moment in which persecution of all marginalized groups is on the rise. By offering tools to identify and defuse hateful rhetoric, Speaking Up! Confronting Hate Speech makes new conversations possible.
