Is the prime suspect of the Holocaust Museum shooting anti-Semitic?
WASHINGTON (AP) — From its inception, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has brought haters to its doors, with several dozen people protesting the 1993 dedication carrying signs such as, “Stop the big lie — the gas chamber hoax!” The prime suspect in Wednesday’s deadly shooting at the museum has a racist, anti-Semitic Web site, but sentiments akin to those he touts were on display on that rainy April day 16 years ago. “America — Jews are your enemies, cocroaches and parasites,” said one sign, misspelling and all. “Wake up America.” President Bill Clinton said, as if to retort: “Look at the liars and the propagandists among us.” Seven thousand people showed up for the dedication ceremony, many of them Holocaust survivors. Clinton told the crowd that the museum binds “one of the darkest lessons in history to the hopeful soul of America.” Since then, the museum, which calls itself “a living memorial to the Holocaust,” has had more than 28 million visitors, including 88 heads of state and
