In both the online and onsite exhibitions, given the intricate details about virtually all aspects of the Games, including the foreign politics, omitting the most essential facts of the 1972 Munich Massacre could not possibly have been an oversight. At best, it was incompetent curation. At worst, the museum was trying to pre-empt a backlash from anti-Israel activists, should it dare identify the perpetrators and the victims, lest Jewish victimhood undermine Palestinian victimhood, the cause du jour. Either way, it was a gold-medal performance in Jewish history erasure.







