'The new czars of cancel culture seem to have little such moral imagination or civic tolerance,' they wrote. The op-ed asserted that protecting free speech was more important than concerns over protests or a potential backlash from donors. 'We know things are bad when a Jewish institution - in this case, a museum whose purpose is to keep Jewish heritage alive by remembering the Holocaust - turns on its own and tries to make a virtue of its own intolerance,' wrote Tikvah CEO Eric Cohen and its chairman, Elliott Abrams. The museum cited security issues among its key concerns, plus a desire not to host political speakers, but in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, the leaders of the Tikvah Fund, the group organizing the conference, accused the museum of having a political litmus test. The Museum of Jewish Heritage had been set to host the annual gathering of conservative thinkers but backed out earlier this spring.
