American Muslims for Palestine Director Says Holocaust Museums are “False Propaganda”

In a recent inter­view, Osama Abu Irshaid, nation­al direc­tor of Amer­i­can Mus­lims for Pales­tine (AMP), called Holo­caust muse­ums “false pro­pa­gan­da.” On 24 Novem­ber 2025, The Jerusalem Post report­ed that Abu Irshaid alleged they were used to black­mail the world. He fur­ther stat­ed that Jews had a “monop­oly on the vic­tim men­tal­i­ty” and called for a new “Pales­tin­ian geno­cide” nar­ra­tive. The arti­cle begins:

Holo­caust muse­ums are “false pro­pa­gan­da,” and Israel has black­mailed the world with the Holo­caust, said Osama Abu Irshaid, nation­al direc­tor of Amer­i­can Mus­lims for Pales­tine, in a speech pub­lished to YouTube last week. Irshaid, who also serves on the board of the non­prof­it Unit­ed States Coun­cil of Mus­lim Orga­ni­za­tions, said, “Israel has black­mailed the world with the Holo­caust” and that “if you call what is hap­pen­ing in Gaza a Holo­caust, you are labeled anti­se­mit­ic.” He accused Jews of hav­ing “a monop­oly on the vic­tim men­tal­i­ty” and called for the for­ma­tion of a new nar­ra­tive called the “Pales­tin­ian geno­cide” nar­ra­tive. He went on to crit­i­cize Holo­caust muse­ums as a project of the “Zion­ist lobby.”

Read more: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-875158

Video here: https://www.memri.org/tv/osama-abu-irshaid-istanbul-palestinian-holocaust-genocide-memri

Key Points

American Muslims for Palestine: Ties to US Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas Support Networks

Amer­i­can Mus­lims for Pales­tine (AMP) is a Pales­tin­ian advo­ca­cy orga­ni­za­tion with doc­u­ment­ed con­nec­tions to both the US Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and Hamas sup­port infra­struc­ture. The Anti-Defama­tion League describes AMP as the lead­ing orga­ni­za­tion pro­vid­ing anti-Zion­ist train­ing and edu­ca­tion to stu­dents and Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty orga­ni­za­tions in the coun­try. AMP Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Osama Abu Irshaid also serves as a board mem­ber of the US Coun­cil of Mus­lim Orga­ni­za­tions (USCMO), an umbrel­la group com­prised almost sole­ly of ele­ments of the Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in the US. In Octo­ber 2020, Abu Irshaid par­tic­i­pat­ed in a meet­ing between USCMO and Turk­ish Pres­i­dent Erdoğan at the Turk­ish pres­i­den­tial com­plex. AMP has orga­nized mul­ti­ple events bring­ing togeth­er inter­na­tion­al Hamas sup­port groups and Glob­al Mus­lim Broth­er­hood lead­ers, includ­ing the 2021 “Al-Aqsa Inter­na­tion­al Week” and a Nation­al Pales­tine March in Wash­ing­ton, DC, co-host­ed with promi­nent US Mus­lim Broth­er­hood orga­ni­za­tions and Turk­ish-Amer­i­can lob­by groups. In August 2021, AMP launched Amer­i­cans for Jus­tice in Pales­tine Action (AJPA), a 501c4 polit­i­cal advo­ca­cy group in Wash­ing­ton, DC, designed to lob­by for Pales­tine with­out lim­i­ta­tions on endors­ing polit­i­cal candidates.

Exter­nal references:

• Amer­i­can Mus­lims for Pales­tine – ADL Backgrounder
• Amer­i­can Mus­lims for Pales­tine faces new legal challenges
• Con­gres­sion­al Hear­ing Doc­u­ment on SJP and Amer­i­can Mus­lims for Pales­tine — U.S. House of Representatives

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