Wednesday Afternoon, April 2, 2025 | | |
MRFF’S EXPOSURE FORCES NAVAL ACADEMY
TO RESTORE PHOTOS AND MEMORABILIA OF
DISTINGUISHED FEMALE JEWISH GRADS
REMOVED FROM HISTORICAL EXHIBIT
Naval Academy tells Associated Press the photos were
“mistakenly removed” and their removal was “unauthorized.”
So, someone with no authorization just sauntered into the
Academy’s Stein Hall and “mistakenly” emptied out display cases
in an historical exhibit, removing only photos of Jewish women?
Does USNA really expect anyone to believe this?
| | E-mail received early this morning from one of MRFF’s Naval Academy clients crediting the restoration of the distinguished female Jewish graduates’ photos and memorabilia to MRFF’s exposure of the Academy’s outrageous act of MAGA-compliant history revisionism | | |
“Thank you”
From: (MRFF USNA client’s e-mail withheld)
Subject: Thank you
Date: April 2, 2025 at 6:59:21 AM MDT
To: mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom.org
Mikey,
Thank you for MRFF’s support in responding to the removal of the Distinguished Jewish-Women graduates from the U.S. Naval Academy’s Levy Center Stein Fellowship Hall and Jewish Chapel. Following MRFF’s report, the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, along with her leadership team, returned the artifacts to the cases last night. The scores of midshipmen, staff, and faculty clients are grateful for MRFF’s quick and decisive action to address this injustice.
(MRFF USNA client’s name withheld)
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MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein’s
statement on the U.S. Naval Academy’s failed
attempt to erase the accomplishments of its
distinguished female Jewish graduates
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“The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) continues to condemn the horrific cowardice of the Naval Academy senior leadership and their attempt to expunge from their display cases any history of the rich accomplishments of female Jewish distinguished Naval Academy graduates. However, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation salutes the courage, patriotism, and intrepidity of our 31 naval Academy clients, comprised of Naval Academy faculty, midshipmen, and staff of many faith and non-faith traditions who came to our foundation requesting our civil rights advocacy assistance to fight this sinister, repulsive display of ass-kissing to the reprehensible secretary of defense.”
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
COVERS USNA’S REMOVAL OF
FEMALE JEWISH GRADS FROM EXHIBIT
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Naval Academy removes nearly 400 books from library in new DEI purge ordered by Hegseth’s office
By: Lolita C. Baldor
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
AP article excerpt of USNA’s feeble claim that “some” photos were “mistakenly” removed from a single display case (emphasis added):
“The confusion about how to interpret the DEI policy was underscored Monday as Naval Academy personnel mistakenly removed some photos of distinguished female Jewish graduates from a display case as they prepared for Hegseth’s visit. The photos were put back.
“In a statement, the Navy said it is aware that photos were mistakenly removed from the Naval Academy Jewish Center. It said U.S. Naval Academy leadership was immediately taking steps to review and correct the unauthorized removal.”
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MRFF OP-ED
ON DAILY KOS
Trending story on Daily Kos
Scrambling to hide “wokeness” for
Hegseth visit, Naval Academy removes
photos of female Jewish grads
By: MRFF Senior Research Director Chris Rodda
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
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This is what it’s come to. Scrambling to hide any “wokeness” ahead of Secretary of Anti-Wokeness Petey Hegseth’s visit today, the U.S. Naval Academy removed virtually all photos of female Jewish Academy graduates from a Jewish naval history display but left the photos of male Jewish graduates and servicemen.
The photos of the Academy’s distinguished Jewish graduates, both male and female, were displayed in Commodore Uriah P. Levy Center and Jewish Chapel, named for the 1806 Jewish DEI-hire who became first Jewish commodore in the U.S. Navy, with the bulk of the building’s construction funded by donations from Academy alumni.
From the website of the Friends of the Jewish Chapel at the Academy, describing Stein Fellowship Hall, the area of the Levy Center where the photos were displayed:
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“There are several display cases containing not only the rich history of the Academy, but also information on Uriah P. Levy, USNA Jewish athletes and graduates, Jewish naval personnel and Monticello, the famous home of Thomas Jefferson.” (Commodore Levy purchased Monticello after Jefferson’s death.)
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The photos below, sent to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) this morning by one of our many Naval Academy clients, show the display cases in Stein Fellowship Hall described in the above quote, which, as you can see, now have many large gaps on their shelves – gaps that until the scramble to “dewoke-ify” the display for Petey’s visit contained photos of the Navy’s distinguished Jewish females. All that remain now are the male Jews. Jewish females, with the double woke whammy of being both women and a religious minority, have been written out of the Academy’s history.
The display case in this first photo, whose empty shelves used to honor female Jewish Naval Academy graduates, has now been stripped of everything non-male except for the photo backdrop of civilian Jewish women who went to work during WWII to support the war effort.
According to the MRFF client who took the photo:
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“This case was filled with 5-10 notable Jewish female graduates and their associated historical and remarkable paraphernalia like a bronze star, military cover (cap), military rank insignias, photos from experiences in Iraq, and USNA graduation photos.”
| | The large white piece of cardboard on the left side of the display case was put up to block a sign that talked about “Jewish women in the Navy,” but as you can see in this second photo of the same display case, the hastily placed piece of wokeness-hiding cardboard fell down, exposing the now-impermissible recognition of the role Jewish women played in the Navy Reserve during WWII. |
| Here is a close-up of the unsuccessfully hidden sign: | | But display case after display case of male Jewish USNA midshipmen, distinguished graduates, and servicemen remain, albeit with many empty spaces in some of the displays where the women were unceremoniously removed and erased from the Academy’s and Naval history. | | The only display case that still recognizes a few Naval Academy Jewish women is the “Jews and Sports at the Naval Academy” display, although it appears that something Petey wouldn’t like was removed from even that display judging by the large empty space on the left of the top shelf. | | |
Statement from MRFF Founder and President
Mikey Weinstein, whose own father was a Jewish distinguished graduate of the Naval Academy,
on this outrageous Petey-pandering misogynistic history revisionism by the Academy’s leadership
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| |  | “The 100% shameful, appalling, and cowardly actions of the United States Naval Academy (USNA) at Annapolis, Maryland, in disgracefully and deliberately removing the photographs of the distinguished and heroic female Jewish Naval Academy graduates from public display in the USNA Jewish Chapel area, simply because they fear the wrath of the hideous, misogynistic, Islamophobic, Christian Nationalist, drunk Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, is completely indefensible and wretched beyond description! Speaking as an Honor Graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, and the father of three children who graduated from the United States Air Force Academy and, especially, the son of a Distinguished Jewish Graduate of the United States Naval Academy, I speak on behalf of not just my family and our civil rights advocacy organization here at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation but on behalf of ALL Americans and worldwide citizens to decry and condemn the Naval Academy today for choosing this act of craven timidity and literally breathtaking spinelessness ONLY because they fear triggering Hegseth/MAGA/tRump and their fetid dogma of twisted and tortured hatred for anything allegedly ‘Woke’ and/or DEI!”
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