Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Political Studies Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
20,3-4 (2008) 73-92
Keywords:
Holocaust denial
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
Discusses contemporary "secondary antisemitism", i.e. post-Holocaust antisemitism, focusing mainly on Germany. The cruelest version of secondary antisemitism is Holocaust denial. However, there are soft-core forms of antisemitism, mainly in Germany and in the West, which include refusal or rejection of remembrance of the Holocaust as a unique and unprecedented crime. There are three categories of soft-core denial: distortion (e.g. the "bombing Holocaust" or "Holocaust of expulsions" in Germany); universalization (e.g. attempts to present "modern civilization", capitalism, or colonialism rather than Nazi Germany as the victimizer); and relativization, trivialization, and projection of guilt (e.g. accusing Israel of the "Holocaust" of Palestinians). Soft-core denial today is as dangerous as neo-Nazi, Islamic, and Iranian varieties of denial.
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