Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
History and Memory; Studies in Representation of the Past
Angaben zur Quelle:
11,1 (1999) 104-140
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Six Day War, 1967
;
France Foreign relations
;
Israel Foreign relations
Abstract:
The Israeli-Arab war in June 1967 evoked a rise of interest in the Holocaust in French society. The press, both Jewish and non-Jewish, Right and Left, used imagery of the Holocaust in interpreting the events. The Holocaust was traumatic for French Jews as it disappointed their belief in full integration in France. It made them feel connected with the State of Israel and responsible for it. Jewish writers identified the June 1967 war as an attempt to perpetrate a new Holocaust. While some non-Jewish writers agreed with the Jewish interpretation of the events, other, pro-Arab ones developed a counter-narrative, in which they dubbed Israelis as the new Nazis and identified the Arabs with the Jewish victims of Nazism. These works show that not only did many non-Jews fail to comprehend the Jewish trauma of the Holocaust, but they sympathized with the Jews only when they were weak; they resented a strong Jewry, embodied in the State of Israel.
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