The history of European anti-Semitism goes back many centuries. Its impact, however, differed from country to country. Although its anti-Israeli mutations are particularly widespread, the hatred and incitement are so frag- mented that also major aspects of European classic anti-Semitism … [Read More]
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One is that it denies the Jewish people the right to self-determination, delegitimizing Israel as a state and attributing the entire world’s misfortune to it. It ascribes a mix of evil qualities to the country; Cotler called this cultural anti-Semitism. … [Read More]
This book should have been written many years ago based on the wide knowledge already available at the time. For decades now, Israel has been the target of an all-out propaganda war by its multiple enemies. This major battle has … [Read More]
by José María Aznar Former President of the Government of Spain Israel is a little nation with a great people. Unfortunately it has been under constant attack since its birth back in 1948. It was first assailed by armies of … [Read More]
As time passes Holocaust history lends itself more to manipulations, despite the increase in historical information. This process will not stop, and this consideration has to be the starting point for the development of policies on how to preserve the … [Read More]
In the struggle against Holocaust distorters, particular attention should be given to the official apologies by nations and institutions that were perpetrators, accomplices, or bystanders in the Holocaust. A few examples will illustrate their importance. Apologies to a large extent … [Read More]
The category of “obliterating Holocaust memory” groups a number of disparate abuses and distortions of Holocaust history. Collective memory is attacked directly and indirectly. One type of the former is the besmirching and destruction of memorials. Another is disturbing Holocaust … [Read More]
Holocaust trivialization is a tool for some ideologically or politically motivated activists to metaphorically compare phenomena they oppose with the industrial- scale extermination of the Jews in World War II by Germans and their allies. Examples of such comparisons include … [Read More]
Holocaust inversion seeks to delegitimize Israel by associating it with the epitome of evil and criminal behavior, Nazi Germany. It attacks and humiliates the Jewish people by equating them with the perpetrators of the brutal genocide whose goal was the … [Read More]
Within the broad category of abuse of Holocaust equivalence, there are a number of subcategories of manipulations of history whose motivations differ. Prewar and wartime Holocaust equivalence are based on the allegation that the Germans’ genocidal behavior during World War … [Read More]