Anti-Zionism and Holocaust denial and distortion

Prof. Elhanan Yakira, Prof. Dina Porat

As pointed out when describing the events in Britain, one of the antisemitic accusations that arose during this time was that the Zionist movement had cooperated with Hitler and Nazi Germany in the 1930s, even claiming that Hitler himself was a Zionist. This brings us back to the topic of Holocaust denial and distortion, and introduces us to one of its main contemporary manifestations – the use of the Holocaust in anti-Israeli anti-Zionist rhetoric.

References

• Porat, Dina, “Holocaust Denial and the Image of the Jew: Or, ‘They Boycott Auschwitz as an Israeli Product’“ in Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013).

• Yakira, Elhanan, Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel, trans. by Michael Swirsky (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010).

• Yakira, Elhanan, “Five Reflections on Holocaust Denial, Old and New Forms of Hatred of Jews and the Delegitimation of Israel” in Anthony McElligott and Jeffrey Herf, eds., Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust: Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 335 – 352.

• Wistrich, Robert S., “Antisemitism and Holocaust Inversion,” in Anthony McElligott and Jeffrey Herf, eds., Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust: Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 37 – 50.