[Peace-discuss] a note on Holocaust denial

[David Green]

The denial that I'm worried about is, among many other things, regarding the willful and planned Israeli ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, begun in earnest in 1947 and continuing at the present time. It's important, because it's widespread and politically consequential.
 
The small cult of Holocaust denial has had to be exaggerated out of all proportion, partly in order to justify Israeli depredations, as well as to distract attention from ongoing American-sponsored atrocities around the world.
 
Chomsky says that in the U.S., we have done the right thing by not suppressing Holocaust denial, as they have in some countries in Europe. Suppression and illegality only attracts more attention to the phenomenon. In the U.S., people are allowed to deny the Holocaust, they're recognized as lunatics, and nobody cares except a few individuals like Deborah Lipstadt who have made careers out of exaggerating the problem.
 
Spending 15 years studying Holocuast denial, JFK conspiracy theories & 9/11 conspiracy theories, etc. should be seen as a waste of time and a distraction by anyone who is serious about the real problems in the world.
 
But Holocaust denial has served well those who continue to deny what Israel has become--of course, only with the help of American support.


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> From: David Gehrig <david-cu at nukulele.org>
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>Subject: [Peace-discuss] a note on Holocaust denial
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>Folks, some thoughts on Holocaust denial, from someone who's studied it for fifteen years. It's going only to peace-discuss.
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>I think some background would be helpful here.
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>Holocaust denial is a conspiracy theory of neo-Nazi origins claiming that literally millions of Jews have secretly collaborated on a global fraud orders of magnitude larger and more complex than any James Bond villain could even dream of.
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>Intellectually, it's on par with the folks who think that NASA and Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landing. But on top of its idiocy, it adds a thick, wide, and inescapable layer of antisemitic wackdoodlism.
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>Here's what I mean. The Watergate scandal involved under fifty conspirators, was protected by the most powerful man in the world, but it still rattled apart in just two years. The conspiracy theory that Holocaust deniers push requires not fifty Jews, not five hundred Jews, not five thousand Jews, not fifty thousand Jews, not five hundred thousand Jews, but five million Jews -- roughly a quarter of the world's Jewish population -- to stick impeccably to a criminal script flawlessly for over sixty years. As such, it ascribes to the Jews an inexplicable and inhuman capacity for criminality of the largest imaginable dimensions.
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>What would you say to someone who tells you that one quarter of all people of Italian descent are active in the Cosa Nostra? You would rightly assail his idiocy, his paranoia, and his bigotry. Yet this is not that different from what Holocaust deniers claim about the world's Jews.
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>It is like a burning cross. There is no dignified way to turn your eyes and pretend you didn't see it when it happens in your own town.
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>If there is interest, I'd be happy to give a talk on the topic -- its neo-Nazi origins, and its attempt in the mid-2000's to repaint itself as "anti-Zionist" rather than "pro-Adolf" in order to try recruiting on the progressive left, while telling exactly the same lies. Few on the left have been fooled. But, as we have learned locally, few is not none.
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