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Category: Jewish History

Denying the Holocaust

Tags:  holocaust, shoah

Ever since the Nazis launched their campaign of genocide against Europe’s Jews, there have been those who—for their own political ends—have sought to deny that the Shoah ever happened. By couching their murderous policy in the bureaucratic language of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question," the Nazis themselves laid the groundwork for what has become known as "Holocaust Denial."

The phenomenon has reared its head regularly over the half-century since World War II, most commonly in Europe and North America. Over the past decade, however, it has made more frequent appearances in the media of Israel’s Arab neighbors. Media monitors, most notably the Middle East Media and Research Institute, have documented a number of statements by Arab officials and commentators that either deny the Holocaust happened at all, or try to minimize the enormity of the atrocity by questioning the historically accepted figure of six million Jewish victims.

In Egypt, the situation has become so bad that Israeli Ambassador Mazel was recently prompted to urge the media to stop carrying reports denying the Holocaust (Al Ahram, March 1, 2000). The Syrian media, however, has been responsible for some of the most disturbing Holocaust denial. The official mouthpiece of the Assad regime, Tishreen, carried an editorial in January this year alleging that Jewish leaders had collaborated with the Nazis to carry out atrocities against Jews, to encourage aliyah (immigration of Jews) to British-mandated Palestine.

"There is sound historical proof that Zionist leaders collaborated with the Nazis in order to escalate the Jewish Problem. Furthermore, some of them did not hesitate to commit murders and direct terror attacks [against Jews] in order to encourage Jewish immigration to Palestine. This, of course, in full cooperation with the German Nazi leaders…"

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