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<From: Avi Rabinowitz <avirab@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>
<Subject: Why Antisemites are Holocaust Deniers
<To: 2nd-gen@israel.nysernet.ORG
It has always seemed a bit strange to me that antisemites would
spend a lifetime on holocaust denial. One would imagine they were
appreciative of Hitler's efforts to do what they presumeably would like to
do. It is also hard to believe that they don't really believe in what they
are doing - I feel that someone devoting so much effort, braving so much
criticism, would probably be those who actually believe in their own
propaganda.
I think I may have an explanation which answers these questions
(If this idea has been explored previously in print somewhereI would
appreciate references to my e-mail address): the classic antisemite
believes there is a world-wide conspiracy of Jews to rule, and that Jews
control the media, multinational corporations, banks etc, and use this as
their power base. However, this places them in the midst of a large
dilemma - how could such a nefarious and devious globally powerful group
allow themselves to be so persecuted and annihilated. The holocaust, with
6 million Jews murdered without any visible attempt to thwart the nazis,
is a counter-proof to their claims of Jewish conspiracy! (of course they
can claim that 'pres. Roosevelt was really named Rosenberg' and that he
entered the war to save the Jews...?...!..but this was clearly too late an
entry to save the Jews, so..) Perhaps that is why all these antisemites
work so hard to deny the holocaust, and actually believe that it couldn't
have happened - their antisemitic beliefs run so deep that no rational
argument will ever be able to counter it, no historical fact will be
accepted as counterproof - the fact will be denied instead. The very fact
that the deniers encounter such concerted oppositio0n to their ideas, and
the 'fact' that such a 'monumental hoax' could be perpetratred at all is
to them probably iron-clad proof of the Jewish conspiracy they believe in!
It would be interesting to interview these deniers, or look at
their writings, to find out how they 'explain' the success of this
'monumental hoax', and to see if they had conspiracy leanings prior to
their work on holocaust-denial.
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