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Norman Finkelstein
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
Second Edition
New York: Verso, 2003
If you’re like me and have been through the American education system, you as a child may have never learned a word of Greek or Latin, the history of the Bible or been assigned to read a work by a great philosopher. (more…)
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Yoav Shamir’s Defamation (2009) is a must-see movie. Shamir is an Israeli Jewish documentary film-maker. His other works include Checkpoint (2003), 5 Days (2005), and Flipping Out (2008).
Born in Tel Aviv in 1970, Shamir professes never to have experienced anti-Semitism, although he has heard about it all his life. He has decided, therefore, to go abroad in search of anti-Semitism, traveling to the United States, Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. (more…)
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Gilad Atzmon
The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics
Washington, D.C.: Zer0 Books, 2011
Gilad Atzmon (born 1963), is an author I have followed for years without even trying, thanks to the efforts of helpful anti-Semitic spammers who make sure that I receive at least five links to every new Atzmon piece. (more…)
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The first Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, was founded in West Jerusalem in 1953. This memorial was unique in two ways: (1) it is the only memorial built by Jews primarily for other Jews, rather than gentiles, and (2) it is the only Holocaust memorial created before organized Jewry began exploiting Jewish victimhood during WWII as a means to justify Israel’s expansionist policies by equating critics of Israel with the Nazis. (more…)
7,579 words
Norman Finkelstein
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
London: Verso, 2000
Holocaust Guilt
We are now all so familiar with Holocaust rhetoric from Jewish organizations that its characteristic audacity can easily pass unnoticed: (more…)
