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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Copyright
- © Holy Land Studies, 2014
- Subject
- Islamic Studies
- ISSN
- 1474-9475
- eISSN
- 1750-0125
- DOI
- 10.3366/hls.2014.0089
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
<jats:p> Over thirty years ago Lenni Brenner's Zionism in the Age of the Dictators awakened the ghosts of Nazi-Zionist collaboration. This collaboration was an extension of Zionism's historical attitude to anti-Semitism in Europe, which saw anti-Semitism as the natural reaction of non-Jews to the abnormal presence of Jews. The Zionist movement was outraged by these public revelations of collaboration and sought to censor them. Brenner brought together some of the most damning evidence of Zionism's collaboration with the Nazis and their obstruction of the rescue of European Jews to anywhere but Palestine. This essay critiques Brenner's thesis, especially its failure to analyse the Holocaust in depth. Brenner rightly denounced this collaboration, but, as in the case of the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Museum Yad Vashem, he produced no analysis of this official Israeli memorial project. This essay furthermore explores the implications of Zionist collaboration as in the case of Argentina under the Junta and for a future resurgence of anti-Semitism. </jats:p>
Journal
Holy Land Studies – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Nov 1, 2014