Example of Exercise #2

The Holocaust Industry

Nowadays the word holocaust is nearly always associated to the massacre of the Jewish people planned by the Nazis Germany under Hitler’s tyranny. In these last years a controversy has been raised about the validity of this definition.

Norman Finkelstein is a Jewish American historian, in his book “The Holocaust Industry”, argues over the process that has made the Holocaust become an industry. “Jewish elites, acting in concert with the US government, exploit the horrific suffering of the millions of Jews exterminated during World War II and the few who managed to survive for power and profit.” (http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/pfvs/2002I/msg00866.html). Then, the Holocaust has become a fomenter of anti-Semitism giving credit to its denial.

The first section of Finkelstein’s book is about the genesis of the Holocaust. The author explains how, during postwar years, the American Jewish leaders banished the Holocaust from public discourse. After 1967 Middle East war, Israel became an ally of the US and Jewish elites became the interlocutors between the US Government and the Middle East, while USA facilitated Jewish assimilation in the country. To deflect criticism, Jewish elites remembered the Nazi Holocaust using it as an ideological weapon.
Finkelstein shows how the perception of the Holocaust as a “unique event” has become politically useful. He explains how the theory of the “uniqueness” of the Holocaust also place the Jewish race in a position of superiority with respect to all other persecuted people. Its goal should be minimizing other people’s suffering in order to blow up their own, for political purposes.

Demonstrating the uniqueness of the Shoah would make it possible to move over to the third stage of this new Jewish plot: obtaining the money.