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The Holocaust Industry

Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

By Norman G. Finkelstein

By Norman G. Finkelstein

By Norman G. Finkelstein

By Norman G. Finkelstein

By Norman G. Finkelstein

By Norman G. Finkelstein

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    About The Holocaust Industry

    “The most controversial book of the year.”
    –Guardian

    A controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for personal and political gain

    This iconoclastic study was one of the most widely debated books of 2000. Finkelstein indicts with both vigor and honesty those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own personal political and financial gain.

    This new edition includes updated material discussing the initial reception to the book’s publication. In an iconoclastic and controversial new study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation agreements. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel’s evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today.

    Leaders of America’s Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this newfound status. Their subsequent interpretations of the tragedy are often at variance with actual historical events and are employed to deflect any criticism of Israel and its supporters.

    Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism’s victims comes not from the distortions of Holocaust deniers but from prominent, self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory.

    Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, and concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket. Thoroughly researched and closely argued, The Holocaust Industry is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it deals with are so rarely discussed.

    About The Holocaust Industry

    A scathing argument against those who exploit the Holocaust to shield Israel from criticism—by a major figure at the center of the Israel-Palestine debate

    “The most controversial book of the year.” —Guardian
     
    In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of Holocaust compensation settlements. It was not until the Arab–Israeli War of 1967, when Israel’s evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it has today. Leaders of America’s Jewish community were delighted Israel was deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this new-found status.
     
    Recalling Holocaust fraudsters, Finkelstein contends the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism’s victims comes not from the distortions of deniers—but from prominent ‘guardians’ of Holocaust memory, who deploy it as a shield against any criticism. He exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, concluding the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket.
     
    Thoroughly researched and closely argued, The Holocaust Industry is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it addresses are so rarely discussed.

    About The Holocaust Industry

    “The most controversial book of the year.”
    –Guardian

    A controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for personal and political gain

    This iconoclastic study was one of the most widely debated books of 2000. Finkelstein indicts with both vigor and honesty those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own personal political and financial gain.

    This new edition includes updated material discussing the initial reception to the book’s publication. In an iconoclastic and controversial new study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in American culture to a disturbing examination of recent Holocaust compensation agreements. It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel’s evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today.

    Leaders of America’s Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this newfound status. Their subsequent interpretations of the tragedy are often at variance with actual historical events and are employed to deflect any criticism of Israel and its supporters.

    Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism’s victims comes not from the distortions of Holocaust deniers but from prominent, self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory.

    Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, he exposes the double shakedown of European countries as well as legitimate Jewish claimants, and concludes that the Holocaust industry has become an outright extortion racket. Thoroughly researched and closely argued, The Holocaust Industry is all the more disturbing and powerful because the issues it deals with are so rarely discussed.

    Product Details

    Category: European World History | Politics | Middle Eastern World History

    Paperback | $19.95
    Published by Verso
    May 14, 2024 | 304 Pages | 5 x 7 | ISBN 9781804297216

    Category: European World History | Politics | Middle Eastern World History

    Paperback | $19.95
    Published by Verso
    Jan 06, 2015 | 304 Pages | 5 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9781781685617

    Category: European World History | Politics | Middle Eastern World History

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Verso
    Oct 17, 2003 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9781844674879

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    Praise

    “The most controversial book of the year.”
    —Guardian

    “His basic argument that memories of the Holocaust are being debased is serious and should be given its due.”
    —Economist

    “If his indictment is a true one, it should prompt prosecutions, sackings, protest. The book shouts scandal. It is a polemic, communicated at maximum volume.”
    —Times

    “He deserves to be heard … he is making some profound points that many younger and more thoughtful Jews have quietly been attempting to debate, but whose voices have been stilled by the establishment, particularly in the US.”
    —Evening Standard

    “This is, in short, a lucid, provocative and passionate book. Anyone with an open mind and an interest in the subject should ignore the critical brickbats and read what Finkelstein has to say.”
    —New Statesman

    “Finkelstein’s downright pugilistic book delivers a wallop – mostly because few authors have had the courage or nerve to say, as he does, that the Nazi genocide has been distorted and robbed of its true moral lessons and instead has been put to use as ‘an indispensable ideological weapon’. It’s a provocative thesis that makes you want to reject it even as you are compelled to keep reading by the strength of his case and the bravura of his assertions.”
    —LA Weekly

    “He is scathing in his denunciation of the institutions and individuals who have cropped up around the issue of reparations in the last several years.”
    —New York Press

    “Finkelstein’s place in the whole history of writing history is assured, and those who in the end are proven right triumph, and he will be among those who will have triumphed, albeit, it so seems, at great cost.”
    —Raul Hilberg

    Table Of Contents

    Acknowledgments
    Foreword to the Second Paperback Edition
    Foreword to the First Paperback Edition
    Introduction
    Chapter 1 Capitalizing The Holocaust
    Chapter 2 Hoaxers, Hucksters, and History
    Chapter 3 The Double Shakedown
    Conclusion
    Postscript to the First Paperback Edition
    Postscript to the Second Paperback Edition
    Appendix to the Second Paperback Edition
    Index

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