What are your thoughts on the organized movement to deny the holocaust?

Question

The most significant anti-Semitic propaganda movements to develop over the past two decades has been an organized effort to deny the Nazi genocide against the Jews. In the United States, the movement has been known in recent years primarily through the publication of editorial-style advertisements in college campus newspapers. The first of these ads claimed to call for "open debate on the Holocaust"; it purported to question not the fact of Nazi anti-Semitism, but merely whether this hatred resulted in an organized killing program.
http://antidefamationleague.us/
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1164881955380&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Answer 1

It terrifies me.

What's even scarier though, is how quick the 'left' can be to adopt their own version of anti-Semitism. It's based in legitimate criticism of Israel's actions towards the Palestinian Arabs, but accepts anything anti-Israel as true and without question or scrutiny.

Holocaust deniers have an uphill struggle -- Barukh haShem for German guilt -- but there is NOTHING challenging the new form of anti-Semitism on the left.

Answer 2

Trying to re-write history and deny events that occurred in the memory of people who are still living is fruitless and just plain stupid. It's like trying to deny that George Bush is president. It's just not going to work, everybody knows it is a fact. It is absolutely propaganda, working on the principle that if you tell a lie loud enough, long enough, to enough people, they will eventually start to believe it. Maybe in 3 or 4 hundred years it would work, but even then I doubt it. There are not only holocaust survivors still living to tell about it, there is too much hard evidence (with still more being discovered) so that anyone with half a brain should be able to put 2+2 together. If anyone believes this rot about the holocaust never happening, you need to have your head examined. Do a search on it, you will find things that will absolutely turn your stomach. By the way, it was not only Jews who were killed during this horrible episode in human history, but they were the large majority. Many Christians and a lot of people who were in opposition to the Nazis were "exterminated" as well. We can all be grateful that the "final solution" was not successful.

Answer 3

Well, I think this is in general a very confused and sensitive topic. Maybe people have a hard time believeing something so extreme happened, but I think there are more people who are looking into it becasue it was a reason they made Israel, causeing one group of people to have power over a land that had priviously been shared by many groups. (I got that impression from a BBC article, but I could be wrong). Anyway, I just wish that all of the examples of mass killings would be taken as seriously by the general public.

Answer 4

Wow...that is really scary stuff. Considering I family members during WW II because of this, I also find it quite insulting!

Answer 5

I think there will always be people who are willing to stoop to hatred to gain attention and notoriety. And it makes me really sad.

Answer 6

I agree with Susiee Q , it is quite insulting.
I have been in Auschwitz and have seen the ....

Sorry, no more comments.

Answer 7

well since the bible tells us that the jews are to this day lying about empty tomb of christ then i must say freedom of speech and the freedom to print lies is used by them and many others so why should anyone be banned from lying about the jews.

Answer 8

Don't feel bad; they also said that the universe made itself.