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Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust
Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel
Elhanan Yakira

This book contains three independent essays, available in English for the first time, as well as a post-scriptum written for the English edition. The common theme of the three essays is the uses and abuses of the Holocaust as an ideological arm in the anti-Zionist campaigns. The first essay examines the French group of left-wing Holocaust deniers. The second essay deals with a number of Israeli academics and intellectuals, the so-called post-Zionists, and tries to follow their use of the Holocaust in their different attempts to demonize and delegitimize Israel. The third deals with Hannah Arendt and her relations with Zionism and the State of Israel as reflected in her general work and in Eichmann in Jerusalem; the views that she formulates are used systematically and extensively by anti- and post-Zionists. Elhanan Yakira argues that each of these is a particular expression of an outrage: anti-Zionism and a wholesale delegitimation of Israel.

Contents
Preface; 1. Holocaust denial and the left; 2. The Holocaust and the good Israelis; 3. On the political and the anti-political: Hannah Arendt, Eichmann, and Israel; 4. Post-script: 1. '67 or '48?; Appendix of biographical notes

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...Israelis are nurtured by an international community: a huge subculture devoted to the de-legitimation of Israel, the Zionist idea, and the Jewish nation. What I did in the book was essentially to take one element of this campaign-the manipulation of the Holocaust-and show how it was morally and intellectually wrong...

...what the capital-O[pprobrium] crowd advocates is the now fashionable “one-state solution.” It’s completely unworkable. Daft! They also refer to Zionism as guilty of “original sin.” Their opposition to Israeli policies is so visceral that it carries them to the point where they support policies that are, in effect, annihilationist.

You write that “there is not much point in talking with the anti-Zionists.”

That’s right. There is no point. They can’t be swayed by facts. Their anti-Zionism has a structural affinity to anti-Semitism. It is irrational. I don’t want to speculate or indulge in psychoanalytic explanations. Instead, what I do in the book is to talk about anti-Zionism.

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