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Excerpt from DEBUNKING HOLOCAUST DENIAL THEORIES: Two Non-Jews Affirm the Historicity of the Nazi Genocide:

MYTH #8: “Israel receives tremendous support from the United States and is therefore always shielded and immune from criticism. There are many Israeli policies that deserve to be criticized, some of which are downright fascist, but because of the fear everyone has of being labelled anti-Semitic, it becomes difficult to have a rational discussion about topics that really should be addressed. And this is all intimately connected with the suppression of truths surrounding the supposed gas chambers because Israel has greatly benefitted from the big lie that is the 'official story' of the Holocaust.� –Anonymous Holocaust denier #8


Issues like the Middle East conflict, Israeli-Palestinian relations and Zionism are often, and quite incorrectly, brought into discussions about the Holocaust. (Zionism, incidentally, can loosely be defined in the 21st Century as nationalism or patriotism relating to the state of Israel).

These more recent and predominantly regional conflicts and issues are not remotely related to an event that happened in Europe before and during a world war that occurred before the independent state of Israel was even formed. And yet the deniers mischievously continue to endeavor to link Zionism and the aforementioned conflicts with the Holocaust in their efforts to undermine the historicity of that event.

The aforementioned United States Holocaust Memorial Museum article titled Origins of Holocaust Denial references this very denial theory as follows:

“Many people who deny the Holocaust argue that the supposed ‘hoax� served above all the interests of the State of Israel. Holocaust denial is, for these people, also an attack on the legitimacy of the State of Israel.�

In his 1964 article titled Zionist Fraud, published in the renowned anti-Semitic magazine American Mercury, US fringe historian and Holocaust denier Harry Elmer Barnes lays “the chief blame for misrepresentation on those whom we must call the swindlers of the crematoria, the Israeli politicians who derive billions of marks from nonexistent, mythical and imaginary cadavers, whose numbers have been reckoned in an unusually distorted and dishonest manner.�

Since Barnes� article, numerous other anti-Semitic authors and self-proclaimed historians have repeated the myth that the Holocaust is a fabrication or gigantic exaggeration by Israelis for the good of Israel.

For example, the ADL reported one modern Holocaust denier, Bradley R. Smith, wrote in the Outlaw History Newsletter that “The entire Israeli enterprise is based on a mountain of fraud and greed.�

For the record, Israel was created on May 14, 1948, almost three years to the day after WW2 officially ended. And more importantly, the historicity of the Holocaust � including the death toll, eyewitness accounts and confirmations of gas chambers � had already been cemented by historians well before Israel’s formation date.

So how people can even consider let alone believe that Israel orchestrated the “official story� of the Holocaust beats us. Perhaps those who subscribe to the Israeli Holocaust hoax theory not only see Israel’s eight million citizens as having God-like powers that enable them to secretly control other nation’s historians, but also possessing time-machines that allow them to choreograph events to suit Israel before Israel was established!

Bringing up wrongdoings of the Israeli government is therefore about as relevant to the Holocaust as mentioning the warmongering decisions of recent US administrations in relation to the slaughter of Native Americans when America was first colonized centuries ago.

In other words, whatever your opinion of Israel’s handling of the Middle East conflict � and we ourselves have some misgivings on that matter � that is in no way shape or form related to the facts of the Holocaust.


“While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.� �Tariq Ramadan


We do of course agree that as Israel is just another country, and not a race or religion, anybody should be able to criticize the country all they like. Israel already receives considerable censure from critics and from the world’s media. But even if there are sensitivities around delivering criticism of Israel, these would still remain totally separate to the issues of the Holocaust and verifying that the Nazi genocide, which again pre-dates Israel, occurred as historians and verified documents attest.

So, bringing Israel and modern Zionism into the subject of the Holocaust is to bring current (i.e. late 20th and early 21st Century) issues into a historical event that occurred on another continent altogether in the early-mid 20th Century.


“Deniers build their pseudo-arguments on traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes and imagery. They contend that Jews created the myth of the Holocaust in order to bilk the Germans out of billions of dollars and ensure the establishment of Israel. Once again the devious Jews have harmed innocent multitudes—Germans and Palestinians in particular—for the sake of their own financial and political ends. To someone nurtured by the soil of anti-Semitism, this makes perfect sense.� �Deborah E. Lipstadt, The Eichmann Trial


It’s also worth pointing out that Israel is not solely comprised of Jewish people and is not the defining representation of the global Jewish community. There are many non-Jewish Israelis � about 25% of Israeli citizens are non-Jewish and mostly Muslim with some Christians � and of course there are many non-Israeli Jews, including American Jews for example.

However, the above statistics are either underreported or lost in the paranoiac thinking so common to those who assess such disparate subjects as Jewish people, Zionism, Judaism, Israel and the Holocaust as if they are all one and the same and inextricably linked. The all-too-real problem of rising anti-Semitism around the world is unfortunately often a result of anti-Zionist or anti-Israeli beliefs. This phenomenon can usually be traced to the blurring of the lines or general confusion in gentiles and their apparent inability in the main to differentiate between the global Jewish community and the distinctly different and separate nation of Israel.

Consider the following emailed to us by an anti-Semite obsessed with the idea of a supposed mega-conspiracy of Zionists/Israelis/Jews profiting from the aftermath of the Nazi genocide:

“I admire your passion and idealism on this issue. It reminds me a lot of the way I felt about it 40 years ago, when I knew of no alternative narrative to the mainstream, Hollywood, Zionist, or official schoolbook version. It is more complicated than that. There are Jews who oppose Zionism, there are Christian Zionists. It is not all black and white or one sided. I see a lot more shades of gray now. None of these alternative viewpoints change the fact that a terrible and unjust punishment was meted out to innocent Jews in WW2. But they were not the only victims of that war, in which tens of millions died. Why is THE Holocaust raised to the status of the Holiest of Holies? There is an agenda behind that and it is not pretty. It is used to justify the usurpation of Palestine and the ongoing genocide against native peoples in the Middle East. It props up the entire Anglo-Zionist scheme for world domination. Thus you are going to have people inspecting it for weak spots, for a foothold in the battle against the New World Order's war on humanity.�

This more recent and more complex paranoia about Jews and Zionism was addressed by UCLA student Arielle Mokhtarzadeh in an article dated May 24, 2015, in The Huffington Post. Writing as a first-year student, she perceptively comments on “the rise of what has become known as the new anti-Semitism.�

Ms Mokhtarzadeh states: “Although we would like to believe much has changed since the 18th Century, in regards to anti-Semitism, it has not…We (Jews) are forced ‘not to be so public� about our Jewish identities. We are expected to be experts on all facets of Judaism and explain them on cue. We are assumed to be blind supporters of the Jewish state and manifestations of its government.

“And between combating Divestment resolutions, defending ourselves against anti-Semitism and constantly trying to afford our peers context, we have lost sight of what we really came to these universities for: an education�

“With the newest incessant barrage of anti-Israel legislation creeping into student governments across the country, anti-Israel rhetoric has slowly but surely transformed college campuses into breeding grounds for false perceptions of Jews and their beliefs.

“The systematic singling out, delegitimization, demonization and setting of double standards in relation to the Jewish state has led to the systematic singling out, delegitimization, demonization and setting of double standards in relation to the Jewish people.�

Ms Mokhtarzadeh gives examples, including “discrimination at UCLA,� a call for expulsion of some Jewish students at the University of Durban in South Africa, and the presence of swastikas at the University of California Davis, Emory University and “most recently� George Washington University.

“Disdain for Israeli policy or decisions of the Israeli government are never an excuse for anti-Semitism,� she writes. “In their pervasive crusade against the Jewish state, the world has renewed an age-old, historic hatred against the Jewish people.�

We can only echo her plea: “It is essential that we put an end to it now.�

When it comes to criticism of the United States deciding to protect Israel, perhaps President Barack Obama is the best one to answer that.

In a January 19, 2016 article in The Washington Post, Obama cites “the words of an American World War II hero� proclaiming that “Christians and people of other faiths can say ‘we are all Jews� in solidarity.�

The article reads, “The president made his remark during a ceremony at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, where he took part in the first Righteous Among Nations awards banquet held in the United States�

� ‘Here, tonight, we must confront the reality that around the world, anti-Semitism is on the rise. We cannot deny it,� Obama said. ‘An attack on any faith is an attack on all of our faiths…When voices around the world veer from criticism of a particular Israeli policy to an unjust denial of Israel’s right to exist, when Israel faces terrorism, we stand up forcefully and proudly in defense of our ally, in defense of our friend, in defense of the Jewish state of Israel,� Obama said.�

The Washington Post article concludes, � ‘America’s commitment to Israel’s security remains, now and forever, unshakable. And I've said this before -- it would be a fundamental moral failing if America broke that bond…I cannot imagine a greater expression of Christianity than to say, I, too, am a Jew,� Obama said. ‘When any Jew anywhere is targeted just for being Jewish, we all have to respond

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory