holocaust denial

Provides a collection of primary sources surrounding the debate over Holocaust deniers and conspiracy theorists, and highlights the dangers of conspiracy theories. Features information about the nature of free speech and how conspiracy theories are a part of that, and explains how society can address this growing concern. Includes additional resources.

"Conspiracy theories have existed for centuries to rationalize major events and crises, but while they were once relegated to the fringes of discourse, in recent decades, they have increasingly become part of public debate. While many conspiracy theories are innocuous, others--like Holocaust denial--are considered dangerous because of their intention to legitimize racist or otherwise hateful ideologies. This resource examines key debates and topics related to conspiracy theories, including balancing free speech and public safety, the development of conspiracy theorizing over the past century, the role the internet has played, and whether some conspiracy theories can actually benefit society"--Provided by publisher.

In this provocative book, Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer analyze the lies, misperceptions, and myths about Jews and Judaism that antisemites have propagated throughout the centuries. The book examines ancient and medieval myths central to the history of antisemitism: Jews as "Christ-killers," instruments of Satan, and ritual murderers of Christian children. It also explores the scapegoating of Jews in the modern world as conspirators bent on world domination; extortionists who manufactured the Holocaust as a hoax designed to gain reparation payments from Germany; and the leaders of the slave trade that put Africa in chains. No other book has focused its attention exclusively on a thematic discussion of historic and contemporary antisemitic myths, covering such an expansive scope of time, and allowing for such a painstaking level of exemplification.

Avram Noah Chomsky, a famous linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is known for his left-wing politics. It the gravamen of this book, however, that these politics derive as much from the exteme right wing particularly right-wing anti-Semitism as from the rhetoric of the American Left.

Helmut Sanchez is shocked and saddened when he learns his employer, a renowned Yale professor, played a gruesome role in the Holocaust, and sets out to prove the professor's guilt and bring him to justice.

Examines Holocaust denial as a classic case study in how the past may be revised for present political and ideological purposes; and includes refutation of the Holocaust deniers' claims and arguments, analyses of their personalities and motives, and evidence that the Holocaust did indeed occur.

Examines Holocaust denial as a classic case study in how the past may be revised for present political and ideological purposes; and includes refutation of the Holocaust deniers' claims and arguments, analyses of their personalities and motives, and evidence that the Holocaust did indeed occur.

Examines the phenomenon of Holocaust denial, describing moral relativism, proponents of revisionist history, the logic employed by Holocaust deniers, and the role of the Internet in the propagation of hatred.