Yes. I finally read Finklestein’s The Holocaust Industry and it’s shocking how recent and intentional this focus is. We can see the consequences of it in arguments about the Ukraine war - “the Azov Battalion can’t be Nazis, because Zelensky is Jewish!” As if fascism begins and ends with a singleminded desire to kill all Jews.
Yes. I finally read Finklestein’s The Holocaust Industry and it’s shocking how recent and intentional this focus is. We can see the consequences of it in arguments about the Ukraine war - “the Azov Battalion can’t be Nazis, because Zelensky is Jewish!” As if fascism begins and ends with a singleminded desire to kill all Jews.