"Stealing the Holocaust from the Jews"? The Holocaust as metaphor in public discourse

Esther Webman

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-48866-0_12

"Stealing the Holocaust from the Jews"? The Holocaust as metaphor in public discourse

Esther Webman^*

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The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism

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The title of this chapter is taken from Edward Alexander's article "Stealing the Holocaust," published in November 1980 in the American quarterly Midstream. Alexander pointed to a process which "began with small acts of (usually innocent) distortion" in the American civil rights movement, "with its references to the curtailment of free lunch programs in Harlem as genocide, or its casual descriptions of Watts as a concentration camp, and of the ordinary black neighborhood anywhere as a ghetto." A campaign to steal the Holocaust from the Jews and invert the roles of the victim and the predator, he went on to say, was also carried out by the Arab and Soviet-inspired "Zionism is racism" United Nations (UN) resolution in 1975. In the late 1980s, Elie Wiesel also expressed alarm that other victim groups are "stealing the Holocaust from us."

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust
Subtitle of host publication	Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	279-304
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319488660
ISBN (Print)	9783319488653
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48866-0_12
State	Published - 3 Apr 2017

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