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why is Holocaust inversion antisemitic?

In a recent comment section, I noted that the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s Working Definition of Antisemitism does notconsider criticism of Israel inherently antisemitic. Someone responded that because IHRA considers equating Israel to Nazi Germany antisemitic, that it does, in fact, silence criticism of Israel.

IHRA is clear: criticism of Israel is not antisemitic unless certain specific conditions are met, just as, say, critiquing Black politicians is not inherently anti-Black, unless said criticism relies on anti-Black, racist tropes. 

Relying on Holocaust inversion to “criticize” Israel is antisemitic because it is the projection of one of the most nefarious antisemitic conspiracies— soft Holocaust denial — onto the Jewish state.

Holocaust inversion is a rhetorical tool used to portray Jews as morally equivalent — or worse — than Nazis. It’s often employed in discussions about Israel-Palestine and is frequently used by anti-Zionists.

UNDERSTANDING HOLOCAUST DENIAL

Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the Holocaust is either a myth, an exaggeration, or a fabrication.

Holocaust denial takes many forms. Sometimes it’s outright denial that the Holocaust happened. Most Holocaust denial, though, does not entirely deny the genocide of 6 million Jews but instead distorts established facts about the Holocaust. This is also known as Holocaust revisionism or soft Holocaust denial.

Some examples of soft Holocaust denial include, but are not limited to:

Reducing the number of victims.

Claiming Anne Frank's diary is a forgery.

Denying the existence of the gas chambers. 

Holocaust inversion. 

HOLOCAUST INVERSION IS SOFT HOLOCAUST DENIAL

Holocaust inversion is soft Holocaust denial because it relies on a long list of distortions, trivializations, and fabrications of established facts about the Holocaust. These include, but are not limited to:

Nazism targeted all Jews, whether they identified as Zionists or not. Thus, no Jews— anti-Zionist, Zionist, Israeli — can be the inheritors of Nazism.

Hitler condemned Zionism as early as a 1920 speech and wrote against it in Mein Kampf. Zionism is incompatible with Nazism because the Nazis themselves said so.

The sheer magnitude and mechanism of the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are entirely different. Equivalencing one to the other relies on complete historical revisionism (for example, Israel is not operating gas chambers that murder 10,000 people a day, though I’m sure that libel is just around the corner).

It was the Arab leadership in Palestine that allied with the Nazis, setting the stage for the 1948 war and the next 77 years of conflict.

MINIMIZATION AND TRIVIALIZATION 

The mechanism, scope, and scale of the Holocaust is completely dissimilar to anything that has ever happened in the entirety of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Because of the sheer differences in scale, equating the two inherently minimizes and trivializes the Nazi genocide. 

The normalization of Holocaust inversion has likely contributed to the sharp rise in ignorance about the Holocaust among the younger generations.

There was no humanitarian aid in the Nazi concentration camps as there has been Gaza (albeit not without its serious problems), but this user evidently doesn’t know this, because the two events are so often conflated with each other in anti-Israel discourse.

3 ASSUMPTIONS

Holocaust inversion always relies on at least one of the three following assumptions.

The abused became the abuser, or the assumption that Israel’s treatment toward the Palestinians is misplaced retribution for what the Nazis did. But Israeli policies toward the Palestinians— whether right or wrong — were crafted in response to Palestinian violence, not in response to the Holocaust, dating all the way back to the 1948 war. This is soft Holocaust denial because it presents Palestinians, not Jews, as the ultimate victims of the Nazi genocide.

The Jews didn’t learn their lesson from the Holocaust. But the Holocaust wasn’t a lesson for us, its victims, to learn. This is soft Holocaust denial because the Nazis didn’t persecute Jews to teach us a lesson; it was genocidal, unchecked antisemitism that drove their policies.

The Zionists colluded with the Nazis to cause the Holocaust to “get” Israel. I have a post that debunks this in-depth – “The Zionists and the Nazis” – but this is soft Holocaust denial because it’s a complete fabrication of Holocaust history.

A HISTORY OF HOLOCAUST INVERSION

Holocaust inversion predates the establishment of the State of Israel, the Nakba, and believe it or not, even the end of the Holocaust. 

Holocaust inversion can be traced back to the British Foreign Office during the period of the British Mandate of Palestine. Two months before the Nazis surrendered, in March of 1945, even as thousands of Zionist Jews from Mandatory Palestine fought the Nazis in Europe as part of the Jewish Brigade of the British Army, the High Commissioner of Palestine, Lord Gort, told the Colonial Secretary in London that “the establishment of any Jewish State in Palestine…will almost inevitably mean the rebirth of National Socialism [i.e. Nazism] in some guise.”

In 1946, Sir John Bagot Glubb wrote in a memorandum to the British government that the “new Jews” – that is, the Zionist Jews – had copied Nazi techniques and adopted Hitler’s master race theory. 

To no one’s surprise, Glubb was also a virulent, unabashed antisemite.

Other British officials that engaged in Holocaust inversion included Lord Altrincham, who stated that Zionist youth groups were “a copy of the Hitler Youth,” and Sir Harold MacMichael and Sir Edward Grigg, both of whom equated Zionism with Nazism even while Jews were being slaughtered by the millions in Europe.

THE SOVIET PROPAGANDA MACHINE

The Soviet Union began distorting the history of the Holocaust before the war was even won. The Soviet propaganda machine never acknowledged the specifically antisemitic nature of the Holocaust, and instead, depicted all Soviets and communists as the primary victims of the Nazi genocide. This is important to note because, by stripping Jews of the history of our oppression, the Soviets could then easily characterize Jews as Nazis.

In 1969, the United Nations passed the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Both the United States and Brazil wanted to add a clause including antisemitism. The Soviet Union, which had been heavily oppressing its Jewish population since the 1950s, worried that such a clause would be used to rebuke them for persecuting Soviet Jews. So they included a counter proposal, which was a clause that equated Zionism to Nazism. 

In the 1970s alone, hundreds of books and articles equating Zionism to Nazism were published in the Soviet Union and were later translated into Arabic, as well as numerous other languages. In 1984, the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public published a propaganda brochure titled the “Criminal Alliance of Zionism and Nazism,” which claimed that there was irrefutable proof that the Zionists not only had collaborated with the Nazis, but were also responsible for the genocide of Jews, Slavs, and others in Europe. Soviet anti-Zionist propaganda even influenced the dissertation of current Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, titled “The Other Side: The Secret Relationship between Nazism and Zionism.”

AN ANALOGY TO HURT

Oppression and suffering should not be a competition. But there is logically no good reason to equate two objectively different situations than to cause hurt to Jews. Wanting to hurt Jews is, of course, antisemitic. You are rubbing our worst collective trauma in our face, as if to say, “You are no different than those who abused you the most.” 

There are no shortage of wars, conflicts, atrocities, and sure, even genocides to choose from when making comparisons. And yet, you very intentionally select the Holocaust. How come? Why do you compare the Nakba to the Holocaust instead of, say, the Partition of India, which has more similarities?

Inversely, there are unfortunately no shortage of countries engaged in wars, conflicts, atrocities, and genocides, and yet it’s only Israel— the Jewish state, home to the largest Holocaust survivor population — that is persistently equated to Nazi Germany. This, again, is intentional.

When the Holocaust is reduced to a rhetorical tool with which to hurt Jews, that is not criticism of Israel (which policy or politician or action are you criticizing? What exactly is the criticism?): it’s antisemitism.

AN UGLY IMPLICATION

All roads in Holocaust inversion lead down a path to a really ugly conclusion: if Jews, Israelis, and/or Zionists are the new Nazis, then maybe, the Holocaust wasn’t so bad, because if the Nazis had succeeded in annihilating all Jewry, that would’ve prevented future Palestinian suffering.

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let’s break this down (again), shall we 😑

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attacking random Jews and Jewish institutions globally is not “criticism of Israel,” and every day there’s a new report, a constant escalation. it does nothing to help Gaza, it only emboldens the worst violence and extremism (from both sides of the conflict), and validates people who are propping up literal Nazi rhetoric worldwide.

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Read about the movie about Hind Rajab.

How "it is unimaginable how come a child is on the phone with rescue services for hours and dies at the end".

And all I can think of is the countless such exact records of plights, of children, to police, paramedics, who ended in gunfire and then silence as HAMAS butchered through the Israeli population on October 7th.

Both tragedies. One, was never intentional. The other - completely intentional.

Guess which one is presented as a Genocide and literally "milked" to spread this lie over and over. How morbid can they be.

I am sorry, you go ahead and mourn them.

I have too many of my own to mourn. After all, no one will do it for me, for us. Movies about Israeli and Jewish suffering, as of late, apparently need "rights over footage by HAMA" to be cleared for screening or barred at all for "security reasons" and other made up reasons, which we all know what they really want to say out loud.

So, no, I am not heartless. What I am is aware. Tired. Bitter. Hurt.

You can't milk my sympathy after canceling my suffering and the suffering of my people over the last two years on main, and for decades prior in whispers.

This is not my sorrow. We have enough of our own.

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I reread this fanfic jayroy so I have to draw them hehe

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Stop colonizer libel.

Adam Louis-Klein

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In few wards: Gaza is the UN CashCow, and UNRWA+HAMAS are the milkmen.

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If he wakes up, he’ll show you what I’m talking about.

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i cannot emphasize enough that these excerpts were two paragraphs apart

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honestly kind of astounded by how readily leftists adopted the "israel is a safe haven for pedophiles" talking point. like you'd think "the lone jewish state in the entire world uniquely protects pedophiles" would be too explicitly antisemitic for them but i guess not

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My two cents here, as a non American observer (and pardon moi, after years upon years of listening to chastising from all over, I am most definitely allowed this kne):

This person was mentally unwell and had unfiltered access to literal mind poison idiocy, literal brain rot and conspiracies, and not ONE SOUL noticed this person has been spiraling down, probably for years.

US failed in these basic things:

1. Education system.

2. Health and psychological welfare systems.

3. GUN LAWS.

FIX IT.

Some words are censored to avoid this entire post being censored. 

1. Breivik  – Reference: Anders Behring Breivik, perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks.

2. Brenton 4ever – Reference: Brenton Tarrant, Christchurch shooter.

3. Like a phoenix we rise from the ashes – Symbolic/metaphoric statement of rebirth/resilience.

4. FTW – Reference: Either “Fuck The World” or “For The Win.”

5. Six millions wasn't enough – Reference: Antisemitic statement regarding Jews

6. Born to shit, forced to wipe – Reference: 2019 meme.

7. FD or FO – Unclear meaning.

8. Such is life

9. Sol Pais – Reference: Teen shooter linked to a school threat in Colorado (2022).

10. Burn Israel

11. Destroy HIAS – Reference: HIAS, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, assists refugees.

12. Fuck everything that you stand for

13. Suck on this

14. Where is your god?

15. CYKA – Russian profanity, literally “bitch.”

16. I'm the woker, baby. Why so queerious?

17. убэй сэбя – Russian, slightly misspelled. Correct: “убей себя” = “kill yourself.”

18. Я кошмар – Russian: “I am a nightmare.”

19. Nuke India

20. The big one

21. Fart N*gga

22. НЕНАВИСТЬ / УБЭЙ СЭБЯ – Russian: “HATE / kill yourself.”

23. Kill Donald Trump

24. Rip & tear

25. For the children

26. R-02 – Likely a weapon or magazine designation.

27. Meveigh – Reference: Timothy McVeigh, Oklahoma City bombing (1995).

28. Kaynbred – Reference: Username associated with Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook shooter).

29. Fuck

30. Sorry mom

31. Cum

32. Pain and hate

33. Made in the – Incomplete / unclear.

34. Hahahahaha – Reference: Joker-style laugh.

35. r-04

36. More than ten

37. Fuck you, eat shit

38. F*ggot

39. Ro-3

40. I love you

41. Get clapped

42. Hate you

43. Vape good

44. Fuck this world

45. R-06

46. Unhappy emoticon

47. Bird – unclear.

48. Mashallah – Arabic: “God has willed it.”

49. Lanza Reshakov – Reference: Adam Lanza.

50. Whitman Lepine – Reference: Charles Whitman / possible homage to other shooters.

51. Auviner Holmes – Reference: James Holmes (Aurora shooter).

52. N-51

53. Skibidi

54. Psycho killer

55. R-01

56. Smiley face emoticon

57. Change my stars 

58. Scuuum Gaaang

59. Trolololololo

60. 69

61. FUCK

62. Graffiti symbol – unclear.

63. Kick a sp*c – racist slur.

64. Upside down pentagram

65. 666 + 79419

66. Have fun!

67. Killer sadist

68. Sponsored by BlackRock

69. Evil face drawing

70. Killer

71. Live, love, laugh – each on separate magazine.

72. Viciki Weaver

73. Водка и РЭБ – Russian: “Vodka and REB” (REB may reference electronic warfare or a personal code).

74. There is no message

75. -51

76. 13

77. Atta

78. Smiley emoji

79. Extra Thicc!

80. Jew Gas 

81. Guy Bartkus - refers to Guy Edward Bartkus, a man who carried out a 2025 bombing at a Palm Springs fertility clinic.

82. Eat shit

83. Inverted cross

84. Release the list!

85. Warning - No Remorse!

86. Pain

87. Freedom

88. Where is your god now?

89. Fuck this world

90. Take this, all of you, and eat!

91. Barwk Khazad

92. SSBSTS – Unclear; possibly personal code.

93. Kiss me

94. Fuck Optics

95. Riddler “?” – Reference: DC Comics character.

96. Humanity is overrated

97. Nothing ever happens

98. Я буду.. – Russian: “I will…” (unfinished statement).

99. Ted K. – Reference: Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.

100. Do you believe in God?

101. Hello Brother

102. KoyaanisQats – Play on “Koyaanisqatsi,” experimental film title.

103. Kill Pedos

104. Robert Bewers

105. Mira Me

106. Well, you’re here 

107. Rupnow

108. Follow me!

109. Uwu :3

110. Waco – Likely reference: 1993 Waco Siege.

111. We live in a society – Meme / cultural phrase.

112. Thank god for Breivik - Anders Breivik was responsible for the 2011 Norway attacks that killed 77 people

113. bowl-pilled – Meme slang.

114. Kill Trump now

115. Penguin artwork

116. We wuz Kangs – Meme / racial trolling.

117. Remove Kebab – Meme / anti-Muslim slogan

118. Israel must fall

119. Fuck Nyjah

120. Застрэлись – Russian: “Shoot yourself!”

121. Edups

122. Кошмар – Russian: “Nightmare.”

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In absolute seriousness, this is why:

"Many of our Patreon subscribers have asked us to address the campaign against Israel that accuses it of genocide, colonialism and so on. This episode is the beginning of our deep dive into examining these questions.

What do anti-Zionists argue? What do they want? When is it antisemitic and when legitimate? And how do we know?"

We posed these questions and more to anthropologist Adam Louis-Klein, a compelling commentator on academic and elite anti-Israel narratives and ideas. The resulting conversation is a fascinating and helpful dive into these ideas and the problems they pose for Jews in the modern age."

It comes back to scapegoating, but here it is. The *brand new* academic racist successor to Eugenics.

why are nonjews so obsessed with wanting to endlessly ethnically cleanse us from any country ever while insisting on 'identifying' with our suffering stripped from our peoples literal corpses

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why do the words caregiver and caretaker mean the same thing. Shouldn't they be rival jobs that undo each others progress

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“how can you ship wincest???” as if it’s my fault that dean winchester is canonically an incest freak and his siren turned into the submissive version of his little brother in order to seduce him. i’m literally just observing canon