Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Holocaust Denial and Nakbah Denial

I think that I will start--and urge you to start with me--and effort to monitor and condemn all manifestations of Nakbah denial, just as we should monitor and condemn all manifestations of Holocaust denial.  This is not about comparing the scale or magnitudes of both historical disasters, but there are similarities in the impulses and thrusts of both movements.  They both: 1) suffer from racism which blind them to the suffering of a particular national or religious group; 2) they both refuse historical evidence and facts; 3) they both aim at justifying repression and injustice.  We should shame those writers and historians who are guilty of Nakbah denial.