Holocaust Denial's Mission Accomplished, Says Leading Holocaust Denier

"The new anti-semitism" is the name given to the more pathological forms of anti-Zionism often found in the Middle East, in Europe and alas on North American university campuses. Obsessive hatred of Israel serves the same purpose as the more explicit hatred of Jews that went out of style with the end of World War II.

As a result, one of the world's leading Holocaust deniers now concedes that there is no more reason to deny historical fact: Lies about Israel have now led people to hate Jews so much that it's no longer necessary to lie about the Holocaust. Lawrence Auster tells the story:

In an article posted this past January at the website of the Institute for Historical Review, Mark Weber, the director of that organization and for decades the editor of its journal and the leading Holocaust denial publication, The Journal of Historical Review, announced his abandonment of Holocaust revisionism. The real motive of the Holocaust denial enterprise, he writes, has always been to weaken and delegitimize the "Jewish-Zionist power." ...

[But] Holocaust denial is no longer necessary in carrying out the war against the Jews, because, Weber says, anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism have been increasing worldwide. ... As a result, a direct attack can now be made on the Jews themselves, rather than the indirect attack through Holocaust denial.

It's a jaw-dropping story, and a sad tribute to the enduring power of history's most murderous hatred.