Natalie Portman Challenges the “Holocaust Uniqueness” Doctrine

Natalie Portman Challenges the “Holocaust Uniqueness” Doctrine

By Jonas E. Alexis on September 1, 2015

Deborah Lipstadt—whose greatest intellectual achievement is to call virtually anyone who disagrees with her a “Holocaust denier” or an “anti-Semite”—is an ideologue precisely because she does not allow truth and reason to guide her thinking.

“Frankly, my dear, I have no serious arguments. I only have ideology. And if you even dare to disagree with me here, then you are ipso facto an anti-Semite.”

…by Jonas E. Alexis

Noted German historian and philosopher Ernst Nolte once made the mistake of comparing the “Holocaust” to other crimes that have committed in history, such as Stalin’s extermination of the Russian people, the Armenian genocide,[1] and Pol Pot’s crimes against humanity. For this, Jewish thought police Deborah Lipstadt of Emory University accused him of Holocaust denial, one of the most unpardonable sins of our age. Historian Joachim Fest defended Nolte on historical and rational grounds, and received the same treatment.[2]

Nolte believes that “Auschwitz was contained in the principles of Nazi racist theory like the seed in the fruit.”[3] He also believes that Hitler’s actions were monstrous. But that is not enough for Lipstadt. For her, Nolte has to do something better because the Holocaust, as the late Christopher Hitchens rightly put it back in 2001, is “a secular religion, with state support in the form of a national museum.”[4] This secular religion, Jewish historian Tim Cole tells us, is “big business.”[5]

Lipstadt is certainly enjoying this “big business.” For her, “Holocaust denial is a form of anti-Semitism.”[6] So, despite the fact that Nolte abides by the principles that make up the Holocaust narrative, he is an anti-Semite because she does not agree with Lipstadt. In 2011, Lipstadt told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that if Americans and Israeli politicians use the holocaust for political gains, then it is also similar to “soft-core denial.”[7]

It is pretty obvious that Lipstadt—whose greatest intellectual achievement is to call virtually anyone who disagrees with her a “Holocaust denier” or an “anti-Semite”—is an ideologue precisely because she does not allow truth and reason to guide her thinking. In fact, she came to teach at Emory not because of her serious scholarship, but because of the Jewish influence in academe.[8] As E. Michael Jones put it in 2009:

“Holocaust denial is another word for Jewish control of discourse, in particular historical discourse, in particular historical discourse about World War II. If a historian publishes something that a powerful Jew, which is to say a Jew with powerful backers, dislikes, that person will be punished.

“If the person in question lives by writing books, as David Irving once did, the Lipstadt brigade will get him blacklisted in the publishing industry. If the person in question is a professor, the big Jews will try to get him fired, as Deborah Lipstadt herself did in the case of Professor David O’Connell.”[9]

One can say that Lipstadt’s ideological weltanschauung became quite apparent when she started to assign the book Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood 1939-1948 to her students.

The Holocaust memoir of Benjamin Wilkomirski, Fragments came out in 1995 and enjoyed immediate success. Journalist Melissa Katsoulis writes that sales

“across Europe and the English-speaking world were impressive. It won the prestigious Prix Memoire de la Shoah in France, the Jewish Quarterly’s prize in London and also its American equivalent, the National Jewish Books Award.

“Feted by critics, historians and book-buyers alike, Wilkomirski found himself finding off interview requests from television, newspaper and magazine editors, and for the next three years rose to become one of the most sought-after and well-loved survivors of Hitler’s atrocities.”[10]

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen also supported the book,[11] as well as major newspapers such as Publishers Weekly.

To everyone’s chagrin, Fragments was a complete hoax, a fabrication by a non-Jew. As Finkelstein puts it, “Half-fruitcake, half-mountebank, Wilkomirski, it turns out, spent the entire war in Switzerland. He is not even a Jew.”[12]

That was bad enough. Yet Deborah Lipstadt stated the book was still “powerful as a novel”! But what about the people who plunked down the money to buy the book, thinking that it was actual history? Doesn’t Lipstadt owe them an apology?

Well, for the Holocaust establishment, a wicked ideology is more important than truth and reason. And once truth and reason are excluded from intellectual and political categories, then one is lost in the sea of irrational ideas, irresponsible assertions, mumbo jumbo, ideological interest, and complete hoaxes and colossal fabrications. After providing a frontal and rational attack on utilitarianism and its proponents, Emmanuel Kant wrote,

“For what they discovered was never duty [objective moral principles which are universally binding], but only the necessity of acting from a certain interest [ideology].”[13]

That certainly represents the academic life of Deborah Lipstadt. She frivolously argues that if a person says that Zionism is racism, then that person is ipso facto an anti-Semite. There is more. If the UN condemns Israel for mercilessly slaughtering the Palestinians, then that again is, in her own term, “legalized Anti-Semitism.”[14] For her, Israel is always right. End of discussion.

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