On January 20, the United Nations General Assembly officially adopted a
resolution, put forth by Israel and cosponsored by Germany, defining..........


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U.N. General Assembly Condemns Holocaust Denial

 

(New York, N.Y.) — On January 20, the United Nations General Assembly
officiallyadopted
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a resolution, put forth by Israel and cosponsored by Germany, defining
Holocaust denial using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA)
Working Definition of Antisemitism
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. The resolution was adopted by consensus on what was the 80th anniversary of
the Wannsee Conference where Nazi leaders agreed upon the Final Solution, and
just one week ahead of today’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

 

Though non-binding, the resolution specifically identifies the U.N. General
Assembly’s concern regarding “the growing prevalence of Holocaust denial or
distortion through the use of information and communications technologies,” and
encourages “social media companies to take active measures to combat
antisemitism and Holocaust denial or distortion.”

 

The adoption of the resolution comes as the international community is
confronting a significant uptick in antisemitism, which includes Holocaust
denial and revisionism. In 2018, the EU’s Agency for Fundamental Rights released
survey data
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showing that 80 percent of European Jews feel that antisemitism in their
country had increased over the past five years, and 40 percent live in daily
fear of being physically attacked. In September, the FBIreported
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anti-Jewish hate crimes accounted for more than half of all religiously
motivated reported hate crimes in 2020. Almost 50 percent of all antisemitic
incidents in 2021 took place in Europe, according to ajoint report
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this month from the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency. Though there
were no deaths reported in 2021 in antisemitic attacks, there were increases in
antisemitic incidents around the United States driven by current events,
conspiracies surrounding Covid-19, and Holocaust denial and revisionism.  

 

The veracity of the Holocaust is a matter of historical record. Museums and
archives have preserved eyewitness accounts, photographs, and physical evidence
of its horrors. Nonetheless, revisionists have created an industry around
Holocaust denial and revisionism. It can be broken down into two primary
intersecting ideas: The record of the Holocaust is false or has been
exaggerated; and Jews abuse the memory of the Holocaust to garner sympathy and
maintain influence. At the core of each theory is the accusation that Jews are
distorting history, drawing from the idea of a powerful Jewish conspiracy that
manipulates global attitudes, historical records, and international affairs.
This allegation of Jewish power—even when Jews historically had little to no
actual power, politically or economically—has been a core driver of
antisemitism for centuries.

 

To read the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)’s resource Antisemitism Resurgent:
Manifestations of Antisemitism in the 21st Century, please click here
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