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The Holocaust Narrative
In the 1990s, Norman Finkelstein critiqued the Holocaust Industry, which was built on those who did not suffer in the Holocaust and yet sought social, political, and financial gain from it. Jones' book examines that industry from the standpoint of literary criticism, highlighting and exposing the false narratives of that industry. This book is necessary reading for anyone interested in an honest dialogue about the use and abuse of historical tragedies.
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608 pages
Published January 1, 2023
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E. Michael Jones
69 books360 followersCatholic writer, former professor at Saint Mary's College in Indiana and the current editor of Culture Wars magazine.
E. Micheal Jones is controversial for his criticism against judaism.
E. Micheal Jones is controversial for his criticism against judaism.
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August 26, 2025
The Holocaust is the most publicized topics in recent history yet one of the least discussed and more fraught with taboo, censorship, and criminalization than any other. The prohibition of literary criticism means an entire genre of writing that "retreated into the realm of sacred objects where only a few appointed rabbis had rights as commentators."
To point out that the Holocaust Narrative itself changed over time would be "denial." The Jewish babies thrown into "flaming pits" Elie Wiesel described (We don't hear about those anymore, do we? But the trope was recycled in a recent Israeli war propaganda hoax about 40 Jewish babies beheaded and burnt by Hamas) morphed into gas chambers in later narratives.
The term "holocaust" itself has its roots in burnt offerings or a sacrifice consumed by fire and was originally used to describe the savage Allied bombing raids and fire storms engineered to burn entire populations of German and Japanese civilians alive in Hamburg, Dresden and Hiroshima.
Eisenhower’s Rheinwiesenlager or the genocidal Morgenthau Plan, an ethnic cleansing campaign of deliberate starvation of the German people, are omitted from the narrative, as well as the fact that many of the tropes we see repeated in Holocaust literature and films were lifted directly from propaganda crafted under Eisenhower's Psychological Warfare Dept. of the US Dept. of War--for example, the term "extermination camp" was first introduced in Allied propaganda. It was never used by the SS (there's no documentation expressing or implying an extermination policy). Later, the CIA became instrumental in getting many of the popular Holocaust literature published and films produced.
The Holocaust Narrative is now "wielded to cover up Israeli atrocities against Palestinians every bit as effectively as it had been used to cover over Allied war crimes committed during World War II." Indeed, to condemn Israel's genocide (or to even call it a genocide) is to engage in "anti-Semitism," which is criminalized.
The Holocaust Narrative has also been used as a battering ram against the Catholic Church by condemning Pope Pius XII as "Hitler's Pope" with no evidence (and despite him saving the lives of 80,000 Hungarian Jews) and to smear Catholicism with the stain of "anti-Semitism."
Jones makes an important distinction: To call the Church "anti-Semitic...was an outrageous anachronism which changed the terms of the argument from a theological common place to an anti-Christian ideology which came into being after WWII based on the Holocaust Narrative."
"Anti-Semitism is a biological term which came into being in Germany in the 1870s, largely because of the writing of Wilhelm Marr, who was looking for a non-theological way of criticizing Jewish behavior. At no point in the period following its invention did any Catholic subscribe to "anti-Semitism," because its biological determinism ran afoul of the fact that both the Jews who worshipped Christ as the son of God and the Jews who called for his death shared the same DNA. By the uncritical acceptance of the term anti-Semitism in the final version of Nostra aetate, which occurred when the Council Fathers claimed that the Church deplored 'all...displays of anti-Semitism,' the Council failed to make this crucial distinction and opened the door which allowed the Holocaust Narrative to enter the Church and infect her deliberations for decades."
"Behind the (false) equivalence between Nazism and Catholicism, suddenly another equivalence emerges, namely, the relationship between Jews and Bolshevism."
"Anti-Semitism during the 1920s in Europe was not directed against the existence of Jews but rather against the behavior of Jews, because Jews were widely seen as the driving force behind Bolshevism." There was a very real concern in Europe at the time about the threat of Bolshevism. But the Russian Revolution, the rising specter of Bolshevism and the possibility of Jews fomenting that kind of revolutionary terrorism in Europe is another factor omitted from the narrative about what underpinned German (and even Churchill's) concerns at the time that overwhelming Jewish sympathies with Bolshevism in countries across Europe was perceived as a potential fifth column.
To point out that the Holocaust Narrative itself changed over time would be "denial." The Jewish babies thrown into "flaming pits" Elie Wiesel described (We don't hear about those anymore, do we? But the trope was recycled in a recent Israeli war propaganda hoax about 40 Jewish babies beheaded and burnt by Hamas) morphed into gas chambers in later narratives.
The term "holocaust" itself has its roots in burnt offerings or a sacrifice consumed by fire and was originally used to describe the savage Allied bombing raids and fire storms engineered to burn entire populations of German and Japanese civilians alive in Hamburg, Dresden and Hiroshima.
Eisenhower’s Rheinwiesenlager or the genocidal Morgenthau Plan, an ethnic cleansing campaign of deliberate starvation of the German people, are omitted from the narrative, as well as the fact that many of the tropes we see repeated in Holocaust literature and films were lifted directly from propaganda crafted under Eisenhower's Psychological Warfare Dept. of the US Dept. of War--for example, the term "extermination camp" was first introduced in Allied propaganda. It was never used by the SS (there's no documentation expressing or implying an extermination policy). Later, the CIA became instrumental in getting many of the popular Holocaust literature published and films produced.
The Holocaust Narrative is now "wielded to cover up Israeli atrocities against Palestinians every bit as effectively as it had been used to cover over Allied war crimes committed during World War II." Indeed, to condemn Israel's genocide (or to even call it a genocide) is to engage in "anti-Semitism," which is criminalized.
The Holocaust Narrative has also been used as a battering ram against the Catholic Church by condemning Pope Pius XII as "Hitler's Pope" with no evidence (and despite him saving the lives of 80,000 Hungarian Jews) and to smear Catholicism with the stain of "anti-Semitism."
Jones makes an important distinction: To call the Church "anti-Semitic...was an outrageous anachronism which changed the terms of the argument from a theological common place to an anti-Christian ideology which came into being after WWII based on the Holocaust Narrative."
"Anti-Semitism is a biological term which came into being in Germany in the 1870s, largely because of the writing of Wilhelm Marr, who was looking for a non-theological way of criticizing Jewish behavior. At no point in the period following its invention did any Catholic subscribe to "anti-Semitism," because its biological determinism ran afoul of the fact that both the Jews who worshipped Christ as the son of God and the Jews who called for his death shared the same DNA. By the uncritical acceptance of the term anti-Semitism in the final version of Nostra aetate, which occurred when the Council Fathers claimed that the Church deplored 'all...displays of anti-Semitism,' the Council failed to make this crucial distinction and opened the door which allowed the Holocaust Narrative to enter the Church and infect her deliberations for decades."
"Behind the (false) equivalence between Nazism and Catholicism, suddenly another equivalence emerges, namely, the relationship between Jews and Bolshevism."
"Anti-Semitism during the 1920s in Europe was not directed against the existence of Jews but rather against the behavior of Jews, because Jews were widely seen as the driving force behind Bolshevism." There was a very real concern in Europe at the time about the threat of Bolshevism. But the Russian Revolution, the rising specter of Bolshevism and the possibility of Jews fomenting that kind of revolutionary terrorism in Europe is another factor omitted from the narrative about what underpinned German (and even Churchill's) concerns at the time that overwhelming Jewish sympathies with Bolshevism in countries across Europe was perceived as a potential fifth column.
August 4, 2025
Only read about half of the book but from what I read the author jumps around a lot. He doesn’t give a coherent argument that you can follow a long with. Instead, he gives several stories and historical accounts that may or may not point towards his thesis. Nevertheless, I learned some really cool stuff from this book and it was fairly easy to read when you got used to the author’s style.
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