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Xushuo Chen
Professor Wertz-Orbaugh
UWRT-1102-016
09/20/2015
On Trial: Holocaust Denial
The article provides the background basis on which the resurgence of Holocaust characterize
the underlying fears among the Israelis as well as the Jews. Essentially, it is evident that the
dynamics of the social, political and cultural circumstances that inspired the trajectories of the
argument are aligned to a revelation of the state sponsored and systemic murders of Jews by the
Germans as well as their collaborators in the events of the World War 11. The denial of Holocaust
shape a significant dimension of the historical understanding of the final solutions of the Nazis
within the context of exterminating the Jewish race on the industrial scale.
The article provides that individuals behind the denial of the Holocaust are motivated by the
political west, informed by the need to rehabilitate fascism and Nazism (TIJS, n.p). The
philosophical dimension to this denial is to promote sentiments of anti-Israeli and Semitism.
Essentially, it is plausible to note that the denial of the Holocaust is widespread in the Muslim world
owing to the primary goal that undermines the foundational justification for the existence of the
Israelis.
According to the article, it emerges that the number of those denying the Holocaust and its
impacts in the context of history is small. The implication of this illustration is aligned with the
principle that such mindsets are out to attract a proportionate percentage of the anti-holocaust
scholarship. The crusade to deny the murders and massacres of the Jews during the Holocaust is
anchored on the reasonable guide of fact finding mission. The primary search for the truth continue
to provide the pedestal on which those denying the holocaust to continue spreading misinformation
and falsehood within the apparent objective to persuade their audience.

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The pathway to misinformation thrives on the dimension of free speech within the spectrum
of the continued research into a series of misrepresentation and complex history. Nonetheless, the
strength of the article emerges with the ability of the author to address the seemingly lack of clear
methodology is appreciating the historical occurrences (TIJS, n.p). With regard to this, it becomes
worthy noting that the primary campaigners of the Holocaust denials built on the documentary as
well as artificial evidence in a bid to create their already weak hypothesis. This is extensively a
deviation from the efficiencies of critical analysis because, the approaches of the holocaust deniers
fail to develop a platform for appreciating the opinions of history. Instead, this group continues to
distort and manipulate the historic occurrences failing the philosophy of history that is not only
acceptable but also emerge as a personal belief.
The article constructs a model that allows scholars and critics to embrace open mindedness
in a bid to reject or identify the existing distortions, lies, falsehoods and innuendo that are
misleading as used by the crusaders of Holocaust denials. The article continues to express the
common feeling that historians, scholars and other stakeholders must set the center stage for
understanding the events that calumniated in exterminating the Israelis and the Jews (TIJS, n.p).
The emerging probability demonstrates the building hatred for the truth among those denying the
existence of the holocaust. This undermines the opportunity for various perspectives that would
gain ground in shaping the media, political as well as religious institutions to develop a standpoint
in addressing historical atrocities. The denial of Holocaust shape a significant dimension of the
historical understanding of the final solutions of the Nazis within the context of exterminating the
Jewish race on the industrial scale.

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Work Cited
Tam Institute for Jewish Studies (TIJS). Holocaust Denial on Trial. {Available on}
http://hdot.org/en/denial/index.html