What Causes Anti-Semitism?
Getting into the emotion-laden question of what causes anti-Jewish sentiment, Christie quoted a passage from Finkelstein’s book: “The shakedown of Switzerland and Germany has been only a prelude to the grand finale: the shakedown of Eastern Europe. With the collapse of the Soviet bloc, alluring prospects opened up in the former heartland of European Jewry. Cloaking itself in the sanctimonious mantle of ‘needy Holocaust victims,’ the Holocaust industry has sought to extort billions of dollars from these already impoverished countries. Pursuing this end with reckless and ruthless abandon, it has become the main fomenter of anti-Semitism in Europe.” Christie then asked: “Is that in any way related to or echoed in the field of Holocaust revisionist opinion?” Mindful of the constraints imposed by the Tribunal, I replied: “Holocaust revisionists have very often stressed a similar sentiment, and that is that this extortion, this campaign against Switzerland and Germany, is but one chapter in
