What is a Holocaust denier? What is a Holocaust revisionist?
• No crime, no sympathy, part I Holocaust denial or revisionism can take many forms. What these forms have in common is the desire to negate: 1) sympathy for the individual victims or the Jews in general, 2) disgust for those who actively or passively allowed the Holocaust to happen, or 3) feelings of guilt that we – our countries, our cultures, our ancestors – did not do enough to prevent it, and 4) the desire to make restitution, even if full compensation is impossible. The negation of the Holocaust is appealing to the denier or revisionist because, like the anti-Zionist, one can fight a war against the Jews while still denying that one is antisemitic, a title which excludes one from the battlefield of ideas in the post-Holocaust western world.
