The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

Yann Martel recently claimed in the Guardian that ‘you no more own a historical event than people own their language. The English don't own the English language; the Jews don't own the Holocaust; the French don't own Verdun. It's good to have other perspectives. If you claim to own an event, you may suffer from group think’. Finkelstein points out, in a well-supported argument, the flaws of t... read more