2. UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
problematic aspects of their histories of wrongdoing and collaboration. We see how destructive Holocaust memory was when it serves ultra / ethnic exclusionary national identities( for Israel and in other forms also for other nations in Europe), and there is a concern that expanding the memory paradigm will only deepen those same tendencies in Europe and beyond.
3. In light of the evident lack of credibility in Holocaust denial, the fight against its distortion seems to have gained greater importance. From your perspective, what do you consider to be the main threats today in terms of Holocaust distortion?
I usually tell my students that despite all the paranoia that is maintained for political reasons, the phenomenon of " Holocaust denial " has become extremely marginal, while the more interesting phenomenon historically and culturally is precisely Holocaust memory that has become so dominant even in places like the USA, South Africa, and Australia that have almost no direct connection to the Holocaust. But memory itself doesn ' t seem
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