The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide 1st Edition

by Yair Auron (Author)

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The Banality of Denial examines the attitudes of the State of Israel and its leading institutions toward the Armenian Genocide. Israel's view of this issue has special significance and deserves an attentive study, as it is a country composed of a people who were victims of the Holocaust. The Banality of Denial seeks both to examine the passive, indifferent Israeli attitude towards the Armenian Genocide, and to explore active Israeli measures to undermine attempts at safeguarding the memory of the Armenian victims of the Turkish persecution.

Such an inquiry into attempts at denial by Israeli institutions and leading figures of Israel's political, security, academic, and Holocaust "memory-preservation" elite has not merely an academic significance. It has considerable political relevance, both symbolic and tangible.

In The Banality of Denial--as in Auron's previous work--moral, philosophical, and theoretical questions are of paramount importance. Because no previous studies have dealt with these issues or similar ones, an original methodology is employed to analyze the subject with regard to four domains: political, educational, media, and academic.

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"This new book describes Israeli attitudes toward the phenomenon of genocide in general, including Biafra, Tibet, the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Taken together with [Auron's] earlier book, The Banality of Indifference, both works offer an opportunity to explore a subject of great contemporary relevance."

—The Armenian Weekly

"Auron has written a well-informed, very enlightening, and courageous bookà. Chapters on how Israeli media, high school and university education, and research treat--or decline to discuss--the Armenian genocide are exemplary. Because the study of genocides and related violationsàis an increasingly important part of high school and university curricula, this is a timely and indispensable book."

—Choice

"The Banality of Indifference and The Banality of Denial are groundbreaking works of scholarship and will soon become essential reading for students in a wide range of fields, including global politics, genocide studies, Zionism, and international ethics."

—Middle East Journal

About the Author

Yair Auron is professor at the Open University of Israel. He is the author of numerous articles that have appeared in Jewish Political Studies Review, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Contemporary Jewry. In addition he is the author of many books on genocide and contemporary Judaism, including A Perfect Injustice: Genocide and Theft of Armenian Wealth, The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide, and The Banality of Indifference: Zionism and the Armenian Genocide.

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Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (September 30, 2004)
Language : English
Paperback : 360 pages
ISBN-10 : 076580834X
ISBN-13 : 978-0765808349
Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 0.82 x 9 inches

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Enderlin

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Robert Talan

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Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2006

This book is a very insightful and well written.The Israeli government and certain Zionist interests have played an active role in helping Turkey in it's propaganda effort against the Armenian Genocide .It would seem strange that Israel who comdemns those who deny the Jewish Holocaust such as the KKK ,David Irving and others would be so guilty of the hypocracy of facilitating the denial of the Armenian genocide.This Israeli hypocracy is exposed well in this book .Mr Auron and many other Jewish scholars have supported the Armenians in gaining recognition for the first major genocide of the 20th century.Many forget that the Armenian genocide was the prelude to the Holocaust and Hitler is well known to have made the comment that no one remembers the Armenians .

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No Fear

Perfect piece of scholarship

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2015

Perfect piece of scholarship. Ignore the Turkish propagandists in the reviews. They are not scholars or anything remotely resembling academia, who quote notorious Genocide deniers as backup for their claims.

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Henry Minas

Yair Auron has done an exceptional work.

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2014

An honest, brilliant and insightful look into this intricate topic. It is rare that a historian manifests such an incredible degree of integrity on such an difficult subject. Thank you prof. Auron. You have done it twice with your books on this subject. Thank you.

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BrianAlbright

A Political Analyst Writing about Controversial History?

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2008

Yair Auron is neither a historian nor an expert on Ottoman history! This person is a political analyst who has never studied history or received a degree in history and he's behaving like as if he is an expert on this complex subject. He's using misquotations and forgeries to substantiate his book of logical fallacies. A real Ottoman/Islamic historian, Dr. Bernard Lewis compares Nazi Denialism and historians who denounce the Armenian Genocide Allegations:

"The deniers of Holocaust have a purpose: to prolong Nazism and to return to Nazi legislation. Nobody wants the 'Young Turks' back, and nobody wants to have back the Ottoman Law. What do the Armenians want? The Armenians want to benefit from both worlds. On the one hand, they speak with pride of their struggle against the Ottoman despotism, while on the other hand, they compare their tragedy to the Jewish Holocaust. I do not accept this. I do not say that the Armenians did not suffer terribly. But I find enough cause for me to contain their attempts to use the Armenian massacres to diminish the worth of the Jewish Holocaust and to relate to it instead as an ethnic dispute."

The Benality of Denial is nothing more than an attempt to silence opposing points of views by condemning dissenters as "denialists".

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