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One of the best-known antisemitic slogans of the August 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has come to be ‘Jews will not replace us’. But this is not where the marchers’ anti-Jewish rhetoric ended. A Vox documentary about the event featured a neo-Nazi participant stating that the city was run ‘by Jewish communists and criminal n***ers’. It is understandable why so few paid attention to this claim.
Eastern European countries have adopted the notion that Nazism and Communism were equivalent historical crimes, an idea suffused with antisemitism. The result is a new form of Holocaust distortion. This time, the purpose is not to deny that the Holocaust happened but to manipulate its meaning, downplaying Jewish victimhood and transforming antisemitic violence into acts of national liberation. FICTIONALISATION OF HISTORY Was it Hannah Arendt?
‘Everything started collapsing then’, wrote Halina Zawadzka, who survived the Shoah in Poland, about her experience of 1968 in Communist Poland when dozens of Jews committed suicide after they had found themselves publicly vilified and socially isolated, denounced as a ‘fifth column’ by Władysław Gomułka, the first secretary of the Polish United Workers Party. 8,300 members were expelled from the Communist party, nearly all Jewish.
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