Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the D elegitimation of Israel

US: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Paperback. Very Good. This book contains three independent essays, available in English for the f irst time, as well as a post-scriptum written for the English edition. The common theme of the three essays is the uses and abuses of the Holocaust as an ideological arm in the anti-Zionist campaigns. The first essay examines the French group of left-wing Holocaust deniers. The second essay deals wi th a number of Israeli academics and intellectuals, the so-called post-Zion ists, and tries to follow their use of the Holocaust in their different att empts to demonize and delegitimize Israel. The third deals with Hannah Aren dt and her relations with Zionism and the State of Israel as reflected in h er general work and in Eichmann in Jerusalem; the views that she formulates are used systematically and extensively by anti- and post-Zionists. Yakira argues that each of these is a particular expression of an outrage: anti-Z ionism and a wholesale delegitimation of Israel.