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=== The Holocaust industry === Finkelstein follows the Holocaust's standing in American life from the postwar years to the end of the 20th century. Before the [[Six-Day War|1967 ArabโIsraeli War]], he argues, the Holocaust took little part in the lives of American Gentiles and Jews. There was, for example, at that time only a small number of books and films on the Holocaust and few works of scholarship. Not until the late 20th century, especially after the 1967 War, did the Holocaust take up its role as the foremost historical event in the American mind โ so Finkelstein argues.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Finkelstein2003" />{{Rp|pages=12โ16, 21โ24}} Finkelstein views this growing American fixation with the Holocaust through a [[Historical materialism|materialist]] lens. After World War II, he claims, the leaders of American Jewish organizations (like the [[Anti-Defamation League]] and the [[American Jewish Committee]]) understood [[Jewish assimilation|assimilation]] and access to elite power to be in their own interest. Thus these organizations distanced themselves from Israel, moderated their demands for [[Denazification|German denazification]], and collaborated with [[McCarthyism|McCarthyite investigations]]. In the 1960s, however, the American government began a friendlier relationship with the Israeli government; and the interests of American Jewish leaders changed. Their organizations began openly to support Israel and espouse a Holocaust ideology that emphasized (1) [[Holocaust uniqueness debate|the Holocaust as a unique historical event]] and (2) the Holocaust as the climax of an eternal anti-Semitism. Finkelstein argues that this Holocaust ideology does not fit with academic Holocaust scholarship. Rather it serves to defend Israel and American Jewish leaders from criticism.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Finkelstein2003" />{{Rp|pages=16โ24, 41โ42}}
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