Israelis read the racism charge through Holocaust memory, not color

Evidence

In most, but not all. In Israel, color was never much of an issue, and the problem of race, as understood in America and Africa is irrelevant and mean­ ingless. Among a people whose dominant memory is of the Holocaust, racism still connotes Nazism and anti-Semitism, and the accusation was thus received with a special kind of outrage. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1362

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the claim from the immodesty material that the same label carries wholly different charge in different interpretive communities.
• SHARE: For someone working on how Holocaust memory frames contemporary Israeli political categories — the specificity of which labels ‘outrage’ a population.