The Holocaust’s crime type is explained by something other than antisemitism.

Evidence

Hannah Arendt pointed out long ago that in the phenomenon of the Holocaust antisemitism may explain at most the choice of the victims, but not the nature of the crime. Nothing has happened since then to invalidate Arendt’s verdict, while the monumental memoirs of Primo Levi, the monumental historical research of Raoul Hilberg, and the monumental documentary of Claude Lanzmann, to mention but a few landmarks, did a lot to confirm and reinforce it. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 456

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• DEFINE: Crystallizes Arendt’s distinction between victim-selection and the nature of the crime itself.

Related

• Only the choice of victims, not the crime’s nature, derives from antisemitism history. (similarity 0.92)
• Antisemitism history explains the victims, not the Holocaust’s criminal nature. (similarity 0.91)
• Antisemitism explains victim selection, not the crime’s nature (similarity 0.89)
• Modern society’s own attributes can enable holocaust-style genocide, not just racial prejudice. (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust drew little scholarly interest until recently (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust should not define what antisemitism across history looks like (similarity 0.79)