Criminalizing Denial as a Form of Erasure: The Polish-Ukrainian-Israeli Triangle
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This chapter argues that recent laws criminalizing or penalizing certain versions of the past in Poland, Ukraine, and Israel, exploit the urge to prohibit denial of victimization as a tool to obfuscate their own unsavory past. Thus Ukraine has wanted Israel to recognize the Holodomor of 1931–1932 as genocide, even while denying Ukrainian collaboration in the Holocaust, and criminalizing any defamation of its World War II insurgents. Poland has criminalized denial of these very same insurgents’ ethnic cleansing operations as genocide, and penalizes assertions of Polish collaboration in the Holocaust. And, Israel condemns such practices of whitewashing the past by Poland and Ukraine even as it has legislated against commemorations of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing by Israeli forces of the Palestinians in 1948.
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Holocaust Commemoration Holocaust Communism Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial Memory Law Nationalism Holocaust Denial
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195-221
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978-3-030-94913-6
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Link to article (paywalled), Criminalizing Denial as a Form of Erasure: The Polish-Ukrainian-Israeli Triangle
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Criminalizing Denial as a Form of Erasure: The Polish-Ukrainian-Israeli Triangle. 2022: 195-221. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1007/978-3-030-94914-3_8
