ABSTRACT
In the 1950s diplomats offered niceties and pleasantries, and the result was niceties and pleasantries in return, accompanied by any number of excuses why the assets could not be returned. Yet, these tactics formed the heart of the complaints of those supporting the Holocaust Industry idea, and formed the unintended consequences of the rule. Years before Finkelstein's exposition on the ostensible deviance of Edgar Bronfman's effort, journalists and columnists were calling into question the tactics and motives of the Holocaust's presentation in general. Seeing that Jewish survivors were successful created another backlash and, as such, like the construction of the Holocaust Industry idea, the Palestinian reaction was an unintended consequence of Bronfman's success. Beyond the success of the pursuit of assets, the detractors of that success, and the counter claims, one unavoidable unintended consequence was that of the reinforcement of stereotypes.
