ABSTRACT
In the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Holocaust plays a central role in a war of words and a competition over historical memory and a legacy of suffering. Often, the Holocaust and the Nakba are juxtaposed and intertwined in ways that cannot do justice to the relative paradigmatic importance of each event in a context of world history because they reflect deeply felt personal experiences of injustice. This chapter constitutes an attempt to disaggregate the various elements of the debate and its historical roots (seeChapter 20). It focuses on the relationship between Arabs and Jews in particular but will also extend the inquiry to Muslims more broadly.
