ABSTRACT
This essay is part of an ongoing project that looks at the way the Holocaust and ‘Holocaust memory’ comes to be subsumed within contemporary forms of antisemitism. The most recent and paradoxical illustration of this phenomenon concerns recent ‘debates’ around its now annual commemoration, Holocaust Memorial Day. At the core of these debates is the idea that Holocaust Memorial Day’s seemingly singular focus on Nazi crimes against Jews serves not only to ‘privilege’ its Jewish victims at the expense of others but also serves particularist Jewish interests, most notably, Jewish nationalism or ‘Zionism’.
