ABSTRACT
The two predominant features of ideological distortion brought to light by the related analysis of Stalinism are: (a) the negation or arbitrary reconstruction of historical faets and (b) the dangers of identifying reasoning with “false identification”, “unwarranted extrapolation” or “perverse equation”. George Orwell’s novel 1984 possibly offers the most important literary manifestation of historicism. The accusation of racism directed against Israel derives from the natural trajectory that precedes it: a “fascist” country, governed by Nazi politicians, cannot be but racist, according to the postulate concerning the “consistency of attributes". It must be noted that if Zionism is by no means a racist movement, then the creation of a Jewish state is certainly one of the most provocative antiracist experiences of history. The equating of Zionism with racism, legitimized by the authority of an international organization, appears as a typical sample of a “perverse equation.”.
