ABSTRACT
This article follows the reaction by a number of Jewish friends to intimations made in Canada in the mid-1980s-and one Newfoundland newspaper article in particular-that the genocide of Jews in the Second World War (the Holocaust) was a hoax and part of an ongoing Jewish ‘conspiracy’. It examines the social process whereby the friends organise themselves into a group so as to offer a joint response. This I do by focusing in detail on the interaction between them one evening shortly after the newspaper article appears. I offer the case-study as a comment on Devereux’s notion of collective activities representing ‘Ego-syntonic outlets’.
