ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book analyzes the role of the Holocaust in the identity of the European Jews as well as Jewish communities in the US and Israel, and sparked a wide debate across Europe. It deals with the universal phenomenon of genocide denial in general and denial of the Armenian Genocide in particular. The book provides with part of the theoretical framework needed to understand this extraordinary phenomenon. It deals briefly with the relationship between Israel and Turkey. The book also deals with Holocaust and genocide education in Israel. It analyzes and explains what, in the author's view, is one of the great failures of Israeli intellectuals and academia—a failure that is more significant than the moral failure of Israel's political behavior, as it concerns intellectual freedom and the responsibility to state the truth.
