The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide, Yair Auron (softcover)

The Banality of Denial examines the attitudes of the State of Israel and its leading institutions toward the Armenian Genocide. Israel’s view of this issue has special significance and deserves an attentive study as a country composed of a people who were victims of the Holocaust. The Banality of Denial seeks both to examine the passive, indifferent Israeli attitude towards the Armenian Genocide, and to explore active Israeli measures to undermine attempts at safeguarding the memory of the Armenian victims of the Turkish persecution.

Such an inquiry into attempts at denial by Israeli institutions and leading figures of Israel’s political, security, academic, and Holocaust “memory-preservation” elite has not merely an academic significance, but considerable political relevance.

In The Banality of Denial moral, philosophical, and theoretical questions are of paramount importance. Because no previous studies have dealt with these issues or similar ones, the analysis of the subject employs an original methodology with regard to four domains: political, educational, media, and academic.