Berkley Center

In this lecture Dr. Walter Reich spoke on the uses and abuses of the invocation of the Holocaust as a political weapon, focusing especially on the realm of foreign policy, such as the tendency to cite the Holocaust to justify particular diplomatic and military policies. Reich also examined the widespread claims in the Arab/Muslim world of both Holocaust denial and that Israel has committed crimes comparable to that of the Holocaust, the latter having achieved increasingly strident resonance in Europe and elsewhere.

This event was cosponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the Program in Jewish Civilization.