In the decades after the Holocaust, so-called “revisionist historians” have tried to question the suffering of the Jewish people during World War II. Some even deny that the Holocaust ever happened. Others deny key elements of the Holocaust, including the fact that Nazis used poison gas to kill Jews in death camps or cast doubt on the number of Jews that were murdered.

For Holocaust deniers to be correct in their assertion that the Holocaust did not happen, all Holocaust survivors would have to be wrong; other non-Jewish bystanders who have testified that they saw Jews being marched to the outskirts of their towns would have to be lying; historians who have studied the history of the Holocaust would have to be a part of a conspiracy or completely wrong; and the perpetrators themselves—those who actually admitted their guilt—would have to be lying. This belief would stem form the idea that Jews control the world.

Dr. Deborah Lipstadt, who successfully defended herself from the charge of libel for exposing Holocaust denier David Irving’s willful distortion of the Holocaust, has explained, "As should be obvious, Holocaust denial is, quite plainly, a form of antisemitism. It is not about history. It is about attacking, discrediting, and demonizing Jews.”

The implication of the accusation of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust is that the Jews or Israel are fabricating false historical events to justify Israel’s creation and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians or other alleged human right abuses.

Holocaust denial is actually an effort to exonerate Nazis for responsibility for the genocide of the Jewish people. The only reason to deny the Holocaust is to inculcate and spread antisemitism, including anti-Zionism.