The Role of the Holocaust in Israeli Political Rhetoric (1948-2020)

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dc.contributorWeinreb, Amelia
dc.contributorHolmsten, Stephanie
dc.creatorMitchell, Rachel
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-28T15:10:45Z
dc.date.available2021-01-28T15:10:45Z
dc.date.issued2020-05
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores how the Holocaust has been evoked in political rhetoric from four prime minsters across four time periods in Israeli history: 1948-1967, 1967-1985, 1985-2000, and 2000-2020. The paper examines changes and continuity in the political rhetoric over time as national and societal priorities have shifted in Israel. The paper also gives a historical background of Israel and the Holocaust as context. Since the Holocaust and the foundation of the State of Israel were two fundamental events in modern Jewish history and occurred within a few years of each other, it can be difficult to identify the extent to which one influenced the other. This paper sheds light on this relationship and provides as a preliminary explanation of how genocide can affect national collective memory and subsequent political actions and mindsets. Four speeches were selected using a random generator to demonstrate that the political rhetoric examined in this paper reflect typical evocation of the Holocaust in Israeli political rhetoric for each time period. In this thesis, I argue that throughout Israeli history, the Holocaust has served as a common touchpoint for Israeli political leaders seeking to connect their audiences to a national collective memory. However, I argue that it is Israeli perception of threat, rather than temporal distance from the event, that shapes how politicians invoke Holocaust rhetoric.en_US
dc.description.departmentInternational Relations and Global Studiesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/84521
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/11500
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPlan II Honors Theses - Openly Availableen_US
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subjectHolocausten_US
dc.subjectIsraelen_US
dc.subjectRhetoricen_US
dc.subjectPoliticsen_US
dc.subjectBeginen_US
dc.subjectBen Gurionen_US
dc.subjectRabinen_US
dc.subjectNetanyahuen_US
dc.titleThe Role of the Holocaust in Israeli Political Rhetoric (1948-2020)en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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