Ha’olam Hazeh between the Kastner Trial and the Eichmann Trial
Keywords:
Ha’olam Hazeh, Holocaust Trials in Israel, The Kastner Trial, The Eichmann Trial, Uri Avneri, NazismAbstract
In the early years of the State of Israel, two main trials dealing with the Holocaust were held – the first one was the Kastner Trial and the second one was the Eichmann Trial.
The research literature has dealt in depth with the attitude of Ha’olam Hazeh and its editor Uri Avneri towards the first trial, but has neglected the second trial. The purpose of this article is to deal with the attitude of this weekly towards the second trial, which can be summed up as follows:
1. The Israeli government made serious errors in it treatment of the ‘Eichmann Affair’; from a huge success, it therefore turned into a clear failure.
2. It supported unpopular suggestions connected with the trial. An example was Dr. Nachum Goldmann’s suggestion to create a special International Court for judging Eichmann. A large majority of Israelis were against it, but the weekly supported it.
3. It repeatedly tried to raise issues connected to the ‘Kastner Trial’.
4. Avneri insisted that Nazism was a universal phenomenon rather than a German one, and that it could appear anywhere in the world – including Israel. In the course of the Eichmann Trial, this claim was rarely made.
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