Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock, a Jewish history professor at Yeshiva University, argues in a new book that Jews would never have gained the immense power and influence they possess in America today had the fake "Holocaust" narrative of WWII not been so successfully promoted and institutionalized. Without the "Holocaust", Dr. Gurock contends that Jews in America would have never achieved "the level of empowerment and agency that we associate with American Jews today," The Times of Israel recently reported.

"Things could have been much worse had the cataclysm of the Holocaust not happened," said Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock recently over lunch at a Jerusalem café.

A statement like this is hard to swallow if you don’t realize that his new book, “The Holocaust Averted: An Alternate History of American Jewry, 1938-1967,” deals with counterfactual history, a speculative exploration of what-ifs, and the author is in no way dismissive of the murder of six million Jews at the hands of the Nazis.

What Gurock demonstrates in his book is that World War II was a major turning point in American Jewish history, and that many positive things came out of it for American Jews as well as for US-Israel relations. Had key moments in the run-up to and during the course of the war played out differently, the Holocaust may not have happened. Gurock posits that instead, Jews in America would have had to “run for cover.” They would have had to assume—and maintain—a low profile, never achieving the level of empowerment and agency that we associate with American Jews today. [...]

While historians look back in history to understand what happened (or in the case of counterfactual history, what did not, or could have, happened) Gurock said the ultimate purpose of “The Holocaust Averted” is to get y Jews to think about their present and future.

“The book teaches important lessons about the post-war and contemporary Jewish condition. It emphasizes what WWII meant for Jewish empowerment and Jewish activism,” he said.

Mark Weber and Greg Johnson, two important scholars that I have learned a great deal from, correctly argue that Jewish power and influence in America and the wider Western world was already substantial prior to WWII. Thus, they aver, the political and cultural power stemming from the "Holocaust" is "not so much a source of Jewish-Zionist power as it is an expression of it," as Weber wrote in a 2009 article entitled How Relevant is Holocaust Revisionism?

Both Weber and Johnson recognize that although the "Holocaust" narrative is an important element of Jewish power and influence in the West today, and a weaponized narrative of history that demonizes and pathologizes European identity and ethnocentrism while strengthening Jewish identity and ethnocentrism, it is not the foundational source of this power and influence.

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