As part of the narrative in the last few decades that seeks to reevaluate how
the collective memory of the Holocaust is conveyed to the Israeli public, left-wing
scholars and intellectuals have claimed that Holocaust memory was and is politically
manipulated by the right-wing to intensify a siege mentality, present Israel as an
eternal victim, and elicit constant fear and paranoia to justify violent policies against
the Palestinians in the occupied territories, and block opportunities for a peace treaty.
Based on the literature in the fields of Holocaust commemoration, political agendas
in Israel, and studies on humor, satire, and parody, this chapter traces how since
the 1990s, Israeli Holocaust humor, satire, and parody have been a part of the left-
wing struggle against the right-wing that has governed Israel (with a few exceptions)
since 1977. The analysis shows how speeches and declarations by right-wingers who
use the Holocaust to characterize threats to the State of Israel prompt the left-wing
to produce Holocaust humor, satire, and parodies that castigate these attitudes and
beliefs as false and manipulative