Ward Churchill seems to like to call people “Eichmann’s”. Steven I. Weiss has found an essay by Churchill, where he equates Adolf Eichmann with the well known holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt.
Ward wrote:
Complicity in genocide is, under Article III of the 1948 Convention, tantamount to perpetration of genocide itself. It is formally designated a Crime Against Humanity, those who engage in it criminals of the worst sort. There is no difference in this sense between a J.C. MacPherson, a Deborah Lipstadt and an Adolf Eichmann. [Emphasis added]
Although he cannot show where Lipstadt wrote, or even hinted that genocide is something experienced exclusively by Jews, he has no problem with accusing her of exactly that. This is based completely on not being able to find a single reference to American Indians in her book.
So there is no difference between Eichmann, and Lipstadt, all because Lipstadt studies, and writes about the holocaust, and doesn't write about the history of American Indian.
By arguing this, Ward Churchill can finally be better understood as a "minimizer". Here, and in his 9/11 essay, he tries to make the magnitude of the crime that Eichmann was convicted of, appear less than it was. After all, Eichmann was only a technocrat who “crunched numbers”. He was not even charged with any direct killing. Churchill tells us that Eichmann "did not necessarily agree with the goals of the Nazis with regard to the Jews, but he performed his functions brilliantly".
This is the way he makes the Holocaust appear less than it was. It is ironic that Churchill's biggest battle seems to be with people who minimize the ongoing genocide of the first nations people.
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