As denial of the Holocaust is nonfactual, another common strategy of historical revisionism is to use relativism by comparing it to other genocides, the death toll of Germans in WWII, persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany, or the number of abortions, in an attempt at [[moral equivalence]].
One of its main purposes is to discredit the establishment of the nation of [[Israel]] in 1948. The other purpose is to deny [[Adolf Hitler ]] did anything wrong. Questioning the historicity and authenticity of the Holocaust is considered gravely offensive to Jews,<ref>http://skepdic.com/holocaustdenial.html</ref> and anti-Semitic in nature as it asserts that Jews are either exaggerating or making up the horrors committed against them. Denying the Holocaust is illegal in a number of European countries. In 2007, a German court sentenced notorious [[historical revisionism|historical revisionist]] and denier Ernst Zündel to five years in prison for "incitement of racial hatred." <ref>http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/03/01/zundel-release.html</ref>
== Tenets of Holocaust Denial ==