Diceman, the problem is (as was pointed out in the Staff Report) that the Holocaust deniers consider any teeny, tiny disputation of historical fact to be a victory for them. Thus, the argument that there were not 6 million killed but only 5.75 million (for instance) would be viewed by the deniers as “proof” of their denial. This is why anyone trying to argue or discuss such statistical quibbles may find themselves tarred with the wide brush.
We’ve sort of learned that those who would like to destroy us have clothed themselves in certain positions – wolves in sheep’s clothing, if you will. These include any quibbling about Holocaust facts and trying to make the distinction between anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist.
If I may use an analogy, a black person in the U.S. only needs to hear a white person use the n-word, to immediately classify that person as racist. That is unfair and pre-judgemental, of course, since there may be innocent people who are wrongly denounced (for example, the guy who used the word “niggardly” in a speech.) However, that’s also reality. The n-word has been used so often by hateful, violent racists, that there is now an almost automatic linkage.
So with Jews and the Holocaust, against the most fanatical Arabs, the looniest Christian fundamentalists. We have heard enough of their language and arguments, that we make the immediate jump from hearing someone repeat those phrases to the assumption that that person is out to destroy us. And, I have to say, in 99.99% of the cases, that assumption is correct.