Denial of the Holocaust, or any attempt to diminish its scale or significance is always antisemitic in intent. Those who engage in Holocaust denial will often claim to be doing so in the name of historical revisionism — a reassessment, based on new information, of how past events are interpreted. Genuine revisionists are serious historians who take a scientific approach to analysing historical data. Holocaust deniers rely for their research on antisemitic conspiracy websites, bogus scientists and discredited academics, some of whom have criminal convictions for their antisemitism.
The main features of Holocaust denial are set out below, along with examples of how they are expressed.