Why would people who doubted that there were 4.1 million gassing deaths at Auschwitz be considered anti-Semite?

Answer 1

Depending on the source of the doubt and the correction that they seek to make to the number, the issue can lead to a person being Anti-Semitic or not.

There was a serious controversy over the number of people who died at Auschwitz. The figure of 4 million was that put out by the Soviet authorities shortly after the liberation of Auschwitz and was based on the assumption that all the gas chambers and crematoria worked to capacity practically round the clock, and needed almost no maintenance or repairs. Most mainline scholars, including those that work for the Holocaust Museum at Auschwitz have made more realistic estimates, putting the death tolls in Auschwitz at around 1.1-1.3 million deaths. It should be noted that this does not change HOW many Jews and others perished in the Holocaust, just WHERE Jews and others perished in the Holocaust. Some camps like Belzec, have had their numbers revised upwards and were much deadlier for the occupants with only seven survivors upon liberation. This serious inquiry into the number

There are others, primarily White Supremacists, Nazi sympathizers and avowed Anti-Semites, who hold that far fewer individuals died at Auschwitz (like 10,000 or 100,000) or that none died at all. These numbers are not motivated by an actual desire to know the true body counts at Auschwitz and are actually trying to question the history of the Holocaust. This is opposition to actual facts and, because the target of false history is the Jews, an Anti-Semitic position.