tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184358092009-10-21T17:40:55.739-07:00If the Holocaust was an event in history, it should be open to the routine critical examination to which all other historical events are open. Those who feel it right to argue against the “unique monstrosity” of the Germans should be free to do so. No one should be imprisoned for thought crimes. Contrary to how Hollywood and the Israeli-Firsters have it, the Holocaust story is not about Jews. It’s about Jews and Germans together, inseparable, for all time to come.Bradley R. Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17189545588987703984noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18435809.post-1154886809718569482006-08-06T10:50:00.000-07:002006-08-06T10:55:24.816-07:00

The AustralianAugust o7 2006Antony LoewensteinThe Israel lobby's attempt to silence contrarian voices is counterproductive and undermines freedom of speechTRULY free societies are defined by the limitations placed on free speech. What is permissible or illegal often determines the way we view subversive, extreme or outrageous opinions. The US is the most open nation on earth. Other countries are

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In the XVIIth Chamber of the Paris Correctional Court,the CRIF and Yahweh against Professor Robert Faurisson(July 11, 2006)They came to grief for it. Quite a bad idea, picking a quarrel with Professor Faurisson. That is what they have learned to their cost, “they” being, first, Madame le substitut du procureur (“assistant public prosecutor”) of the French Republic in Paris, Anne de Fontette,

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Three cheers for Jonathan Zimmerman and the L.A. Times who was bold enough to proclaim, "all facts require interpretation and that all history is "revisionist" history." The Bush brothers seem to have a real problem with Revisionism. Could it be that they have some vested interest in not wanting history to be written in accord with the facts?All history is 'revisionist'A Florida law banning

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Hunker Down With HistoryBy Richard CohenWashington PostTuesday, July 18, 2006; Page A19The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a

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MediaSyndicate.comWorld's first survey of attitudes to Holocaust revisionismJuly 13, 2006A group which stubbornly refuses to identify itself is launching the world's first survey of the attitudes of academic historians to Holocaust revisionism. A spokesman for the group says, 'We read daily in our newspapers and online news sources about Holocaust revisionists being arrested, put on trial or

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Anne Frank diary burning sparks outrage in GermanyBy Dave GrahamJuly 7, 2006BERLIN (Reuters) - The ceremonial burning of the diary of Holocaust victim Anne Frank by far-right extremists in eastern Germany was condemned by the German government on Friday amid calls to intensify efforts to stamp out neo-Nazi activity."This act was beneath contempt and could scarcely have been more primitive," the

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THE FORWARD / 07 July 2006Iowa Pol: I Said Holocaust, Not the HolocaustBy Ori NirWASHINGTON — A Republican congressman from Iowa alleges that the Anti-Defamation League defamed him over claims that he compared illegal immigrants to Nazis.The ADL has been highly critical of a May 27 speech delivered by Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican, in which he argued that illegal immigrants have killed many

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Australian Jewish News04 July 2006At the Sydney Writers’ Festival last month, philosopher and ethicist Professor Peter Singer spoke about “What makes a civil society” and said that Holocaust-denier David Irving should not be censored, despite his absurd views. MELINDA JONES, research director of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission [how much more do we need to know?], takes issue with

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Council for Secular Humanism03 July 2006The Freedom to Ridicule Religion-and Deny the HolocaustPeter SingerFreedom of speech is important, and it must include the freedom to say what everyone else believes to be false, and even what many people take to be offensive. Religion remains a major obstacle to basic reforms that reduce unnecessary suffering. Think of issues like contraception, abortion,

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Weekly Standard10 April 2006By Gerard AlexanderOn February 20, an Austrian court sentenced the notorious British writer David Irving to three years in prison for denying in a 1989 speech that Auschwitz contained gas chambers. Many American observers had mixed reactions. They saw Irving as a loathsome anti-Semite but were uncomfortable with the thought of a person serving time behind bars for

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The Jewish PressWedensday, June 28 2006Plaut Verdict A Symptom Of Israel's Sick JudiciaryBy: Allyson Rowen Taylor In section 24 of said verdict Judge Naddaf [an Israeli-Arab woman] wrote the following, cited here verbatim and with no embellishment:At times we are witness to the phenomenon in which some people “dare” to re-examine the Holocaust and its dimensions, from various aspects, whether it

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Swans Commentary » swans.com June 19, 2006 by Diana Johnstone Memory or history? The transformation of "memory" into a sacred cult silences dissent and prevents open-minded examination of recent events and their context. To understand the conflicts that tore apart Yugoslavia, there needs to be much more free inquiry, more information, more analysis. But all that would imply "revisionism." The

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First it was the grisly business of the downward sprial of murders at Auschwitz, now the same grisly business is being forwarded with respect to the murders of the Aboriginal populations of Australia and Tasmainia. Where will this evil end?THE AGE, AUSTRALIAThe man behind the history wars takes on AuntyDavid Rood and Simon MannJune 16, 2006JUST when the history wars that have gripped the

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(I have only perused this article but it looks pretty interesting. Mr. Aly may respect the work of Hilberg rather more than some, but we'll forgive him that. I met Hilberg briefly in Toronto when I appeared as a witness at one of Ernst Zundel's trials in the mid-1980s [when I get the date right I'll put it in here]. I was struck by Hilberg's response to my question about whether he supported the

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Thursday, June 01, 2006Dr. Sahib Mustaqim Bleher The German magazine Der Spiegel has landed a major coup in its latest edition not for doing a rare exclusive interview with the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, but for allowing him to express views which would have resulted in a lengthy prison sentence had they been stated by a German national. It is not clear whether this was the intention

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SPIEGEL ONLINE - May 30, 2006, 12:01In an interview with SPIEGEL, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discusses the Holocaust, the future of the state of Israel, mistakes made by the United States in Iraq and Tehran's nuclear conflict with the West."SPIEGEL: Mr. President, you are a soccer fan and you like to play soccer. Will you be sitting in the stadium in Nuremberg on June 11, when the

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Asked by Der Spiegel, in its cover story entitled "The man the world is afraid of", whether he stood by his earlier view the Holocaust was a myth, Ahmadinejad said: "I only accept something as the truth if I am truly convinced of it ... In Europe there are two opinions on it. One group of researchers who are by and large politically motivated say the Holocaust happened. There is another group of

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At a nightclub in Tel Aviv, young writers, musicians and dancers took the stage on April 24, the eve of Israel's official Holocaust Memorial Day, to present their personal take on the cataclysm. Shai Golden stood with a microphone before the club packed with hundreds of young Israelis for what is called the Alternative Holocaust Ceremony, and suggested that the Holocaust might just be another way

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Finkelstein has questioned the estimated number of Jews that died in the Holocaust – asserting that the number was less than the widely accepted estimates of 6 million. In his two most recent books – "The Holocaust Industry" and "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History" – Finkelstein, himself the son of Holocaust survivors, argues that Jews and Israel supporters

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Robert FAURISSON18 May 2006In France as well, heightening repression of revisionismAlready on March 3, 2006 Georges Theil, 65, a retired telecommunications engineer, had seen his conviction for “Holocaust denial” upheld by the court of appeal of Limoges. He was guilty of sending, in a period running from April to June 2004, a booklet of his own revisionist writings to just a small number of

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Uproar As French Parliament Shelves Vote On Armenian GenocideBy Emma CharltonAgence France Presse18 May 2006Angry scenes broke out in the French National Assembly on Thursday after lawmakers were forced to call off a vote on a bill that would make it a punishable offence to deny the Armenian genocide. Debate on the opposition bill -- which has sparked a diplomatic row between France and Turkey --

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Who Needs Holocaust?By Israel Shamir21 March 2006Our good friend Gilad Atzmon proposed a new idea, that the Anglo-Americans are particularly vile, and that they need the Holocaust narrative to justify and persist with their nastiness. In Gilad’s own words, “I believe that it isn't the Jews who impose this Holocaust narrative. It is actually the Anglo-Americans who need Auschwitz, just because it

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Iranian president Ahmadinejad showed his true colors this month by arresting a scholar who challenged his view of the Holocaust. All revisionists and free speech supporters should condemn this action by Iran. This type of persecution prevents open debate, research, and publication on this important time in history. Ahmadinejad has demonstrated that he is no different than those law-makers who

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A Zundel Letter out of Mannheim Prison to Dr. Robert Faurisson09 March 2006 (edited by Ingrid Rimland)Dear Robert, friend and mentor!Today was another day in court, and I was thinking about you, me, our lives’ work, all the efforts - and what it all means in the great scheme of things.It is an almost surreal life for me these days. It is as if I were a spectator, watching my own life unfold like

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Civility, not censorship, is issue in "Da Vinci Code" debateMay 14, 2006by John LeoTom Hanks thinks Christians shouldn't become irate about "The Da Vinci Code." He says it's just a story, "loaded with all sorts of hooey and fun kind of scavenger-hunt-type nonsense." He's right, but so is an official of the Christian Council of Korea, who said, "'The Da Vinci Code' is a movie which belittles and

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