SMITH'S REPORT
 
 
 
 
 
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- Number 43 -
May 1997

Contents

• Lipstadt unleashed against CODOH, but loses New York University Citadel to Campus Project
• CODOH considers $50,000 offer
• Department of Defense targets CODOH and the Campus Project
• Hans Schmidt's dramatic account of his incarceration in "democratic" Germany
• Net revisionists tour U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum by Richard Widmann
• Can this be it? A final solution to the Final Solution?
• and more!

and now... our front page!

Lipstadt unleashed against CODOH, but loses New York University Citadel to Campus Project

    Last month's issue of SR reported on the mobilization of Hillel, the national Jewish organization for students, and the Anti-Defamation League, America's most successful censorship organ, against the Committee for Open Debate of the Holocaust's latest campus campaign, which has succeeded in alerting hundreds of thousands of college students and professors to the abundance of Holocaust revisionist materials on CODOH's site on the World Wide Web.

    Now Professor Deborah Lipstadt of Emory University (Atlanta, GA), who has the dubious honor of being America's leading academic expert in the gingerly task of simultaneously refuting the "Holocaust deniers" while denying them their say, has been trundled out of her comparative isolation far below the Mason-Dixon line--for CODOH is on the attack--in New York City!

    On April 14 Today, the student newspaper at St. John's University on Long Island, New York, ran a front-page story headed "History on Trial: Holocaust Gets Revisionist Treatment." The student reporter, Philip Sean Curran, after smearing Professor Arthur Butz (The Hoax of the Twentieth Century ) and bad-mouthing the Institute for Historical Review, went on to report: "Bradley R. Smith is America's most notorious Holocaust revisionist. From a privately financed California office, he dispatches transmissions on the Internet and advertisements to college newspapers."

    Curran invoked as his authorities--mark well--Professor Lipstadt; Jeffrey Ross, who runs the ADL's national department of campus affairs; Dennis B. Klein, currently an associate professor of history at Kean College and the founding director of the Holocaust Center for the ADL; Dr. Frank Brady, a professor of communications at St. John's (who actually serves as managing editor of this "student newspaper"); and Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University--each of this impressive line-up of quasi-academic, thought-control gargoyles assuring Curran that revisionist theory is wrong about everything, that all revisionists are closet totalitarians, that they themselves have the real skinny on the Holocaust story and that revisionist theory is not only not needed but very much in the way of a better life for the human species as a whole. Evidently their printed wisdom wasn't strong enough medicine.

    As the April 25 issue of the New York City Jewish Press tells us, Deborah Lipstadt traveled to Queens College, the New York City alma mater of comedian Jerry Seinfeld, to warn against the blandishments of intellectual freedom on the Holocaust question as offered by CODOH's Campus Project ads. The stern-faced Holocaustomaniac yenta-in-chief scolded an all-day conference sponsored by the college, reminding it of a Jewish Queens College newspaper editor who, in 1994, ran CODOH's ad challenging the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to provide one proof that gassing chambers had been used in one German camp anywhere as part of a program of genocide.

    According to the hyper-orthodox Press Lipstadt, a graduate of New York's famed City College, stated that "a Holocaust denier has no place on the campus of a university. Since students at a university attend classes for a limited time, it is the university's job to filter out the absolute untruths spewed by [revisionists]." (The Press's resident Talmud experts were doubtless shaking their heads over the less than forceful reasoning here.) Completing her signature shtick, La Lipstadt went on to warn that "at the same time, one must take the threat [revisionists] pose seriously."

    One wonders why revisionist theory, led by a small but doughty band of European and North American researchers and writers, who produce only "absolute untruths," would need to be taken seriously by academics. The answer is simple: students who "ignore the thought police, read the evidence, and judge for themselves" (to brazenly quote myself in the ad that has run in more than a dozen college newspapers this academic year) may come to conclusions about the Holocaust story that are diametrically opposed to those of the Deborah Lipstadts.