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ThoughtCrime: 02/24/88

Teacher Suspended for Challenging Holocaust Story

   The latest victim of a series of witch-hunt's against school teachers accused of questioning the "Holocaust" is Giovanni Pinto, a forty-two-year-old high school teacher from Montville, New Jersey. Pinto was suspended by school authorities last February 24, nineteen days after he is alleged to have challenged the historicity of the Holocaust in Spanish class. Pinto has denied the charges. If found guilty of stating that the Holocaust was a myth, Pinto faces dismissal from his tenured position by the Montville school board.
 
    Pinto joins a growing list of schoolteachers around the world who have faced disciplining or firing for daring to question the traditional Holocaust story. James Keegstra lost his teaching job in 1982 for giving his history students a dissenting viewpoint on the Jewish and Zionist role in history, and for presenting a revisionist position on the Holocaust story.
 
    There appears to be a growing interest in academic indoctrination rather than academic freedom. Mandatory classes which teach the orthodox Holocaust story have been suggested in many states.
 
    Adapted from IHR Newsletter #61 October 1988, Institute for Historical Review, PO Box 2739, Newport Beach, CA 92659
 
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