By David Merlin ∙ July 18, 2016
Deniz Duru Aydin -Policy Fellow [email protected] [email protected] Dear Access Now: Greetings from the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust. George Orwell wrote “If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be…
By Jett Rucker ∙ July 15, 2016
A music teacher and would-be Green Party candidate in recent elections who lives in Alberta put up a five-minute video on YouTube that explains how, through the relentless promotion/enforcement of the Big Lie, she faced anti-German discrimination through her childhood and even, as any thoughtful child might do, confronted her parents about how they, immigrants…
By David Merlin ∙ July 15, 2016
Susan N. Herman PresidentAnthony D. Romero Executive DirectorGeri E. Rozanski DirectorLouise Melling Deputy Legal DirectorMelling@LibertyLouise[email protected] Dear officers of the American Civil Liberties Union: Greetings from the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust. Although the ACLU is less involved with civil liberties outside of the United States we are contacting you as part of…
By David Merlin ∙ July 15, 2016
Suzanne Nossel Executive Director PEN[email protected] Karin Deutsch Karlekar Director of Free Expression Programs[email protected] Katy Glenn Bass Deputy Director of Free Expression Programs[email protected] Shreya Balhara Free Expression Coordinator[email protected]> Dear PEN- Greetings from the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust.We are reaching out to progressive organizations to encourage defense of free speech and open discussion….
By Norman Finkelstein ∙ July 13, 2016
American- Jewish political scientist, activist, professor, and author, Norman Finkelstein whose primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust, talks about his book The Holocaust Industry on a British TV show in 2002.
By Henry Herskovitz ∙ July 11, 2016
Henry Herskovitz, born into the Jewish community, explains why he supports an open debate on "The Holocaust" on this three minute video
By Roberto Hernández ∙ July 10, 2016
We awaken now to the news that the Catalonian police in Barcelona have closed down the bookstore Europa belonging to Pedro Varela by an order of the Ninth District Court in Barcelona, apparently, as reported in several Spanish newspapers, "for allegedly producing, re-producing, distributing and selling material that promotes hatred and discrimination. For more than…
By Jett Rucker ∙ July 9, 2016
Prohibition is force imposed by superior agents on an action such as possessing drugs or expressing thoughts. More-strictly, it is legal force such as that imposed on persons possessing cocaine, or expressing doubts about certain institutions of official history, such as the Holocaust, in most of the countries of Europe. Prohibition is so widespread geographically…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ July 3, 2016
Elie Wiesel was arguably the most well known and powerful figure among acknowledged Holocaust survivors. While alive, he exercised his “moral lobby” to keep the memories of the Holocaust and Holocaust survivors alive and to “educate” the new generations on the dangers of anti-Semitism and hatred to minorities, specially, of course, to Jews. He coined…
By Jett Rucker ∙ June 29, 2016
The German and the Iranian governments—God bless ‘em both—have gotten together to exchange art exhibits as part of an effort to promote comity between the two peoples, if not their respective governments. So, (some) art from the recently repressive, theocratic regime in Iran has encountered a bar as blasphemy in the democratic, liberal, tolerant regime…
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