By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 3, 2000
Dream that I’m shot in the head, then the heart. The hit to the head is accompanied by a tremendous blast of hot air. I see everything blowing apart. The shot to the heart is a little high and to my left. It’s an unnecessary follow up. The dream half wakens me and I lie…
By Cabell W. Johnson ∙ January 3, 2000
“Freedom of speech involves the right to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes To see it as a religion one has to look carefully at what a religion is in its essentials. Religions come in many forms from animism to the search for enlightenment. Fundamentally a religion is a…
By Joseph Sobran ∙ March 1, 2000
An important libel suit is under way in London. David Irving, the controversial British historian of World War II, is suing an American scholar, Deborah Lipstadt of Emory University, for calling him “one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial.” Since she wrote this in a 1993 book Denying The Holocaust, Irving says, his…
By George Brewer ∙ March 1, 2000
Last month, in a typically ethnocentric proclamation, the Anti-Defamation League decreed that the swastika, although a venerable religious symbol to perhaps two billion people, was an anti-Semitic symbol of hate. The Revisionist stands shoulder to shoulder with the ADL in ferreting out all symbols of hate, and therefore, as a result of our own research,…
By Arthur R. Butz ∙ March 16, 2000
Pope John Paul II is scheduled to visit Israel next week and give an address at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem (March 23). There is great tension over this encounter for the following reasons. During World War II the Vatican, with its far flung connections, especially in Poland, was in a position to…
By CODOH ∙ July 25, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell An overflow crowd packed a July 25 hearing of the British Columbia Press Council to back a North Shore News columnist in a hearing into a complaint by retired Simon Fraser University professor Lionel Kenner about five columns Collins wrote in 1993 and 1994. (It is…
By Douglas Collins ∙ March 7, 2000
How the great Irving-Lipstadt libel trial in London will turn out I don't know. Neither does anyone else. But one thing is certain. Professional Holocausters have been given a black eye. They have been forced to debate what they have always refused to debate, namely, whether their version of the “Holocaust” is true. As could…
By George Brewer ∙ January 1, 2000
As England slouches towards the European Union, it yet heeds the bidding of the Union's falconer, Germany. Unfortunately, while Germany's success in most spheres over the past fifty years has been unrivaled, there is still some continuity with a more intolerant past. In a recent move, spawned by the ubiquitous tabloid press of London, the…
By William Halvorsen ∙ January 1, 2000
The publication of Pat Buchanan's book, A Republic, Not an Empire, coming with Buchanan's departure from the Republican Party in order to seek the presidential nomination of the Reform Party, has created the opportunity for Buchanan's critics to come crawling out of the woodwork with the usual arguments concerning the supposed anti-Semitism and extremism of…
By George Brewer ∙ January 1, 2000
A team of government ministers and Jewish community leaders recommended in October that the British government designate a national “Holocaust Remembrance Day” to be celebrated on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp. The purpose of such a memorial — it said — would be to prevent such a thing from being forgotten…
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