Melissa Hankins

Melissa Hankins was a contributing editor to the campus newspaper The Review of the University of Delaware.


Bradley R Smith, the Holocaust revisionist famous for spouting his views through advertisements in college newspapers, is making waves at Hofstra University. The full-time gadfly has submitted a 24-page booklet portraying death camps as far-fetched sob stories to college newspapers across the country. While Liz Johnson, editor in chief of …

For someone who wants an “open debate” over the particulars of the Holocaust, Bradley R. Smith sure does avoid having an open conversation. The Holocaust revisionist will only be interviewed by the print press through e-mail. “It is very rare that a reporter understands what the story is,” he says, …

It seemed as if an all-out war had broken out on campus two years ago. Faculty members and students condemned The Review for running a column and an ad by a known Holocaust revisionist on December 5, 1997, and the paper in turn defended itself. But what happened at Delaware …