David Merlin

Hurray! The fanatical anti-free-speech British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has resigned in disgrace. The Tory politician was the leader in an attack on Internet Freedoms, advocating jailing people for up to 15 years behind bars if they "repeatedly" view banned online content.

A crafty attempt to make criticism of Israel "hate speech" subject to anti-discrimination laws is moving through Congress in the guise of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.

We were surprised that the Vidette would breach its contract and pull our advertisement. This was done without discussion and with a cryptic explanation.

We at the Committee for an Open Debate on the Holocaust agree with German Minister Heiko Maas. We also hope he agrees with us that whatever is taught to migrants should be accurate as possible and that discussion and debate over the many unresolved questions in Holocaust studies will be encouraged.

Facebook seems to see itself as the owner of a popular bar; it allows patrons to converse and argue but reserves the right to instantly eject anyone who threatens its popularity as a meeting place...

Germany's president Frank-Walter Steinmeier appeared at a monument to gay victims of National Socialism to ask for forgiveness for the suffering and injustice gays endured...

The Anne Frank House announced that two pages of text covered up with gummed paper in the first diary of Anne Frank had been made legible thanks to new technology. 

Last December, Twitter purged numerous far-right, white-nationalist, and Holocaust-revisionist accounts as part of its updated "terms of service." In February Jared Taylor, founder of the publication American Renaissance, sued Twitter for banning his account, claiming the censorship “violated civil rights and contract law.”

You would have to be a bit crazy to take on the immensely rich Southern Poverty Law Center. It has accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars, much of it stashed overseas, and has a huge staff of attorneys,  but Maajid Nawaz did and he won.

In February, Californian State Senator Dr. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) introduced Senate Bill 1424; a law which would require the California Attorney General to create a new advisory committee.  The advisory committee would be required to study how false information is spread online and come up with a plan for socia- media platforms to fix the "problem." The committee would also determine what is “fake news."  

The San Francisco Chronicle printed a story last Friday (July 6, 2018) titled "Bay Area GOP candidate denies Holocaust, campaigns on anti-Semitism."As a Holocaust revisionist I was intrigued enough to visit the website of John Fitzgerald, Republican candidate for the 11th California Congressional district....

Revisionists and all people concerned with Free Speech should be concerned with the antics of the United States Congress regarding Senate Bill 720, the Israel Anti-Boycott Act.

A former FBI agent named Vincent Pankoke has set up a website and is trying to raise money to “crack the case of Anne Frank,” specifically trying to identify who was behind "the betrayal that led to her death in a concentration camp."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has blotted his Politically Correct copy book at the unveiling of Canada latest Holocaust Memorial when it was noticed that the  memorial was missing any reference to Jewish people.

David Cole is getting heat from Believer Extremists like Cole, a Revisionist Apostate, is being smeared as a "Denier" because he is a couple of million short of the sacred figure 6,000,000.

Mr. Spicer in his comment about Hitler has  touched the Third Rail of Western politics.

Seventy percent of American voters view anti-Semitism as a "very" or "somewhat serious" problem  according to a survey conducted by Quinnipiac University at the beginning of March 

We at CODOH have a few tips on how to spot the most dangerous types of False News.

In December 2016, British Prime Minister Theresa May issued a press release entitled “Government leads the way in tackling anti-Semitism” which announced that the British government and its agencies would formally adopt a new and expanded definition of Antisemitism.

David Merlin writes to House of Commons Home Affairs Committee to  ask them to reconsider their definition of Anti-Semitism since "it is extremely wrong of politicians to declare what story is “correct history” and what is “Anti-Semitic.”

There is a certain amount of irony in Professor Deborah Lipstadt's lecture  at Northwestern  U on "Alternative Facts;” given the amount of misinformation surrounding the Irving v. Penguin Trial.

In this letter to Sarah Bloomfield, Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, David Merlin talks about the Allied bombings of the Nordhausen Camp Hospital and the dishonesty and exploitation of  this tragedy by Believers.

David Merlin and Jett Rucker write a letter to the Canadian Embassy at Washington D. C. to support the application for a visa by the French comedian and social critic Dieudonne M’bala M’bala.

David Merlin writes a letter to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt regarding the  years of generous donations of the royalties earned from Adolf Hitler’s "Mein Kampf" and the considerations of a wider base of  beneficiaries from these donations.

In this letter, David Merlin, directs his attention to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and their view of free speech as a danger, as they are particularly worried about the internet and have spent  $20,000,000  to send out the alarm.

David Merlin writes to The Economist to comment on an article published in this magazine, titled “Free Speech Under attack” and addresses the issue of the Holocaust Laws that have crippled free speech in many European countries and other parts of the world. 

David Merlin writes a letter to PEN America, which  according to their site, stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide. Merlin’s letter to PEN calls on them to defend Free Speech with regard to the Holocaust.

In this letter to the American Civil Liberties Union, David Merlin writes this letter,  as part of our outreach to progressive organizations to encourage defense of free speech and open discussion regarding the Holocaust narrative. 

There are many reasons why laws that criminalize discussion and debate are wrong. David Merlin, encourages AccessNow.org to support free speech on the Holocaust.

David Merlin writes to editor Jasper Fitzhugh to refute Mr. Jacobs’ claim on his post that assures "Holocaust denial requires individuals to suspend history and science in service to hatred." 

Jasper Community Habitat for the Art has punished a creative and productive person for “publicly proclaiming non-inclusive beliefs."

David Merlin criticizes and refutes the veracity of the movie Denial, which is based on Deborah Lipstadt’s book History on Trial.

David Merlin writes to the USHMM to remind them that the death told at Majdanek have been corrected from 1,400,000 to 78,000 according to the Majdanek Museum itself.

David Merlin writes about the movie Denial that has just been released and the first bad review it has gotten from the critics.   

"Acclaimed historian" and author Deborah Lippstadt is promoting her new book that gives birth to the new movie “Denial” at an event Co-Sponsored by the Milwaukee Jewish Federation and the Nathan & Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center. David Merlin sends some tough questions for this "Shoah celebrity."

David Merlin tells a "behind the scenes" story on the trial of Deborah Lipstadt vs David Irving.

Germany’s largest supermarket chain has been criticized for a Christmas television advertisement that a government official claims contains covert neo-Nazi codes.

If you are looking for a good book to give as a Christmas present I would recommend Dead Wake The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum senior archivist, Henry Mayer, announced that these writings could be "the most revealing Nazi documents ever found."  So, what did they reveal?

It has been 3 months since the opening but Denial, David Hare's screenplay about the Irving v. Lipstadt trial, can now be classified as a flop.