Garaudy, Roger

A former French Communist leader, philosopher and recent convert to Revisionism and Islam, Garaudy was charged, tried and convicted for writing a semi-Revisionist book titled The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics, in which he had quoted extensively from material by Dr. Faurisson (without attribution) and by Barbara Kulaszka's book Did Six Million Really Die? (with attribution). He was condemned to a $50,000 fine. His trial was a farce and his performance in court disappointing. However, as a result, he seems to have kicked loose an avalanche of Revisionist thought and activities in the Moslem world, much to the chagrin of Israel -- a country that more and more considers Revisionism its Number One problem.

In 1789 the French National Assembly enacted the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen,” a guiding document of the French Revolution that solemnly proclaims as “inalienable” the rights of free speech and of the press. Today French citizens are, by and large, able to express their views …

Theodore J. O'Keefe is book editor for the Institute for Historical Review, and an associate editor of the IHR's Journal of Historical Review. He previously worked at the IHR from 1986 until 1994, serving as chief editor of this Journal from 1988 until April 1992. He also addressed the IHR …

Die Garaudy-Affäre begann im Januar 1996 und die Abbé Pierre-Affäre im April desselben Jahres. Die beiden miteinander vermengten Affären haben bis zu dem am 23. Juli verkündeten Widerruf Abbé Pierres eine wichtige Rolle in den nichtdeutschen Medien gespielt. Ihre bedeutsamste Auswirkung besteht in zwei Artikeln des Historikers Jacques Baynac, die …

Les frontières ravagées, fondées dans un immense royaume de Frénésie, les hommes voulant du progrès et le progrès voulant des hommes, voilà ce que furent ces noces énormes. L'humanité s'ennuyait, elle brûla quelques Dieux, changea de costume et paya l'Histoire de quelques gloires nouvelles.—Céline, Semmelweis, p. 1. Chronique des évènements …

No "Right to Reply" (yet written in our law) was granted to me by the media when they discharged the worst lies against my book The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. I was walled up in silence. Only Abbé Pierre dared raise his great voice. By enacting laws that …

Concluding the tenth chapter of his novel Moravagine, the French poet, Blaise Cendrars, describes the social ferment that pervaded Tsarist Russia on the eve of revolution: "Everything was thrown out of kilter: institutions, family traditions, the notion of honor. A frantic loosening of all ties, which was mistaken for mysticism, …

Even as independent thinking is being suppressed in “politically correct” America, and erased in today’s national-masochist Germany, happily some remnants of traditional Gallic nonconformism are still alive in France. If a Frenchman asks you the rhetorical question “Do you think I am a fool?,” it means he is irritated by …

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell Abbe Pierre, a Roman Catholic priest known for championing France's poor and homeless was condemned for supporting the author of a book that presents revisionist arguments which cast doubt on more traditional beliefs about the holocaust. Abbe Pierre, 83, is …

"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death." George Orwell A Greek bookstore, 'Nea Thesis' was attacked by armed hoodlums for openly selling the new Greek edition of Roger Garaudy's book, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. On the afternoon of October 15, 1996 the 'Nea Thesis' bookstore was open …

8 juin 1996 Hier, avec Garaudy, c'était du gâteau. Avec l'abbé Pierre, c'était pain bénit. Et, avec Régine, ça fumait. Aujourd'hui, avec les nageuses olympiques, ça baigne. Avec la prof de chimie, ça gaze. Et, avec la zizanie des intellos du Monde , c'est la vie en rose. Et demain …

The cover of the June 27-July 3 edition of L'Evénement du jeudi includes a picture of Abbe Pierre and has as its headline: "The Holocaust: a victory for the Revisionists." Inside the journal some 10 pages are devoted to this story [p. 16-25]; as well, there are references to it …

C'est avec des accents de surprise et de consternation que le quotidien communiste L'Humanité a accueilli la dernière oeuvre, vendue sous le manteau, d'un ancien membre et toujours ami du « parti », Roger Garaudy : un long article négationniste publié dans la revue la Vieille Taupe (numéro 2, hiver …

The Garaudy affair began in January 1996 and that of Abbe Pierre in April of the same year. The two episodes, taken together, occupied an important place in the media up until Abbe Pierre's retraction, announced on July 23. Their most positive consequence is contained in two articles by historian …

On permettra peut-être à un révisionniste de dire quelques mots après l'avalanche de commentaires qui a suivi l'éclosion de l'affaire Garaudy et celle de l'abbé Pierre. Je n'entrerai pas dans la discussion du contenu du livre puisqu'elle est interdite par la loi. Mais je ferai l'observation suivante : aucun publicitaire …

© Juin 1996 Aucun "droit de réponse" (pourtant inscrit dans nos lois) ne m'a été accordé par les "médias" lorsqu'ils déversaient sur mon livre : "Les mythes fondateurs de la politique israélienne", les pires mensonges. J'ai été muré dans le silence. Seul l'Abbé Pierre osa élever sa grande voix. L'État …

"Former communist Roger Garaudy converts to revisionism" [L'ancien communiste Roger Garaudy se convertit au révisonnisme]. Such was the headline bannering Christiane Chombeau's January 31st article in Le Monde last winter, one rich in meaning for those who had followed Roger Garaudy's meandering career as a French intellectual since the late …

The previous issue of Smith's Report (No. 32) described the furor in France surrounding ex-Communist theoretician Roger Garaudy's embrace of Holocaust Revisionism (in an article by Christiane Chombeau available in the original French on the International Page of CODOH's Web site), and the indictment of Garaudy and his publisher, Pierre …

Roger Garaudy, the 83-year-old French intellectual currently being prosecuted in France for the revisionist chapters of his book on Zionism, has defied his accusers by boldly bringing his theses to the attention of the Arab world. This summer the former French Communist Party theoretician traveled to Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt …

SR’s October issue is excellent. Unfortunately, as for the good article on Garaudy and Abbé Pierre, some rectifications are necessary. The two men recanted more or less. The book that Garaudy sells now as a “Samizdat” is different from the first edition which was published by Pierre Guillaume and which …

The trial in Paris this January of French intellectual Roger Garaudy for authoring the Holocaust revisionist book The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics has sparked an unprecedented explosion of support for revisionism across the Middle East. Political, intellectual, professional, labor and religious leaders, as well as ordinary citizens, have spoken …

The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics ... will examine one of the untruths which continues to wreak the most havoc after over half a century in today’s world, and not only in Israel: the myth of the 6 million Jews exterminated that has become a dogma justifying, sacralizing (as the …

As this issue of Smith’s Report was being readied for press, we received the news from Paris that Roger Garaudy was convicted on February 27 of violating France’s law against contesting the Holocaust story. The 83-year-old Frenchman, who had to contend with legal attacks from ten different Jewish associations as …

The spread of revisionism across the Middle East shows no sign on slowing. In February Roger Garaudy, the octogenarian French intellectual convicted of violating French law against denying the Holocaust (see SR 51 & 52), traveled to Egypt on the invitation of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture and Information. On …