Year: 1998

Garaudy fined $40,000 in France

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A Paris court ordered French philosopher Roger Garaudy to pay 240,000 francs ($40,000) for challenging the existence of homicidal gas chambers in his book, The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics. Garaudy, an 84-year-old convert to Islam, was found guilty of breaking a 1990 law that makes…

Detractors of Pamphlet Don't Offer Concrete Evidence, Says Revisionist Bradley R. Smith

The Phoenix reports that President Bloom (“himself Jewish”) states that I wrote my article “The Holocaust Controversy: The Case for Open Debate” to “express [my] personal prejudices,” and that I have an “anti-Semitic agenda,” a small-minded ad hominum assault that I dismiss out of hand. It's the kind of thing you overhear in your local…

How Fahrenheit 451 Trends Threaten Intellectual Freedom

In 1952, Harry Elmer Barnes wrote a timely article, "How 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' Trends Threaten American Peace, Freedom, and Prosperity" as the final chapter of the classic revisionist anthology, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. Barnes analyzed George Orwell's classic novel as a work of prophecy and sounded the alarm to reverse the "1984" trends prevalent in…

How preoccupied is the American Congress with Israel and the Holocaust?

This list of search returns from the Congressional Record and Legislative Status data bases maintained by the United States government for the Congress do not answer that question, but they give a slight clue. Only two words were used in the searches, with results as follows: “Holocaust“: 152 items in the Congressional Record; 11 legislative…

Flemish Police Raid Revisionist Publisher

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On January 7, 1998, Flemish police raided several addresses of a publisher of revisionist materials in Belgium. The publisher, Foundation for Free Historical Research, or Vrij Historisch Onderzoek (VHO) was also raided on the 21st and 27th of November 1997. It is reported that the reason…

Is rewriting history in academia a free speech right?

The recent debate at Johns Hopkins University over whether the student newspaper should have published an advertisement denying the existence of Nazi death camps is more than just an academic flap. At stake are profound questions of how a free society learns the lessons of history and, unique to America, the effect of constitutionally protecting…

Anatomy of a Nuremberg Liar

In my book, Not Guilty at Nuremberg, I wrote: “Telford Taylor was incapable of repeating the simplest statement truthfully. (See XX 626, the statements of General Manstein, compared with Taylor's 'quotation' from Manstein, XXII 276.) The following are “quotations” from Taylor (Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials, Back Bay Books, Little Brown & Co., paperback, by…

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