By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 21, 2005
Night before last I watched the first two installments of Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (we get PBS in Baja). Three matters caught my attention. First, I was truly surprised by how utterly conventional the film is. I suppose I had expected something new. Foolish me. There are claims that new documents are referenced here…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 19, 2005
Even PBS's Linda Ellerbee seems a little sheepish about the question, “Why another Holocaust documentary?” She should be. Another mixing of “re-creations” with historical footage will provide American and British viewers with a step-by-step approach to the planning and execution of a “final solution,” that, in the event, didn't happen. Something happened, all right. But…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 4, 2005
I agree with Ward Churchill when he observes that “we cannot allow the U.S. government, acting in our name, to engage in massive violations of international law and fundamental human rights and not expect to reap the consequences.” I agree with this statement, and with almost everything else Churchill says about 9/11. He is right…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 7, 2005
Last night I was at the local cultural center, a cigar store on the Boulevard downtown, and the question came up about the Pope's hospitalization. There is a rumor going about in Mexican intellectual circles that the Pope is not sick, but was hospitalized by his cardinals so that he does not have to receive…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 10, 2005
In a recent TV “Memo” on Ward Churchill, Bill O'Reilly quoted Churchill as writing that Jewish scholars stress the Jewish Holocaust story in order to “construct a conceptual screen behind which to hide the realities of Israel's ongoing genocide against the Palestinian population.” When I read that, I wonder: “Yes, Billy? And your point?” It…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 9, 2005
I've been thinking (and no – that's not a straight line). The problem with the thinking is that I have been doing it alone. I don't have to do all the thinking here, but after close to three weeks of doing it alone, it has occurred to me that I should do that part of…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1984
Elie Wiesel is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, recipient of honorary degrees from universities scattered across North America and Israel and “spokesman for Jews in the United States and throughout the world.” Nevertheless, I propose that it is selfevident that this man is not wrapped too tight. For example,…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1984
Dougherty writes that Simon Wiesenthal is responsible for bringing Adolph Eichmann and “some 1,100 other Nazi war criminals to justice,” as if the statement were a proven fact. Of the 1,100, Wiesenthal is stated as saying, “only three confessed to their crimes.” The implication being that while only “three confessed,” the other 1,097 or so…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1984
On 4 March 1984 the Herald Examiner published a lengthy interview with Simon Wiesenthal by staff writer Steven Dougherty. Here you will find all the evasions of professional responsiblity and good sense that is typical of the press when it treats with the “Holocaust” and its spokesmen. In this interview, Wiesenthal told Dougherty what he…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1984
In the 21 April 1983 issue of USA Today, Simon Wiesenthal told Barbara Reynolds: “When I was released from Mauthausen camp … I was one of 34 prisoners alive out of 150,000 who had been put there.” Do you believe he told the truth? You will be interested and, depending on your philosophy of life,…
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