By David Merlin ∙ December 13, 2013
The New York Review of Books435 Hudson Street, Suite 300New York, NY 10014Tel 212 757-8070Fax 212 333-5374 12 December 2013 Letters to the Editor: I am writing to comment on Mark Lilla's article, Arendt & Eichmann: The New Truth, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/nov/21/arendt-eichmann-new-truth/ Professor Lilla defines his approach to history at the beginning of his article: "Every advance in research that adds a…
By David Merlin ∙ November 8, 2013
Edward RothsteinNew York TimesNew York Cityhttps://twitter.com/EdRothstein 07 November 2013 I am writing to comment on your article Playing Cat and Mouse With Searing History, addressing the new Anne Frank exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance. http://tinyurl.com/kauo33a While Anne Frank’s story is tragic, you ignore the manner of death of the 8 people in the Annex. The official history…
By Jett Rucker ∙ October 9, 2013
The runaway-popular series The Good Wife is in its fifth season this year. In its second episode, "The Bit Bucket," aired this past week, the heroes are suing the NSA for damaging their client, a social-networking site of which Facebook would be an example in the real world. The NSA, to discredit Chum Hum (the…
By Ken Meyercord ∙ October 3, 2013
I just published an article in which I argue Global Warming "deniers" are likely to be accorded increasing respect in the years to come as the mean global temperature has ceased to rise and is not likely to for a couple of decades (http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/10/the-climate-change-bug/). It occurs to me that, if I'm correct, this new respectability…
By Jett Rucker ∙ September 26, 2013
The Holocaust-advocacy camp is resorting to expensive, cutting-edge technology to flog the dead horse in novel ways. Flush, as always, with more tax-exempt money than it knows what to do with, the Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California is partnering with what sounds like a purpose-built contractor, Conscience Display, to render in three…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 13, 2013
Abraham Foxman, National DirectorAnti-Defamation League605 Third AvenueNew York, NY 10158-3560(212) 885-7700, www.adl.org 12 September 2013 Dear Mr. Foxman: With regard to the recent killings by chemical weapons in Syria, either by the Syrian State or others, you have been quoted as saying: “Our people have been exterminated by the use of gas. We cannot stand…
By David Merlin ∙ September 12, 2013
Peter Cassells, ChairpersonHolocaust Education Trust IrelandClifton HouseLower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2Tel: +353 1 6690593Email: [email protected]http://www.hetireland.org 29 August 2013 Dear Chairperson Cassells- First, congratulations on your election as new Chairperson of HETI. In November 2010 the Holocaust Education Trust held a conference entitled International Conference on Anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Since I am what you refer…
By Jett Rucker ∙ August 31, 2013
Something about gas is . . . creepy. Often, you can't see it. Supposedly, you can't run from it (not so, but it can be hard to tell which way to run). If it "gets" you, it doesn't leave visible marks, whether it kills you or not (again, effectively not true, but particularly on survivors,…
By Jett Rucker ∙ August 24, 2013
If the Anti-Defamation League now celebrating its hundredth anniversary were true to its sweeping name, it would long since have joined Paul Rassinier, Arthur Butz, Robert Faurisson and a host of others in opposing the Calumny of the Century against Germans. Hundreds of its victims were, like Leo Frank of the famous case that launched…
By David Merlin ∙ August 23, 2013
Peter BlackSenior HistorianCenter for Advanced Holocaust StudiesUnited States Holocaust Memorial MuseumE-mail: [email protected]Tel: 202.479.9728 August 23, 2013 Dear Mr. Black: On July 3, 2013 Mr. Bradley Smith wrote your office at the USHMM regarding the Rosenberg papers, asking, "Why do you not simply scan and post the documents publicly so that everyone who is interested…
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