Year: 2016

Freedom of Speech Raises Its Ugly Head

A high-profile dissenter in Germany had been convicted under that country’s vigorously enforced laws against “popular incitement” for publicly disputing various allegations within the Holocaust narrative, and the identity and motivations of those who defend that narrative. Hans Püschel, who had been the elected mayor of his village of Krauschwitz, pulled no punches on his…

An update on Dr. Johannes Lerle

On Thursday, the 28th of July 2016, another trial against a "holocaust-denier" – Dr. Johannes Lerle – took place in Nürnberg. Lerle, defended by his lawyer Frank Miksch, was accused of having spread flyers in front of the "Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds". In those flyers he wrote about the once alleged gas-chamber and the…

Letter to Jasper Community Habitat for the Art

Jasper Community Habitat for the ArtBox 2397Jasper[email protected]   Hello Habitat for the Arts Att: Mr. Baker: We at Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust have heard that Habitat for the Arts has punished a creative and productive person for “publicly proclaiming non-inclusive beliefs." We hope this is not true. The alleged "non-inclusive beliefs" were reported to be comments…

Never Stop Reminding

An alert to commemorate the Israeli/Jewish holy day of Yom Hashoah (one of several annual Holocaust Remembrance days) within the Democratic National Committee (then headed by disgraced Jewess Deborah Wasserman-Schultz) bounced around from Director of Jewish Engagement Aaron Weinberg to end up in the in box of the Catholic Kate Houghton, whose future with the…

An Update on Pedro Varela

I have reported about Catalonian police—Mossos d'Esquadra—in Barcelona had closed down Pedro Varela’s bookstore “Europa”, just about twenty days ago. Now we know that the police confiscated more than 15,000 books at his bookstore which the Catalonian police say promote hate and genocide. Also the Mossos d'Esquadra, raided his apartment and found and confiscated €40,000…

Letter to the Editor Fitzhugh

Nicole Veerman EDITOR 626 Connaught Dr. Jasper, Alberta T0E 1E0 [email protected]   Hello Jasper Fitzhugh- I am a member of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust. I would like to respectfully comment on Mr. Jacobs’ post of today wherein he claims that, Holocaust denial, in short, requires individuals to suspend history and science…

Lady Michèle Renouf on Professor Robert Faurisson

Last month Professor Robert Faurisson faced a landmark trial in Paris, where Lady Michèle Renouf appeared as the sole defence witness.  France is one of many countries where normal historical research is criminalised: this latest trial related to Prof. Faurisson’s speech at the Teheran International Conference 2006, (more than 3,000 miles from Paris and ten…

Never Was So Much …

Speaking of British fighter pilots opposing German bombing campaigns over Britain during World War II, Winston Churchill famously declaimed, “Never was so much owed by so many to so few,” counterfactually alleging that the bombing would have been much worse had not the Royal Air Force deployed Spitfires and the like to harry the Luftwaffe’s…

Letter to Access Now

Deniz Duru Aydin -Policy Fellow [email protected] [email protected] Dear Access Now:  Greetings from the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust. George Orwell wrote “If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be…

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