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Zündel Attacked on way to Trial

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) screamed obscenities while attacking Ernst Zündel, who questions whether six million Jews were killed by the Nazis, outside Toronto's downtown County Courthouse this morning. Zündel, a 46-year-old Toronto man charged with spreading false news, and about 15 supporters and…

Irving Fined 10,000 Marks

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell British historian David Irving was fined 10,000 marks ($6,000) by a German court May 5 for public statements denouncing stories of mass exterminations of Jews in gas chambers at Auschwitz as a myth. Munich district court judge Thomas Stelzner ruled that Irving was guilty of “disparaging…

Executive Fired for Translating Journal Items

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Because she helped translate three reference articles published in The Journal of Historical Review, a long-time executive of the German National Tourist Office in New York has been dismissed. Michael Kranefeld, Regional Manager of the Office, announced on May 9 the immediate dismissal of its manager…

Professor Dismissed for Openness to Revisionism

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Donald D. Hiner, an assistant professor of history at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), was dismissed on March 1 for informing his students that here are two sides to the Holocaust story. Hiner, 51, had been suspended on February 14 after a student who had…

Austrian Revisionist Convicted

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Austrian Revisionist publisher Gerd Honsik has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for 14 breaches of a law against “neo-Nazi” activities that makes it a crime to deny crimes allegedly committed by the Hitler regime. Honsik, 51, had written in his magazine “Halt!” that hydrocyanic gas…

Japanese Publisher Shut Down

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell One of Japan's most prestigious publishers has buckled under pressure from the Holocaust Lobby and pulled the February issue of its Marco Polo magazine – a 200,000 circulation monthly of news and opinion – from newsstands barely a week after it went on sale. The publisher…

Thugs Attack Revisionist Speaker at UCLA Meeting

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Thugs violently broke up a panel discussion at the University of California at Los Angeles, January 22, which had been called to debate the refusal of the student paper to publish Bradley Smith's advertisement on the Holocaust issue. A young Revisionist activist, David Cole, was assaulted…

Zündel Headquarters Torched

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell The headquarters home of Ernst Zündel, the German-born Canadian resident who has for several years directed a world-wide revisionist campaign from Toronto, was severely damaged by fire after an unknown assailant doused the building with gasoline at five a.m. on May 7-8 and set it ablaze….

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