By Roberto Hernández ∙ August 10, 2016
By now everyone knows that the British people voted to exit the European Union, which is the most complex commercial and political entity ever created in modern history. The results in the polls were close between the opposing sides. Leavers saw the European Union as an unfair deal and considered the EU’s problems an addition to…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ July 27, 2016
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…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ July 10, 2016
We awaken now to the news that the Catalonian police in Barcelona have closed down the bookstore Europa belonging to Pedro Varela by an order of the Ninth District Court in Barcelona, apparently, as reported in several Spanish newspapers, "for allegedly producing, re-producing, distributing and selling material that promotes hatred and discrimination. For more than…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ July 3, 2016
Elie Wiesel was arguably the most well known and powerful figure among acknowledged Holocaust survivors. While alive, he exercised his “moral lobby” to keep the memories of the Holocaust and Holocaust survivors alive and to “educate” the new generations on the dangers of anti-Semitism and hatred to minorities, specially, of course, to Jews. He coined…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ June 28, 2016
Italy’s parliament has been discussing a bill to criminalize Holocaust denial for the past 10 years. Other laws are now in effect; public incitement to racial hatred and such things are penalized, but Holocaust denial was not criminalized like it is in 14 other countries in Europe until now. Italian Parliament The first step to pass…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ June 26, 2016
Reinhold Hanning, 94, is a former sergeant and a guard at Auschwitz, who has been tried for 170,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder in Germany. Reinhold Hanning It was not hard to predict what the outcome would be. According to German Law, prosecutors were required to provide evidence that defendants were directly involved in the…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ June 5, 2016
Here's an update on our Campus Project. I have been reporting that we've been successful at placing ads in some of the most important student newspapers on top university campuses in the US. This is not an exaggeration. It's tempting to hope that we are actually entering a new era of free speech on campus and free inquiry…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ May 5, 2016
Once in a while I like to go to a couple of local bookstores to see if I get lucky and find something good to read. A novelty. There are often nice surprises. So about two years ago I saw this novel in the shelf at one of my local bookstores, it had an image,…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ April 16, 2016
Many of our readers might be aware that CODOH has an outreach program in campus universities. This program was started by our founder Bradley R. Smith; he named it The Campus Project. The main objective of the campus project was to promote, through advertising in student newspapers, a free discussion of the Holocaust, to oppose…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ April 9, 2016
Hace unas semanas recibí buenas noticias de nuestro amigo Germar: CODOH ahora podía reiniciar el Campus Project, el cual es el contacto primordial que CODOH tiene con el campus universitario. Teníamos suficientes fondos para comprar anuncios en periódicos estudiantiles y ejecutar este proyecto. Esta vez sería diferente. Bradley Smith no está ya más con nosotros…
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