Bradley R. Smith was born in Los Angeles on February 18, 1930. At 18 he joined the army and in 1951 served with the infantry in Korea where he was twice wounded. After three decades of a variety of professional activities, it suddenly hit him: In 1979 he read a leaflet by Professor Robert Faurisson, "The Problem of the Gas Chambers." Then, Arthur Butz’s The Hoax of the Twentieth Century did it for him. He understood from the beginning that he would address the censorship, the suppression of independent thought, the taboo against publishing and debating revisionist arguments—not the arguments themselves. That has remained his position. In 1989 Smith founded Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) dedicated to defending free speech and free inquiry into the Holocaust question. He handed over CODOH's helm in late 2014, but keeps contributing.
Jim Rizoli, for the League of Extraordinary Revisionists, interviews Bradley R. Smith, his 5th interview in the series.
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 2002
Everyone with a heart in his breast sympathizes with the Palestinian people in their struggle against Israeli power, influence and brutality. At the same time, the Palestinian resistance has become a mirror image of the brutality they protest – less powerful, less influential, less brutal in the sense that they are able to kill and…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ August 1, 2002
Thought is swamped with journalism. Palestine. Afghanistan. Bush. On the fartherest horizon, the U.S. Congress. Why choose sides? The most stirring journalism is the result of having chosen sides. Wealth, the result of liberty, drives everything, diminishing liberty everywhere journalism encounters it. I cannot be torn out of my culture, my genes. I can be…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 8, 2002
The thing about Audrey is that she was passionate and honest and available. The first time I spoke to her on the telephone I understood how available she was. It was in the tone of her voice, her openness, her enthusiasm. She was there. All the way. The next day she came to the house…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 2002
Why do Islamic radicals want to kill innocent Americans? I’m not certain that I know, but I have a novel idea. Let’s listen to what they say. For example, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef is the guy who helped organize the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Yousef was sentenced to life imprisonment for his…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 2002
Terrorism, war and violence. What’s the difference? Depends on who does it, and who it’s done to. Media-speak. A terrorist act is always violent, but violence is not always terrorism. War is always violent but is never terrorism. Grammar becomes a moral issue. On 7 October I caught President George W. Bush on television. President…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 2002
Over the summer the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (ADL) named me one of the “Top Ten Extremists” in America. The ADL published the charge in a print booklet, and to make certain no one missed it, published it on its World Wide Website on the Internet. I have never thought of myself as an…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 2002
November has come again and the hour has changed and now when I go out walking in the evening it's dark and lonely in a way that this little town in Baja has never been before. I have to be careful when I walk in the dark because sometimes I fall down. The other night…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 1, 2002
When I turned on the television this morning Billy Graham was preaching in the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. to a congregation of the nation’s leaders, including President Bush and the Presidents wife and father. Graham is very old now, and feeble, but he still speaks with force and clarity. He noted several times that…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 1, 2001
I run ads in college newspapers encouraging students and professors alike to take seriously the great ideal of Western culture, intellectual freedom—even with regard to the Holocaust controversy. Because I argue for an open debate on the Holocaust you are told that I’m anti-Semitic; yet I invite Jews everywhere to join with me, in a…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 1, 2001
It's hard to know what's good and bad. Two Israeli soldiers are killed by a Palestinian mob. The President of the United States appears on television to condemn mob violence. During the previous couple weeks Israeli soldiers killed a hundred or so Palestinians, many of them teenagers and even children. They shot thousands more. Those…
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