By The TransCyberian Express ∙ January 1, 1996
Often, a bogus charge of anti-Semitism (or racism) is made because of values or opinions or beliefs expressed in a public forum. Consider the case of one Thomas Speers of Waterbury, CT, whose expression of free speech, ironically, landed him in court at the behest of the the radio talk show host whose program Speers…
By The TransCyberian Express ∙ January 1, 1996
The following is a couple of headlines that appeared in two Toronto dailies on Monday, May 31, in the aftermath of the Allan Gardens riot that occurred in Toronto on Sunday, May 30, 1965: Mob Beats 'Nazis' in Park Hate-Riot [The Toronto Telegram, front-page headline]…mob shouts 'kill, kill, kill' as it looks for Nazis [part…
By The TransCyberian Express ∙ January 1, 1996
The dreary—I was going to say dread—”anti-Semite” nametag is almost routinely attached to anyone openly doubting or outrightly questioning the tabloid version of the Holocaust story, however justified and well-meaning his intent. Recall, for example, the opprobrium heaped on the Princeton historian Arno Mayer, notwithstanding his Jewish ancestry, for his mild flirtation with revisionist themes…
By The TransCyberian Express ∙ January 8, 1996
Concluding the tenth chapter of his novel Moravagine, the French poet, Blaise Cendrars, describes the social ferment that pervaded Tsarist Russia on the eve of revolution: “Everything was thrown out of kilter: institutions, family traditions, the notion of honor. A frantic loosening of all ties, which was mistaken for mysticism, was at work in every…
By The TransCyberian Express ∙ January 5, 1996
Former communist Roger Garaudy converts to revisionism” “L'an cien communiste Roger Garaudy se convertit au révisonnisme”. Such was the headline bannering Christiane Chombeau's January 31st article in Le Monde last winter, one rich in meaning for those who had followed Roger Garaudy's meandering career as a French intellectual since the 1950s. More than just a…
By The TransCyberian Express ∙ January 4, 1996
The 37-year-old German documentary film-maker Michael Born, according to an AP story [Feb. 15, 1996], owed his prolific output to the fact that he happened to be a literal rather than a figurative newsmaker. For example, a 1994 Born documentary portrayed a group of Germans performing a white-hooded Klansman's cross-burning ritual allegedly somewhere in Germany;…
By The TransCyberian Express ∙ January 4, 1996
The controversial syndicated columnist Joseph Sobran once suggested The New York Times ought to be renamed or subtitled “The Holocaust Update” because of its Holocaustocentric tendencies. I wonder if that label mightn't be more fittingly applied to The Globe and Mail, which bills itself as “Canada's National Newspaper.” Take the Friday, March 15 [1996] issue…
By The TransCyberian Express ∙ January 12, 1995
Last May 7th, at about 5:00 a.m. of a Sunday morning, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of VE celebrations worldwide, a terrorist firebombed the home and headquarters of Toronto publisher and Holocaust revisionist, Ernst Zündel. Zündel himself was away in Vancouver at the time, consulting with his attorney, Douglas Christie. His housesitter, Jerry…
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