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They Committed Suicide?

Robert M. O'Neil is Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and author of Classrooms in the Crossfire: The Rights and Interests of Students, Parents, Teachers, Administrators, Librarians, and the Community. He is also former President of the Universities of Virginia and Wisconsin. His most recent book is Free Speech…

Faith in “Holocaust” required

A passage in the New York Times Book Review of 19 October 1997 (p. 19) is too easily passed over. David Greenberg was reviewing the memoirs of John Toland, historian best known for a Hitler biography and the book Infamy, on the Pearl Harbor attack. Greenberg is a Richard Hofstadter Fellow in American History at…

Butz and “Pop the Top”

On 1 May 1997 I read, in the Chicago Tribune, of a strange project in a junior high school in the small town of Mahomet, Illinois. A social studies teacher had given his students the task of collecting 6 million tabs from the tops of soda pop cans, in order to get “children to fully…

Action Report no. 12

Published by Focal Pointfor David Irving's world-wide legal Fighting Fund (DIFF) Update AR #12 – July 20, 1997 Highlights of This Issue The Faking Goes On: Auschwitz being “Reconstructed” “A Radical's Diary” David Irving: That Swiss Gold, “You Gotta Hand it to Them.” When an Auschwitz “kapo” is allowed to talk to German schoolchildren. How…

German Censors Indict CompuServe Official

On February 26, a CompuServe official was indicted for providing access to objectionable materials on the Internet. German prosecutors indicted Felix Somm, the Managing Director of CompuServe operations in Germany and Central Europe, for allegedly distributing “illegal pornography” and “other materials.” This marks the first case in which an indictment was rendered against a service…

Action Report no. 11

Published by Focal Pointfor David Irving's world-wide legal Fighting Fund (DIFF) Update AR #11 – December 18, 1996 Highlights of This Issue U.S. Judge Blasts Hotel Group's “Unlawful” Attempts to Suppress Ideas, Free Speech Australia Reverts to Suppression of Speech “A Radical's Diary” Günter Deckert – Schoolteacher and Father is Jailed by German Thought Police…

Slick Revisionists

An article in the Newark Star-Ledger of 23 Oct. 1996 (p 15) treats Web sites that some consider objectionable. Among these are sites of Holocaust revisionists. Steven Some, Chairman of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, said “These Holocaust deniers are very slick people. They justify everything they say with facts and figures.” That's…

Baynac pushes the panic button

It has to be now admitted that finally there is no proof, no evidence whatsoever that the Nazi gas chambers ever existed, claims French “historian and novelist” Jacques Baynac. Extremely hostile to revisionists and especially to Robert Faurisson (with whom he had a dispute in October 1980) and a friend of exterminationist historian Nadine Fresco,…

A Typical Day in Israel, Sept. 25, 1996

Arutz Sheva News Service Wednesday, September 25, 1996 / Tishrei 12, 5757 Headlines PALESTINIAN VIOLENCE INCREASES NETZARIM INTERSECTION UNDER PLO SIEGE HASMONEAN TUNNEL TO BE FURTHER EXCAVATED JEWS SPEND FIRST SHABBAT IN JERICHO NETANYAHU IN EUROPE THE EGYPTIAN VIEW FM LEVY IN NEW YORK ISRAELI NEGOTIATORS DID NOT MEET HEBRON'S JEWS BAR ILAN AVE. DELIBERATIONS…

Action Report no. 10

Published by Focal Pointfor David Irving's world-wide legal Fighting Fund (DIFF) Update AR #10 – July 5, 1996 Highlights of This Issue Opinion: “What, Us? An International Conspiracy?” How a Powerful Lobby Killed Irving's Goebbels Book Inside Story: The Life and Death of “Dr Goebbels”. “A Radical's Diary” A Last Letter from One of Our…

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