The ideal and limits of free speech and expression, and also the free access to information, as well as the various legal and extra-legal attempts at limiting that civil right. Censorship includes not only government actions against any media, published or not, but also the active suppression of such media by mainstream outlets. Unless a report is on free speech and/or censorship in general, it has been categorized in the subcategory of the country discussed.
By Roberto Hernández ∙ March 15, 2016
My last report on the Vermont Cynic, which was part of the last project that Bradley Smith and I did together on the “Campus Project”, I’d written that the Vermont Cynic had published an article in which it told about how students received an email that argued the inconsistencies on the narrative of the Gas…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ March 11, 2016
In an article published in what started out in 1897 as a Jewish Yiddish-language daily, The Forward now an English-language daily since 1990 located in England, Deborah Lipstadt surprises us with a semi-defense of Holocaust Denial. Almost a case for the old famous TV show, Believe It or Not? In this report, The Forward includes…
By CODOH ∙ February 24, 2016
AMSTERDAM — A Jewish-Dutch watchdog group on anti-Semitism called on owners of event halls not to host Holocaust skeptic David Irving, who reportedly is planning a lecture in The Hague. Irving, who has been barred from several countries and was jailed in 2006 in Austria for denying or minimizing the Jewish genocide, is scheduled to speak…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ February 27, 2016
According to The Washington Post, Georgetown University, the private Catholic University in Washington, DC, has gotten a gift from a Jewish billionaire couple. Georgetown University The gift to the Institution, from Miami philanthropists Norman and Irma Braman, is nothing less than $10 million mainly to do research on the Holocaust. Georgetown University, a Jesuit school,…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ February 22, 2016
It is odd how things happen. Sometimes you are waiting for an event, and when you least expect it and have almost forgot what you were waiting for, it blows up in your face. Such is life. Hillel Office at U of Vermont In November 2015, Bradley and I were looking for some way to create…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ February 15, 2016
Gilad Erdan According to a report on on Jan. 19, 2016 in The Times of Israel, also briefly reported in The New Observer, Gilad Erdan the Israeli Public Security Minister, is to develop legislation that would force FaceBook, YouTube, Twitter and others to take responsibility for content, that is, legislation that would enforce a kind of censorship…
By David Merlin ∙ February 13, 2016
God-given: Dieudonné M'bala M'bala On January 28, 2016, French and Asian media reported that the French comedian with revisionist sympathies Dieudonné M'bala M'bala was arrested at Hong Kong airport after French and Israeli diplomatic interventions claiming that "his planned appearances […] could have led to disorder and even violence if they went ahead." (see The Asia Times…
By Hadding Scott ∙ February 9, 2016
Bobby Ray Simmons, Jr., better known by his stage name B.o.B, is an American recording artist and music producer from Decatur, Georgia. On 26 January 2016, chart-topping Black rapper B.o.B. (real name Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.), who has had three top-ten hit recordings, caused serious worry to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith by posting…
By Ken Meyercord ∙ February 6, 2016
As Galileo engaged in his examination of the solar system with the aid of a newly invented scientific instrument, the telescope, he must have known his heliocentric theory of the solar system, if accepted, would destroy many Christians’ belief system. Was that the purpose of his investigations? We can never know for sure, but I…
By Santiago Alvarez ∙ February 2, 2016
In early 2015, Castle Hill Publishers – CHP, which is now a part of CODOH – was contacted by Gerard Menuhin, asking whether we would be willing to publish his new book Tell the Truth – and Shame the Devil. For a number of reasons of no importance now, the book was eventually taken on…
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