(No) Freedom of Expression

There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.

Letter to Calgary Gauntlet

Hello Calgary Gauntlet- Scott Strasser // [email protected] [email protected]   I am a member of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust. I would like to comment on Scott Strasser's article of Feb. 16, 2017 and the quote of Professor Maureen Hiebert claiming that, "Holocaust denial is a form of anti-Semitism, plain and simple.” I disagree that there is anything hateful or anti-Semitic…

How to Increase the Number of Deaths in the Holocaust

Abstract In 2013, Italian police forces raided the homes of numerous participants of the U.S. Stormfront blog. The background of this raid was a discussion about the veracity and reliability of entries in the victims’ database of the Israeli Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center, among other things. To verify these claims, Italian blogger Olodogma looked…

Donald Trump Meets the Holocaust

President Donald Trump takes evident pride in his daughter Ivanka, who converted to Judaism when she married Jared Kushner, a young Jewish man Trump has since recruited into his inner circle of advisors. Trump has promised/threatened to move the US embassy in Israel from the internationally recognized capital city of Tel Aviv to the city…

Memorabilia: Confessions of a Holocaust Revisionist, Chapter One

Confessions of a Holocaust Revisionist tells the story of how I ( Bradley R. Smith) first became aware of revisionist arguments challenging the orthodox Holocaust story, how it felt—how it felt was that it made me feel ashamed and made the palms of my hands sweat—and the first information I had the misfortune (?) to…

The Campus Project in 2016: A Quiet Campaign for Free Speech in American Universities

Having a presence in campus has been an ambitious project for us at CODOH. It was certainly our late founder Bradley R. Smith’s main task and objective to promote intellectual freedom and free inquiry in the American university, a place where taboo should not be bigger than ideas, and free inquiry may not be punished…

Are We Revisionists? Or Reformers?

Revisionism, like history on a good day, is a gentle art. Or not. History and the revision thereof can sometimes engage passionate agents from both within the profession (of history) and without (novelists, ethnic activists, the intensely curious). This tempest, notionally, occurs within the ambit of historiography—what happened when, to whom, how, why, at the…

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