There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By Gerhard Ittner ∙ August 3, 2016
On Thursday, the 28th of July 2016, another trial against a "holocaust-denier" – Dr. Johannes Lerle – took place in Nürnberg. Lerle, defended by his lawyer Frank Miksch, was accused of having spread flyers in front of the "Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds". In those flyers he wrote about the once alleged gas-chamber and the…
By David Merlin ∙ August 1, 2016
Jasper Community Habitat for the ArtBox 2397Jasper[email protected] Hello Habitat for the Arts Att: Mr. Baker: We at Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust have heard that Habitat for the Arts has punished a creative and productive person for “publicly proclaiming non-inclusive beliefs." We hope this is not true. The alleged "non-inclusive beliefs" were reported to be comments…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ July 27, 2016
I have reported about Catalonian police—Mossos d'Esquadra—in Barcelona had closed down Pedro Varela’s bookstore “Europa”, just about twenty days ago. Now we know that the police confiscated more than 15,000 books at his bookstore which the Catalonian police say promote hate and genocide. Also the Mossos d'Esquadra, raided his apartment and found and confiscated €40,000…
By Michèle Renouf ∙ July 26, 2016
Last month Professor Robert Faurisson faced a landmark trial in Paris, where Lady Michèle Renouf appeared as the sole defence witness. France is one of many countries where normal historical research is criminalised: this latest trial related to Prof. Faurisson’s speech at the Teheran International Conference 2006, (more than 3,000 miles from Paris and ten…
By Jett Rucker ∙ July 15, 2016
A music teacher and would-be Green Party candidate in recent elections who lives in Alberta put up a five-minute video on YouTube that explains how, through the relentless promotion/enforcement of the Big Lie, she faced anti-German discrimination through her childhood and even, as any thoughtful child might do, confronted her parents about how they, immigrants…
By David Merlin ∙ July 15, 2016
Suzanne Nossel Executive Director PEN[email protected] Karin Deutsch Karlekar Director of Free Expression Programs[email protected] Katy Glenn Bass Deputy Director of Free Expression Programs[email protected] Shreya Balhara Free Expression Coordinator[email protected]> Dear PEN- Greetings from the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust.We are reaching out to progressive organizations to encourage defense of free speech and open discussion….
By Norman Finkelstein ∙ July 13, 2016
American- Jewish political scientist, activist, professor, and author, Norman Finkelstein whose primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust, talks about his book The Holocaust Industry on a British TV show in 2002.
By Henry Herskovitz ∙ July 11, 2016
Henry Herskovitz, born into the Jewish community, explains why he supports an open debate on "The Holocaust" on this three minute video
By Jett Rucker ∙ July 9, 2016
Prohibition is force imposed by superior agents on an action such as possessing drugs or expressing thoughts. More-strictly, it is legal force such as that imposed on persons possessing cocaine, or expressing doubts about certain institutions of official history, such as the Holocaust, in most of the countries of Europe. Prohibition is so widespread geographically…
By Jett Rucker ∙ June 29, 2016
The German and the Iranian governments—God bless ‘em both—have gotten together to exchange art exhibits as part of an effort to promote comity between the two peoples, if not their respective governments. So, (some) art from the recently repressive, theocratic regime in Iran has encountered a bar as blasphemy in the democratic, liberal, tolerant regime…
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