There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By Alison Chabloz ∙ March 18, 2016
Prof. Dr. Robert Faurisson, March 2016 Yesterday, March 17, I was present at the Court of Appeal in Paris for what was announced as The Trial of the Century. The trial was centred around a 2011 documentary film by Paul-Eric Blanrue, Un homme, based on the life and work of the world’s foremost “Holocaust” revisionist,…
By Hadding Scott ∙ March 20, 2016
On 17 March 2016 at the Palais de Justice in Paris was held the trial on appeal of Mr. Paul-Eric Blanrue and Professor Robert Faurisson. Paris's criminal court had invalidated the earlier conviction on procedural grounds. The prosecution has appealed and is prosecuting the two men for the film Un homme: Robert Faurisson répond aux…
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 Joseph P. Bellinger ∙ February 18, 2016
The late Joseph Bellinger had intended the current article to be a chapter in a book that remained unpublished at the time of his death, The Prohibition of “Holocaust Denial.” Part One was published in the last issue of Inconvenient History. — Ed. The Case of Abbé Pierre In a non-related incident, 83-year-old Abbé Pierre, a…
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 12, 2015
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- I am writing in response to Executive Director Nossel's recent letter regarding the release of reporter Jason Rezaian and poets Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Medhi Mousavi. Thank you for the…
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