(No) Freedom of Expression

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

Letter to the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

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…

ADL: B.o.B.’s Rap “Flatline” Promotes “Holocaust Denial”

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…

German Patriotic Party Excludes Revisionists

Screen shot of the offending Facebook entry with the Haverbeck video. German Politican Susanne Ulber has been excluded from the German patriotic, anti-immigration party Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) for having “denied the Holocaust”. Ulber had posted the video interview German revisionist Ursula Haverbeck had given to a leftist German government TV channel in…

‘Did Six Million Really Die?’

Currently, only the Publisher’s Note has been posted in html format on CODOHWeb. The complete book is available as a PDF download here or can be read on this screen when you scroll all the way down. An new, second edition 8see illustration on the right) can be purchased in print and eBook formats from…

Hillel: The Invidious Reader

I never took journalism (or “communications,” as it’s now known in many places), but I’d caution you, the Campus Editor, to beware the Invidious Reader. Of course, Readers, in and of themselves, are each by default a “good thing.” So much for default. There are, as might be taught in some journalism course, different types…

Michael Santomauro in “The Wall Street Journal”?

Briefly, the offices of a satirical French weekly newspaper, Charlie Hebdo (Charlie Weekly) were firebombed the first week in November http://tinyurl.com/68sq7jy . Charlie, which has a history of publishing cartoons and other materials offensive to many Muslims, was scheduled to publish a special edition of the paper purporting to have Muhammad Himself as guest editor….

CODOH Urges President of Humboldt University, Berlin

Prof. Dr. Jan-Hendrik Olbertz, PresidentHumboldt UniversityBerlin, Germany[email protected] San Diego, Cal., November 9, 2011 Dear Prof.-Dr. Olbertz: Through its law school, Humboldt University is hosting a conference this month whose purpose is hostile to freedom of expression. Not only is your august institution making its Grimm Auditorium available for the sessions, two members of the Law…

CODOH Challenges the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IAJLJ)

San Diego, Cal., November 7, 2011 Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) calls attention to the activities of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IAJLJ). It is holding a massive promotional event in Berlin entitled “Holocaust Denial and Freedom of Speech in the Internet Era” November 15 to 19, 2011 The…

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