There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By Jett Rucker ∙ May 10, 2012
The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists has put up 14 videos on their Web site to convey the talks given at their conference "Holocaust Denial and Freedom of Speech in the Internet Era" in Berlin last November. Most of the talks are aimed at suppressing both of the first-named items. While only two…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ May 26, 2012
I sincerely hope that the recent appeal by Vincent Reynouard with, at his side, Marie Bruchet, will be heard by all our friends. At the strictly scientific and historical level revisionism has won the match but, on the other hand, at the educational, propaganda and media level we are more and more besieged. To the…
By David Merlin ∙ February 2, 2016
Michael Hoffman posted an interesting blog on All Saints Day regarding the sentencing of Irish artist Dermot Mulqueen. Mr. Mulqueen was sentenced to five months in jail for giving a lunchtime public performance on January 23rd 2015 where he put an axe through a TV at the Daniel O’Connell monument in Ennis town center. No…
By George Bissell ∙ March 24, 2012
Hello Bradley, I am responding to your complaint about the advertisement "Inconvenient History: The Power of Taboo," that ran in the last issue of The Anchor that came out on March 10. We have not had an issue come out since then because of Spring Break and our conference so no issues have passed since…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 21, 2012
George Bissell, Editor-in-ChiefThe AnchorRhode Island CollegeProvidence, Rhode Island[email protected] 21 March 2012 Mr. Bissel: Earlier this month we submitted a print ad to run in The Anchor that read: "Inconvenient History: The Power of Taboo," along with a URL that leads to the Website of Inconvenient History: A Quarterly Journal for Free Historical Inquiry. The ad…
By CODOH ∙ March 16, 2012
Benjamin Welch, Editor-in-Chief –The UNC MirrorUniversity of Northern Colorado Dear Mr. Welch: I would like you to know that we very much appreciate the fact that the UNC Mirror has agreed to run our announcement for "Inconvenient History: The Power of Taboo." Clicking on the link your readers are taken to the Website of "Inconvenient…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ November 29, 2015
“We remember only belatedly and with hesitation the suffering that came to Germans during the war.” — Günter Grass In an essay written by Robert G. Moeller, titled "Germans as Victims? Thoughts on a Post–Cold War History of World War II’s Legacies," one is allowed to ask if those who are condemned by their World War II…
By Gerhard Ittner ∙ November 28, 2015
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 early 2015 on her facebook-account. (See here for our report on that event.) On November 19…
By Gerhard Ittner ∙ November 28, 2015
Because a man in Germany felt upset during a Facebook exchange over the denial of deliberate murder of Palestinans by Israelis, he posted a satirical comment that, "after all these lies, I slowly get to doubt the truth of the Holocaust." "It's all fake! All propaganda! Where is the evidence! Seen that way, the Jews…
By Santiago Alvarez ∙ November 28, 2015
Ursula Haverbeck Hamburg District Court, Nov. 11, 2015 — 87-year-old Ursula Haverbeck has been sentenced to imprisonment in Germany for doubting that people were “exterminated” by “gassing” in the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. (See our article: "Ursula Haverbeck Challenges German Authorities") The defendant, in good spirits, reiterated her doubts in the courtroom. She arrived…
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