There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 1999
Ernst Zündel won another, big round against his persecutors in Canada on April 14. The misnamed Canadian Human Rights Tribunal agreed to adjourn indefinitely its hearings aimed at closing down the Zündel Website in the U.S. (actually controlled and operated by Dr. Ingrid Rimland) by holding Zündel responsible for its revisionist (“and thus anti-Semitic”) content….
By Greg Lukianoff ∙ May 15, 2014
CODOH has found this formidable speech of May 2014 by First Amendment lawyer and President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) on the battle for free speech on U.S. college campuses, a topic very much at the heart and sole of CODOH's Campus Project activities. So watch, listen and learn! As part…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 18, 2015
YouTube interview with Greg Lukianoff by the CATO Institute about censorship on U.S. campuses. Greg LukianoffPresident and CEOFoundation for Individual Rights in Education170 S. Independence Mall W., Suite 510Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone: 215-717-FIRE (3473)Fax: 215-717-3440 Mr. Lukianoff: The essay that won first place in FIRE's 2014-2015 Academia Essay Contest was quite uplifting. You awarded it…
By Gerhard Ittner ∙ November 17, 2015
We received the following text from Gerhard Ittner four weeks ago. It explains a little more thoroughly his legal case in Germany (on which we reported elsewhere) as well as his attitude toward his harassment by the “German” judiciary. Unfortunately, and as expected, the German judges trying his case did not heed Ittner’s appeal for freedom…
By Michael A. Hoffman, Gordon Deegan ∙ November 14, 2015
Irish Independent, October 29, 2015 Man put axe through TV in town square in 'performance art piece' to further his claims Holocaust did not take place By Gordon Deegan A judge has jailed a "Holocaust denier" for five months for using performance art in the public square in Ennis to further his claims that the…
By Gerhard Ittner ∙ November 13, 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 Michael A. Hoffman ∙ November 12, 2015
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. The defendant, in good spirits, reiterated her doubts in the courtroom. She arrived without a lawyer, and defended herself. Some fifty of her…
By David Merlin ∙ November 11, 2015
You would think that a Court of "Human Rights" would defend the right of a comedian to make jokes with a biting social commentary, Right? Cartoons about Mohammed are ok, yes. Mocking Jesus Christ is humorous, of course. All France united to protest the Islamic attacks on the iconoclast magazine Charlie Hebdo. Correct? Well… think again. Europe…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 8, 2015
Mark Oppenheimer, a professor at Yale University, writes for The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Salon, Slate, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Republic and others, in addition to The Tablet. So we should take him seriously. In his Tablet article of 2 November, this Jewish writer notes that Willis Carto was a “plain…
By CODOH ∙ November 3, 2015
For the upcoming Christmas season, please remember our fellow revisionists sitting in prison, being on the run, or being prosecuted. Send them a nice Christmas card or even a letter! If sending letters into prison, abstain from any remarks that might lead to the letter being confiscated! “Illegal” statements can get our comrades into even…
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