There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
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…
By Nicholas Kollerstrom ∙ November 25, 2015
This article originally appeared as Appendix IV “Your Rights” in Kollerstrom’s book Breaking the Spell. – Ed [The text has been updated to the book’s 7th edition of 2024; Ed.] “Laws against expressing doubts about the Holocaust, in my view, are simply absurd. If you believe in the Holocaust, as I do, then it should…
By Joseph P. Bellinger ∙ November 25, 2015
The late Joseph Bellinger had intended the current article to be a chapter in a book that remained unpublished at the time of his death, The Prohibition of “Holocaust Denial.” — Ed. The last decade of the Twentieth Century brought increasing challenges to revisionist scholars, researchers and sympathizers as existing European laws related to “Holocaust…
By David Merlin ∙ October 21, 2015
German Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection Heiko Maas has announced that Facebook must obey German law even if free speech is curtailed: "Holocaust denial and inciting racial hatred are crimes in Germany, and it doesn't matter if they're posted on Facebook or uttered out in the public on the market square… Germany has…
By Jett Rucker ∙ November 24, 2015
Carmen Bretin Lindemann Even though the Holocaust took place entirely in the northern hemisphere, eastern half, its reach now spans the globe, and has at least since 1960, when Israel’s Mossad snatched Adolf Eichmann from his self-imposed exile in the southern hemisphere, western half (Argentina) and smuggled him to Israel, where a gallows awaited him….
By Melissa Hankins, Ryan Cormier ∙ December 7, 1999
It seemed as if an all-out war had broken out on campus two years ago. Faculty members and students condemned The Review for running a column and an ad by a known Holocaust revisionist on December 5, 1997, and the paper in turn defended itself. But what happened at Delaware was really only a battle…
By Melissa Hankins, Ryan Cormier ∙ December 3, 1999
For someone who wants an “open debate” over the particulars of the Holocaust, Bradley R. Smith sure does avoid having an open conversation. The Holocaust revisionist will only be interviewed by the print press through e-mail. “It is very rare that a reporter understands what the story is,” he says, over e-mail, of course. And…
By Melissa Hankins, Ryan Cormier ∙ November 23, 1999
Bradley R Smith, the Holocaust revisionist famous for spouting his views through advertisements in college newspapers, is making waves at Hofstra University. The full-time gadfly has submitted a 24-page booklet portraying death camps as far-fetched sob stories to college newspapers across the country. While Liz Johnson, editor in chief of The Review, refused to publish…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1999
U Massachusetts Molly Sherman, advertising director at the Daily Collegian at U Massachusetts (Amherst) accepted our Holocaust Studies ad. When editorial saw the text, it was decided it would be a good idea to run it past the faculty advisor. The editor rang me up and we chatted for a few minutes. He volunteered his…
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