There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By Don D. Guttenplan, Elli Wohlgelernter, et al. ∙ April 1, 2000
Even before it began on January 11, 2000, the libel trial in London’s High Court of Justice brought by historian David Irving against Jewish activist Deborah Lipstadt and her British publisher had attracted a good bit of attention. And since then it has generated considerable media coverage and commentary, not only in Britain, but around…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ March 2, 2013
By Nigel Jackson- The Australian Press Council has declined to accept for processing a complaint against the Melbourne newspaper The Age which I laid before it on 2 October 2012. As the reasons given by the Council for so acting appear to me to be logically invalid and not in accord with its own principles,…
By Joseph Sobran ∙ December 1, 1995
Joseph Sobran is a nationally-syndicated columnist, lecturer, author, and editor of the monthly newsletter Sobran's ([… now defunct; ed.]). “Man of the Century?” is reprinted from the January 6, 2000, issue of the traditionalist Roman Catholic weekly The Wanderer (201 Ohio St., St. Paul, MN 55107). “Persecution Update” is reprinted from the December 1995 issue…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 2000
A Polish court has decided not to punish a history professor for a “Holocaust denial” book that presents arguments questioning aspects of the familiar Six Million extermination story. On December 7, 1999, the regional court in Opole, in southern Poland, found that Dariusz Ratajczak supported revisionist views on the Holocaust issue in his book, Tematy…
By David Irving ∙ March 1, 2000
David Irving was in good form as he addressed a special IHR meeting in southern California on April 29, 1999. In addition to his scheduled lecture on “Winston Churchill and Charles de -Gaulle: The Murderous Friendship,” the British historian also spoke about the international campaign to silence him, and on preparations for his forthcoming libel…
By Theodore J. O'Keefe ∙ December 15, 1999
Theodore J. O'Keefe is book editor for the Institute for Historical Review, and an associate editor of the IHR's Journal of Historical Review. He previously worked at the IHR from 1986 until 1994, serving as chief editor of this Journal from 1988 until April 1992. He also addressed the IHR Conferences of 1986, 1987, 1989,…
By Günter Deckert ∙ February 15, 2013
Friends, Comrades and Fighters for the TRUTH in WW II History, The time has come! I must soon enter prison to serve my 5-month sentence although my constitutional objection has not yet been decided. – I am supposed to report for jail on January 2nd, 2013. The release date will be June 2nd as I…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 15, 2013
Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson, 72, was convicted of “incitement” after an interview he gave to the Swedish television program Uppdrag granskning in 2008 was broadcast on a German TV station. Holocaust denial is illegal in Germany. Williamson was appealing an earlier conviction in 2010. At that time it was reported that prosecutors had asked for…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 15, 2013
Sylvia Stolz No sooner did Sylvia Stolz’s five-year disbarment from the legal profession expire, than she again challenged the Holocaust taboo that had already put her in jail for over three years. In Chur, Switzerland, not fifty miles from where William Tell thumbed his nose at Gessler’s hat, Stolz gave a speech before the Anti-Censorship…
By Mark Weber ∙ December 15, 1999
Bradley Smith reports on his work at the Eleventh IHR Conference. Bradley Smith is back in the news. The veteran revisionist activist has touched off a major furor that has received nationwide newspaper and television attention with the distribution at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, of his new 28-page magazine-format publication. He arranged…
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