There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
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…
By Richard Williamson ∙ February 9, 2013
In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI welcomed back into the Catholic Church the members of the Society of St. Pius X. This is a traditionalist group which rejects the results of the Second Vatican Council and whose members had been excluded from the Church by Pope John Paul II. Roughly around the same time – what…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 20, 1999
Dariusz Ratajczak, a professor at the University of Opole in southern Poland, was suspended in April 1999 from his teaching post following protests over his book, “Dangerous Topics,” in which he writes sympathetically about revisionist scholarship disputing Holocaust claims. Jewish organizations lost no time in voicing alarm over the new book, which apparently is the…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 20, 1999
Gerhard Förster Gerhard Förster, a courageous Swiss publisher of revisionist books, died in his sleep during the night of September 22-23, 1998, in a home for the elderly in Baden, northern Switzerland. He was a co-defendant, with Jürgen Graf, in the “Holocaust denial” trial in Switzerland on July 16, 1998 – the most important legal…
By Daniel D. Desjardins ∙ May 15, 1999
Since 1945 the swastika has been banned in Germany, where symbols, songs, pictures, slogans and even greetings associated with the Hitler era can earn the offender a stiff fine or even a prison term. Of course the swastika was hardly unique to Third Reich Germany. Centuries before Hitler adopted it as the symbol of his…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 15, 1999
Pedro Varela in the aftermath of the attack on the Europa bookstore, January 16, 1999. In a victory for free speech in Europe, a high court in Spain has suspended a lower court conviction of a Barcelona book dealer for distributing publications that dispute Holocaust extermination claims. On November 16, 1998, a Barcelona criminal court…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 15, 1999
Jürgen Rieger In October 1996 a German government agency “indexed” as “dangerous to youth” translations of two popular leaflets published by the Institute for Historical Review. Germany’s “Federal Review Agency for Literature Dangerous to Youth” (Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften), acting at the request of the country’s Interior Ministry, “indexed” unauthorized Internet translations of “The Holocaust:…
By Douglas Collins ∙ February 15, 1999
Doug Collins looks up from the North Shore News issue that reports on his November 1997 victory in a closely-watched “hate speech” case involving a column about “Schindler's List” he had written from the British Columbia paper. This photo is taken from the front cover of his new book, “Here We Go Again!” Doug Collins…
By Mark Weber ∙ February 15, 1999
A Spanish court has sentenced Pedro Varela, a Barcelona book dealer, to five years imprisonment for incitement to racial hatred and for denying or justifying genocide. The sentence, handed down on November 16, 1998, is Spains first conviction for Holocaust denial. It is based on the countrys 1995 anti-genocide and anti-discrimination law, which effectively creates…
By Mark Weber ∙ October 1, 1998
An important association of Jewish legal experts is demanding new and more severe laws against Holocaust revisionism, reports a front-page article in the Athens News, June 28, 1998. A conference of International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IAJLJ), meeting in June in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, warned that “the international revisionist movement,…
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