There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1993
Bowing to intense pressure, the Australian government has banned British historian David Irving from the country. In a February 10 letter, the best-selling historian was informed of the decision by Immigration Minister Gerry Hand to deny him a visa to visit the country for a lecture and promotional tour that was to begin March 17….
By Terry Lane, Phillip Adams ∙ December 4, 1992
While the press in Australia may be less inhibited than that of many other countries, journalists there – like their counterparts elsewhere – must still contend with considerable pressure from the Jewish-Zionist lobby. Recently, some prominent Australian journalists were invited by the quarterly journal Generation to discuss how that country’s media deals with issues of…
By Theodore J. O'Keefe ∙ May 1, 1993
A Sacred Cow Is Gored Among the Longhorns Theodore J. O'Keefe is an editor with the Institute for Historical Review, and former editor of the Journal. Educated at Harvard University, he is the author of numerous articles on historical and political subjects. On February 19, after 15 months of intimidation and pressure by the Anti-Defamation…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1993
In August 1987, a professor of economics at Jean Moulin University in Lyon expressed, in passing in a scholarly article published in an economics journal, skepticism about claims of wartime mass killings of Jews in gas chambers and, in a footnote, mentioned a Revisionist book by Serge Thion and Robert Faurisson. As a result of…
By Mark Weber ∙ May 1, 1993
On August 27, Canada’s Supreme Court dismissed charges against Ernst Zündel of “publishing false news” because he had circulated a reprint edition of a booklet that disputes the generally accepted Holocaust extermination story. The Court struck down as unconstitutional the law under which the German-Canadian publisher and commercial artist had been convicted. (For more on…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1993
Veteran subscribers with extraordinary memories may recognize the name of Roy Bullock from a brief item about him in the January 1987 issue of IHR Newsletter. It told readers that Bullock was a paid agent of the Zionist Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. Bullock, the item went on, is paid to gather information for the…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1993
David Irving has been ordered by a German court to pay 30,000 marks (about $18,000) for telling an audience that the “gas chamber” at Auschwitz shown to hundreds of thousands of tourists annually is a phony postwar reconstruction (“Attrappen”). On January 13 a Munich court rejected Irving’s appeal of a 1992 conviction, and then tripled…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1993
On December 9, 1992, the Paris Court of Appeal (Eleventh Department) rejected Professor Robert Faurisson’s appeal of an April 1991 conviction on a charge of “contesting the crimes against humanity” because of remarks about the Holocaust story he made in a magazine interview. The appeal court imposed penalties of 187,000 francs (nearly $40,000 at current…
By Mark Weber ∙ March 1, 1993
A German court has sentenced Otto-Ernst Remer, an 80-year-old retired army general, to 22 months imprisonment for publishing articles disputing wartime mass killings at Auschwitz in gas chambers. On October 22, 1992, a criminal court in Schweinfurt found Remer guilty of popular incitement and incitement to racial hatred because of allegedly anti-Jewish statements published in…
By Douglas Collins ∙ January 1, 1993
On August 27, Canada's Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional the law under which German-Canadian publisher Ernst Zündel was convicted for publishing a Revisionist booklet about the Holocaust. In a four-three decision, the judges ruled that the “false news” law under which he was convicted violates the freedom-of-speech provisions of Canada's Charter of Rights, and…
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