There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By Gary Rosenblatt ∙ April 29, 1994
Show a Jew a silver lining, it's been said, and he'll show you a cloud. Indeed, a case could be made that we Jews thrive on seeing ourselves as victims – the result of centuries of persecution and anti-Semitism – even though, objectively, in the 20th-century America we have become increasingly affluent and accepted. Others…
By CODOH ∙ June 25, 1987
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Professor Ernst Nolte of the Free University of Berlin, a world-renowned authority on 19th and 20th-century intellectual history, has been dismissed from his position as chief editor of Zionist theorist and organizer Theodor Herzl's letters and diaries by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the West German group financing…
By CODOH ∙ April 22, 1993
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell David Willcox was among the protesters when the Holocaust Memorial Museum was dedicated. He waved a Palestinian flag. “I thought that somehow that day we had to make a presence for the Palestinians,” he said. Later that day he was attacked and beaten. Michael Schneider, self-identified…
By CODOH ∙ February 15, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell In February 1995, thousands of copies of a revisionist work detailing postwar Jewish crimes against Germans were destroyed, following bitter attacks by Germany's cultural establishment. The book, “An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945,” was published in the…
By CODOH ∙ April 19, 1991
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell On April 18, 1991 Professor Robert Faurisson was convicted of violating France's peculiar law against questioning “the existence of one or more crimes against humanity as defined by Article 6 of [the charter of] the International Military Tribunal, annexed to the London Agreement of August 8,…
By CODOH ∙ March 1, 1990
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Donald D. Hiner, an assistant professor of history at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), was dismissed on March 1 for informing his students that here are two sides to the Holocaust story. Hiner, 51, had been suspended on February 14 after a student who had…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ January 1, 1996
Background George Orwell was the pen name of the English author, Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell was educated in England at Eton College. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927, he returned to Europe to become a writer. He lived for several years in poverty. His earliest experiences resulted in…
By CODOH ∙ April 21, 1995
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell A Karlsruhe court under Judge Eva-Marie Wollentin on April 21 sentenced Guenter Deckert, former school teacher and chairman of the right-wing National Party of Germany (NPD), to two years jail for interpreting at the meeting at which American execution-technology consultant Fred A. Leuchter spoke in Weinheim…
By Hans Schmidt ∙ January 1, 1996
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell Travelers to and from Germany are now being arrested at German airports if they have expressed themselves, even in the remote past, in speech or in writing which is construed as “illegal” according to the German Federal Penal Code 130 Article 3 regarding “defamation.” This retroactive…
By CODOH ∙ July 4, 1984
“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”George Orwell The Institute for Historical Review, [once, editor] the leading American publisher of books and other materials questioning the Holocaust extermination story, was devastated by an arson attack on its offices and warehouses on July 4. Damage in the attack, carried out in the early morning hours…
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