“No subject enrages the Thought Police on campus more than Holocaust revisionism. Students are encouraged to debate every other great historical question as a matter of course, but influential pressure groups with private agendas have made the Jewish Holocaust story and exception. I believe students should be encouraged to investigate the Holocaust controversy the same way they are encouraged to investigate every other historical controversy. This isn't a radical point of view. The premises for it were worked out a while back during a little something called the Enlightenment.”
Bradley R. Smith, Break His Bones: The Private Life of a Holocaust Revisionist, p. 99
Starting in the late 1980's, Bradley Smith began a campaign to publish advertisements in college newspapers. The intention was to foster open debate on the Holocaust story throughout the country. What follows is a partial list of those advertisements, reactions to them by students, professors, pressure groups and the media, as well as additional information which has been collected over the years. A few of the ads offered financial compensation for promoting the controversy in a national forum. The terms of these ads have expired and are presented here for historical and research purposes only.
What became known as the “Campus Campaign” was discussed in some detail, albeit a very biased account, in a chapter entitled “The Battle for the Campus” in Deborah Lipstadt's highly subjective book Denying the Holocaust. While Smith argued directly for intellectual freedom and open debate on campus, Lipstadt, a professor, took the opposing view — that ideas, especially dissident ideas regarding the Holocaust story, were not worthy of discussion in America's colleges and universities.
By Roberto Hernández ∙ February 20, 2018
In 2016, CODOH lost its key member and founder. Bradley R. Smith, ironically on his birthday, Feb 18, in the morning after battling with cancer for nearly eight years, died. He was a unique collaborator, and revisionist; in fact, during much of his life he directed CODOH and made the big decisions as to where…
By David Merlin ∙ November 30, 2017
To Ms. Madeline Smith, Business Advisor [email protected] The Vidette, the Student Newspaper at Illinois State University Dear Ms. Smith, I am writing on behalf of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust regarding your e-mail of November 27. We were surprised that the Vidette would breach its contract and pull our advertisement. This was…
By Jett Rucker ∙ July 27, 2017
A stupa is a Buddhist holy structure, many of which were erected in past centuries at the expense and for the greater glory of wealthy Buddhists seeking to secure for themselves a place that, in Western (non-Buddhist) parlance could be called “a place in Heaven.” The famous Plain of Bagan of Myanmar contains dozens of…
By David Merlin ∙ June 15, 2017
Editor The Daily Northwestern [email protected] Dear Editor I am submitting this Letter to the Editor as a response to the April 28 Op-Ed piece by Ben Trachtenberg. It is also written in remembrance of Teacher Bian Zhongyun and in support of academic freedom for teachers and professors. Ben Trachtenberg called for the dismissal of Northwestern professor Arthur Butz for committing a"form…
By Bradley R. Smith, Roberto Hernández ∙ May 2, 2017
Bradley R. Smith, founder of CODOH, was also the biggest activist of free speech and free exchange of ideas with regard to the Holocaust question on American campus university .Here you will get a glimpse into how your typical world reknowed professor models the evasion of simple historical questions for students.
By Bradley R. Smith, Roberto Hernández ∙ April 22, 2017
Steven Pinker is one of the leading Jewish intellectuals of America. He also claims to defend free speech particularly at campus university. Bradley R. Smith poses some interesting questions for Professor Pinker with regard an even at Harvard University and CODOH.
By Bradley R. Smith, Roberto Hernández ∙ January 30, 2017
Confessions of a Holocaust Revisionist tells the story of how I ( Bradley R. Smith) first became aware of revisionist arguments challenging the orthodox Holocaust story, how it felt—how it felt was that it made me feel ashamed and made the palms of my hands sweat—and the first information I had the misfortune (?) to…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ January 28, 2017
Having a presence in campus has been an ambitious project for us at CODOH. It was certainly our late founder Bradley R. Smith’s main task and objective to promote intellectual freedom and free inquiry in the American university, a place where taboo should not be bigger than ideas, and free inquiry may not be punished…
By Bradley R. Smith, Roberto Hernández ∙ January 23, 2017
Smith questions the ideals of of those who advise The New University, the student Newspaper at UC Irvine. He also questions the declination to publish an ad regarding his book Confessions of a Holocaust Revisionist
By Bradley R. Smith, Roberto Hernández ∙ January 12, 2017
The exploitation of the German monster scam is supported by the great majority of Americans who are Jews, and the great majority of Americans who are not Jews. Oddly, or perhaps not so oddly, we can say that with regard to the Holocaust question Jews and Gentiles act as if we are all "brothers under…
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