“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 Bradley R. Smith, Roberto Hernández ∙ December 2, 2016
On this youtube video published on March 17, 2010 (8.14 minutes) Bradley R. Smith addresses Sara J. Bloomfield, Director of the USHMM to discuss her published reaction to the CODOH ad that ran in the Badger Herald at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wonders if it is understood by Director Bloomfield and others at the Museum…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 1, 2003
With the renewed interest in Deborah Lipstadt due to the release of the film Denial, we have chosen to include this article by the late Bradley R. Smith. Smith comments extensively about Lipstadt’s anti-revisionist book, Denying the Holocaust and especially the vitriol that Lipstadt unleashed on him for his work to introduce college students to…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 24, 2016
Michael (Banned-in-Britain) Savage and the American (I Believe in Intellectual Freedom) Academic are joined at the hip with regard to supporting a free press, a free exchange of ideas. They teach and they preach what tyrants the world over have taught from the beginning. The right to think will be held to be a universal…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ June 5, 2016
Here's an update on our Campus Project. I have been reporting that we've been successful at placing ads in some of the most important student newspapers on top university campuses in the US. This is not an exaggeration. It's tempting to hope that we are actually entering a new era of free speech on campus and free inquiry…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ April 16, 2016
Many of our readers might be aware that CODOH has an outreach program in campus universities. This program was started by our founder Bradley R. Smith; he named it The Campus Project. The main objective of the campus project was to promote, through advertising in student newspapers, a free discussion of the Holocaust, to oppose…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ April 7, 2016
A few weeks ago I received good news from our friend Germar: CODOH was now able to re-start The Campus Project. We had enough funds to buy ads in student newspapers and run the campus project. This time it must be different. Bradley Smith is no longer with us, and only he was able to do…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ March 15, 2016
My last report on the Vermont Cynic, which was part of the last project that Bradley Smith and I did together on the “Campus Project”, I’d written that the Vermont Cynic had published an article in which it told about how students received an email that argued the inconsistencies on the narrative of the Gas…
By David Merlin ∙ February 27, 2016
I am a member of CODOH and am responding to an article published in your paper regarding Bradley Smith, the Krema I building at Auschwitz, and accusations of Anti-Semitism. Mr. Smith failed to respond not from indifference to the University of Vermont or rudeness but because he died on February 18. His e-mail was not…
By Roberto Hernández ∙ February 22, 2016
It is odd how things happen. Sometimes you are waiting for an event, and when you least expect it and have almost forgot what you were waiting for, it blows up in your face. Such is life. Hillel Office at U of Vermont In November 2015, Bradley and I were looking for some way to create…
By Jett Rucker ∙ December 1, 2011
I never took journalism (or “communications,” as it’s now known in many places), but I’d caution you, the Campus Editor, to beware the Invidious Reader. Of course, Readers, in and of themselves, are each by default a “good thing.” So much for default. There are, as might be taught in some journalism course, different types…
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