“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 ∙ January 1, 1999
A fake Hitler quote which has the Fuehrer ordering the extermination of Polish civilians. A non-existent Hitler order to exterminate the Jews. Misrepresentation of installations designed to save lives as gas chambers for killing Jews. These and many more falsifications of historical fact are on display at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s permanent exhibit as…
By Greg Lukianoff ∙ May 15, 2014
CODOH has found this formidable speech of May 2014 by First Amendment lawyer and President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) on the battle for free speech on U.S. college campuses, a topic very much at the heart and sole of CODOH's Campus Project activities. So watch, listen and learn! As part…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 14, 2015
Coffee with Bradley Smith was a series of brief video clips Bradley did starting in October 2009. In them, he leisurely sits in his office and talks about any recent event which transpired during his ongoing Campus Project Campaign lobbying for a free exchange of ideas on the Holocaust narrative. The series was interrupted in…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 1998
As CODOH’s $250K reward ad continues to multiply on campuses across America, the Anti-Defamation League—the ad’s chief target—has been forced to take public notice. Unable to block the ad’s placement at most colleges, ADL has marshaled its allies and surrogates in the Hillel Foundation and elsewhere to cajole or to pressure university administrators and faculty…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ November 1, 1998
Since 1991 one of the principal elements of CODOH’s revisionist evangelism has been the Campus Project. The project kicked off in a big way on April 4, 1991 when the Daily Northwestern printed Bradley Smith’s article “The Holocaust Story: How Much is False? The Case for Open Debate.” This first major CODOH piece to be…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1998
In the previous issue of SR I wrote about how, as part of the Campus Project, I had started putting together a “fax-web” connecting the campus and off campus newspaper editors who have run our ads, printed our opinion pieces, or have run comment on any of it. It was a good idea. It’s getting…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1998
CODOH’s Campus Project, which took off with a roar at the start of the school year in September, surged ahead in October. The attention-getting $25OK reward offer for setting up a TV debate with the ADL has now run at over a score of colleges and universities across America, in publications with a combined circulation…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1998
You never know when you will suffer a small epiphany. I was telling Bill Jefferson, one of my more critical volunteer advisors, about how the Georgia State Signal has been a rock over the past few years, steadfastly publishing CODOH advertisements and bearing up under criticism from the Georgia press and the Lobby again and…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ October 1, 1998
CODOH's most ambitious campus campaign to date has begun to impact across America, on campus and off. Once again, students across the nation are reading about the holes in the Holocaust story. For the first time, many of them are discovering the identity of the chief player in the powerful lobby that has decreed that…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 1, 1998
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). The Daily Bruin has ran a column (26 August) headlined “Propaganda Denies Holocaust Occurred.” The columnist, Julianne Sohn, tells us that the flyer “serves as an advertisement for two groups of Holocaust and Historical Revisionists, the Committee or Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) and the Institute for…
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