“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 ∙ April 1, 1997
THEHOLOCAUSTCONTROVERSY Ignore the Thought Police.Read the evidence.Judge for yourself. WWW.CODOH.COM [email protected] This is the one that has them worried. Not a stand-alone, but backed up by CODOHWeb, our high tech link on the World Wide Web, where more than 1,200 documents are being accessed day after day by people from all over the world. Nothing…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1997
In the newsletter business it’s not always good news. If it were, it wouldn’t be a newsletter, it would be something else, a personal puff sheet, a glad rag of some sort. We’re winning the war, as they say—and I’m perfectly confident of that—but along the way I get beaten here, I get beaten there….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 1, 1997
The third week in February when I returned from out of town I discovered a letter informing me that we were losing our Internet service provider. Unlike the fiasco of last summer, where our service provider turned against us for political reasons and broke its contract, this time it was a matter of market-place failure….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ December 1, 1996
Willis Carto The story on page one about the Carto-IHR stand-off in the Vista courtroom is hard news. There’s another side to the story that I suppose we can call soft news. The first week in November I had some business to take care of in Southern California and the next day, Tuesday the 5th,…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1996
In SR36 I reported how, on the Internet, the Harvard Law Library is sponsoring what it calls “A Guide to Hate on the Net.” and has listed CODOHWeb as a “hate” site (it still doesn't list the JDL site as a hate site). I submitted an advertisement to the Harvard Crimson asking students to go…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1996
When I saw the above headline to an opinion piece in the free press, a University of Chicago student monthly tabloid, my attention became fixed. Written by one Orloff Potemkin, it was the only such piece I had (or have) seen from the campus press. The columnist was not identified as a student or member…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 1, 1996
Northwestern University. The Daily Northwestern reports (12 April) that “Holocaust educator” Scott Fishweicher spoke to a “small group” (NU’s Students Helping to Organize Awareness of the Holocaust [SHAH]) to lament the “widespread outcry” caused by ads placed by “Noted revisionist Bradly [sic] Smith….” “Fishweicher showed a ’48 Hours’ video illustrating the controversy of revisionism on…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1996
On 10 March a member of the JDL Web Staff contacted us by email, noting, “Hey, you've got a cool site. We were wondering if you would check out our website for possible inclusion on your page. We always return favors, by the way.” We had a few laughs and waited. Later that day we…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1996
Patrick J. Buchanan’s statements in support of the legal rights of some accused World War II criminals, as well as his support for some aspects of revisionist theory about the Nazi “gas chambers,” have been the target of columnists, academics, politicians and special interest groups for years. On 6 March I mailed a 750-word opinion…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1996
The Daily Sun at Cornell ran the 46 Unanswered Questions ad for five weeks in February and March. Cornell is the largest campus in the Ivy League. The Ivy League schools are arguably the most influential in America. On 19 February the Sun ran a defensive editorial saying the ad “suggested the Nazi death camps…
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