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By David Merlin ∙ September 28, 2013
Peter Cassells has been appointed the new Chairperson of HETI. For which he is grateful and made the following remarks. “I am honoured to be the new chairperson of Holocaust Education Trust Ireland. I congratulate the trustees on their success in establishing Holocaust education and promoting Holocaust awareness in Ireland. Knowing our history helps us…
By Jett Rucker ∙ September 28, 2013
On a bronze bench on the Georgetown University campus, looking toward White-Gravenor Hall, sits the bronze effigy of a slim gentleman holding a cane to the ground and gazing beatifically at a chessboard occupying the center of the bench. There’s plenty of room at the opposite end of the bench for would-be friends of (the…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 28, 2013
Abraham Foxman,National DirectorAnti-Defamation League605 Third AvenueNew York, NY 10158-3560(212) 885-7700, www.adl.org 12 September 2013 Dear Mr. Foxman: With regard to the recent killings by chemical weapons in Syria, either by the Syrian State or others, you have been quoted as saying: “Our people have been exterminated by the use of gas. We cannot stand by…
By Frank Brunner ∙ September 28, 2013
Dear Mr. Smith: Thanks for your mail. On July 31, 2013, I was sentenced to 6 months prison with suspended sentence for 3 years. This means that during 3 years, if I do something wrong again, I’ll go to jail for those 6 months. And, according to the court, I shall not write anything about…
By Jett Rucker ∙ September 28, 2013
Harvard legal scholar Alan Dershowitz has amassed for himself a formidable reputation as a pronouncer of learned views on legal matters, but his reputation for objectivity may not hold up so well under scrutiny. He recently declaimed, as he seems to roughly annually, on the unlikelihood of Israeli atomic spy Jonathan Pollard’s being able to…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 26, 2013
As most of you know, Canadian lawyer and free-speech standard-bearer Doug Christie died in March. I was blindsided. Looking back, I don’t understand why that was. I was aware that Doug had prostate cancer but somehow I had thought he would take care of it. While I hear regularly from Paul Fromm of the Canadian…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 26, 2013
*** Getting this issue of Smith’s Report done has been difficult for me. There is nothing in the Report itself that is difficult. An accounting of what Jett Rucker and I did at Kent State and Boston Universities with regard to the Elie Wiesel question. And then the story about how Doug Christie approached me…
By Rory Carroll ∙ May 3, 2013
By Rory Carroll in Los AngelesWriting for The Guardianhttp://tinyurl.com/cksga9w Friday 3 May 2013 22.15 BST To those who knew him, or thought they knew him, he was a cerebral, fun-loving gadfly who hosted boozy gatherings for Hollywood's political conservatives. David Stein brought right-wing congressmen, celebrities, writers and entertainment industry figures together for shindigs, closed to…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ May 26, 2013
When I learned that Elie Wiesel was going to speak at Kent State University, (See: http://tinyurl.com/bzha2ra) I thought it would be good to participate in the festivities. I brought the matter up with Jett Rucker and he agreed that it might be worth the while to join in. We understood we would not be welcome…
By Jett Rucker ∙ May 26, 2013
When national guardsmen came to the Kent State campus that terrible day in May 1970, you didn’t have to pay to get to see them. In fact, Sandra Scheuer and William Schroeder may never have seen them at all as they walked between classes, until the guardsmen’s bullets came from nowhere and snuffed out their…
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