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  • Facing up to the Truth

    The Revisionist, Helen Schulman, Crown Publishers, 1998 The Revisionist is a work of fiction (with no affiliation or connection to the magazine that you are currently reading) that confronts psychological “denial” on multiple levels. Helen Schulman has written a fast-paced book in which her main character, a neurotic neurologist, David Hershleder learns to cope with…

  • The David Irving Case Unfolds

    In early January, a libel trial convened in London, pitting dissident historian David Irving against Deborah Lipstadt, an American professor of religion. Irving, the plaintiff, claims that Lipstadt libeled him in her book, “Denying the Holocaust”, charging that she made many false statements about him and his associations and that as a direct result of…

  • George Bush versus Revisionism

    On Monday, June 16, 2003 news headlines across the United States announced the latest target of President George W. Bush’s wrath-Revisionist historians. Strangely as Bush was shifting his focus from al Qaeda and Iraq to Iran, he decided to take a shot at Revisionists. One headline screamed, “Bush Blasts ‘Revisionist Historians’ on Iraq.”[1] Harry Barnes,…

  • The Dawning of a New Era

    Introduction By Richard A. Widmann From 1999 to 2002, the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH), published four issues of The Revisionist mainly for free distribution on College Campuses. After the free distribution of CODOH's journal, The Revisionist switched gears and became the first Revisionist e-zine. For another nine issues on-line, The Revisionist…

  • Open Air Incinerations in Auschwitz: Rumor or Reality?

    Many former inmates as well as guards of the former National Socialist concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau claim that hundred thousands of corpses of murdered inmates were burned in ditches some 6 to 10 ft. deep. However, almost every book about Auschwitz points out that the entire grounds in and around the camp were swampy in those…

  • In Defense of Holocaust Revisionism

    Denying History: Who Says The Holocaust Never Happened And Why Do They Say It? by Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman; forward by Arthur Hertzberg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Clothbound, 312 pages, $27.50, Hb., ISBN 0-520-21612-1 In the annals of anti-revisionist literature, this book occupies an important position, for it is an ambitious attempt…

  • Israel’s Diminishing Options

    The recent spate of suicide bombings in Israel has created ferment among those writers who labor under the conceit that nations take direction as a result of their scribbling. The cacophonous chorus of jeremiad journalists, mostly found in the pages of the Washington Post, and with the honorable exception of Richard Cohen, has been to…

  • It’s the Water, Stupid

    In recent days, since the horrible pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem, in which 15 Jews were murdered, dozens more injured, and one deluded Palestinian, there has been a rising chorus among American journalists that Israel must retaliate in a drastic manner to put an end to these crazy suicide bombings by West Bank Palestinians. The usual…

  • The Chilean Document

    According to recent press reports, a newly declassified government document shows “U.S. intelligence officials knew about Nazi Germany's plan to eradicate the Jews early in World War II.” The document at the center of this revelation is a Chilean diplomatic document dated Nov. 24, 1941 and obtained by the U.S. by the third week of…

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