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Jewish Defense League Asks to Become Part of CODOH Website, etc., etc.

By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1996

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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 received a second message from the JDL. “Sorry, a new staffer didn't know who you were, Bradley Smith, Holocaust denier extraordinaire. We're not going to link to you.” Now there’s an unexpected turn of events. As Widmann noted, one can only imagine what went down when the experienced JDL staffer discovered who the new guy had extended his hand to.

The Daily Evergreen at University of Southern Illinois ran our 46 Questions, though instead of running it one time each week for five weeks ran it five times in one week.

An ADL Summary Report for 1995 noted that ads “denying the Holocaust” were again printed by several college newspapers, including papers at SUNY-Binghamton (NY), Northeastern University (MA), Oberlin College (OH), Radford University (VA), Sacred Heart University [sic] (CT) (I think our ADL buddies got this one wrong), and Wittenberg University (OH). Nice of the ADL to list the six campuses it did, but it left out the other 28 colleges and universities at which the ad ran. But who’s counting?

  • Bradley R. Smith

    Bradley R. Smith was born in Los Angeles on February 18, 1930. At 18 he joined the army and in 1951 served with the infantry in Korea where he was twice wounded. After three decades of a variety of professional activities, it suddenly hit him: In 1979 he read a leaflet by Professor Robert Faurisson, "The Problem of the Gas Chambers." Then, Arthur Butz’s The Hoax of the Twentieth Century did it for him. He understood from the beginning that he would address the censorship, the suppression of independent thought, the taboo against publishing and debating revisionist arguments—not the arguments themselves. That has remained his position. In 1989, Smith founded Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) dedicated to defending free speech and free inquiry into the Holocaust question. He handed over CODOH's helm in late 2014. He passed away on his 86th birthday, February 18, 2016. Read a series of obituaries here.

Bibliographic information about this document: Smith's Report, no. 31, April 1996, p. 5
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