HELP! Check your records. I still have not worked out the program for sending subscription reminders. Too busy. I guess I’m counting on you. It’s worked so far. If you have not contributed to CODOH or Smith’s Report in ten months or longer, your time is come. I balk at not continuing to send you SR every month, but sooner or later my native good sense will prevail.
I want to thank those of you—again!—who have sent me new names of individuals who you believe would be interested in Smith’s Report. Keep ‘em coming!
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, but keeps contributing.
Bibliographic information about this document: Smith's Report, no. 50, January 1998, p. 8 Other contributors to this document: n/a Editor’s comments: n/a
On stereotyping revisionists: The Library of Congress has updated its Subject Headings in Jewish Studies. According to the latest info, the subject heading “Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)–Errors, inventions, etc.” has been removed from the subject authority file. It’s been replaced by two new subject headings: “Holocaust denial” (Deborah Lipstadt wins one), in which are entered works…
*** When the Occupy Wall Street movement burst onto the television screens last September I was sympathetic with the outrage and contempt that was being expressed for the greed that is so evident in the “one” percent of American culture. At the same time there was no evident plan to do anything other than protest…
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….
Sometimes, I am not happy with the choices authors make when writing articles or books. One recent case is Carlo Mattogno’s book Sonderkommando Auschwitz I, which was just released in its first English edition. The book contains detailed critiques of the accounts of nine former Auschwitz inmate who all claimed to have worked as members…
It’s the first week in December and the fallout from the Campus Project is cascading down all around me. Who was the little guy who used to worry that the sky might fall? There is so much media from campus and off-campus that I have to admit I am unable to stay on top of…
*** In an article in The Daily Forward we find that a new study on anti-Semitism, commissioned by the German Parliament, concluded among other things that German Holocaust education is fueling German anti-Semitism. It often imposes “exaggerated moral expectations” on students, who respond with an anti-Semitism that is typified by “guilt denial.” They feel accused…