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Russia Today interviews Grant F. Smith, Director of Institute for Research on Middle Eastern Policy. Files declassified in America reveal covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the U.S. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it [...]
Michael Hoffman’s note: Questioning any aspect of the gigantic corpus of accusations against the Germans grouped under the Newspeak generic of “Holocaust denialism” is emerging as a new university subject. Presumably we will see, in the not too distant future, a doctorate conferred in “Denialism.” One can envision the future curriculum: Bishop Williamsonism 101 and David Irvingism 202.
Can anyone imagine anything so absurd? What if Catholic university theology departments created studies in “Immaculate Conception Denialism” and linked these to their law schools, as the University of Leicester is doing in England?
This is all about treating the natural human right of skepticism as an entymological pathology, as if it were an anomaly, when the authentic anomaly is the imposition of the dogma of Holocaustianity itself, the last truly believed religion in the otherwise agnostic West.
And what of the denial of the holocausts in Dresden, Nagasaki and Gaza? Will these be included or excluded from consideration in the study of “genocide denial”? If I were a betting man, I’d wager they will be excluded.
Certain types of “denial” are perpetrated by the very people seeking to establish an exclusive “Holocaust” mythos limited solely or mainly to the sufferings, both real and imagined, of Judaic persons during World War II, an exceptionalism familiar to students of the Talmud and its supremacist culture. Here’s the phantasmagoric press release:
Holocaust and genocide denial are phenomena whose consequences reach far beyond the expression of individual opinions. The views of David Irving, Nick Griffin or Bishop Richard Williamson tend to reach audiences that benefit from denialist arguments for specific political purposes, and the consequences of denialism are not confined to the immediate discourse.
Denialism also carries significance for more than one academic discipline. Historians are directly affected, as deniers frequently claim to carry out “revisionist” historical research against “orthodox” interpretations and thereby pose the question whether their conclusions merit or indeed require a reaction in serious academic debate.
To lawyers, denialism raises questions about the limits of freedom of speech – particularly when domestic laws are taken into account which prohibit certain forms of denialism.
To political scientists, sociologists or psychologists the motives of deniers and the repercussions of their statements are of particular importance.
There is therefore need for a contextual perspective of holocaust denial which fosters a better understanding of the perspectives of these disciplines. The School of Historical Studies (Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies) and the School of Law at Leicester University have established an interdisciplinary initiative to investigate denialism, but also other aspects relating to the Holocaust and to genocide.
This workshop is intended to be an initial meeting and appraisal of this field of research, but it will also facilitate the creation of a network of scholars and expert commentators who are interested in this field.
It will focus on questions such as:
How do we define Holocaust denial?
How can it be proven?
What are the intentions behind Holocaust denial?
What is the impact of laws against Holocaust denial?
Abstracts are invited from all disciplines and to all aspects of this field of research, to be submitted to Dr Olaf Jensen (oj6@le.ac.uk)
or Dr Paul Behrens (pk124@le.ac.uk)
Abstracts should be no longer than 1 A4 page.
Closing date for submission: 1 August 2010
One more step down the path, America.
Günter Deckert is a distinguished German scholar whose report on the show trial of Bishop Richard Williamson (in absentia) in Germany was published in Revisionist History newsletter no. 52, will himself be prosecuted in Germany in July.
Deckert, 70, former president of the NPD (National Democratic Party of Germany), has already served five years in prison for revisionism. He will be the defendant in a new trial starting July 28.
His “crime” is having served as an editor of the German translation of Italian scholar Carlo Mattogno’s Auschwitz: La prima gasazione (“Auschwitz: the First Gassing”), even though on page 6 of the Mattogno book, Mr. Deckert stipulates that he does not share the theses and conclusions of the author.
Deckert believes that the evidence against him falls far short of demonstrating the legally required dissemination to the general public, but that the German authorities disregard legal niceties with dissidents like him.
This another outage that will most likely be largely ignored by the US media, including Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and the NY Times, as well as human rights and free speech organizations.
The hunting, hounding and jailing of heretics who dissent from the official Auschwitz liturgy proceeds apace largely in silence, shrouded in oblivion.
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The Jewish Ron Paul “Revolution” Is Instead a Jewish Counter-Revolution Against America and Its Foundational Values
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The great American Revolution was an European revolt against the Jews, which ironically had to take place across the pond from Jewish occupied Europe. Yes, the Jew Haym Solomon provided funds for the revolt, [...]
We are pleased to announce a very fine response to our “On the Contrary” opinion poll on Ernst Zundel.
A total of 824 persons voted in the course of four days. An overwhelming majority voted in support of Ernst.
That’s nearly eight hundred votes in the space of just few days, with no publicity other than what we ourselves generated in “The Hoffman Wire” (our e-mail service that transmits our columns via electronic mail*), at our website and on this, our “On the Contrary” blog, where the poll was conducted.
Other than a couple of Hoffman Wire readers who spread the word via private e-mail, the poll was not publicized by any other group, and yet with our limited resources almost 800 people took the time to visit our blog and vote to show their support for Mr. Zundel. If our poll is any representative sample of worldwide sentiment, then Ernst Zundel has not only not been forgotten, he is lionized.
We thank everyone who participated. I would like to take this opportunity to announce that we are seeking to raise the funds needed to reprint my long out of print 1985 book, The Great Holocaust Trial, about the first of the two show trials the government of Canada prosecuted against Ernst, both of which he won on appeal. Naturally I am biased in favor of the first trial because I reported it from the press gallery and it is one of the few instances on record of “Holocaust survivors” and “homicidal gas chamber eyewitnesses” being cross-examined by a defense attorney – and not just any attorney – rather by the skilled and relentless Doug Christie, backed by the brilliant research of revisionist historian Dr. Robert Faurisson.
The last resort of every Auschwitz execution gas chamber zealot is the familiar shibboleth, “We have eyewitnesses!” This is supposed to represent the final coffin in the nail of revisionist doubts. Alas, poor mythomaniacs, you can never be the same after what the Zundel defense team did to you 25 years ago, from January through March, 1985. As G.K. Chesterton observed, “A lie is only young once,” which makes the Auschwitz execution gas chamber lie as old as sin.
In the course of the Great Holocaust Trial, the testimony of the key witness of the famous War Refugee Board, Rudolf Vrba, was shredded, along with that of former Auschwitz inmate Arnold Friedman and others. Famed holohoax historian Prof. Raul Hilberg was left a pile of quivering jello as he replied, when asked by Mr. Christie to furnish even one scientific report proving mass murder by gassings, “I’m at a loss.”
Bringing The Great Holocaust Trial book back into print on the 25th anniversary of the trial and in the year Mr. Zundel valiantly emerged from his German-Zionist dungeon – with his head high and a smiling countenance – will be a resounding refutation of the notion of foolish advocates of tyranny, that revisionism is in retreat.
Revisionism is fueled and strengthened by heroism in the face of enormous odds and martyrdom in the face of demands to recant and capitulate. Ernst was not killed by the fanatic partisans of the cult of Holocaustianity, but many a lesser man’s mind and spirit would have been broken by the years in prison, including two in solitary confinement in a Canadian dungeon. Seven years of his life were lost, and for what offense? The “crime” of daring to doubt an edifice that cannot endure doubts. Truth does not require dungeons to protect its credibility, only a lie so immense.
Congratulations to you, Ernst Zundel. Almost 800 percipients of our little Internet presence, 96% of all who responded, have rightly declared you a hero and a martyr to the cause of Freedom of Speech. How many opinion polls achieve such unanimity? It is almost unheard of.
The French writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine said, “The elite are an example or they are nothing.”
Zundel is an example!
A critic has made a negative remark about the photograph of Auschwitz gas chamber skeptic Ernst Zundel (above, on the right), and his attorney, Dr. Herbert Schaller, taken on March 1, moments after Zundel emerged from Mannheim prison for the first time in five years.
We believe it is a beautiful photo, a truly heart warming picture. It is evidence, by way of a photograph, that Ernst will not bow to adversity, he will not whine, he will not show pain, but rather, in his smiling countenance one sees the joy of life. This is a testimony to his spirit, after seven years’ incarceration, including two in solitary confinement in Canada. Let us also not forget that as a child he survived the Allied firebombing holocaust against his hometown of Pforzheim; consequently, on top of it all, he is a holocaust survivor. I have seen a similar serenity and nobility in Japanese survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki holocausts.
This is a stunning contrast to the behavior and attitudes of many (though not all) of those poster soul-survivors of the Auschwitz slave labor camp, who, more than sixty years later, still pose with long faces, perpetually moaning, groaning, wailing, hectoring, spewing hatred and pointing fingers of accusation, while churning out a deluge of newspaper and magazine articles, books, novels, television shows and films constituting a new level of institutionalized vengeance, which has been weaved into the very fabric of the post-Christian West.
I say post-Christian, but we are even heedless of William Shakespeare. Surely Portia’s famous speech to Shylock in “The Merchant of Venice” (Act 4, scene 1), is now discredited by the mandarins of mediocrity. Yet, in Portia’s words we have our culture’s most eloquent reply to the perpetual Purim cry for vengeance under the rubric of justice. Here Shakespeare, as usual, put his finger on the heart of the matter: the vast chasm separating Judaism from the ante-Auschwitz West is their enshrinement of revenge and our obligation to mercy.
Zundel’s merciless persecutors have learned nothing from history. In their hubris, in their certainty that they will prevail and control and edit the future, they believe they can demonize, imprison and torment prisoners of conscience with impunity. The Romans imagined this about the early Christians, the French Catholics about the Huguenot, the German Lutherans about the Anabaptists, the New England Puritans about the Quakers, the Anglicans about their recusant Catholic countrymen, and the Soviets about the Eastern Orthodox. Yet, in each case history teaches that in time, the severely oppressed dissidents emerged stronger than ever.
This too is the destiny of World War II revisionists, though today, in the midst of intense persecution and witch-hunting, it is a future difficult for many to envision. In this sense, Ernst Zundel, even at age 70, is not a man of the past, but of the future.
A ring that connects into the ‘heart’ of the Scottish and British governments and the Westminster Parliament and involved Dunblane mass child killer, Thomas Hamilton
Reporter Robert Green was arrested in Aberdeen for the crime of exposing these sick and depraved people who get their ‘kicks’ from sexually abusing and raping [...]
One grows weary of pointing to the disparity between how “Holocaust” revisionists and Muslim haters are treated in the media and the courts both legal and of public opinion. Kurt Westergaard, the artist who drew the anti-Mohammed cartoon in Denmark is a hero of the European Union. His “freedom of expression” is jealously guarded, and used as a pedagogic tool for hammering Muslims concerning the glories of modern Western human rights’ standards. When Muslims respond that the Danish cartoon was bigoted and racist, they are dismissed as backward peasants from Neanderthal societies who have yet to learn the rudiments of Enlightenment tolerance.
Meanwhile, revisionist expression concerning Talmudic Judaism or the alleged execution gas chambers of Auschwitz is another matter entirely. In the latter case, the “racist” pejorative is gleefully pinned on revisionists by the media and the courts, thereby acting as a solvent for weakening any claims to apply the western heritage of freedom of the press to revisionist writers or satirists.
Hence, Simon Sheppard, who received a lengthy prison sentence in part for distributing in England this writer’s satirical comic book Tales of the Holohoax is described by all British media, from the snooty BBC to the proletarian “Sun” newspaper, as a “racist.”
The unjust assignment of this pejorative is the impregnable wall that has been erected to isolate Mr. Sheppard’s case from that of the anti-Muslim Danish cartoonists, and causes him to forfeit the civil liberties protections of Europe’s supposed guardians of freedom against Islamic fundamentalism. The possibility that Europe might need to be guarded against the racist tyranny of fundamentalist Orthodox Judaism is policed out of consideration.
What precisely is there that is “racist” about the Tales of the Holohoax cartoons? The media do not scruple to attempt an analysis because they are under no pressure or obligation to do so. Satire is only a noble weapon when it is used against “demon Islam,” while Judaism and Holocaustianity are sacred dogmas in Europe. Satirizing these sacred cows is a “disgusting hate crime.”
Westergaard is portrayed as a defiant saint, while Mr. Sheppard and his partner in “criminal” satire, Stephen Whittle (they are known collectively as the “Heretical Two”), are less than zero in the eyes of the Western gatekeepers of morality and history – “race hate criminals” – in the purple prose of the BBC. The fact that these two have been stigmatized as “racist” is sufficient to render the stigma a reality, even when the facts bear witness to the contrary.
The “revisionist community,” with some notable exceptions (Lady Michelle Renouf, Dr. Robert Faurisson, Willis Carto, Herman Otten) is reluctant to mention Tales of the Holohoax in connection with the plight of the “Heretical Two.” The publication itself and the heretics who circulated it would now be a cause célébre if the current “revisionist community” had any of the public relations instincts of Ernst Zundel.
In the 2009 Christmas list of imprisoned revisionists and their jailhouse mailing addresses circulated around the Internet and published in certain revisionist newsletters, under the names Sheppard and Whittle the reason given for their incarceration was an oddly generic one: “sought asylum in the U.S.” But the reason they were asylum seekers was noticeably absent. By this omission, reference to Tales of the Holohoax and its author were sent down the memory hole — by revisionists themselves.
I have seen no sustained analogy by revisionists concerning this writer or Mr. Sheppard, and Mr.Westergaard. And since it has been decided that Tales of the Holohoax shouldn’t be mentioned or discussed by revisionists, no parallels are drawn between this writer’s satirical gas chamber cartoons and the anti-Muslim ones in Denmark. A magnificent opportunity is thereby lost.
Culpability for this loss also rests with the Muslim and Arab media who have failed to compare the two sets of cartoons and the fate of the distributors.
No European has gone to jail for satirizing Islam or its prophet. On the contrary, the defiance of the Danish cartoonists is celebrated, rewarded and protected, while Sheppard rots in a British prison for distributing a satire that pokes fun at Talmudic tall tales recycled for modern consumption during and after World War II.
A RACIST man has lost his appeal against the UK’s first conviction for inciting racial hatred online. But the Court of Appeal in London did reduce Stephen Whittle’s sentence of two years and four months by six months.
Another man, Simon Sheppard, who was also convicted of inciting racial hatred, had his term of four years and ten months cut by a year.
Whittle, 42, and Sheppard, 52, were jailed at Leeds Crown Court in July last year after they were charged, under the Public Order Act, with publishing racially inflammatory material, distributing racially inflammatory material and possessing racially inflammatory material with a view to distribution.
Whittle, from Preston, was found guilty of five offences and Sheppard, of Selby, North Yorkshire, was found guilty of 16. During their first trial in 2008, they skipped bail and fled to California, where they sought asylum claiming they were being persecuted for their right-wing views, but were deported. The police investigation began after a complaint about a leaflet called “Tales of the Holohoax”, which was pushed through the door of a Blackpool synagogue and traced back to a post office box in Hull registered to Sheppard.
Published material found later included images of murdered Jews alongside cartoons and articles ridiculing ethnic groups. At the appeal, Sheppard’s counsel, Adrian Davies, challenged the convictions on the grounds of jurisdiction, the meaning of “publication” and whether the material on the internet was “written material” within the meaning of the Act. He said the articles complained of were posted on a website in California where there was no doubt that they were “entirely lawful and enjoyed the highest degree of constitutional protection under the laws of the United States.” There was no evidence that anyone in England and Wales, except for the police officer, who the Crown did not rely on as a member of the public under the Act, had ever read any of them. “Despite this, Mr Sheppard has been sentenced to a longer term of imprisonment than Abu Hamza,” he told Lord Justice Scott Baker, Mr Justice Penry-Davey and Mr Justice Cranston.
Giving their ruling, Lord Justice Scott Baker said the trial judge was right to hold that he had jurisdiction to try the pair because a substantial measure of the activities constituting the crime took place in England. He said the judge had also correctly addressed the issue of publication – the material in the case was available to the public despite the fact that the evidence went no further than establishing that one police constable downloaded it. And the words “written material” in the Act were sufficiently wide to include articles in electronic form. On the question of sentence, he noted that the judge had said he had rarely seen or read material that was so abusive and insulting in its content towards racial groups in this country. (End quote)
Washington – Sweeping aside a century-old understanding and overruling two important precedents, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.
The ruling was a vindication, the majority said, of the First Amendment’s most basic free speech principle – that the government has no [...]
Using the Nazis to shut-up Whites.
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The forces of Jewry out to silence YOU.
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