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Martyrs and Heroes of the Revisionist Resistance' Against the New World Order
        Sylvia Stolz Attorney for Ernst Zundel---The vassal justice system of the Bundesrepublik/present-day Germany has charged Ernst Zündel's defense attorney, Sylvia Stolz, with  denial of the Holocaust. Paul Fromm Canadian Free Speech Activist --- About 25 members of the violent "anti-racist" ARA attacked Paul Fromm's townhouse in the quiet historic community of Port Credit at 2:00 this afternoon. The police failed to keep them entirely off condo property, as the law requires, but did stop them about 100 feet from his door. Dr. Robert Faurisson beaten to near death by jewish "humanitarian" thugs ...Now on trial in France once again for his tenacious refusal to bow to New World Order holocaust dogma! Jürgen Graf --Holocaust Revisionist Historian--Over the past several years, the Swiss Juergen Graf has emerged as one of the most powerful voices in the revisionist community. Yet, in accordance with legislation specifically designed to shut down revisionist voices in the Alpine republic, Graf was found guilty of a Swiss "racial hatred" statute in 1998. His appeals exhausted, Graf was recently to begin serving his sentence, until he began to hear that some revisionists incarcerated in German speaking countries were not emerging from confinement alive. As a result, he has been forced to flee his native country, pursuing a now familiar odyssey for those who seek historical truth. David Irving was arrested in Austria on the 11th of November, 2005. Since the beginning of his arrest Irving was kept isolated from the outside world. For the first six days the Austrian government did not notify the world about his arrest. The news came out into the open when Irving’s own web page presented it. Based on the best available information Irving crossed the border to Austria from Switzerland and he was planning to deliver a lecture at the Olympia, a university fraternity group in Vienna. The subject of the lecture was: “the secret negotiations between Adolf Eichmann and the Jewish leaders in Budapest, Joel Brand and Rezsö Kasztner, the so-called "trucks for Jews" deal, and British knowledge of the scheme from codebreaking” (From Irving’s own web site.) Irving was already forbidden to travel to Austria, Canada, Germany and Australia. Germany fined him $6,000 in 1992 for stating that the Auschwitz gas chambers were a hoax. He lost his apartment in London when he lost a trial against Deborah Lipstadt a Holocaust advocate and the judge labeled him “an active Holocaust denier”. He was already arrested in Austria in 1984. The present charges were generated after two speeches in the country in 1989. (Vienna and Leoben) The arrest was received as great news by the international cabal of Jewish organizations: Shimon Samuels from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Lord Greville Janner the Chairman of the Holocaust Educational Fund of England, David A. Harris executive director of the American Jewish Committee, The South Poverty Law Center, ADL, etc. Only BBC’s legal affairs analyst Jon Silverman expressed some concern: “He remains a showman and may well relish the opportunity to grandstand before a wider audience if put on trial.”  Siegfried Verbeke --- That Father Stalin would be innocent of the planned starvation of up to eight million Ukrainian peasants, may still be proclaimed and commercially published by the likes of the Flemish communist Ludo Martens. That the Hutu’s have decapitated their Tutsi bro’s by the hundred thousands can also be denied in the official media circuit.That Hitler-Germany first gassed and then cremated a total of six million Jews is a statement that may not be refuted, denied, questioned, approved nor minimalized according to Belgian legislation of 1995. Although the Free University of Brussels claims to withstand “every form of dogmatic thinking” in its statutes, this is a mere fait divers [diversion], since hardly any academics protested the limits imposed on free speech and on academic freedom vis-à-vis the alleged “judeocide”. After a decennium of bullying, house searches, the Flemish revisionist publisher Siegfried Verbeke (pictured; founder of Free Historical Research, or VHO, which was previously shut down by the corrupt Jewish politician André Gantman) was convicted in the end and sentenced to one year and a half of probation and a rather large fine. The investigation that took seven years could hardly convince any serious jurist, but the judge must have felt the breath of the judeo-liberal ruling class down his neck. If this were not harsh enough, Siegfried Verbeke was arrested again on Saturday 27th of November 2004 in his Flemish town of residence, Kortrijk on the same charges. Given the recently established "European Arrest Warrant" Belgium will pass this martyr of free speech on to the Germans, who was very eager to prosecute him to even further lengths. The 63-year old revisionist scholar will then probably spend his last days in a German jail. In the best case scenario, he will sit in the same prison block as Ernst Zündel once he is extradited. Ernst Zundel Arrested For Thought Crimes Three Years Ago And Still Waiting For His Trial In Germany...I went outside with him, and there were a total of 5 men, one of them in uniform. (John later told me that the man in uniform was the local deputy sheriff.) Ernst stood by the hood of John's car with one of the officers handing him a pad with a one-page text that he was The Persecution Of Germar Rudolf--November 8, 2005..I just got a call from publisher Mr. Germar Rudolf from his jail (detention center), he left a message on my phone machine. In essence this is the bad news: Germar Rudolf's attorney informs him that he will be deported from the United States to Germany for 'Thought Crimes.' This will happen next Monday on November 14, 2005. Germar Rudolf will serve 5-15 years in prison for his writings (such as writings posted on his website) concerning the Holocaust. Gerard Menuhin, 57, caused uproar by suggesting that Germany was being blackmailed by an international Jewish conspiracy preying on the country's war guilt--The son of famous Jewish violinist Yehudi Menuhin lost his job in Germany over extremist statements. The board of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation fired Gerard Menuhin as president after it learned of his anti-Jewish statements in far-right German publications. In columns and interviews in the National Zeitung newspaper, the Web site of the National Democratic Party of Germany and the monthly magazine Deutsche Stimme, Menuhin, 57, reportedly referred to “an international lobby of influential people and associations that put Germans under pressure for their own purposes.” He said Germans are under “endless blackmail” because of the Holocaust, and that “a people that allows itself to be intimidated 60 years after the end of the war with the events of that time is not healthy.”

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Holocaust Remembrance: Behind the Campaign...Institute for Historical Review (Video)...Mark Weber provides a lucid, thoughtful and carefully referenced look at "Holocaust Remembrance." In this 22-minute video presentation, the IHR director explains how this campaign is an expression of Jewish- Zionist power, and how it furthers Zionist and Israeli interests.

 

The Holocaust Wars
Written by Paul Eisen
Thursday, 22 June 2006

 

The Holocaust is West’s Last Taboo
Robert Faurisson
 

Canadian Professor Slams School for Criticizing Iran Trip
Canadian Press -- The Globe & Mail (Canada)
http://w ww.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061223. DOSSA23/TPStory/Education

A Nova Scotia professor who has faced criticism from his university and colleagues for attending an Iranian conference that cast doubt on the Holocaust lashed out against the school yesterday for failing to defend his academic freedom. Shiraz Dossa, a political science professor at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., raised the ire of the university after presenting a paper at the conference earlier this month. Prof. Dossa, who has insisted he's not a Holocaust denier, used the forum to talk about how the Holocaust plays into the so-called war on terror. In a statement e-mailed to other faculty members yesterday -- his first public comments since returning from Iran -- Prof. Dossa said the conference was relevant to his ongoing work.

 

Vienna to London: From Irving’s Diary
David Irving
http://www.fpp.co.uk/docs/Irving/RadDi/ 2006/211206.html

The commandant himself, the prison governor, opens the door at 7 a.m., snaps almost imperceptibly to attention, and says: "Mr Irving, we are deeply ashamed that this is happening. We do not agree with this at all...” ...I take another call, from... Agence France Presse... I feed him some safe lines... I stress that I am not a Holocaust denier; people who say the opposite have clearly never read my books of the last 15 years...

 

Jews in Britain Protest Irving Release
European Jewish Press
http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/uk/12380

British Jewish leaders have spoken out against a ruling which sees British Holocaust denier David Irving released early from prison in Austria. Veteran Jewish activist Lord Greville Janner, a former Labor MP, led the chorus of disapproval after a Vienna court has ruled that historian Irving, convicted on charges of denying the Holocaust, should serve the rest of his three-year sentence on probation. At the end of Irving’s appeal against his earlier conviction on Wednesday, Vienna’s highest court ruled to convert two-thirds of Irving’s three-year sentence into probation...

 

Mueller Blasts German Ambassador's
Remembrance Day Speech

WOLFGANG G. MUELLER

They met in Teheran
By Israel Shamir

Bush, the Inept Marionette

Why are Jews at the 'Holocaust denial' conference?

Speech of Neturei Karta Rabbi in Teheran
Orthodox Jewish Attitude to the ’Holocaust’

French president orders probe into revisionist comments

French minister: Holocaust revisionist could face lawsuit over Iran speech

Holocaust denier back in Britain

HOLOCAUST DENIER RELEASED FROM PRISON

British author David Irving has been banned from returning to Austria

Ties Cut With Iran Institute Over Holocaust

Swedish teacher suspended over attending Holocaust meeting in Iran

What an Experience!

The ‘Holocaust’ has no reality in space and time, only in Memory

Fredrick Töben, Tehran, 22 December 2006

David Duke Blitzes Blitzer
On CNN:

Here is the transcript!
See for Yourself!
Proof: the Media Lies About the Holocaust Conference in Tehran

Professor Faurisson's paper for Tehran Holocaust Conference 2006
(English Version)

Thursday, 14 December 2006

Holocaust Jew accused of war crimes
 

Limiting The Fallout From The Tehran Holocaust Conference
Written by Andrew Winkler, The Rebel Media Group Thursday, 14 December 2006

Title: David Duke in Iran: "Has Europe gone crazy?"
Speech delivered at the Teheran International Convention on the Holocaust:

Bolton backs push to charge Iran's leader on Israel hatred

Iranian leader: Israel will be ‘wiped out’
Updated: 4:56 p.m. ET Dec 12, 2006

Dare to Differ - Holocaust ‘Deniers’ Unite

Iran students denounce Holocaust denial

Holocaust Deniers and Skeptics Gather in Iran
By NAZILA FATHI 
TEHRAN, Dec. 11 NY Times

NATIONAL (DECEMBER 7, 2006)
Holocaust denier to face charges
Jews Demand Punishment of 'Denier' Toben

Iran vows no 'preconceived ideas' at Holocaust meet

Britons to attend Iran's Holocaust conference

Iranian Holocaust Conference Will Showcase
Deniers and Anti-Semites From Around the World;
ADL Urges European Leaders to Speak Out

Israeli Muslim to take on Holocaust denial at Iran conference

Rabbi Friedman cautions against strategic abuse
of Holocaust Iran-Israel, Politics, 12/9/2006

Holocaust conference 'unacceptable'
From correspondents in Berlin 08dec06

Alarm at call for abolishment of Swiss racism law

Jerome Brentar, 84, ran travel agency,
gained fame as Demjanjuk supporter

Pearl Harbor Historiography:
A Lesson in Academic Housecleaning

Judging a Book by Its Cover and Its Content
A review of “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid” by Jimmy Carter
(Simon & Schuster, November 2006)

By Abraham H. Foxman

Immigration sparks white exodus from UK 

 

Part 1

Holocaust is West’s last taboo: Faurisson

TEHRAN, Dec. 18 (MNA) -- Robert Faurisson is a revisionist scholar from France who attended the Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision conference in Tehran from December 11 to 12.

Following is the text of an interview with Faurisson conducted by the Tehran Times at the daily’s offices on December 13:

 

Q: What is your opinion about the Tehran conference?

 

A: This conference is a big and nice surprise. I had never thought that there could be such a thing. I was really pessimistic. When for the first time I heard that President Ahmadinejad said that the Holocaust was a myth, I was so surprised. I wondered if Iran would exist anymore. I thought that the U.S. or Western countries would try to destroy this country because the belief in the Holocaust is the central pillar of the West and the world. To say that it is a myth is something extremely dangerous. I, as a researcher, might say that it is a myth, but for the head of a state it is extremely dangerous. But he did it.

 

Can I say something more?

 

I think that the year 2006 will be counted in history as a very important year because a country called Iran said no to Bush and yes to revisionists. It is marvelous.

 

Q: Could you elaborate on what you mean by the word myth? People use the word in a lot of different ways. Some mean it did not happen at all and some mean that some aspects of it happened.

 

A: President Ahmadinejad has used the right word. The alleged Holocaust of the Jews is a myth. That is a belief maintained by credulity or ignorance. It does not mean that the people who believe it are liars. They are not liars, but they are believers.

 

Q: You are an expert in text and document analysis. What kind of information did you find in the documents from World War II that made you doubt some aspects of the Holocaust?

 

A: My work was the work of a policeman, not the work of a professor. I was told there was a crime, an enormous crime. So I said I want to see the weapon of the crime, and I want to see the place. I went to Auschwitz, Dachau, Saxenhausen… and places like that. And I asked a very simple question. I said show me a gas chamber. They told me there is a fantastic weapon, and I said, OK, show me.

 

In Auschwitz they said this is a gas chamber. And I looked at it like a policeman. And I said, sorry, this cannot be a gas chamber, for very simple reasons. Because they said that the Germans used Zyklon B. Zyklon B is a product invented in 1920 and it is still used today to kill lice. But Zyklon B is hydrocyanic acid, it is very dangerous. And they say that the Germans would put 2000 Jews in this place. Two thousand people in this place, it is already impossible.

 

But anyway, they would put Jews in this place, and then in the roof there were four holes, and the Germans would go on the roof and would dump pellets of Zyklon B (in the holes) and then the Jews were dead. They say that a team, a group of Jews, would come in, very gently, eating, smoking, taking the dead bodies out to the crematoria, to burn them.

 

And I said, stop, impossible! Impossible because hydrocyanic acid is something which sticks to the walls, to the roof, to the ground, and it penetrates the same way in the bodies, it goes in the mouth, everywhere, on the skin. So, first you cannot enter this place even if you switch on the ventilation because it sticks very strongly. You cannot get rid of it. And you cannot touch the body of someone who has been killed by this gas. You cannot touch it. And remember, they were eating and smoking. Eating means no gas mask. And smoking is impossible because it is explosive. So as it is told, it is impossible. I acted like a policeman.

 

I went to the U.S. to visit a gas chamber. To execute one man, it is horribly complicated, horribly complicated, because it is too dangerous. If you see a gas chamber in the U.S., to kill one person, first you see a door in iron fit like this, sealed perfectly, because you don’t want the gas to leak. And then, when the man is dead, it is extremely dangerous to go inside. So you have special fans, pushing the poison out, with a very strong vacuum. Then the gas is sent to a kind of tank to neutralize the gas. The gas which is supposed to be neutralized with sodium ammonia is sent up in a very high chimney.

 

On the day of the execution, the guards are not allowed to go up to the towers because even this gas could be very poisonous. And you have to wait something like one hour, and the doctor and two people with boots, gloves, and gas masks with a special filter, a very strong one, go inside the place and try to wash the body, and they have to wash it thoroughly. Still the body is dangerous. You have to wait and wait. On the day of the execution, in spite of all those precautions, the body remains dangerous. And the day after, you still have the smell. It is fantastic, it is everywhere. To kill one man!

 

And there are many details that I could give you. I am going to give you one. You see, it is a criminal investigation, an inquiry. The gas chamber has a central pillar, very strong. Why? Why do we need this very strong pillar? It is because the gas might leak outside in spite of all the precautions, so you have to create a depression. If you create a depression the gas chamber might crumble, so it has to be very strong. And many other details -- it’s not a luxury, it’s necessary. It’s not American fantasy.

 

At the beginning, in 1917, during World War I, many Americans thought of the electric chair, “That’s too cruel. We are going to invent something. We are going to use gas. The people will be there, you will put gas in, the people will go to sleep, we’ll go inside, we’ll take the body (out), and finished!” No! The engineers had to work five years, I think, to create one gas chamber and it was used for the first time in 1924 in Carson City, Nevada. They executed a man, but it was nearly a catastrophe. So you see, people think it is very easy.

 

The Jews invented the story, I’m sorry, of the Zyklon B. They could have taken perhaps other gases, but they took this one, because when you got into the camps, you found cans of Zyklon B. It is a stupid story. It is as if I come here, I see a knife, and I say, “Oh, this is the proof that Faurisson is a murderer!” A can of Zyklon B is the same thing. It was to protect health.

 

I could also explain to you the technicalities of Zyklon B applied to this, to cloth. It is totally different, because this is dead, this is living. But, too many technicalities.

 

It is technically impossible.

 

So I published this in the daily Le Monde. And I said if you people say that it is technically possible, come, explain to me. And I got their answer. I had to wait six weeks. Thirty-four professors -- you know what professors are -- signed a big declaration, and I’m going to quote exactly what they said, I’m not going to change a word, so this is the answer of 34 professors, this was on February 21, 1979: “It must not be asked how technically such a mass murder was possible. It was technically possible since it happened.” Professor silliness! Which means clearly: “Faurisson, we are not able to explain”; because if they had an explanation, they would have given it.

 

And I said show me a gas chamber. And I went to Auschwitz; they said this is a gas chamber. And I said, no, no, it is impossible. First, you have three doors, which triples the difficulty of getting it sealed. In Auschwitz the gas chamber had a short door with glass on the upper part of the door. The door opened inward, and the dead bodies were there, you could not open the door. It is silliness. It is such a silly story. It is humiliating for people to believe that. I said this at the end of the 1970s…

 

I was insulted, I was kicked out of the university, I had I don’t how many court cases. I was ruined. No more money for myself, for my wife, for my children. I was insulted day and night and for years and years.

 

And in 1995, one day, opening a magazine called L’Express, there was a very long article written by a man called Eric Conan. And this man is against us.

 

And he had written a book about the Holocaust. So I was reading this, and suddenly, on page 68, I thought I would fall off my chair, I read this. He said about the gas chamber in Auschwitz, the emblematic gas chamber, which has been visited up to now by 25 to 30 million tourists. They say that at the Auschwitz Museum. He said exactly this: “Everything in it is false.” And he said: “In the late 1970s, Robert Faurisson exploited these falsifications all the better as the museum administration balked at acknowledging them.” So Faurisson exploited those falsifications, and it was easy for him because the people at the Auschwitz museum didn’t want to answer him. So it was easy.

 

Let me tell you one thing. So, Eric Conan went to visit a lady who was a manager of the Holocaust Museum, and he said, “How is it? It’s false. You cannot keep it like that. You have to tell the visitors.”

 

Q: So he acknowledged and confirmed the falsifications that you discovered?

 

A: More than that. He said everything is false. And then he went to see this lady, and the lady answered, “No. We are not going to explain. It would be too difficult. So we’ll leave it as it is.”

 

Which means: “We have lied, we are lying, and we are going to continue to lie.” 

 

Q: Why are Israelis and most other Jews so sensitive about the Holocaust, and why are countries like the United States and some other countries which pay reparations even more sensitive about this issue?

 

A: It’s because the Holocaust is weapon number one of the state of Israel. It’s the sword and the shield of the state of Israel and… Jewry, all together. It’s their weapon number one. They need it. Because after the war, in 1947, the British Empire, the French Empire, the Spanish Empire, the Portuguese Empire, the Dutch Empire, everywhere the colonies were crumbling, disappearing. And you had an artificial creation of a colony of Jews in Palestine. 

 

Q: At the very time of decolonization, at the beginning of decolonization. 

 

A: Yes. So, it’s very strange. And the explanation is this. It’s only because the Jews would say, “Our sufferings were exceptional. So, for an exceptional evil, you need an exceptional remedy.” That’s why, to answer your question, the United States and the Jews all over the world, not only the Zionists, they need this myth. It’s vital for them.

 

Q: Those who support the Holocaust claim that they have been paying lots of money to the survivors of the Holocaust, but on the other hand, the survivors, the Jews, claim that this is just a registration, there is no money. How’s that?

 

A: You have on the one hand Jews, on the other hand you have Jewish organizations. Organizations like the World Jewish Congress with Mr. Edgar M. Bronfman. So Edgar Bronfman comes and says to Switzerland, to Germany, and to Austria, you have to pay. And they paid. And Mr. Bronfman takes the money. According to many Jews it seems that many of them, or perhaps a few of them, do not receive any money.

 

Q: In the press you are being very harshly criticized. People are taking your words out of context. Can you clarify your position? You are not denying every single aspect of this. You are basically saying that the gas chambers didn’t exist, but you are not denying that some Jews were in concentration camps and some of them died of various causes such as illness or overwork in these concentration camps?

 

A: Of course… I never said the concentration camps did not exist. I never said that there were no deportations. I never said that there were no Jewish hostages shot or things like that. Of course.

 

I say the deportations happened, the concentration camps existed, but there were no extermination camps.

 

Q: In your opinion, how many Jews were killed?

 

A: We do not know. But we could know. There is a place in Germany, in Arolsen, called the International Tracing Service. And in 1978, when the revisionists came, they closed their historical section they had in German. This was a place where you had kilometers and kilometers of documents.

 

But, for clarification, you should hear my 60-word sentence. It’s 60 words in French. I said I should put it in one sentence.

 

“The alleged declared Nazi gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews form one and the same historical lie which has permitted the gigantic political and financial swindle whose main beneficiaries are the state of Israel and international Zionism and whose main victims are the German people, but not their leaders, and the Palestinian people in their entirety.”

 

Now when I say historical lie, it does not mean that the people who are repeating it are liars. They are repeating something that they think is right.

 

 

HA/HG

 

END

MNA

Publish date,Tehran:   2006/12/18, 22:28
© 2003-2005 Mehr News Agency

 

 

They met in Teheran

By Israel Shamir

 

The Teheran Holocaust Conference caused quite a storm in the world media. One might ask: what’s so special about that? There are so many holocaust events and holocaust museums and holocaust festivals, sometimes attracting presidents and prime ministers galore, so why did the Teheran (or Tehran) conference draw so much attention and criticism; why were the White House, Frau Merkel, the Vatican and the EC willing to take some valuable time to condemn this small gathering in far-away Iranian capital?

The difference is that all other gatherings were amen-sayers accepting the official version provided by Jewish organisations as the Holy Writ given to Moses on Mt Sinai. The official version of the Holocaust goes even farther than Writ: you may deny Immaculate Conception and Resurrection of Christ, you may besmirch Muhammad, but if you have any doubt that six million of Jews were executed by Germans in gas chambers within the framework of a total annihilation project you may find yourself in a jail in Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland and other ‘free’ countries. The Teheran Conference is the first one ever to deal critically with the sad events of the World War Two.

One does not have to be a fan of Hitler to approve of the conference. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. The Jews do not hesitate to deny their atrocities. The Guardian reported that they targeted “the respected French TV correspondent, Charles Enderlin, whose Palestinian cameraman filmed 12-year-old Mohammed al-Dura being shot and killed, as his father tried to shield him at the start of the second intifada. Enderlin accused Israeli troops of shooting and killing the boy. French supporters of Israel went online to claim the report was a distortion based on faked footage. His network, France 2, responded with legal action and, last month, in the first of four individual cases, a French court found the organiser of a self-styled media watchdog website guilty of libel.

"Another online target has been the TV footage of bloodshed on a Gaza beach earlier this year. A Palestinian girl was seen screaming as she saw the bodies of dead family members killed by what Palestinians allege was Israeli shellfire. When [Stewart Purvis, the editor-in-chief of ITN] mentioned the impact of these pictures at last week's conference, members of the audience shouted "staged". One person came up to him afterwards to suggest that the family had somehow died somewhere else and that their bodies had been moved to the beach to be filmed. Where, for instance, was all the blood? He pointed out that he had seen everything that the cameraman had shot and that some pictures were too gruesome to be shown.”

More importantly, every freedom-of-speech loving liberal should regret that even important historians are not free to express their views on the Holocaust issue. David Irving is in jail, and this week Germar Rudolf was taken to a German court chained hand and foot after he was deported from the US for publishing his book doubting the official Holocaust dogma. Such a taboo clamours to be broken. I wrote of it at length in 2001, as the first conference scheduled to take place in Beirut was cancelled by the Lebanese yielding to severe pressure of the US. Then as now, the revisionists had much hope tthat their case would finally be heard.

It did not happen. If the conference organisers believed they could break the taboo and reach millions, they were mistaken. Though the world media has churned out thousands of news items connected to the Conference, they were practically identical, containing local official condemnation and the predictable Jewish reaction. Practically none of the reports and talks given in Tehran ever made it to the mass media. The conference participants were smeared as ‘racist antisemites’ though there were quite a few Jews, venerable Rabbis in their black hats and long coats, revolted by the Zionist privatisation of the World War tragedy.

If anything, the conference proved that the holocaust dogma is a basic tenet in the great world-embracing brainwashing machine of mass media described by Noam Chomsky as “the manufacture of consent Stalin could only dream of … whose discipline, and uniformity, are really impressive”. This media syndicate is the enemy of free people everywhere, and it carries on a relentless war against Iran and other independently-minded nations.

Just one case: a Jewish-owned Canadian paper, The National Post claimed that “in a move reminiscent of the Nazis forcing Jews to wear a Star of David insignia, Iran’s parliament has reportedly passed a law requiring Jews to wear colour-coded badges”. This was a sheer lie: Iran is home to 30,000 Jews who are doing fine, and do not plan to emigrate to Israel. They receive preferential treatment, and nobody forces them to wear a badge or anything else. The Post withdrew the canard a few days later, and apologised, but this news item was repeated ad nauseam in thousands of papers and blogs, while the apology remained on its sixth page.

Our friend and my countryman Gabriel Ash wrote in the Dissident Voice:  

“The Holocaust is the most effective weapon in the hands of those bent on manufacturing a “clash of civilizations.” The “lesson” of the holocaust is good enough to justify the NATO bombing of civilian targets in Yugoslavia, the genocidal U.S. occupation of Iraq, Israel’s massive bombing of Beirut, a future nuclear war against Iran, etc. The Hollowcaust is the ideology par excellence of Global Apartheid. The Hollowcaust acts like a quirky and capricious divinity, rejecting one comparison here, accepting an equally valid or invalid one there. It is a partisan divinity, a god that always blesses ‘us’ and curses ‘them,’ even as it simultaneously demands to be worshipped by all humanity and in the name of all humanity.” 

So far so good. Ash understands that “under such circumstances, the denial of the holocaust is rooted in the desire to pin down the Hollowcaust”. But then he opens the second front against the conference:

“The most charitable thing that can be said about the organizers of this pathetic holocaust conference is that they are fools. The message of Hollowcaust hawkers is only amplified by such idiocies as the Iranian conference.” 

And here we part ways. Iranians had a good reason for organising the conference. The Holocaust is indeed well integrated in the prevalent discourse as a justification of [rich and powerful] minority rights over [oppressed] majority needs. But its success and its integration show that the mass media machine is well integrated and concentrated in philosemitic, mostly Jewish hands. The occupation of Palestine by Jews is painful, but it is not more harmful than this captivity of free discourse.

These men can wield their lethal machine with the ease of a Jedi wielding his sword. They compare Ahmadinejad to Hitler, and forbid comparison of Israel to the Nazis, they besmirch Vladimir Putin as a KGB assassin and do not even report that Israeli courts of law consider assassinations legitimate, they made a spot on Monica Lewinsky’s dress more important than the rivers of blood poured by George Bush, they turned respectable American scholars Mearsheimer and Walt into skinheads, and now they ferociously attack James Baker for his disengagement plan. They can bloody well do anything. They are almost omnipotent.

Our friend James Petras recently published an impressive book on Israel’s Power in the US. But Israel’s power is just a mere reflection of real Jewish power in the West, which is based – not on Israeli tanks, but on Jewish think-tanks; not on Israeli nukes, but on Jewish news. Unless the Jewish hold on discourse is broken, the West will keep sending its sons to follow the Pied Piper of Hamelin to the streets of Baghdad and to the hills of Lebanon.

Iranians came to conclusion that there is no chance to come to agreement with this world-wide Jewish media syndicate. There is no way to get to peace terms. One has to fight back, attacking the deepest sacral dogmas of their control. If this dogma were to collapse, the Jewish hold on discourse would be broken and the Jewish state would disappear just as the USSR did, said President Ahmadinejad.

This comparison calls for exegesis: the USSR was ‘one state’, a state where various peoples lived together as equals; the Jewish state is essentially ‘two states’, a rich state of Jews controlling the poor state of natives. Its dissolution will create ‘one state’ in Palestine; it will reverse the trend started with the Soviet Union’s dissolution. Then Iran, and all of the East, will be able to dwell safely without fear of American and Israeli nukes.

This is the reason why Iran hosted the conference. Nobody – and I do mean nobody, including British, French, American, German, Russian leaders – really cares about the victims of a war long past, Jewish or otherwise; they pay tribute to the Holocaust as nations pay tribute to their vanquisher.  Iran has refused to pay this tribute; when will the rest of you follow their courageous example?

 

 

 

Bush, the Inept Marionette

By Curt Maynard

Al-Jazeerah, December 25, 2006



Many Americans are beginning to realize the obvious, President Bush has completely wasted any capital that he may have once had. Foreign leaders are already aware of this, nobody takes him seriously, he is seen for what he is, a weak, inept marionette. Recently we saw the new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki literally stand Bush up at an allegedly important meeting in Jordan - he literally left Bush standing alone waiting on his own subordinate, at least from Bush’s perspective. The Associated Press did their best to mitigate what happened and to spin the implications, but it did a poor job at best. According to the AP the meeting that Bush and al-Maliki were scheduled to meet at was scrubbed, not because al-Maliki “punked” Bush by not showing up, but for some other reason, but not before Bush was expecting al-Maliki as evidenced by the fact that when the meeting was scrubbed, he was already
inside Raghadan Palace and had posed for photographs alone with the king. White House counselor Dan Bartlett denied that the delay was a snub by al-Maliki directed at Bush or was related to the leak of a memo written by White House National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley questioning the prime minister's capacity for controlling violence in Iraq.” Yeah, whatever, the AP can write whatever they like, but the truth is al-Maliki “punked,” Bush, which is modern vernacular meaning that Bush was intentionally disrespected publicly. To my knowledge nothing like this has ever happened before - as a rule Presidential advisors do everything they can to ensure that the President of the United States never gets embarrassed in such a manner. In any case, al-Maliki’s absence spelled out something quite clearly - Bush has no influence in the Middle East any longer - zero.

To further support this fact and to support something else the mainstream media would prefer that you don’t know, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently admonished George Bush publicly too, he stated the obvious in response to a comment Bush made about him, when Bush said that Ahmadinejad was out of step with the rest of the world. Iran’s President replied by saying that perhaps Georgie needs to
step out of [his] glass palace and go to [his] people to see how isolated [he is], not only across the world but also in your own country." Ahmadinejad continued by saying "Mr. Bush can travel to one of the American states, inviting the people to a stadium to see how the people would treat him… I am sure that the American people would treat Mr. Bush as the Indonesian people treated him," he said referring to protests that greeted Bush on a visit to Indonesia last month. Yeah, fat chance that’ll ever happen.

Ahmadinejad then stated what everyone but the most avid Fox News viewers are starting to conclude, and that is that
Some so-called superpowers have gathered together and they think that they can control the whole world. I'm telling them: Open your eyes, today, the world no longer thinks your decisions have any value…By God's grace, the enemies have not been able to do anything (against Iran) as yet and they will not be able to do anything in the future either," he said.

The above comments weren’t made lightly, the Iranian President is well aware of the fact that the power elite in Washington DC cannot afford to allow him to make them look like monkeys, but nonetheless that is exactly what he has successfully done. Another thing the Iranian leader has done that truly has exposed the so-called modern western democracies to the embarrassment they so desperately deserve is to hold the holocaust conference that he did a few weeks ago, and to do so under the provision that it was held because it could not be held in the west, which by the way is an empirical fact. Despite the fact that President Ahmadinejad is the leader of a nation that according to our media suppresses freedom of speech, Ahmadinejad correctly pointed out that it is the west, not Iran, that throws its historians in prison for questioning certain aspects of the holocaust story, not as the media would have you believe, whether or not it occurred, but rather numbers and methods.

The fact is, not a single holocaust revisionist would state that the Nazis did not persecute Jews during the Second World War, but most of them question the idea that six million were killed or that any of them were gassed at Auschwitz. By holding that conference and by emphasizing the undeniable fact that the so-called modern democracies in the west imprison skeptics, the Iranian President has further highlighted the fact that Bush is a “limp dick.” The media wants you to believe that anyone that would question any aspect of the official holocaust story is crazy and/or a “conspiracy theorist.” The fact is, the reason some people question certain details associated with the holocaust is for exactly the same reason that many people question the “official version” of 9-11, because there are a tremendous amount of perfectly legitimate questions and no forthcoming answers.

The media would have you believe that only uneducated fools, anti-Semites and racists would question their version of what happened to Jewry during WWII, the mainstream media pumped out more than 1,000 articles about the holocaust conference in Iran, but not a single one of them ever mentioned that every scholar that appeared in Tehran to speak was a credentialed academic, meaning that they had at least a graduate degree. Nope, the Mainstream Zionist media doesn’t want you to know that. They do however want you to know that David Duke appeared, so that they can cast aspersions on the entire conference by dredging up the fact that Duke was associated with the KKK some thirty years ago, but at the same time not a single one of those so-called “objective” articles mentioned the fact that Duke has a PhD in history or that he appeared, not to question the holocaust, but in order to authoritatively speak about how the mainstream western media spins and distorts the facts, as evidenced by their very coverage of Dr. David Duke and what he actually said. I highly encourage anyone and everyone to disregard what the media said took place in Tehran and what the speakers said, and to see for themselves what transpired there by reading the words of the revisionists that were there, and by reading what Dr David Duke actually said in regards to free speech and its suppression in the west, in his own words.

Was the holocaust conference a success? You bet it was, not three weeks after its conclusion, Austria released David Irving from prison, no doubt as a result of the embarrassment brought upon it by way of the truths spoken at the conference. David Irving owes a large debt of gratitude to those that spoke out on his behalf in Tehran, now let’s hope he recognizes that fact and reciprocates without succumbing to the pressures of political correctness that often bar those seeking fame in the modern era.

Bush has taken the world to the very edge, he has threatened the leaders of nations with absolute destruction, as he did with Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf, when he sent Zionist lackey Richard Armitage to Pakistan after 9-11 to tell the Pakistani leader that the United States would
bomb Pakistan “back to the stone age,” unless Musharraf cooperated with the United States in its war on terror. The fact that Pervez Musharraf even admitted this publicly as he did back in September also is a strong indicator that Bush’s impotence is well known among Muslim leaders. None of them believe anything he says, which has led to the inevitable, a “broke dick” foreign policy approach by the President and his Zionist sponsors. “Broke dick” is another term I learned while in the U.S. cavalry, it essentially means “irreparably broken,” and better describes Bush’s misadventures in the Mid east, than any other word that comes to mind.

It isn’t just Middle Eastern leaders that have called Bush’s bluff, the entire world sees the fool for exactly what he is, a “limp dick” with a “broke dick” administration. The only thing holding Bush up at this point is the Zionist media, who have been busily engaged in making him appear as if he weren’t the moron that he in fact is - a tough job to be sure. The Russians and the Chinese have absolutely no respect for Bush, no matter what he does they ignore him and move on with their own interests. Hugo Chavez the popular and democratically elected leader of Venezuela accurately labeled Bush the devil and did so before the entire UN assembly, in New York City no less, and stated something else that should wake up the American people, and that is that Bush’s government [Democratic and Republican elite alike] are the
first enemies,” of the American people,” and that the Zionist-American elite’s empire is on its way down.

Chavez provided several examples as to why this eventuality is in fact inevitable, one of which was witnessed by the entire world, and that was when a United States veto at the United Nations
allowed the Israelis with impunity to destroy Lebanon in front of us all as we stood there watching."

Americans must wake up, their government is ill, it has become a pathological liar, unable to tell the truth, because the truth will lead to its downfall. Bush allegedly sent the US military to Iraq in order to bring “democracy” to the Mid east, but democracy isn’t working out very well for Bush and company, because democratically elected leaders aren’t siding with the Zionist warmongers that inhabit Washington DC and the western media - in fact - they are doing exactly what Bush and the Zionists least expected, they are standing up to their bullying tactics - they are no longer afraid, which leaves Bush in the unenviable position of having to do something about the world’s lack of fear. Unfortunately for Bush, he has no real options, he can go nuclear which will lead to his downfall and the collapse of the American government at best, and at worst, death to tens of millions of people worldwide, including most likely millions of Americans, which will also lead to his downfall and the collapse of the American government.

No, the truth is, Bush is completely impotent, there is no guarantee that the American people will fall for anymore lies or another
staged attack - everyone knows Bush lied us into a war in Iraq and its subsequent disastrous occupation, everyone now knows that Bush, despite his rhetoric, supports the amnesty of twenty million illegal immigrants in this country, not because he gives a damn about them, but because his Zionist puppet masters want them there for a variety of reasons, to disenfranchise the American working man, to water down the voting power [if any still exists] of the majority, to force down wages, and most importantly to create disharmony and discord among the American people by way of disingenuous accusations of racism, which will distract Americans from what Bush does elsewhere - Machiavellian principles at their finest.

No, it’s very difficult to tell whether or not another staged terror attack like 9-11 will have the desired effect, but that isn’t to say Bush and his Zionist masters won’t attempt one, in fact, I’d say it’s inevitable, I don’t think they see any other way out of the mess they created, they’ll fabricate a new 9-11, not so much to provide an excuse to nuke Tehran, which will come later, but to impose Martial Law here in the United States - an attack can wait, but the growing dissent among Americans cannot - that spells imminent doom for the Zio-American entity. The question that must be plaguing their minds though is whether or not Bush still has enough credibility to compel Law Enforcement and the National Guard to kill American citizens in the millions. Personally I doubt it - the imposition of Martial law will prove to be the final nail in the coffin of the Zionist-led government in Washington. That doesn’t mean I’ll be around to see it, the Neo-Cons will follow to the letter the policies of their ideological predecessors and eliminate with extreme prejudice any opponents, but nonetheless I’ll leave this world knowing that they’ll soon follow.

 

 

 

Why are Jews at the 'Holocaust denial' conference?

WHO, WHAT, WHY?
The Magazine answers...

Members of Neturei Karta

Why are Jews attending a conference on the Holocaust in Tehran at which star guests include deniers of the genocide? Clue: they also want an end to the Israeli state.

A handful of Orthodox Jews have attended Iran's controversial conference questioning the Nazi genocide of the Jews - not because they deny the Holocaust but because they object to using it as justification for the existence of Israel.

With their distinctive hats, beards and side locks, these men may, to the untrained eye, look like any other Orthodox believers in Jerusalem or New York. But the Jews who went to Tehran are different.

Some of them belong to Neturei Karta (Guardians of the City), a Hasidic sect of a few thousand people which views Zionism - the movement to establish a Jewish national home or state in what was Palestine - as a "poison" threatening "true Jews".

 

 
WHO, WHAT, WHY?
A feature to the BBC News Magazine - aiming to answer some of the questions behind the headlines
A representative, UK-based Rabbi Aharon Cohen, told the conference he prayed "that the underlying cause of strife and bloodshed in the Middle East, namely the state known as Israel, be totally and peacefully dissolved".

In its place, Rabbi Cohen said, should be "a regime fully in accordance with the aspirations of the Palestinians when Arab and Jew will be able to live peacefully together as they did for centuries".

Neturei Karta believes the very idea of an Israeli state goes against the Jewish religion.

The book of Jewish law or Talmud, they say, teaches that believers may not use human force to create a Jewish state before the coming of the Messiah.

 

  An opportunity for thinkers who cannot express their views freely in Europe about the Holocaust
Manouchehr Mottaki
Iranian foreign minister, describing the conference
But how do Neturei Karta and other Orthodox Jews such as Austria-based Rabbi Moishe Ayre Friedman justify attending such a controversial conference?

Rabbi Friedman told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that he was not in Tehran to debate whether the Holocaust happened or not, but to look at its lessons.

He says the Holocaust was being used to legitimise the suffering of other peoples and he wanted to break what he called a taboo on discussing it.

The main thing, he argued, was not Jewish suffering in the past but the use of the Holocaust as a "tool of commercial, military and media power".

In what many other Jews would consider the height of naivety, he commended Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for wanting "a secured future for innocent Jewish people in Europe and elsewhere".

In his speech to the conference, Neturei Karta's Rabbi Cohen said there was no doubt about the Holocaust and it would be "a terrible affront to the memory of those who perished to belittle the guilt of the crime in any way".

However, he also argued that the genocide had been divine will. "The Zionists, with their secular pompous approach behave in complete opposition to this philosophy and dare to say 'Never Again'.

"They have the audacity to think that they can prevent the Almighty from repeating a Holocaust. This is heresy."

Neturei Karta's views are regarded with abhorrence by most other Orthodox Jews, according to Rabbi Jeremy Rosen of the Yakar centre in London.

"And I think, frankly, even among the Hasidic world, by and large Neturei Karta are regarded as freaks," the Orthodox rabbi told the BBC News website.

Your comments:

I don't understand. The western world accuses multiple countries in the Middle East of lacking democracy and free speech, which many of them do. Yet when Iran holds a conference, not to deny the holocaust ever happened, but to investigate whether all we know of the Holocaust was true, we are up in arms. What happened to the concept of free speech we were thinking is the best thing in the world? Does that only apply on all things except when it comes to criticizing Israel? Any criticism of the conference is sheer and utter hypocrisy.
Omar Yassin, St. Paul, MO, USA

Neturei Karta have been given tremendous undue publicity by this obscene conference in Tehran. The truth about Neturei Karta is that they have been virtually ex-communicated by world Jewry, and especially by the much larger ultra-orthodox non and anti-zionist hassidic groups such as the Satmar.
Rysk, Tel Aviv

 

These people do not represent anyone but themselves, and they certainly do not have the mandate to speak for religious Jews in particular. It is unfortunate that a handful of people give the world a distorted view of the jewish people, of Judaism and of religious Jews.
Michael Spielmann, Bnei Brak, Israel

 

To say the Holocaust didn't happen is like saying the earth is not round. I understand that these rabbis believe Israel shouldn't exist. Maybe it shouldn't - we all have the right to our opinions. HOWEVER, to attend a conference such as this is akin to treason. Hate is by far the stupidest thing we can do with our time, and these Iranians HATE those jews but they both hate Israel more so lets have a conference? Further proof that we as a species are doomed to self destruct.
D Watson, Rockland County, NY

 

there might be pros and cons to this. first off if there was an open dialog about the holocaust not many people would doubt it, silence the deniers i say!!! this thing of not discussing it totally is giving credibility to the deniers, who are primarily racist.
susan, vatican

 

This is the first great story on the topic of Israel that I have come across in my life. It is impossible for me to imagine that war will bring peace, especially when it forces so many to live impovished lives. The fact that Jewish religious leaders are recognizing that coexistence is possible in a peaceful way is the only first step towards peace in the region. Building a wall will never protect Israelis, it will only make them feel safe. But humans are creative, determined and see challenges as obstacles to overcome. A wall will only encourage those who are fanaticised to be more desperate and creative in their attacks on Israel. If there is co-existence allowed; to build a nation where Jews and Arabs can live together cooperatively then peace will come to the banks of the Mediterranean.
Sean Magee, Burnaby BC

 

Iran and I guess by association Muslims want the world to respect them and their beliefs. How on Earth can something as aborhant as a Holocaust Denial meeting help that? No-one with an ounce of common sense and a rudimentary knowledge of history could possibly deny that the Jews were persecuted by the Nazis. It is true to say that Israel is not exactly a model of restraint but regardless of modern strife, it cannot be used as an excuse to deny a massacre that was perpetrated by the Germans in WW2. Mark Chisholm, Dereham, UK

 

if Jews and Moslems with extreme views can sit together at a ridiculous conference, why can they not sit together to decide to be tolerant of each others beliefs and live and let live. that this conference was called, is the lowest political game thought in the minds of nasty people with sinister motives.
leon solomon, sun city west,az. usa

 

Neturei Karta have an interesting argument, however as a member of a non-Jewish group of people who were sterilized and murdered by eugenicists acting in collaboration with the Nazis, I find their presence at the Teheran Conference extremely misguided as this merely gives the Iranian regime's denial of the Holocaust credibility.
Andrew Little, Gloucester

 

If the Holocaust was "divine will", what does that say of the god these men worship?
Bill terKuile, Monroe, WA USA

 

I don't understand. The western world accuses multiple countries in the Middle East of lacking democracy and free speech, which many of them do. The West uses the motive that they want to bring "democracy" to other countries as a means for attacking them, and forming new governments (see Iraq). Yet when Iran holds a conference, not to deny the holocaust ever happened, but to investigate whether all we know of the Holocaust was true, we are up in arms. What happened to the concept of free speech we were thinking is the best thing in the world? Does that only apply on ALL THINGS EXCEPT when it comes to criticizing Israel? Any criticism of the conference is sheer and utter hypocrisy.
Omar Yassin, St. Paul, MO, USA

 

In a democracy any views should be open to debate. The majority then decides on which of these views to progress. I'm not in anyway religious or a supporter of any faith as I consider all churches to be a step back towards herd behaviour. However, Rabbi Cohen's views as outlined in this article don't really sound that outrages to me and I think the fact that he sits down with his arch enemies to debate at such a conference portrays him as a pretty courageous man.
Alex, Athens, Greece

 

Every nation has its lunatic fringe, who use their PERVERSION of religious belief as justification for the most obscene behaviour. The Jewish nation and people (especially the secular) treat them with the pity one reserves for mentally unstable... All they are doing is further increasing the move to more secularisation... thank goodness. At least something positive is derived from their idiocy
lazerbenabba, London/UK

 

It's their right to deny, if they wish, the idea that the existence of Israel may prevent another holocaust. However, their punishment for attending this conference is to sit for three days and listen to neo-Nazis defaming the memory of their murdered relatives.
Amos Shapir, Kiryat Ono, Israel

 

People will continue to kill each other for whatever reason, some are more devious and imaginative than others. The Holocaust is abhorrent but not totally unique, should everyone who is not Jewish pay for this mistake? Who is compensating the genocide that has occurred in Rwanda, the Native Americans and the Albanians in Turkey to name but a few?? The formation of Israel has caused more problems that it has solved but it is there and more steps to working together must be taken. I see these people are working to that goal, good luck to them.
Louise, UK

 

If Neturei Karta believes that the removal of Israel is the answer to the containing blood shed in the Middle East then let him do it in a more ideally place i.e. at home in Israel or at the U.N. Tehran is not the right place! Iran is not interested in a pace which includes Jews and Arab living next together! They what the total destruction of Israel and all Jews!
John, Salibury, England

 

I am a Muslim living in Britain and this is my home, why must some Jews insist on having Israel as their home when it belonged to more than just one religion for so long in peace?
Mohammed Quisar Anwar, Manchester UK

 

I think it should be mandatory for anyone who does not believe that the Holocaust took place to visit Auschwitz. My partner and I visited in November 2005 and it was an experience that left us both without words to describe just how we felt. I returned home with intense feelings of remorse and sorrow and I am not Jewish.
Trish Fuller, UK

 

This is what blindly applied dogma (religion) can do to a person's mind!
Sam Butler, Anchorage

 

The holocaust was a reality. The only regret i have is that the Zionist state should have used that as a fundament corner stone to know how the palestians are suffering. you don't suffer to let other people suffer too. If so, then the world would be a messy place to live.
john junisa kamara, Freetown Sierra Leone

 

I am afraid that once again the BBC display their anti Israeli colours by giving disproportionate column inches to a very small and rarefied group of people. They deserved a line or a foot note. I would have really liked to know more about the conference. Was it about denial or more as I suspect trying to uncover truths about numbers and events? I am an ardent supporter of Israel but do not believe that the stifling of debate on this issue is in their interests. Shame the BBC has self censured itself and focused on the trivia.
Jack Kilms, Turin, Italy

 

Speech of Neturei Karta Rabbi in Teheran
Orthodox Jewish Attitude to the ’Holocaust’

(International Conference “Review of the Holocaust”, Teheran 11-12 December ’06)

Speech delivered by Rabbi Aharon Cohen of Neturei Karta

1. Honourable friends, peers and colleagues. We are gathered here to discuss and consider from many angles a tremendously prominent issue from among the tragic events of the 2nd World War. The issue which has become known as the ‘Holocaust’. As is known this issue revolves around the policy and actions adopted by Nazi Germany against the Jewish People. This is of course in the context of their much wider murderous activities at that time. My aim is to try and give you the Orthodox Jewish approach to this matter.

2. Firstly let me express my gratitude to the illustrious organisers of this valuable event for granting my colleagues and myself the opportunity to express our views on this matter and we consider this opportunity a very great privilege.

3. I and my colleagues are what is known as Orthodox Jews, that is Jews who endeavour to live their lives entirely according to the age old Jewish religion and way of life known as Judaism. We are here under the banner of the group known as Neturei Karta which is not a separate movement or organisation but propagators of the philosophy expressing the opposition by Orthodox Jewry to the idea known as Zionism – the secular nationalistic movement to form a sectarian State in Palestine. As is well known, Zionism and the Holocaust have become very much intertwined over the years and the Zionists make a great issue of the Holocaust in order to further their illegitimate philosophy and aims. I wish to talk briefly about both of these topics and their connection.

4. We put effort into attending occasions such as this because we feel that we have both a religious and religion based humanitarian duty to spread our message as much as possible. Consequently I pray that our discussions and conclusions at this conference will be correct and true in every aspect.

5. I would like firstly to recap briefly for everyone present, because of its relevance to the subject of the Holocaust, the fact that Judaism and Zionism are totally different and diametrically opposed concepts. Judaism is an age old G-dly way of life going back thousands of years full of moral, ethical and religious content. Zionism is a comparatively new – little over one hundred years – secular nationalistic concept completely devoid of ethics and morals. Although, it must be said that sadly there are religious groups among the Jewish People who have been affected and infected by the Zionist nationalistic philosophy and have ‘bolted’ Zionism onto Judaism, incorrectly and falsely against the teachings of Judaism as handed down through the generations.

6. Judaism teaches that although the Jewish People were promised the Holy Land, now known as Palestine, this was only subject to certain conditions, basically that we had to maintain the highest of moral, ethical and religious standards. Our religious teachings and literature – our Torah – are replete with warnings that if these conditions were not fulfilled then the Jewish People would be dispersed in a divinely decreed exile.

7. This is what took place. The conditions were not fulfilled to the required degree and the Jewish People were dispersed to the four corners of the globe, as history confirms. Right up to the present day the Jewish People are in a divinely decreed exile in which we are required to be loyal citizens of the countries in which we find ourselves and we are prohibited under oath from trying to force our way out of the exile by the efforts of our own hands. We are also prohibited under oath from trying to form a State of our own in Palestine. To contravene these prohibitions would constitute a rebellion against the wishes of the A-lmighty and we are warned of dire consequences of making any such attempt.

8. The philosophy of the secular movement of Zionism totally ignores and transgresses the clear Jewish teachings outlined and because of this, Zionism was condemned right from its inception by the great Jewish Religious authorities.

9. Furthermore, Zionism right from its inception completely ignored the fact that there was an indigenous population in Palestine comprising mostly Palestinians, and the Zionists have followed a policy of depriving the Palestinians of their hope for self determination on the land they had occupied for centuries. Depriving the Palestinians of their homes, livelihoods and lives. So committing a shocking contravention of religion based humanitarian justice.

10. Judaism however, preaches compassion and consideration for the property and certainly the lives of every fellow man.

11. It will of course be clear from the above firstly that the Zionists do not represent the Jewish People as a whole, and furthermore that anti-Zionism is to be applauded and not to be confused with the ancient bigotry of anti-Semitism. Something which we know is very well appreciated here in the Islamic Republic of Iran where the Jewish community lives peacefully with full civil rights and has done so for thousands of years.

12. Now one of the pillars of justification for Zionism is the event of the Holocaust, with the Zionists claiming that the Jews must have a State of their own in order to prevent (as they claim) the events of the Holocaust ever being repeated. ‘Never Again’ is their slogan. So I would like to set out the Orthodox Jewish view on the Holocaust.

13. Firstly, the facts. There is no doubt what so ever, that during World War 2 there developed a terrible and catastrophic policy and action of genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany against the Jewish People, confirmed by innumerable eye witness survivors and fully documented again and again. I personally was spared the worst effects of the War because I was living in England which thankfully was not occupied by Nazi Germany. However, I and many many others lost countless friends and relatives who perished under the Nazi rule by intentional murder and genocide. Three million Jews in Poland, more than half a million in Hungary, many tens or hundreds of thousands in Russia, Slovakia, France, Belgium, Holland and more. The figure of six million is regularly quoted. One may wish to dispute this actual figure, but the crime was just as dreadful whether the millions (and there were millions) of victims numbered six million, five million or four million. The method of murder is also irrelevant, whether it was by gas chamber (and there were eye witnesses to this), firing squads or whatever. The evil was the same. It would be a terrible affront to the memory of those who perished to belittle the guilt of the crime in any way.

14. However, the Orthodox Jewish teaching and attitude is that the perpetrators of a crime, although fully guilty and responsible for their actions, would never have succeeded in their evil unless the A-lmighty wished it. So, to that extent the victim or victims have of course to attempt to avoid the evil, but if this proves impossible, then they have to accept the will of the A-lmighty. Our teaching is that part of the decree of exile divinely imposed upon us, is that it is not the task of the Jewish People to bring our persecutors to justice. That is the task of the A-lmighty. Our task is to accept the will of the A-lmighty and to strive to improve ourselves, removing from our behaviour the deeds that may have been the cause of our suffering. That has been the Jewish attitude during all the long history of Jewish suffering.

15. In no way can we have the audacity to, as it were, try to prevent the will of the A-lmighty and assume that we are capable of preventing such a thing from happening again. That would be heresy.

16. The Zionists, with their secular pompous approach behave in complete opposition to this philosophy and dare to say ‘Never Again’. They have the audacity to think that they can prevent the A-lmighty from repeating a ‘Holocaust’. This is heresy.

17. Furthermore, as we all know, they compound the wrong of this policy by imposing themselves in a most cruel and harsh manner on the Palestinian People.

18. I must add that the use by the Zionists of the Holocaust to further their aim of a sectarian State is the height of hypocrisy when one bears in mind that the Zionists turned each stage of Nazi oppression to their own advantage, to further the aim of forming a State. In the thirties when the Nazi policy was to expel the Jews from Germany, it is well documented how the Zionists cooperated by working together – yes together - with the Nazi authorities to evacuate ‘suitable’ Jews i.e. young healthy pioneer material, from Germany to Palestine. Then during the war when the killing was proceeding, it is again well documented how their attitude was one of callousness, not helping when they could even though they were able to. They needed the suffering and the deaths in order to be able to push for their State when the war would end. Finally, after the war they turned the whole issue of the Holocaust and the pity and sympathy it evoked into almost an article of faith in order to ensure as much as possible the acquisition of their State. Claiming that Zionism was there in order to prevent another Holocaust, when in fact Zionism predated the Holocaust by decades. They then proceeded to justify their atrocities against the Palestinians in order to further their cause.

19. To sum up, the Orthodox Jewish view is that yes there was a Holocaust to a terribly significant degree whatever that was. But in no way can it be used to justify the illegitimate and criminal cause and actions of Zionism.

20. My friends I wish to end with the prayer that the underlying cause of strife and bloodshed in the Middle East, namely, the State known as ‘Israel’, be totally and peacefully dissolved. To be replaced by a regime fully in accordance with the aspirations of the Palestinians. When Arab and Jew will be able to live peacefully together as they did for centuries.

21. May we then merit the time when the glory of the A-lmighty will be revealed to all and all mankind will be at peace with each other.

http://www.nkusa.org/

 

 

French president orders probe into revisionist comments

Original article: www.ejpress.org/article/12289 

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PARIS (AFP/EJP)--- French President Jacques Chirac has ordered a probe into revisionist comments made by the French scholar Robert Faurisson at an Iranian conference on the Holocaust this week, his office said Friday.

Chirac has asked Justice Minister Pascal Clement to open a preliminary investigation into the comments made by Faurisson, a retired literature professor well-known for his revisionist views.

In his speech at the Tehran meeting, Faurisson repeated his theories denying the existence of gas chambers and said that in the past twenty-two years “he had been waiting for someone to show him one of those chambers”.

The 77-year-old Faurisson was given a three-month suspended jail term for Holocaust denial last October over remarks he made on Iranian television.

Iran this week organised a conference on the Holocaust that presented Nazi Germany’s systematic slaughter of six million Jews during World War II as a matter of historical debate, sparking angry condemnation from around the world.

In 1991, Faurisson was removed from his university chair on the basis of his views under the Gayssot Act, a French statute passed in 1990 that prohibits Holocaust denial.

He challenged the statute as a violation of international law but the International Human Rights Committee upheld the Gayssot Act as necessary to counter anti-Semitism.

 

 

French minister: Holocaust revisionist could face lawsuit over Iran speech

Original article: www.ejpress.org/article/12228

 

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PARIS (AFP)--- A French revisionist academic who denies the existence of the Nazi Holocaust could face legal action for speaking on the topic at a controversial Iranian conference, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said Wednesday.

Robert Faurisson might be brought to court "as a result of the comments he made" at the "unacceptable" Tehran gathering, which wrapped up Tuesday, he said.

Iran held the two-day conference to examine questions posed by its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has repeatedly cast doubt on the truth of the Holocaust.

Western countries raised an international outcry over the meeting, which also attracted attendees such as German-born Australian Fredrick Toeben and former Klu Klux Klan member David Duke.

France has a statute making it illegal to deny the existence of the Holocaust.

Faurisson, a former literary professor banned from French universities, already fell foul of that law in February 2005 when he argued his position on an Iranian satellite television station.

 

 

Holocaust denier back in Britain

David Irving

British historian and Holocaust denier David Irving has returned to the UK after being expelled from Austria.

Mr Irving was unrepentant as he arrived back in at Heathrow airport saying he had "no need any longer to show remorse" for his views.

Earlier this week, he was released on probation from a three-year sentence imposed in Austria for a speech in 1989 in which he denied the Holocaust.

He served 13 months of the sentence and has now been banned from Austria.

The 68-year-old said he would urge an academic boycott of historians from Germany and Austria until the nations stopped jailing historians.

Mr Irving's case sparked international debate about the limits of freedom of speech.

In his speech in Austria 17 years ago, he denied the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz, though he later said he was "mistaken".

On Wednesday, he was unexpectedly released and welcomed the decision saying he was "fit and well".

Although Austrian authorities have permanently banned him from Austria, he told Agence France Presse: "I have no interest in coming back."

Intense debate

On arriving back in the UK, Mr Irving hit out at what he described as a "secret society of judges" in this country who are still determined to destroy him.

"They haven't succeeded," he said. "My enemies are deeply shocked that I'm out. They thought I would die in prison."

He said the case had cost him and his partner, Bente Hogh, their London home.

The BBC's Kerry Skyring in Vienna said the presiding judge converted the remaining two years of Mr Irving's jail term to a provisional sentence, upholding his appeal.

 

  Irving's reputation as a credible historian is shot
Karen Pollock
Holocaust Educational Trust
Both the prosecution and defence had challenged the length of the sentence. The crime carries a prison term of up to 10 years.

The 1992 law targets "whoever denies, grossly plays down, approves or tries to excuse the National Socialist genocide".

Mr Irving's release on probation has dismayed Jewish groups.

Lord Janner, vice-president of the World Jewish Congress and president of the Commonwealth Jewish Council, said: "I am sorry that he did not serve out his full term."

 

 

COUNTRIES WITH LAWS AGAINST HOLOCAUST DENIAL

Austria

Belgium

Czech Republic

France

Germany

Israel

Lithuania

Poland

Romania

Slovakia

Switzerland


Asked about Mr Irving's comments about historians being put in prison, Lord Janner said: "I do not believe that he was put in prison because he was a historian. And historians should be treated in the same way as anyone else."

Mr Irving was arrested in November last year on a motorway in southern Austria. He was visiting to give a lecture to a far-right student fraternity.

The conviction had sparked intense debate, with supporters saying it was fully justified but opponents arguing it undermined the right of freedom of speech.

At the initial trial, Mr Irving had said it was "ridiculous" he was being tried for expressing an opinion and that he had changed his views on the Holocaust.

He says he accepts the existence of death camps, but claims Auschwitz's role as a "killing centre" has been exaggerated to pander to the tourist trade.

 

 

SPIEGEL ONLINE - December 20, 2006, 02:32 PM
URL: 
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,455726,00.html

HOLOCAUST DENIER RELEASED FROM PRISON

David Irving Free After 13 Months in Jail

The controversial right-wing author David Irving has been released from jail. He sat in a Vienna prison for 13 months because he had denied the Holocaust. Now his sentence has been reduced and he is free to return to Great Britain on probation.

 
David Irving has been released from prison in Austria.
AP

David Irving has been released from prison in Austria.

Vienna's highest court has ruled that controversial British author David Irving can be released from jail. The court granted the right-wing historian's appeal against his three-year sentence and ruled that he could serve out the remainder of his term on probation.

 

The court rejected calls by the prosecution that his sentence be increased. Instead it reduced his sentence from three to two years, with one of those years to be served on probation. As he has already sat in jail since his arrest in November 2005, the ruling means he can be released from prison immediately.

During his one-day trial in February, Irving had pleaded guilty to the charge of denying the Holocaust, an offense punishable by up to ten years imprisonment under Austrian law.

The revisionist historian was arrested on charges relating to two speeches he gave in Austria in 1989, when he contested the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz and said that those who had died at the concentration camp had succumbed to diseases such as typhus rather than execution. He escaped an arrest warrant in 1989 but was arrested when he entered the country last year.

Irving appeared in handcuffs to hear the verdict in the packed courtroom on Wednesday. The prosecutor Marie-Luise Nittel argued that Irving's words should "in no way be underestimated." She said Irving was like "an idol, whose words provide the basis for the right-wing scene."

Irving's lawyer, Hebert Schaller, argued that his client, who is 68, should be freed because of his age and the fact that his wife is ill. After the hearing Schaller told Reuters, "He is free and can leave, and he will leave."

smd/reuters/ap

 

 

 

 

Times Online December 21, 2006

Irving attacks Austria after ban

Elsa McLaren and Bojan Pancevski in Vienna

David Irving in court yesterday

British author David Irving has been banned from returning to Austria where he was jailed for Holocaust denial after authorities branded him a "potential safety threat".

Irving, 68, was due to be deported from Austria today after serving a third of a three-year sentence handed down in February.

He was jailed for two lectures he made in Austria in 1989 which denied the existence of death camps and the organised mass murder of Jews during Nazi rule. Under a 1992 law denial of the Holocaust is a crime punishable with up to 10 years in prison.

Yesterday, the Regional High Court in Vienna, in an unexpected ruling, converted his sentence into probation, provoking outrage from the Jewish community in the country and abroad.

Today, Irving was banned from travelling to Austria for an indefinite time and would face arrest and deportation if he attempted to enter the country.

Gerhard Bruckner, Austrian immigration police spokesman, said: "Mr Irving is a convicted offender who could pose a potential threat to the safety and order of this country.

"That is why he has been banned from entering the country to an indefinite time. Should he violate this ban and attempt to enter the country illegally he will be facing immediate arrest and deportation.

"Mr Irving can appeal the decision in court if he chooses to."

Irving reacted angrily to news of the ban. "Austria is a p**s-poor little country. They say that they want to prevent me from coming back. I have no interest in coming back," he told AFP news agency.

He added: "If you go to Saudi Arabia and you drink beer, you get arrested. This is the same kind of thing. It tells a little bit about the quality of the country."

Irving said it had been "a great shock to find myself arrested or kidnapped for what I said 17 years ago".

He said he never denied the Holocaust during his lectures, but that he felt historians had not researched the issue properly.

He declined to comment further saying: "I'm in Austria at present and can't speak of that topic. I have no idea who is listening to this phone call. They are eager to try and put the handcuffs on me again."

Irving said he had spent 400 days in solitary confinement.

He was due to return to London on a flight this afternoon to Heathrow, but because of bad weather conditions Austrian authorities have difficulties finding a flight available.

However, Mr Bruckner said that Irving will be escorted by police to the first available flight to London.

 

 

 

December 16, 2006
Ties Cut With Iran Institute Over Holocaust
By KATRIN BENNHOLD

PARIS, Dec. 15 — Some of the world’s leading policy institutes announced Friday that they were breaking off relations with a group within the Iranian Foreign Ministry that organized a conference on the Holocaust in Tehran featuring discredited academics and Holocaust deniers.

In a statement, the leaders of the institutes said that the ministry’s Institute for Political and International Studies, which had served in the past “as a mainstream Iranian interface with foreign think tanks and research institutes,” was no longer an acceptable partner.

The 34 signers of the statement included the directors of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London; the Aspen Institute Berlin; the German Marshall Fund in Washington; the Geneva Center for Security Policy; the Center for International Studies and Research in Paris; the United States Studies Center in Sydney, Australia; and the Center for International Relations in Warsaw.

François Heisbourg, head of the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris, who wrote the statement and began circulating it Wednesday night, said: “This is about morality and about academic standards.” He added that he believed the Iranians would be “extremely sensitive” to a condemnation of the Foreign Ministry institute, because it “was a bit their window to the world.”

The international institutes’ action followed statements by several world leaders condemning the conference, which was held this week. Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain called it “shocking beyond belief,” and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, condemned “in the strongest terms” dismissals of the Holocaust by “revisionist” historians.

The conference had been billed as a chance for “both sides” to be heard on the Holocaust, but none of the speeches collected in the ministry’s book or any of the exhibitions spoke of the reality of the Nazi killing of millions of Jews and others.

One poster with three photographs showed dead bodies and described accounts of their gassing as a myth. Signs pointed to smiling prisoners freed at the end of the war with the label “truth.” New captions in Persian on other pictures of corpses described them as victims of a typhus epidemic in Europe, not of the Nazi death machine.

Mr. Heisbourg was hopeful that breaking relations with the Iranian institute could help moderate forces inside it to check their more radical colleagues.

Jacques Chirac, the French president, on Friday ordered an investigation into statements by a retired French professor, Robert Faurisson, at the Tehran conference. Mr. Faurisson, who has been convicted before for denying the Holocaust, said in a speech at the conference that the Holocaust was a myth created to justify the occupation of Palestine, meaning the creation of Israel.

 

 

Swedish teacher suspended over attending Holocaust meeting in Iran

dpa German Press Agency Published: Thursday December 14, 2006

Stockholm- A Swedish computer science teacher who attended a controversial Holocaust conference in Iran earlier this week has been suspended, news reports said Thursday. The teacher, identified as Jan Bernhoff, had given a lecture where he alleged that 300,000 Jews died in the Holocaust during World War II as opposed to the number of six million commonly used by academics.

Although he did not teach history as a subject at the adult education college where he works in Stockholm, local politicians and the school management questioned if he could continue as a teacher.

"I think he will have a hard time at school since so many students and colleagues have contacted me about his participation at the conference," principle Britt-Marie Johansson told Swedish radio.

Johansson said a probe would be launched and in the meantime Bernhoff would be suspended.

Minister for Schools Jan Bjorklund, who is in charge of education issues in the cabinet, said the teacher's participation in the Iranian conference was "unacceptable," but that he had no constitutional right to intervene in the case.

The two-day conference in Tehran, sponsored by the Iranian government, was widely condemned.

© 2006 dpa German Press Agency

 

 

 

 

 

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN - Tehran International Conference

"Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision 10-12 December 2006

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What an Experience!

The ‘Holocaust’ has no reality in space and time, only in Memory

Fredrick Töben, Tehran, 22 December 2006

 

 

Figuratively speaking, the Tehran Holocaust conference has been something out of this world for me. Let me say why.

 

The fact it was planned at all is itself worthy of celebration. Opposition came from without and from within Iran, but the IPIS personnel overcame all the hurdles thrown their way and went ahead in staging an event that could justifiably be called a world event.

 

The actual conference was conducted with the legendary Iranian hospitality of warmth, sensitivity and inclusiveness that characterises Iranian culture and democracy. Let me particularise this comment by pointing out that in the western world we are used to walking into homes with our shoes on thereby bringing in the outside dirt and dust with us. In contrast, in Iran the home is hallowed ground, a sacred place where family and friends socialise. Remember how the ‘coalition of the willing’ forces invading Iraq never understood, respected nor cared about this custom, and regarded it as a weakness. Instead, legally protected by their governments they went into homes with boots and all – even defecating about the places they visited. The so-called civilized western world is by comparison rather crude and wanting in delicacies. Mind you, in the west we do have that wonderful addiction to consumerism – I quote Dr De Maria’s 1998 quip: ‘The only freedom we have in the west is the freedom to go shopping’. 

 

Though absolutely predictable, the world media reaction fascinated me somewhat because of this transparency. I could see the manipulators, the control freaks, literally flipping out as the Tehran ‘Holocaust’ Conference began. The switch from ‘Holocaust’ to ‘Shoah’ in Jewish papers signifies a mind on the run attempting to salvage something out of the smoking ruins called ‘Holocaust’ and making it specifically Jewish. And yet the non-Jewish world was right behind the Jewish push to sabotage the conference. By the way, a literal translation of ‘sabotage’ into Farsi is – the lying, dirty, shitty man.

 

Individuals who hate Revisionists because they are Revisionists, failed to stop the conference because the Islamic Republic of Iran’s president, Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, resisted yielding to internal and external pressure to cancel the conference. Any dealings were out of the question and Jewish groups who wished to bribe the organisers in order to stop it were ignored. For example there was an offer to stop attacking Islam if Iran cancelled the conference, something scoffed at by the Iranians. This is moral and intellectual courage objectified, and illustrates my maxim’s reality content: “Don’t blame the Jews, blame those that bend to their pressure!” The Iranians organising the Tehran Conference did not bend to Jewish pressure!

 

And what happened after the conference? How did the world media react to what had been discussed during the full two-day conference at the various sessions? As usual, factual information about the speeches was not mentioned at all but was swept under the carpet. Instead, the media started their usual sloganeering. The process of defaming individuals had begun, and then progressed to outright personal abuse and use of foul language, usually the refuge of the morally and intellectually bankrupt.

 

On the world stage Israel’s Prime Minister Olmert visited Berlin and informed German Chancellor Merkel that Israel was indeed a nuclear power. Finally the long known dirty open secret had publicly been acknowledged, much to Mordechai Vanunu’s disgust who had known this secret, and for divulging it, had his humanity robbed for 18 years.

 

The counter ‘Holocaust’ conference was held in Berlin where attempts were made to focus on ‘Holocaust denial’, and Emory University is granting Professor Deborah Lipstadt’s website $2 million to revamp her material so that it is streamlined in other languages such as Arabic, Farsi, Russian, and others, thereby making the ‘lessons of the Holocaust available to future generations’. This can be seen as a direct reaction to the outcome of the Tehran ‘Holocaust’ Conference, which saw the setting-up of a World Holocaust Foundation that will enquire into the ‘Holocaust’. Its seat will initially be Tehran but ultimately it is aimed to relocate it to its logical place, Berlin.

 

One of the spin-offs of the Tehran conference is that the Holocaust industry is increasingly switching to the Hebrew word ‘Shoah’, thereby attempting to rescue what is left of the narrative. It indicates that Revisionists have had the desired effect and have done their work, and now ‘Shoah’ believers, of necessity, need to keep changing their story.

 

When liars are trapped, when they cannot scapegoat anymore, they turn upon their own. This has now happened with a vengeance as the lies of the ‘Holocaust’ industry’s mindset are exposed. I am referring here to the people who attempt to live by the Book, the Torah True Jews who are now in the Zionist’s sight. This has already manifested itself in England where Rabbi Cohen faces extraordinary social and economic sanctions from within the Jewish community that is just shy off physical violence against his person. Austrian Chief Rabbi Friedman is also feeling the heat, so much so that he cannot directly fly from Tehran to his home in Vienna because a government minister has already publicly announced Friedman would be arrested upon arrival at Vienna Airport. Even Australia’s vicious Zionists could not resist projecting their venom on the Torah True Jews. Instead of using civilising and reasoned language, they used expletives of disgust, thereby revealing to the world that their emotional blustering merely reveals how morally and intellectually bankrupt they are. No amount of huffing and puffing will enable them to regain that much desired moral high ground, something they always seek to maintain when propagating their ‘Holocaust’ narrative.

 

We have witnessed the death-throws of the ‘Holocaust-Shoah’ narrative as it stands in 2006, something that Revisionists such as Willis Carto clearly perceived in 1969 when he published The Myth of the Six Million. I am, of course, aware of the fact that this sentence mentioning Willis Carto will cause some individuals to cringe. But I am merely stating an objective fact – and I shall leave it at that.

 

The process of disintegration will continue unabated, and perhaps we may recall that just as the multi-billion Enron empire crumbled from within, so will the ‘Holocaust-Shoah’ multi-billion industry disintegrate from within. The question of who is an authentic Jew has been posed by the Torah True Jews at the Tehran conference. These Jews believe in the ‘Holocaust’ narrative but they reject making any reparation claim upon Germany or anyone else, as have the Zionist Jews over these past six decades and continue to do so.

 

Of interest here is the 20 December 2006 court-ordered release of David Irving from his Vienna jail, something his lawyer, Dr Schaller, at the Tehran conference predicted would happen. Irving, of course, is not really a ‘Holocaust’ Revisionist because he still believes in limited gassings. Such nonsense claim causes me categorically to state: “Anyone who believes in the homicidal gassing story is either ignorant, willingly or unwillingly, of the physical facts, or a liar.” There is no escaping this dialectic except, of course by refusing to delve into the material, for example, as made available in German Rudolf’s classic Holocaust Handbook Series of 21+ volumes. Someone said to me that Irving’s problem rested on the fact that he actually had consorted with Nazis and neo-Nazis, and that this caused him to lose the London 2000 defamation action against Professor Deborah Lipstadt. I corrected this perception by pointing out that this guilt-by-association – BERÜHRUNGSÄNGSTE in German – was not the cause of his failing in his action, but rather the fact that he lied and tried to deny that he had been associating with Nazis and neo-Nazis. After all, the trial’s aim was to remove the so-called derogatory terms from Irving’s character: ‘hater’, ‘Holocaust denier’, ‘antisemite’, ‘racist’, ‘neo-Nazi’, etc.

 

This fence-sitting attitude reflects the different agendas that individual Revisionists have. It also reveals Irving’s attitude towards Germans. He knows that the gassing claim still imprisons Germans as a people. Irving’s post-release statement that ‘Mel Gibson was right’, panders to those who oppose Jewish power as such, and does nothing to liberate the Germans from the ‘Holocaust’ dogma, an attitude also found in Dr David Duke’s mindset.

 

This anti-German sentiment is to a large measure still present within Revisionists generally – that was my personal experience gained throughout my stay in Tehran. This fact certainly implies that Germans cannot rely on individual Revisionists such as Irving to help them liberate themselves from the ‘Holocaust’ stranglehold. I personally felt this anti-German sentiment when the World ‘Holocaust’ Foundation committee was formed. Its secretary-general, Dr Ali Armin speaks Farsi and German only, and hence I wrote up the committee notice in three languages, German, French and English, in that order. Two prominent individuals objected to this. First it was objected that German was spoken during the inaugural meeting where proceedings were translated into English. Then it was objected that the committee notice had German as first language. The ‘Nazi’ tag was liberally used in order to persuade me to remove German as the first language, something I rejected outright – much to the consternation of the fellow who objected, so much so that he fell into a shouting frenzy. All very sad.

 

The fact that there is an Iranian group of individuals who have also realized this phenomenon was anticipated by me when I titled my August 2006 Washington AFP/ TBR Conference address: ‘Will Iran liberate Germany from Judaism?’ The Foundation Secretary-General implied as much in his statement that the World Foundation’s headquarters would initially be located in Tehran but then, in time, would re-locate to Berlin. That’s a courageous vision – and of course, Torah True Jews would be welcomed to participate in this venture!

 

When I was invited to address President Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the formal meeting, I mentioned that we saw democracy in action at Tehran University where a group of Iranian students vented their frustrations on the first day of the conference by burning pictures of their president while he was addressing them.

Much was made of this in the western press, but little is made in the western press of the fact that since the conference the world knows that Zionist Jews do not speak on behalf of world Jewry because Torah True Jews refuse to profit from participating in the ‘Holocaust’ industry. Let’s hope that this will bring speedy relief for Ernst Zündel, Germar Rudolf, Horst Mahler, Hans-Günter Kögel, Rigolf Hennig, and those many more languishing in German jails simply because they refuse to believe in the ‘Holocaust’ lies.

 

 


Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jewish Rabbis
Meet with Iranian President Ahmadinejad
Sept 21, 2006

 

 Limiting The Fallout From The Tehran Holocaust Conference

 
Written by Andrew Winkler, The Rebel Media Group   
Thursday, 14 December 2006
 

The Western media are scrambling to limit the fallout from Tehran's truly historical Holocaust conference. As per usual, we can see the multipronged approach that is the hallmark of the Zionist moles who have infested all aspects of political discours.
 

There was the usual mix of lies, libel and innuendo, servicing the ‘true believer’ crowd. Those bluepillers don’t need any arguments, just feeding their hate and prejudices will do for them. Especially the likes of Dr. David Duke and Prof. Robert Faurrisson are – as per usual – on the receiving end of this kind of attention. The number of spiteful attacks would have been even bigger, if numerous revisionist scholars weren’t currently enjoying the hospitality of the Zionist occupied governments of Germany and Austria or had their passports confiscated to prevent them from travelling to Tehran.

And then of course, there are those more enlightened writers, who are working overtime to come up with the most fancifull explanations, why an obviously highly intelligent man like the Iranian president would engage into ‘Holocaust denial’. Yesterday, I reported on this fellow who was trying to make his readers believe that the Holocaust conference was retaliation for the controversial Muhammed cartoons that gave Mossad provocateurs so much opportunity to misrepresent Muslims as intolerant and violent. Another theory I read today was that the ‘Holocaust myth’ topic was just a clever bargaining chip used by Tehran in the nuclear energy negotiations.

Both explanations are obviously nonsense. The Holocaust conference has been in the making for over a year, so it’s far more likely that the Muhammed cartoon and possibly even the pressure with respect to Iran’s nuclear programme were the result of the planned conference, not the other way round.

I should also mention the Los Angeles Times, who wrote an editorial with the title ‘
Holocaust denial can be dangerous’. By linking the continued existence of the Jews only state with the narrative of the Holocaust, the editor of the LA Times inadvertently suggests  that he believes that Apartheid Israel was based on a lie and wouldn't survive being found out.

Apparently, lies, personal insults and nonsense are all the Kosher Nostra and the Holocaust industry have to offer against the well researched and documented work of dozens of Holocaust revisionists. But no matter, what they say, the chosen media's real message is this: No educated, intelligent and sane person
could honestly believe that there were no gas chambers; whoever says, that he thinks the Holocaust was a hoax, is lieing. Thanks to the Iranian president Ahmadinejad this kind of brainwashing will rather sooner than later come to an end.
 

Andrew Winkler is the editor/publisher of Sydney based dissident blog ZioPedia. Andrew can be contacted under editor@ziopedia.org .
 

Source: ZioPedia.org

 

 

Bolton backs push to charge Iran's leader on Israel hatred

Former Ku Klux Klan leading member David Duke talks with a
reporter.

Former Ku Klux Klan leading member David Duke talks with a reporter.
Photo: Reuters

Robert Tait, Tehran
December 14, 2006
 

THE outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, is backing a call for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be charged with inciting genocide over speeches calling for the destruction of Israel.

Mr Bolton will appear today among a panel of diplomats and lawyers calling for Mr Ahmadinejad to be prosecuted.

The panel has been convened by a Jewish umbrella group in the US, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organisations.

The call for legal action came as Mr Ahmadinejad repeated his onslaught against Israel at an international gathering of Holocaust deniers in Tehran.

The President, who has dismissed the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis as a myth, told up to 70 visiting speakers that the Israeli state would soon be wiped out. "Thanks to people's wishes and God's will, the trend for the existence of the Zionist regime is downwards and this is what God has promised and what all nations want," he said. "Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out."

He was praised by several participants for his "bravery and democratic actions" according to a source who was present.

The US and Britain led a chorus of Western disgust at the conference, which the White House labelled an "affront to the entire civilised world".

British Prime Minister Tony Blair condemned the meeting as "shocking beyond belief". "What further evidence do you need to have that this regime is extreme?" he said.

Mr Blair singled out the decision to invite David Duke, a former leading Ku Klux Klan member, as proof of Iran's extremism. Mr Duke praised the event as "a tremendous step forward" and said Mr Ahmadinejad said "sensible things".

Mr Bolton will be joined at the launch of the legal action against Mr Ahmadinejad by a Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz, and the former Israeli ambassador to the UN, Dore Gold, together with experts from the US, Canada and Israel.

A suit will be lodged with the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which will decide whether to hear the action.

The panel said the Iranian President was guilty of inciting genocide "by making numerous threats against the US, calling for the destruction of Israel and instigating discrimination against Christians and Jews". His words violated a 1948 UN genocide convention, to which Iran is a signatory, they said.

GUARDIAN, AGENCIES

 

 David Duke in Iran: "Has Europe gone crazy?"
Speech delivered at the Teheran International Convention on the Holocaust:

[Start]

Distinguished friends,

Thank you Dr. Mohammadi and all the distinguished scholars who are here at a conference that history shall one day deem as one of the most important of the 21st century.

I and all the conference participants must be especially thankful to the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has had the knowledge, the foresight and the courage to convene this conference to offer free speech for the world's most repressed idea, Holocaust revisionism. We must remember that the main themes of this conference as stated by Iran's President are the vital human right of freedom of speech and the condemnation of the shameful imprisonment of European scholars and academics who simply dare to state their opinions of historical events that occurred over 60 years ago.

This conference embraces the idea of free speech, thought, and conscience. The U.S. State Department, under thorough control of International Zionism, in a formal statement called this conference a quote, "disgrace." The real disgrace is that free men are imprisoned and silenced in Europe and in other European-descended nations around the world. The disgrace is that no leaders of our own nations seem have the courage to defend free speech.

I also want to thank your President for inviting me, as controversial as I am, to be here. The Zionist-influenced media lies about me with the same enthusiasm as they lie about him. He will be condemned for having me here, and I as a former American elected official will be condemned by the Zionist influenced press in America for coming here in peace and friendship to a nation that they hate: the nation of Iran.

But, we at this conference have decided that no longer will we let the Zionists dictate to us. They shall not dictate to us who will be our friends, who will be our enemies, nor will we permit them to dictate to us only their version of the past, and we will certainly not let them dictate our future!

Let me say from the outset that I am no disloyal American, I love my country and my people, but I know that the Zionist extremists lead my country to catastrophe in the Mideast and elsewhere around the world. I know that the Palestinian people, the Lebanese people, even the American people have been sacrificed on the altar of the Holocaust. It is the chronic media and government playing of the Holocaust that has blinded our eyes to new holocausts and new outrages.

As a truly patriotic American I oppose Americans being killed or maimed by the thousands in Iraq in a war not for America, but for Israel. I am here because I love my country and oppose those who lead America and the world to ruin on behalf of Zionism. In Iraq too, Americans and countless Iraqis have been sacrificed on the ideological altar of the Holocaust, for the Holocaust and its chronic recital is used as the justification of any Israeli treachery or crime against humanity.

The Zionist-influenced media in America and Europe is trying to mislead the U.S. and Iran toward a war that would be catastrophic for your country, for my country and for the world. Here too images of a Holocaust against Jews are used to justify and promote a terrible war against Iran that would constitute a new Holocaust, one against the Iranian people and indeed for all of us in the world.

I believe the people of Iran want peace, and I can tell you that the average American also wants peace. This conference is based on freedom of speech, true freedom, not the lip service brokered in the mass media. Freedom of speech will take on the Holocaust. But, freedom of speech also relies on a free press. Perhaps how little we can trust the establishment press on the Holocaust is illustrated by the lies told about your esteemed president.

This morning, I read a story about this conference from a European newspaper that stated and I quote, that Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for wiping Israel off the map. This assertion has been made in literally thousands of newspaper articles and radio and TV news reports.

But, all those here know that such a translation of his speech is nothing but a big lie. He never said anything of the kind. Any proper translation of his speech shows that he never called for Israel to be quote, "wiped from the map"! But millions of people in the West and around the world have heard this so many times they believe it. Whatever might be the ultimate truth of the Holocaust, how can we learn it from a press that repeats 5,000 times a lie about your President that anyone with an Iranian-English dictionary can disprove in 5 minutes? In short, their ability to sell this easily disproven lie shows that the media can get away with any lie, even of the largest proportions. The only way to learn the truth about any idea is free speech, free discussion, and free debate.

The conference will include academics who embrace the prevalent historical conception of the Holocaust and those who have a revisionist view. Revisionists question parts of the official Holocaust story. In some Western nations, to diverge even slightly from Holocaust orthodoxy will cause an historian to face not only a loss of academic career but also imprisonment.

Right now as I speak, three names come to mind immediately. David Irving, Ernst Zundel, and Germar Rudolf. These three men, scholars, researchers, intellects who their opponents dare not debate, these nonviolent, kind and gentle men sit behind dark prison walls at this very moment for simply daring to speak their conscience, for expressing the world's most forbidden opinion, the idea that the historical event trademarked as the Holocaust as it is popularly presented, is not an accurate historical portrayal, that it needs like all other events of history to be questioned, researched freely and constantly revised. Perhaps the hypocrisy is illustrated by devotion of Europe to freedom for the vilest kinds of pornography. Every kind of the sickest pornography is allowed in the Western world today, including pornography that delves into the worst forms of sadism and masochism and the vilest degradation of women, many of whom have been drug addicted and truly enslaved in what the world calls White slavery. Yet, these sickest, evil forms of porn are not only legal in Europe, they are lucrative! Yet, if you dare to research and offer a dissenting opinion about any aspect of the event singularly called the Holocaust, it's off to prison for you, its bankruptcy for you and your family.

In Europe you can freely question, ridicule, and deny Jesus Christ. The same is true for the prophet Muhammed, and nothing will happen to you, heck you might even get to star in your own weekly TV show, but offer a single question of the smallest part of the Holocaust and you face prison! David Irving one of the world's most famous and well-read historians, a writer who many mainstream historians have praised as brilliant and accurate, at this moment sits in a prison near Vienna, Austria for simply stating his historical opinion about Auschwitz in a lecture in Austria in 1989. German researcher/chemist Gemar Rudolf faces years of imprisonment for simply publishing a detailed forensic analysis that challenged the authenticity of alleged Auschwitz gas chambers. Ernst Zundel, a resident of Canada and the U.S was ripped from his wife and home because he had politically incorrect opinions about the events of the Second World War.

I have been honored to know personally all three of these men. They are kind, witty, humorous, men of family, of kindness and decency. None of these men were hateful or advocated hate, none were violent or advocated violence, none of these men were terrorists or supported terrorists, none of these men did anything other than express an intellectual opinion at variance with high priests of the Holocaust. All these men did was have the courage to express their opinions even though they knew that by doing so everything they held dear was endangered, their safety, their sustenance, their freedom, but they chose their conscience and their honor, even at the risk of life, that their own heart might be stilled forever. They still stood tall. I am not here to argue the truth or untruth of their claims, that is for the other speakers here, but I am here to add my voice from America from free men and women everywhere that the fact that these men are imprisoned is a scandal and injustice. The whole world knows that imprisoning men for their opinions is tyranny; that such is the opposite of everything that we mean by the word freedom. As some nations of Europe jail men for their opinions, these same nations boast about their supposed freedom and hold themselves above many other nations they view as repressive and backward.

Some of the brave men here today at this conference have been jailed, even physically attacked, lost reputation, freedom, property, career, simply for speaking their conscience. I see a number of them as I look in the audience. And none of these men write or speak hatefully or intemperately, but how can the world even know that, when they and their beliefs are repressed by government and media. I want to honor one of the men here for his sacrifices over the years in his obedience to conscience and to truth, a man who has laid in a hospital bed with his bones crushed, his pain-racked body burned by acid, all for doing what his intellect dictated and his conscious demanded. He is Dr. Robert Faurisson, and we here and the world owe him a debt that we can never adequately repay. Lesser men would have given up and lived the quiet life, but he gave his all and he still gives us his all even now. I would like to ask you to stand up for him ladies and gentlemen. Robert Faurrison, the best-known revisionist in the world today.

The main theme of the Holocaust Conference is that there must be freedom of speech on this subject as on all others. Free speech, inquiry and debate are the only way to learn the truth on any issue. In prosecutions of Holocaust questioners, authorities have not allowed introduction of any evidence supporting the defendant's claims. The courts have even announced in their guilty verdicts that "The truth is no defense," i.e. that even if the defendant can be shown to be honest and accurate, and even if his claims can be substantiated by physical and documentary evidence, he has broken the law by simply questioning aspects of the official Holocaust Story.

I take no hard position on the historical accuracy of the Holocaust, I leave that to those whose whole lives are devoted to the study of the issue, but I take an unshakeable position on freedom. Obviously, Jews, as well as other nationalities suffered great losses during the Second World War. Repression, dispossession or murder against any group is wrong. Revisionists don't deny that many Jews died and suffered greatly in the war, they condemn any and all injustices done to Jews in that period.

It must also be understood that throughout history, the historical treatment of atrocities or crimes against humanity have often been colored by political purposes. Throughout history some crimes against humanity have been exaggerated and emphasized to justify political agendas or even war. Other crimes against humanity have been completely ignored or downplayed.

An example is the contrast between the crimes of National Socialist Germany and that of Soviet Communism. Most researchers readily acknowledge that Bolshevism imprisoned, tortured and slaughtered many times more people in Russia and in Eastern Europe than even the high numbers alleged in the Holocaust. Yet, the Soviet Holocaust receives not one-hundredth of the attention of the Jewish Holocaust. Can anyone here name even a single movie you have seen about the Bolshevik slaughter? Isn't it sensible to think that this disparity is because of the strong Jewish influence in Western media from the entertainment establishment of Hollywood to the news media centered in New York and across the European world? Revisionists suggest that an exaggeration and saturation of the Holocaust has been essential to establishment and support of the Zionist state in Israel and that it offers a psychological excuse for the large scale ethnic cleansing, repression, torture and genocide against the Palestinian people. Revisionists argue that this vested interest of much of the pro-Zionist media and pro-Zionist governments affords a danger that the Holocaust can be distorted and politicized just as many historical crimes against humanity have either been exaggerated or diminished in pursuit of political agendas. Whether the revisionists scholars are right or wrong is for you to decide, not those who want to crush free thought and free speech.

I and every speaker at this conference believe in freedom of speech on all historical and contemporary issues. We believe in freedom of speech, conscience, opinion, and expression. It is the opponents of this conference who clearly don't believe in freedom of speech and conscience. It is they who have thrown elderly men and women into prison for years for simply expressing their opinions. Yet, instead of condemning these tyrants, the media even celebrates the imprisonment of human beings who dare to question. Dr. Bruno Gollnisch, a professor of Literature at the University of Lyon, and a member of the European Parliament was convicted of Holocaust Denial. Speaking in Lyon, France, in October 2004, Gollnisch said: "I do not deny the existence of deadly gas chambers. But I'm not a specialist on this issue, and I think we have to let the historians debate it." He did not contest the "hundreds of thousands, the millions of deaths" during the Holocaust, but added: "As to the way those people died, a debate should take place." For simply advocating free speech, Gollnisch was convicted of Holocaust Denial. Has Europe gone crazy? Freedom of speech is important for two reasons. First, freedom of speech is a vital human right. It is the cornerstone of all other rights, because without freedom of speech no one has to the right to even freely know and learn of the abrogation of other rights affecting human freedom and survival. That is why the American founding fathers put freedom of speech, press and religion as the first and highest of the Bill of Rights. Second, freedom of speech and debate are absolutely vital for the truth to prevail. If one side of any controversial issue can suppress the voice of opposition, we cannot arrive at the certainty of any truth. If academics and citizens can be blackmailed monetarily and in career; if they can be threatened with firings, loss of income, or imprisonment for simply sincerely pursuing an historical inquiry and publishing it, how can the truth be discovered?

How does one even know the real revisionist opinion, if that opinion is repressed?

A perfect example of the biased treatment of the Western press is the recent adoption of the term "Holocaust denier" to slander anyone who may question any part of the complex and expansive Holocaust story. The term "Holocaust denier" was created by Simon Wiesenthal to denote any one who dares to question any part of his version of the Holocaust. To "deny" is usually associated with an allegation of a personal crime. For example, "John Doe denies that he committed the robbery." It has a very negative connotation. It is not commonly used to denote people holding a contrary historical opinion. In truth, revisionists are not deniers, they are simply questioners who are being imprisoned and slandered for simply questioning with research and reason this tragic period of history during the Second World War. The Holocaust Conference in Iran is truly about respect for intellectual freedom. Iran has organized the first international conference dedicated to freedom of speech and inquiry on this important historical matter that has so many ramifications on the Mideast and many other present political realities.

I am here in Tehran as a speaker in this conference because I am dedicated to freedom of speech, conscience, and thought. I am honored, as are all of you, to be here at this historic conference. I urge the fair-minded people of the world, before they condemn this conference, the Iranian President, all the speakers and me, to ask the question: who are the patrons of freedom and who are the real deniers, the deniers of our precious human right of freedom of speech!

-Dr. David Duke

Former member of the House of Representatives State of Louisiana, United States of America

 

 

 

Iranian leader: Israel will be ‘wiped out’

Ahmadinejad renews heated rhetoric at meeting of Holocaust deniers

The Associated Press

Updated: 4:56 p.m. ET Dec 12, 2006

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends a meeting with participants of Holocaust conference in Tehran
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends a meeting Tuesday with participants of a 'Review of the Holocaust' conference in Tehran.

VIENNA, Austria - Iran’s hard-line president said Tuesday that Israel will one day be “wiped out” as the Soviet Union was, drawing applause from participants in a conference casting doubt on the Holocaust.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comments were likely to further fuel the outcry prompted by the two-day gathering, which has gathered some of Europe’s and the United States’ best-known Holocaust deniers.

Anger over the conference could further isolate Iran as the West considers sanctions in the standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Harsh rhetoric aimed at Israel
But Ahmadinejad appeared to revel in his meeting Tuesday with conference delegates, shaking hands with American participants and sitting near six anti-Israel Jewish participants, dressed in black ultra-Orthodox coats and hats.

“The Zionist regime will be wiped out soon the same way the Soviet Union was, and humanity will achieve freedom,” Ahmadinejad said during Tuesday’s meeting in his offices, according to the official IRNA news agency.

He called for elections among “Jews, Christians and Muslims so the population of Palestine can select their government and destiny for themselves in a democratic manner.”

Ahmadinejad has used anti-Israeli rhetoric and cast doubt on the Holocaust to rally anti-Western supporters at home and abroad, particularly in Asia and the Middle East. Several times he has referred to the Holocaust as a “myth” used to impose the state of Israel on the Arab world.

“The Holocaust is the device used as the pillar of Zionist imperialism, Zionist aggression, Zionist terror and Zionist murder,” David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader and former state representative in Louisiana, told The Associated Press.

Iranian leader vows ‘fact-finding commission’
Ahmadinejad announced the conference would set up a “fact-finding commission” to determine whether the Holocaust happened or not. The commission will “help end a 60-year-old dispute,” he said.

The Tehran conference was touted by participants and organizers as an exercise in academic freedom and a chance to openly consider whether 6 million Jews really died in the Holocaust, away from Western taboos and the restrictions imposed on scholars in Europe, where some countries have made it a crime to deny the Nazi genocide during World War II.

It gathered 67 writers and researchers from 30 countries, most of whom argue that either the Holocaust did not happen or that it was vastly exaggerated. Many have been jailed or fined in France, Germany or Austria, where it is illegal to deny the Holocaust.

 

Participants milled around a model of the Auschwitz concentration camp brought by one speaker, Australian Frederick Toben, who uses the mock-up in lectures contending that the camp was too small to kill mass numbers of Jews. More than 1 million people are estimated to have been killed there.

Jewish group attends conference
Rabbi Moshe David Weiss, one of six members attending from the group Jews United Against Zionism, told delegates, “We don’t want to deny the killing of Jews in World War II, but Zionists have given much higher figures for how many people were killed.”

“They have used the Holocaust as a device to justify their oppression,” he said. His group rejects the creation of Israel on the grounds that it violates Jewish religious law.

 

International condemnation
The gathering of Holocaust deniers touched off a firestorm of indignation Tuesday across Europe, where many countries have made it a crime to publicly disavow the Nazis’ systematic extermination of 6 million Jews.

The European Union’s top justice official condemned the conference as “an unacceptable affront” to victims of the World War II genocide. British Prime Minister Tony Blair denounced it as “shocking beyond belief” and proof of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s extremism.

“I think it is such a symbol of sectarianism and hatred toward people of another religion. I find it just unbelievable, really,” Blair said in London.

In Washington, the White House condemned Iran for convening a conference it called “an affront to the entire civilized world.”

The conference drew especially sharp condemnation in Germany, where Chancellor Angela Merkel said her country repudiated it “with all our strength.”

“We absolutely reject this. Germany will never accept this and will act against it with all the means that we have,” Merkel told reporters. She stood alongside visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who denounced the meeting as “unacceptable” and a “danger” to the Western world.

French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy was interrupted by applause from lawmakers when he told parliament in Paris that the conference showed a resurgence of “revisionist” theories “which are quite simply not acceptable.”

The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, answering critics who contend revisionists are simply exercising their right to free speech, quoted an unidentified survivor as saying: “If the Holocaust was a myth, where is my sister?”

Free speech issues
Deborah E. Lipstadt, a professor of Holocaust studies at Emory University in Atlanta, drew a sharp distinction between the conference and this year’s publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, which triggered protests across the Islamic world.

“It’s one thing to poke fun at a faith — even Judaism. It’s a different thing to lie about history,” she said in a telephone interview. “The question is: When does hate speech become incitement? These people are haters — and haters can cause great damage.”

But Soeren Espersen of the Danish People’s Party, which staunchly defended the Muhammad cartoons, said people should have the right to speak their minds — even at a “hideous” conference like the one in Tehran.

“We believe in freedom of speech also for nut cases,” he said.

‘A slap in the face’
Frantisek Banyai, the head of Prague’s Jewish community — which was decimated during WWII from 120,000 people to just a few thousand today — decried the meeting as “aggressive, wrong and disgusting.”

“It’s immoral. It insults me and it insults each member of the Jewish community, because we lost members of our families,” he said. “It’s a slap in the face of those decent people who know the history and want to learn a lesson from it.”

EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini also condemned Ahmadinejad, who considers the Holocaust a “myth” and has called for Israel to be wiped off the map, for hosting the gathering.

“I want to state my firm condemnation of any attempt to deny, trivialize or minimize the Shoah,” Frattini said. “Anti-Semitism has no place in Europe; nor should it in any other part of the world.”

Vatican warns against indifference
The Vatican called the Holocaust an “immense tragedy” and warned the world not to react with indifference to those who challenge its existence.

“The memory of those horrible events must remain as a warning for people’s consciences,” the Holy See said.

Francois Nicoullaud, France’s ambassador to Tehran from 2001 to 2005, saw the conference as another expression of Ahmadinejad’s continuing efforts to get back to the basics of the Islamic revolution.

“He’s trying to scientifically justify the unjustifiable, in a sense,” he said.

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16149717/

 

 

Dare to Differ - Holocaust ‘Deniers’ Unite
 

From: The Truth Will Set You Free

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/236

 
For a so-called 'backwards' and 'repressive regime', Iran sure has proved without doubt that it's more liberal than the 'most liberal democracies on earth' when it comes to freely expressing unpopular ideas.

Holocaust deniers and skeptics from around the world gathered at a government-sponsored conference here today to discuss their theories about whether six million Jews were indeed killed by the Nazis during World War II and whether gas chambers existed.

In a speech opening the two-day conference, Rasoul Mousavi, head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s Institute for Political and International Studies, which organized the event, said it was an opportunity for scholars to discuss the subject “away from Western taboos and the restriction imposed on them in Europe.”

The foreign ministry had said that 67 foreign researchers from 30 countries were scheduled to take part. Among those speaking today are David Duke, the American white-supremacist politician and former Ku Klux Klan leader, and Georges Thiel, a French writer who has been prosecuted in France over his denials of the Holocaust.

Mr. Duke’s remarks late this afternoon are expected to assert that no gas chambers or extermination camps were actually built during the war, on the ground that killing Jews that way would have been much too bothersome and expensive when the Nazis could have used much simpler methods, according to an advance summary of his speech published by the institute.

“Depicting Jews as the overwhelming victims of the Holocaust gave the moral high ground to the Allies as victors of the war, and allowed Jews to establish a state on the occupied land of Palestine,” Mr. Duke’s paper says, according to the summary.

One of the first scheduled speakers, Robert Faurisson of France, also called the Holocaust a myth created to justify the occupation of Palestine.

The conference is being held at the behest of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who likewise called the Holocaust a myth last year, and repeated a well-known slogan from the early days of the 1979 revolution in Iran, “Israel must be wiped off the map.” He has spoken several times since then about a need to establish whether the Holocaust actually happened.

Most of the speakers at the conference today praised Mr. Ahmadinejad’s comments.

Bendikt Frings, 48, a psychologist from Germany, said he believed Mr. Ahmadinejad was “an honest direct man,” and said he had come to the conference to thank him for what he had initiated.

“We are forbidden to have such a conference in Germany,” he said. “ All my childhood, we waited for something like this.”

Toben Feredrick, from Australia, said Mr. Ahmadinejad has opened an issue “which is morally and intellectually crippling the Western society.”

“People are imprisoned in Germany for denying the Holocaust,” he added.

Mr. Feredrick said he was jailed for six months in 1999 because of his ideas, and that a court in Germany has ordered him arrested if he speaks out publicly again denying that the Holocaust took place.

Other Western “revisionists” presented what they called new facts about the Holocaust at the conference, which also attracted attendees from some ultra-Orthodox Jews belonging to anti-Zioinst sects that reject the state of Israel. One participant wearing the traditional long black coat and hat of such groups wore a badge saying: “A Jew, not a Zionist.”

It was not entirely clear how the lineup of speakers at the conference was set. The Institute’s website had invited scholars and researchers to submit papers in advance for consideration, but revealed little about how they were evaluated. The Iranian foreign ministry also provided little information about participants, saying that it feared they would be prosecuted by their home countries.

The conference included an exhibition today of various photos, posters and other material meant to contradict the accepted version of events, that the Nazis murdered millions of Jews and other “undesirables” in death camps during the war. New captions in Persian on some familiar photos of corpses at the camps argued that they were victims of typhus, not the German state.

Anti-Zionist literature, including a 2004 book by the American author Michael Collins Piper, about Zionist influence in America, was offered for sale to visitors at the conference. So, apparently, was a video recording of 12 Holocaust survivors telling their stories, suggesting that the views represented at the conference may not have been entirely one-sided.

The conference prompted outrage in the West. The German government summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires in Berlin to complain. The French Foreign Minister, Philippe Douste-Blazy, warned that the conference would be strongly condemned if it propagated claims denying the Holocaust.

Iran also organized an exhibition last summer of cartoons about the Holocaust, which outraged Jews inside Iran and out.

Iranian Jewish leaders reacted angrily to Mr. Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust-denying comments last year, issuing a statement saying that his words were spreading fear among Jews in Iran.

“We consider the Holocaust as a fact and a disgrace for humanity,” Haround Yashayai, a leading voice among Iranian Jews, said today. “We cannot say that such a conference cannot be held here. We have condemned similar events in the past, and see no reason to condemn it again.”

 

Who would have guessed that you'd have to travel to Tehran to speak your mind?

The ADL must be fuming.

 

 

 

 

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, greets self-styled rabbi Moishe Arye Friedman at the conference.

 

 

 
The Times December 12, 2006



Rabbi Ahron Cohen, centre, and other members of Neturei Karta, a fringe anti-Zionist group, were among those at the conference in Tehran. “We certainly say there was a Holocaust,” he said (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)


 

Iran students denounce Holocaust denial


 

  • Protesters burn pictures of leader

  • ‘Nazis and racists’ gather in Tehran

     


  •  
     

    ::nobreak::

    Dozens of Iranian students burnt pictures of President Ahmadinejad and chanted “Death to the dictator” as he gave a speech at a university in Tehran yesterday.

    Never has the hardline leader faced such open hostility at a public event, which came as Iran opened a conference questioning whether Nazi Germany murdered six million Jews.

    One student activist said that the protest was against the “shameful” Holocaust conference and the “fact that many activists have not been allowed to attend university”. The conference “has brought to our country Nazis and racists from around the world”, he added.

    Mr Ahmadinejad responded by saying: “Everyone should know that Ahmadinejad is prepared to be burnt in the path of true freedom, independence and justice”, according to an Iranian students’ news agency. He accused the protesters of being “Americanised”.

    The protest during a speech at Amir Tabir University unrelated to the Holocaust meeting will be embarrassing for Mr Ahmadinejad. He has portrayed Iran as a champion of free speech in hosting the two-day Holocaust conference, which has attracted revisionist historians who have served jail sentences in Europe and David Duke, an American former Ku Klux Klan leader.

    Almost 70 researchers from France to Indonesia arrived at the plush conference centre in an affluent north Tehran suburb. The centre’s walls were festooned with posters claiming to debunk “myths” of the Holocaust, disputing whether smoke ever rose from the chimneys at Auschwitz and denouncing the film Schindler’s List, which tells of the Nazi industrialist who rescued more than 1,000 Jews.

    But the conference has embarrassed many ordinary Iranians who are aware of the damage such events are inflicting on their country’s image.

    Some Iranians point out that they have much less freedom to debate pressing issues such as Iran’s nuclear programme, which has brought the threat of international sanctions. The conference, which has provoked international condemnation, was inspired by Mr Ahmadinejad himself, who has described the Holocaust as a myth invented to justify the occupation of Palestinian land. He has also declared that Israel should be “wiped off the map”.

    The conference has dismayed Iran’s 25,000-strong Jewish community. Moris Motamed, Iran’s sole Jewish MP, said that denying the Holocaust was “a huge insult”.

    Those at the conference included American and European rabbis from the fringe ultraOrthodox group Neturei Karta, whose theology holds that there should be no Jewish state until the Messiah arrives.

    Ahron Cohen, a British rabbi, said: “We certainly say there was a Holocaust. But in no way can it be used as a justification for unjust acts against the Palestinians.” Welcoming the participants, Manouchehr Mottaki, the Iranian Foreign Minister, declared: “The aim of this conference is not to deny or confirm the Holocaust. Its main aim is to create an opportunity for thinkers who cannot express their views freely in Europe about the Holocaust.”

    Georges Thiel, a French writer who has been convicted in France, where Holocaust denial is illegal, said that the Holocaust was “an enormous lie”: “Jewish people have been persecuted, that is true, they have been deported, but there was no machinery of murder in any camp — no gas chambers.”

    Fredrick Toeben, an Australian who has served a prison sentence in his native Germany for inciting racial hatred, said: “Minds are being switched off to the Holocaust dogma as it is being sold as a historical fact and yet we are not able to question it. This is mental rape.”

    He brought a model of the Treblinka extermination camp which, he said, he would demonstrate that the gas chambers did not exist.

    PROTECTING THE TRUTH

     

  • Laws against Holocaust denial exist in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland, as well as in Israel. All but the Israeli law were introduced in 1990s

     

  • Israeli law proscribes “denial, trivialisation, praise or approval of acts committed under the Nazi regime"

     

  • The British writer David Irving will not attend the conference in Iran; he is serving a three-year jail sentence in Austria for Holocaust denial. When he lost a libel action in Britain in 2000, a judge said that Irving was “anti-Semitic and racist”

     

  • In 1997 Private Member's Bill criminalising Holocaust denial was considered in UK as amendment to incitement to hatred laws but never left committee stage

     

    Source: Institute for Jewish Policy Research/Times archive
  • http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-2499938-3,00.html

     

    December 11, 2006
     

    Holocaust Deniers and Skeptics Gather in Iran
     


    Rasoul Mousavi, head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s Institute for Political and International Studies,
    during the opening of the Holocaust conference at the foreign ministry in Tehran.
    Abedin Taherkenareh/European Pressphoto Agency

     

     

    TEHRAN, Dec. 11 — Holocaust deniers and skeptics from around the world gathered at a government-sponsored conference here today to discuss their theories about whether six million Jews were indeed killed by the Nazis during World War II and whether gas chambers existed.

    In a speech opening the two-day conference, Rasoul Mousavi, head of the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s Institute for Political and International Studies, which organized the event, said it was an opportunity for scholars to discuss the subject “away from Western taboos and the restriction imposed on them in Europe.”

    The foreign ministry had said that 67 foreign researchers from 30 countries were scheduled to take part. Among those speaking today are David Duke, the American white-supremacist politician and former Ku Klux Klan leader, and Georges Thiel, a French writer who has been prosecuted in France over his denials of the Holocaust.

    Mr. Duke’s remarks late this afternoon are expected to assert that no gas chambers or extermination camps were actually built during the war, on the ground that killing Jews that way would have been much too bothersome and expensive when the Nazis could have used much simpler methods, according to an advance summary of his speech published by the institute.

    “Depicting Jews as the overwhelming victims of the Holocaust gave the moral high ground to the Allies as victors of the war, and allowed Jews to establish a state on the occupied land of Palestine,” Mr. Duke’s paper says, according to the summary.

    One of the first scheduled speakers, Robert Faurisson of France, also called the Holocaust a myth created to justify the occupation of Palestine.

    The conference is being held at the behest of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who likewise called the Holocaust a myth last year, and repeated a well-known slogan from the early days of the 1979 revolution in Iran, “Israel must be wiped off the map.” He has spoken several times since then about a need to establish whether the Holocaust actually happened.

    Most of the speakers at the conference today praised Mr. Ahmadinejad’s comments.

    Bendikt Frings, 48, a psychologist from Germany, said he believed Mr. Ahmadinejad was “an honest direct man,” and said he had come to the conference to thank him for what he had initiated.

    “We are forbidden to have such a conference in Germany,” he said. “ All my childhood, we waited for something like this.”

    Toben Feredrick, from Australia, said Mr. Ahmadinejad has opened an issue “which is morally and intellectually crippling the Western society.”

    “People are imprisoned in Germany for denying the Holocaust,” he added.

    Mr. Feredrick said he was jailed for six months in 1999 because of his ideas, and that a court in Germany has ordered him arrested if he speaks out publicly again denying that the Holocaust took place.

    Other Western “revisionists” presented what they called new facts about the Holocaust at the conference, which also attracted attendees from some ultra-Orthodox Jews belonging to anti-Zionist sects that reject the state of Israel. One participant wearing the traditional long black coat and hat of such groups wore a badge saying: “A Jew, not a Zionist.”

    It was not entirely clear how the lineup of speakers at the conference was set. The Institute’s website had invited scholars and researchers to submit papers in advance for consideration, but revealed little about how they were evaluated. The Iranian foreign ministry also provided little information about participants, saying that it feared they would be prosecuted by their home countries.

    The conference included an exhibition today of various photos, posters and other material meant to contradict the accepted version of events, that the Nazis murdered millions of Jews and other “undesirables” in death camps during the war. New captions in Persian on some familiar photos of corpses at the camps argued that they were victims of typhus, not the German state.

    Anti-Zionist literature, including a 2004 book by the American author Michael Collins Piper, about Zionist influence in America, was offered for sale to visitors at the conference. So, apparently, was a video recording of 12 Holocaust survivors telling their stories, suggesting that the views represented at the conference may not have been entirely one-sided.

    The conference prompted outrage in the West. The German government summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires in Berlin to complain. The French Foreign Minister, Philippe Douste-Blazy, warned that the conference would be strongly condemned if it propagated claims denying the Holocaust.

    Iran also organized an exhibition last summer of cartoons about the Holocaust, which outraged Jews inside Iran and out.

    Iranian Jewish leaders reacted angrily to Mr. Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust-denying comments last year, issuing a statement saying that his words were spreading fear among Jews in Iran.

    “We consider the Holocaust as a fact and a disgrace for humanity,” Haround Yashayai, a leading voice among Iranian Jews, said today. “We cannot say that such a conference cannot be held here. We have condemned similar events in the past, and see no reason to condemn it again.”

     

     

    Article was taken from www.ajn.com.au

    NATIONAL (DECEMBER 7, 2006)
    Holocaust denier to face charges

    THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) is launching legal action against the Adelaide Institute’s Dr Frederick Toben for his failure to obey a court order to remove antisemitic material from his website.

    But the ECAJ will have to wait until Dr Toben returns from Iran, where he is pushing his revisionist views at a conference on “Holocaust history”, to serve the 62 year old with contempt-of-court papers.

    In a landmark ruling in 2002, a Federal Court of Australia judge ordered Dr Toben to remove anti-Jewish material from his website.

    Justice Catherine Branson ordered the removal of the material, claiming it was likely to “offend, insult, humiliate and intimidate” Australian Jews, and banned him from republishing any similar material anywhere on the internet or by any other means.

    The judgement stated that should Dr Toben continue to publish the material, he would be found guilty of contempt of court, an offence that could result in a jail sentence.

    ECAJ president Grahame Leonard told the AJN the new material was “more of the same” Holocaust-denial propaganda.

    Dr Toben is currently in the Iranian capital at a conference on “Review of the Holocaust: global vision”, which is being presented by Iran’s Institute for Political and International Studies. According to the conference’s website, the event is marketed to those interested in clarifying the “hidden and open corners” of the Holocaust.

    Dr Toben, who served seven months in a German prison in 1999 for inciting racism, has been quoted in the Iranian Tehran Times, which supports the anti-Israel regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that Hitler’s extermination of six-million Jews and the existence of gas chambers had not been proven.

    The ECAJ’s national Report on antisemitism in Australia, which was tabled at last week’s annual conference by its author, Jeremy Jones, reported increases in web-based antisemitism, including on popular video site YouTube.

    Article was taken from www.ajn.com.au

     

     

     

    Iran vows no 'preconceived ideas' at Holocaust meet

    by Farhad Pouladi

    Tue Dec 5, 6:56 AM ET

    Iran has said that more than 60 researchers from 30 countries will attend a controversial conference on the Holocaust next week to examine the event without any "preconceived ideas".

    Deputy Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mohammadi said Tuesday the staging of the conference on December 11-12 was a response to the lack of answers to questions posed over the Holocaust by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

    Ahmadinejad, who has also called for Israel to be wiped off the map, has repeatedly raised questions about the scale of the Holocaust and even described the mass slaughter of six million Jews in World War II as a "myth".

    "Ahmadinejad asked did the Holocaust happen or not. And if it happened why are scholars prevented from doing research on this and why are revisionists thrown into prison?" Mohammadi told reporters.

    "And if it happened, why should the Palestinians pay for this?"

    The conference will, he said, "without any preconceived ideas, provide the atmosphere for scholars and researchers from both sides to give their papers in the utmost freedom".

    Mohammadi declined to give the names of the 67 international "scholars" he said would be attending over fears their home countries would ban them from travelling to Tehran.

    He stressed that Iran's "study" of the Holocaust "does not mean we deny the crimes of Hitler".

    "Since we are not accused of and not responsible for the Holocaust, we are an impartial judge," he said.

    He brushed off any idea that staging the conference would prompt anti-Semitism and racism, pointing to the existence of Iran's own 25,000-strong Jewish community.

    "Anti-Semitism is a Western phenomenon, we never had it, we are strongly against any racist moves since we consider all human beings and divine religions as equals."

    "The Jews have been living in Iran for centuries... and even after Iran became an Islamic nation, they have been living here in harmony, so it proves that we are an impartial referee," he added.

    Tehran has already sparked controversy by opening an international exhibitition of cartoons on the Holocaust, in response to the publication in Western papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

    "But when it comes to research we believe that this subject (the Holocaust) can be investigated and it should not be considered a red line," Mohammadi added.

    "In Iran one can investigate and research Islamic issues and even deny them and no one will stop you you," he said.

    The controversy surrounding Iran's stance over the Holocaust was on the agenda of the outgoing UN Secretary General Kofi Annan when he discussed it with Ahmadinejad in Tehran earlier this year.

    Annan, during his September visit to Tehran, said the right to freedom of speech had to be exercised with "sensitivity" and that the Holocaust was an "undeniable historical fact".

    Mohammadi also said that Iran views the Holocaust conference as a prelude to organizing other conferences on killings in other parts of the world.

    "We are going to have a conference in February about Latin America and in that gathering one of the topics is the genocide that was inflicted on the indigenous Americans," he said.

    Copyright © 2006 Agence France Presse. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AFP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of Agence France Presse.

     

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    Britons to attend Iran's Holocaust conference

    · Gathering will consider whether deaths took place
    · Event 'will not be a forum for anti-semites'

    Robert Tait in Tehran
    Wednesday December 6, 2006
     

    Guardian

    Iran announced yesterday details of a conference questioning whether the Holocaust really happened, prompted by an international outcry a year ago when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis as "myth" fabricated to justify Israel.

    The foreign ministry said "intellectuals and researchers" from 30 countries - including Britain - would attend Studying the Holocaust: An international view, in Tehran on Monday and Tuesday.

    The idea for the gathering was dismissed earlier this year as "shocking, ridiculous and stupid" by Tony Blair. Iran responded by inviting him to attend.

    A Foreign Office spokesman said it had no record of who was going. "I think the government's views on Iran's comments regarding the Holocaust are well known but it is not up to us who travels to Iran."

    Participants will consider documentary, pictorial, physical and demographic evidence in what Iranian officials depict as an academic investigation to establish the Holocaust's authenticity and whether the reported number of victims was exaggerated. Organisers say it will include submissions for and against. It will also focus on the plight of the Palestinians.

    The conference will have six panel discussions and an open forum. It will discuss the capacity of Nazi death camps and the impact of the second world war on other national and ethnic groups. Iranian officials say Jewish suffering is played up at the expense of other victims. Manouchehr Mohammadi, the foreign ministry's research and education officer, said the conference was intended as a platform for open discussion of the Holocaust, which Iran claims is denied in the west.

    "Our aim is to scientifically study the Holocaust and listen to both sides before reaching a conclusion," Mr Mohammadi said. "This issue has a crucial role regarding the west's policies towards the countries of the Middle East, especially the Palestinians. Iran isn't against or for. We weren't involved in this event so we can be a neutral judge. It is important for us to know the answer so that we can process our stances to issues in this region. If we conclude that the Holocaust happened, we will admit it but we are still going to ask why Palestinians have to pay." He said it would not be a forum for anti-semites or neo-Nazis, and rabbis would attend. "Our policy doesn't mean we want to defend the crimes of Hitler."

    Mr Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and has said its inhabitants should go to Europe or Alaska.

    Michael Rosen, of the Community Security Trust, which works to safeguard Jews in Britain, said he was aware of the event but that it was not clear who was planning to attend from the UK. Karen Pollock, of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said: "To hold a state-sponsored conference questioning the truth of the Holocaust is not only deeply disturbing but a huge insult to Holocaust survivors and the families of Holocaust victims."

    Guardian Unlimited © Guardian News and Media Limited 2006

     

     

    Iranian Holocaust Conference Will Showcase
    Deniers and Anti-Semites From Around the World;
    ADL Urges European Leaders to Speak Out


    http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HolocaustDenial_83/4939_83.htm

    New York, NY, December 7, 2006 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today urged European leaders to condemn an upcoming conference in Iran titled, "Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision," in which the Iranian government will feature dozens of speakers questioning the historical fact of the Holocaust.

    "We believe this type of Holocaust denial has no place in the family of nations, and that it is essential for European and world leaders to condemn this conference and everything it stands for at its core, which is anti-Semitism," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor.

    "Holocaust denial is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that posits that Jews, for their own selfish purposes, created a monstrous tale of their own destruction and deliberately inflicted the hoax on the entire world," added Mr. Foxman.  "It presumes that Jews control the international media and all other forms of information, for how else could such a 'fantasy' flourish the way it has."

    The conference, scheduled to take place next week in Tehran, follows on the heels of a cartoon contest sponsored by the Iranian government, in which cartoonists from around the world were given awards for drawings that mocked the Holocaust and attacked Israel and Jews.

    While Tehran has refused to release a list of participants, Bradley Smith, a U.S.-based Holocaust denier, has boasted to supporters that at least ten notorious Holocaust deniers from around the world will present papers, including Robert Faurisson of France, Jurgen Graf of Switzerland, Michele Renouf of the U.K. and Ahmed Rami of Sweden.  Mark Weber of the Institute for Historical Review, a major purveyor of Holocaust denial materials based in California, has said that while he will not be attending, his organization is providing a video presentation to be shown to delegates.

    In a letter to European leaders, ADL urged their governments and the European Union to publicly denounce the conference.

    "This conference seeks to question the record of the Holocaust and is a disgrace to the memories of the six million Jews and others who died at the hands of the Nazis," said the League's letter, whose recipients include Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Romano Prodi of Italy, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President Jacques Chirac of France and Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen of Finland, who also serves as President of the European Union.

    ADL praised U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan for his strong statement, issued today, condemning the Iranian Holocaust conference and "any effort to question or deny the Holocaust."  Mr. Annan said that, "…any attempt to cast doubt on the reality of this unique and undeniable horror must be firmly resisted by all people of goodwill and of whatever faith."

     

     

     

     

    Israeli Muslim to take on Holocaust denial at Iran conference

    Friday, November 17, 2006
    JERUSALEM

    An Israeli Arab who opened a Holocaust museum in his home last year is planning to attend an upcoming conference in Iran on whether or not the Holocaust actually happened — and he intends to tell the Iranians it cannot be denied.

    Khaled Kasab Mahameed, a Muslim lawyer from Nazareth, said he had been invited to the conference, slated to begin December 11 in Iran's capital, Tehran. It was initiated by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, who has called the Holocaust a "myth," and is supposed to encourage research into whether or not millions of Jews were murdered by the Nazi regime during World War II.

    Ahmedinejad, who has also called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and has been accused by the West of pursuing nuclear weapons, has suggested that the Israelis invented the Holocaust in order to dispossess the Palestinians.

    Mahameed said he planned to openly contradict Ahmedinejad's statements at the conference.

    "Instead of trying to understand the Holocaust and learn something from it, they choose to deny it," Mahameed said. "I'm going to tell them that there is no argument about the facts, and that they must try to understand how the Holocaust has shaped the positions of the Jews, of Europe, of America. I will tell them they must internalize its meaning and not say it didn't happen."

    Mahameed opened a modest museum in his home last year, holding lectures, running a web site and displaying photographs he obtained from Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust museum. He also penned a book in Arabic, "The Palestinians and the Sovereignty of the Holocaust."

    "The dimensions of the Holocaust were never internalized by the Arab discourse on Israel, and many people don't believe it happened," Mahameed said. Teaching Arabs about the Holocaust, he believes, can help them understand Israelis better and aid progress towards a resolution of the Mideast conflict.

     

    Rabbi Friedman cautions against strategic abuse of Holocaust

    Iran-Israel, Politics, 12/9/2006

    Austrian rabbi and chief of the Orthodox Anti-Zionist society of Austria, Moshe Aryeh Friedman, yesterday cautioned against strategic abuse of the historic event of Holocaust.

    Speaking to IRNA yesterday before departing for Tehran, Iran, to attend Holocaust symposium, Rabbi Friedman said, "As one who has conducted research on the issue for years, I regrettably notice how Judaism and fame of our ancestors are abused through distortion of the historical event." Rabbi Friedman stressed that impartial scholars and the journalists, who conducted objective research on Holocaust and its politicization by Zionism, have been named as criminal and sentenced to several years of prison.

    The Jewish figure noted, "We should focus on the reality that the behind-the-curtain individuals and financial providers as well as perpetrators of some of the World War II crimes had been Zionists themselves." Now another Holocaust has taken place, this time involving Palestinians and Arabs -- something unprecedented in history, he added.

    The Austrian Rabbi also thanked Iran as the best venue for the conference on the Holocaust because it used to remain neutral during the World War II and was not involved in the event.

    Friedman described Iran as a model country in dealing with and tolerating religious minorities.

    "We have been witnessing that religious minorities either now or in the past have been holding a very proper and good position in Iran," said the rabbi.

    The international symposium of "Study of Holocaust, Global Perspective" is to be held in Tehran from December 11-12, sponsored by Foreign Ministry's Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS).

    The Education and Research Department at Foreign Ministry has said the conference would provide a channel for scientific and free debate on the issue by related scholars and experts.

     

     

     

     

    Holocaust conference 'unacceptable'
    From correspondents in Berlin 08dec06

     



    THE German Government today summoned the Iranian charge d'affairs in Berlin to express its opposition to a planned conference on the Holocaust in Tehran next week.
     

    A foreign ministry spokesman, Jens Ploetner, said that Germany had made clear that as the country responsible for the Nazis' crimes it found any statements questioning Israel's right to exist or the fact of the Holocaust to be "shocking" and "unacceptable".

    "We condemn any attempt, in the past or in the future, to give a forum to those who relativise or question the Holocaust," he said.

    Germany "bears a unique responsibility toward the victims of the Nazis, in particular the victims of the Holocaust," he added.

    Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mohammadi said this week the staging of the conference on December 11-12 was a response to the lack of answers to questions posed over the Holocaust by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

    He declined to give the names of the 67 international "scholars" he said would be attending over fears their home countries would ban them from travelling to Tehran.

    UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said this week that he would deplore any conference that sought to cast doubt on the reality of the Holocaust.

     

     

    Alarm at call for abolishment of Swiss racism law

     

    Original article: www.ejpress.org/article/11920

    By Youri Hazanov  

    Updated: 28/Nov/2006 17:02

     

    GENEVA (EJP)--- The Democratic Union of the Centre, the right-wing party that won a majority in the last Swiss elections, has proposed to the abolishment of Switzerland’s anti-racist law, arguing it impedes freedom of speech.

    The Federation of the Swiss Jewish communities has expressed concern after the declaration by Ueli Maurer, the Democratic Union’s leader and previously Switzerland’s justice minister, and members of his party, known as UDC.

    The law was adopted on Jan. 1, 1995, and forbids any discrimination against a person or group on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion. It also mandates punishment for denying or attempting to justify a genocide or crime against humanity, especially the Holocaust.

    The UDC holds that the law is too abstract and that Swiss do not understand what they can and cannot say in public. Maurer said his party was fighting for freedom of speech in Switzerland, and that everyone should have the right to express what they thought, even if it was not right.

    Moreover, the UDC charges that the law has encouraged a passive form of racism. They say the penal law is not the best way to combat to revisionism, and that more faith should be placed in people’s ability to discern between right and wrong.

    Still, others argue the law is not harsh enough.

    Tobias Hirschi, a member of the extreme-right party PSN, was recently acquitted by a Solothurn court after being charged for carrying a banner with the slogan “Who directs the workers?” next to a Star of David in a May 2005 demonstration.

    Hirschi was accused of tapping into the Nazi ideology that led to the Holocaust, but the judge ruled that although the banner was anti-Semitic, there was no link to the Nazis. As such, it did not violate the anti-racism law.

    The debate on the law began after Swiss Minister of Justice Christophe Blocher, a former UDC leader, declared during a visit to Turkey that everyone has the right to an opinion and the right to express it, and that the law should be abolished.

    It was enacted in another case in 2005 after a July visit by Turkish politician Dogu Perinçek to Lausanne. Perinçek denied a genocide of Armenians by Turkey took place in 1915. The Swiss government, which has officially recognized the genocide, charged him with negating it.

     

     

     

    Jerome Brentar, 84, ran travel agency,
    gained fame as Demjanjuk supporter

     

    Tuesday, December 05, 2006

    Alana Baranick

    Plain Dealer Reporter

    http://www.cleveland.com/obituary/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/116531229422750.xml&coll=2

    Jerome Brentar, who helped numerous Eastern European immigrants get established in Cleveland but gained wider fame for helping fight government allegations that John Demjanjuk served as a Nazi guard during World War II, died Friday.

    The 84-year-old retired travel agent was pronounced dead at Euclid General Hospital after being found on the floor at his Cleveland home. Cuyahoga County Coroner Elizabeth Balraj said Brentar's death was the result of a head injury. She will rule after an investigation.

    Brentar generated controversy as a Demjanjuk supporter, spending 17 years interviewing Nazi guards and camp survivors to help clear the Seven Hills auto worker from a death sentence in Israel in the 1990s.

    More recently, the two men made headlines when Brentar sued the Demjanjuk family for $2 million, seeking reimbursement for the money he spent on Demjanjuk's defense.

    Brentar, who had screened thousands of refugees looking for help from the United Nations International Refugee Organization in the late 1940s, also testified in depositions on behalf of other men accused of working with Nazis.

    Joseph McGinness, a lawyer who defended such clients, said, "Jerry was probably one of the kindest people you'd ever want to meet, and he had a big heart. He was a person who was constantly in pursuit of truth and justice."

    Others saw Brentar as an anti-Semitic Nazi-sympathizing activist.

    "His views are in sync with modern Holocaust revisionists, and, as a former OSI prosecutor, I found those views totally repugnant," said Jonathan Drimmer, formerly with the Office of Special Investigation.

    Brentar, a Cleveland native and son of Croatian immigrants, founded Europa Travel, which became one of the largest chartered booking agencies in Cleveland.

    For decades, he opened his home to newly arrived immigrants, who stayed with his family until he helped them land jobs and find homes. He sponsored local performances of Croatian musical groups to expose Clevelanders to other cultures.

    Brentar flirted with politics in the 1990s, when he ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Congress: District 19 in 1994 and District 11 in 1998.

    In the late 1980s, he served on then-Vice President George Bush's nationalities coalition, but was dropped from the committee when his controversial views became known to Bush's advisers.

    Plain Dealer reporter John Caniglia contributed to this story.

    To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:

    abaranick@plaind.com, 216-999-4828

     

    Jerome A. Brentar

    1922 - 2006

    Survivors: Wife, Dora; daughters, Carolyn "Suzi" Music of Kirtland, Mary Ann Drazina of Novato, Calif., and Dora Bourgault of Chester Township; son, John of Belmont, Calif.; five grandchildren; and three brothers.

    Services: 10 a.m. Thursday, St. Paul Croatian Church, 1369 East 40th St., Cleveland.

    Arrangements: Golub Funeral Home, Cleveland.
     

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    Pearl Harbor Historiography:
    A Lesson in Academic Housecleaning

    by Gary North

    LewRockwell.com

    Robert Stinnett closes his excellent summary article on Pearl Harbor historiography with these words: "Though the Freedom of Information Act freed the foreknowledge documents from the secretive vaults to the sunlight of the National Archives in 1995, a cottage industry continues to cover up America’s foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor." Cottage industry, indeed! This cottage industry is the entire professional guild of salaried historians.

    Pearl Harbor’s Establishment historiography remains as secure in its tenured cocoon as it was when I began college in 1959. American history textbooks are as free from the truth about Roosevelt’s deliberate provocation of Japan, and his advance knowledge of Pearl Harbor, as they were in 1943. Mr. Stinnett does not have a Ph.D., nor is he employed as a history instructor. He was therefore in a position to tell the truth. This was equally true of journalist George Morgenstern, whose 1947 book on Pearl Harbor was the first to put the story together in one detailed volume. The historical guild paid no attention to Morgenstern. We shall see if it pays attention to Stinnett. I strongly doubt that the reception will be either favorable or widespread.

    A week ago, I sent a letter to a group of my subscribers. It provided background on the issues raised by Mr. Stinnett. I made this point, in the context of how intellectual guilds operate. They adopt a three-phase position on a controversial new idea.

    1. The story isn’t true.
    2. The story is true, but so what?
    3. We always knew it was true.

     

    I then illustrated this with the historiography of Pearl Harbor. Here is what I wrote.

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    Consider the conservatives’ account of Roosevelt’s advance warning of the Japanese attack in late 1941. When George Morgenstern wrote Pearl Harbor: The Story of a Secret War, only right-wing Devin-Adair would publish it (1947). The book was ridiculed by academic historians as being a pack of unsubstantiated opinions written by a mere journalist – and a Chicago Tribune journalist at that. When the premier liberal historian, Charles A. Beard, said much the same thing the next year in President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War (Yale University Press), he was dismissed by his colleagues as senile, and he permanently lost his reputation. When the premier American diplomatic historian, Charles C. Tansill, said it again in 1952 in his Back Door to War (Regnery), he, too, was shoved down the liberals’ memory hole.

    Today, the revisionist account of Pearl Harbor is more widely accepted, and is gaining ground fast. Another journalist, Robert B. Stinnett, recently found the "smoking gun" – an 8-page 1940 memo by a lieutenant commander in the navy on how to get Japan to attack us, a memo that Roosevelt adopted, point by point. His book is titled, Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor (Free Press, 1999). Stinnett served under a young George Bush during World War II. His book is the capstone to his career.

    The liberals are now moving to stage 2: "The story is true, but so what?" Stinnett’s book argues that Roosevelt basically did the right thing in luring the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor. This attack overcame America’s anti-interventionists, who had 88% of the people behind them in 1940. Pearl Harbor got us into the War in Europe.

    It didn’t, of course. Hitler’s suicidal declaration of war on the United States on the following Thursday is what got us into the European war.

    It will be a long time before liberal historians get to stage 3: "We always knew it was true." They will not admit how they smeared the reputations of first-rate historians who told the truth early, and then for the next fifty years used their power over graduate schools and professional academic journals to screen out the truth. The issue was power, and liberals respect it and use it.

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    What happened to Beard sent a warning to any aspiring young grad student who might have been tempted to follow in Beard’s revisionist path. Beard was at the end of a long and distinguished career. He was the only scholar ever to be elected as president of both the American Historical Association and the American Political Science Association. But his academic achievements gained him no mercy when he broke ranks on Pearl Harbor. James J. Martin, the premier revisionist historian after Harry Elmer Barnes died in 1968, in 1981 provided an account of what happened.

    Beard not only infuriated the influential supporters of Roosevelt by his insistence that the continuous deception by the President in making his steady moves toward war while endlessly talking about his peacefulness (few were allowed to forget his pre-election promise in 1940 never to send Americans off to a war outside U.S. borders) was in essentials, as Leighton described it, "completely to undermine constitutional government and set the stage for a Caesar" (Beard’s famed peroration on pp. 582-584 of his Epilogue to President Roosevelt is required reading in this context.) He had opened up another sore while writing his book with a famed article in the Saturday Evening Post for October 4, 1947, "Who’s to Write the History of the War?," in which he revealed that the Rockefeller Foundation, working with its alter ego, the Council on Foreign Relations, had provided $139,000 for the latter to spend in underwriting an official-line history of how the war had come about, in an effort to defeat at the start the same kind of "debunking" historical campaign which had immediately followed the end of World War I. Beard complained of inaccessibility of various documents, which he was sure would be fully available to anyone doing an Establishment version of the wartime past, convinced that these would be sat on as ‘classified’ for a generation or more. . . .

    So it was understandable that the following February, two months before the publication of President Roosevelt, when the National Institute of Arts and Letters awarded Beard their gold medal for the best historical work published in the preceding decade, that his erstwhile liberal admirers would reach the end of their tolerance. The highlight of their protest was the resignation in rage from the Institute by one of its most influential members, Lewis Mumford, accompanied by abuse of Beard so extreme that it led to a memorable chiding to Mumford from Harry Elmer Barnes in a 11/2 column letter to the editors of the Chicago Tribune, published 11 February 1948. But the attack on Beard had barely begun.

    With the publication of President Roosevelt two months later, in April, the denunciation of Beard became a veritable industry, and the most eminent of the Roosevelt academic defenders were recruited to contribute to the character assassination. Probably the most outrageous was that of Harvard’s Samuel Eliot Morison, Roosevelt’s handpicked choice to write a history of American naval operations in World War II, and even elevated to the rank of Admiral in recognition of his labors. But the outline of the total campaign aimed at Beard is substantial, extensively documented in the later editions of Barnes’s booklet The Struggle Against the Historical Blackout (especially 6th thru. 9th).

    Beard died in 1949. His book on Roosevelt was allowed – a mild word, given the circumstances – to go out of print almost immediately, and it was never reprinted. Maybe the Web will resurrect it. I hope so.

     

    The final product of the Council on Foreign Relations’ investment of $139,000 in 1946 – a lot of money in 1946 – was the standard Establishment history of the coming of the war, written by William L. Langer and S. Everett Gleason, The Challenge to Isolation: The World Crisis of 1937-1940 and American Foreign Policy (1952). It was still the standard account two decades later. Its perspective remains dominant on campus today. Langer was a professor of history at Harvard. So was Gleason – medieval history – until he moved to Washington after Pearl Harbor, to join the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor of the CIA. He later became the official historian of the State Department. Establishment enough for you? (The other standard book was Herbert Feis’s Road to Pearl Harbor (1950). He had served as the State Department’s Advisor for International Economic Affairs.) Yes, the victors always write the history books, but when the historians are actually policy-setting participants in the war, the words "court history" take on new meaning.

    I read Admiral Kimmel’s Story (Regnery, 1955) in 1958. That same year, I read anti-Roosevelt journalist John T. Flynn’s The Roosevelt Myth (Devin-Adair, 1948). At age 16, I became a World War II revisionist.

    In 1963, I had a conversation with Thomas Thalken, who later became the librarian of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. We were then both employed by a short-lived think tank, the Center for American Studies. He was its librarian. I was a summer intern, fresh out of college. He had earned a master’s degree in history under Tansill a decade earlier. He told me that Tansill had advised him not to earn a Ph.D. in history. Tansill had said that anyone who taught the truth about America’s entry into World War II would see his career end before it even began. Thalken took his advice.

    This is why there are no tenured World War II revisionists who write in this still-taboo and well-policed field. The guild screened them out, beginning in the early 1950’s. Beard and Tansill by 1960 were remembered only for their non-WWII revisionist writings. Barnes was forgotten. Martin – in my view, the most accomplished American revisionist historian – never became known on campus. Anthony Kubek spent his career on the academic fringes. What the guild did to Barnes, Beard, Tansill at the end of their careers, and to Martin at the beginning of his, posted a warning sign: Dead End.

    I went on to earn a Ph.D. in American history, but I never did teach in my field. Neither did Bruce Bartlett, who wrote The Pearl Harbor Cover-Up (Arlington House, 1978). (Our paths crossed briefly in 1976: we were both on Congressman Ron Paul’s Washington staff.) Bartlett did not earn a Ph.D. Instead, as a supply-sider on Jack Kemp’s Congressional staff, he wrote his way into economic policy-making.

    This is typical of the handful of WWII revisionists in the post-Tansill era. Most of them never made it onto a campus, and of the few who did, they did not teach WWII revisionism. The WWII revisionist books of 1947-55 were out of print by 1960. They remain out of print.

    In 1966, an aged Barnes wrote a brief introduction to an article that appeared in a small-circulation journal published by libertarian pioneer Robert Lefevre, Rampart Journal. At the end of his introduction, Barnes wrote: "We should be able to look foreword to something more honest and dependable in the quarter of a century between now and the fiftieth anniversary of Pearl Harbor." Nice dream; no fulfillment. World War II revisionism remains a fringe movement of non-certified, non-subsidized historians.

    Conclusion

    In 1958, the only book critical of Franklin Roosevelt’s domestic policies and his foreign policies was Flynn’s book. In 1958, it was out of print. In the Year of Our Lord, 2000, it remains the only book critical of Roosevelt’s domestic and foreign policies.

    We haven’t come a long way, baby.

    Things are beginning to change for the better. The Web has begun to chip away at every academic guild’s monopoly. What is taught in college classrooms no longer has the same authority that it possessed in 1960. But until the subsidizing of higher education by the state ends, and until the state-licensed accreditation oligopoly ends or is overcome by new, "price-competitive technologies," it will remain an uphill battle for Pearl Harbor revisionists in academia.

    December 12, 2000

    Gary North is the author of a ten-volume series, An Economic Commentary on the Bible. The latest volume is Sacrifice and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Acts. The series can be downloaded free of charge at www.freebooks.com.

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    Judging a Book by Its Cover and Its Content
    A review of “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid” by Jimmy Carter
    (Simon & Schuster, November 2006)

    Posted: November 13, 20

    By Abraham H. Foxman

    http://www.adl.org/israel/carter_book_review.asp



    One should never judge a book by its cover, but in the case of former President Jimmy Carter’s latest work, “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid”, we should make an exception. All one really needs to know about this biased account is found in the title.

    It is truly shocking, at a time of Islamic extremism running rampant, of suicide bombs polluting cities in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, of Iran publicly stating its desire to wipe Israel off the map and building nuclear weapons to achieve that end, of the missile and rocket attacks by Hezbollah and Hamas on Israel, that Jimmy Carter can to a large degree only see Israel as the party responsible for conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

    In some ways, Carter’s book reminds me of the outlandish paper on “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” by professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, though he doesn’t go to their extremes. Like them, his examination of almost every issue concerning the conflict results in blaming Israel for most or all of what has gone wrong.

    Listen to his conclusions: “Israel’s continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land.” And, “The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the road map for peace…”.

    In order to reach such a simplistic and distorted view of the region, Carter has to ignore or downplay the continuing examples of Palestinian rejection of Israel and terrorism, which have been part of the equation from the beginning and which are strong as ever today. He has to minimize or condemn all the instances of Israel’s peace offers and withdrawals, most particularly former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s initiative at Camp David in 2000, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement from Gaza in 2005 and current Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s campaign pledge to withdraw from the West Bank. And he has to frame every example of Palestinian distress as simply the product of Israeli repression instead of Palestinian extremism, e.g., the economic condition of the Palestinians, which has much to do with the continued terrorism against Israel.

    Much as in the paper of Mearsheimer and Walt, one doesn’t have to be a pro-Israel advocate to recognize that the issues in the long conflict are a lot more complicated than Carter would portray. It’s particularly revealing, that at a time when even many Arab leaders are recognizing the destructive and dangerous policies of the Palestinians, Carter can hardly bring himself to speak to such matters.

    It is not the goals that Carter seeks that are so troubling -- he calls for a two-state solution, with Palestinians and Israelis living securely in two states, which, of course, is the policy of Israel -- but his obsession with blaming Israel for these goals not being achieved.

    The problem with this approach is two-fold. He unjustly encourages Israel-bashers around the world. The legitimizing factor of being able to quote a former President of the United States and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize cannot be overestimated.

    Secondly, this gives comfort to the extremists on the Palestinian side who are reinforced in their extremism by this kind of “analysis.” In the end, it is the Palestinians themselves who are hurt by such a biased approach because they become even further entrenched in their illusions about weakening Israel and the need not to change.

    As disturbing as Carter’s simplistic approach is, however, even more disturbing is his picking up on the Mearsheimer -Walt theme of Jewish control of American policy, though in much more abbreviated form and not being the focus of his work. Referring to U.S. policy and the “condoning” of Israel’s actions, Carter says: “There are constant and vehement political and media debates in Israel concerning its policies in the West Bank but because of powerful political, economic, and religious forces in the U.S., Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned, voices from Jerusalem dominate our media, and most American citizens are unaware of circumstances in the occupied territories.” In other words, the old canard and conspiracy theory of Jewish control of the media, Congress, and the U.S. government is rearing its ugly head in the person of a former President.

    It is sad that Mr. Carter would attempt to use his influence in this way. It is dangerous because he will be used by elements that want to undermine support for Israel in this country.

    Ultimately, we have faith in the good sense, fairness and understanding of the American people. They know that life in the Middle East is much more complicated and will require seeing all sides of the issue, something President Carter doesn’t seem to be interested in doing.

     


    Abraham H. Foxman is National Director of the Anti-Defamation League and the author of Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism.

     

     

    Immigration sparks white exodus from UK

     

    http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=326780

    White Britons, alarmed at immigration, are fleeing the capital and even the country in record numbers in a “white flight” that mirrors South Africa’s exodus.

    And this week a controversial new book which seeks to explain their flight, encouraged young British-born families to leave in the face of unchecked immigration .

    A report by Britain’s chief immigration think-tank, Migrationwatch, said more than 100000 British-born Londoners have left the UK capital this year as immigrants stream into the city.

    Meanwhile, another report by private analysts predicts that the white exodus is set to accelerate further, and that London’s immigrant population will jump from 40% to 60% i n just 12 years.

    Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch, said the departing whites were being replaced by other ethnic minorities in their neighbourhoods, leading to a “very unfortunate” apartheid-style segregation of the capital.

    The report said it was a potential disaster for integration and race relations in Britain. “The effect is a rapid increase in the ethnic minority composition of some boroughs, resulting from an outflow of the white population and an inflow of African and Asian international migrants.”

    While white South Africans fled Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban for either suburban security complexes or foreign shores in the mid-1990s, experts said whites in London and cities like Birmingham and Bradford were fleeing to rural “market towns” — and, increasingly, abroad.

    In his seemingly xenophobic book, Time to Emigrate? George Walden, who was education minister under Margaret Thatcher, had no doubt about the cause. I mmigration had created “unacceptable” terrorist and crime risks, and had doomed British culture .

    Walden told the Sunday Times: “I’m not saying all our national problems are due to immigration . . . but this is the greatest gamble this country has ever taken and it is totally unplanned.

    “Already, we’re seeing the failure of the policy of multiculturalism, which — as Trevor Phillips, our race relations tsar has pointed out — has come down to separate development; in other words, apartheid. We have a dangerous mixture of people who do have colonial resentments; who have fundamentalist beliefs; and who have absolutely no desire to integrate.”

    In his book he predicts London, in a decade, will be “a three-ring circus without the laughs” — including largely white inner and outer rings bristling with security, and a “multicultural ring” exclusively made up of “ethnic immigrants”.

    “The rougher parts of the multicultural ring will be ghettoes of crime, poverty and racialism in reverse.”

     

     

     

     

    Solomon Morel

    Holocaust Jew accused of war crimes

    By Allan Hall
    Age Correspondent
    Berlin

    July 11, 2005
     

     

    An old Jewish man who took his own cold-blooded revenge against Germans for the Holocaust will not be extradited back to Poland from Israel to answer charges of genocide.

    The case of Solomon Morel, 86, is the only one in Holocaust history where a Jew stands accused of war crimes against Germans.

    It has perplexed legal minds in both countries. Poland says genocide is genocide whether a Jew or a Nazi committed it, while many Israelis see rough justice in the 1500 German deaths for which Mr Morel is alleged to be responsible.

    Now the Israeli Government has said that Mr Morel will not be sent back to stand trial in Poland under any circumstances.

    Mr Morel, who came from the little Polish town of Grabowo, claims he was an Auschwitz survivor whose family was murdered by the Nazis during World War II. A book, An Eye for an Eye, which documents his strange life, claims his family was indeed liquidated, but by Poles who collaborated with the Nazis. It also says that he was never imprisoned by the Germans.

    By 1943 he was employed peeling potatoes for a Jewish partisan brigade before escaping to the Soviet Union, where he trained in the gruesome interrogation methods of the NKVD, Stalin's political police, before returning to Poland in 1945. He was then put in charge by the communists of a camp containing thousands of German prisoners including SS men, soldiers and civilians.

    John Sack, the Jewish-American author of An Eye for an Eye, claims Mr Morel, as commandant of Swietochlowice Camp, morphed into the kind of monster that would have been welcomed by the Gestapo.

    "His favourite method of killing prisoners was hacking the skull of his victims with a wooden leg of a chair," according to the book. "It is quite possible that in Swietochlowice several thousand persons were murdered by Morel and his men."

    They would beat them and throw the bodies out of the window."
    Camp survivor

    Sack's book, and a score of Polish books and newspaper articles, said he beat, shot, starved, tortured and killed with gusto in the camp.

    "I knew Morel in the camp. He was a very brutal man," survivor Dorota Boriczek said. "He was young then. He would come in at night. We could hear the cries of the men then. They would beat them and throw the bodies out of the window."

    In 1989, a Polish reporter found Mr Morel living in a part of Katowice assigned for former uniformed functionaries of communist terror.

    In the early 1990s, the Main Commission for the Investigations of Crimes Against the Polish Nation started an official investigation of Mr Morel's activities in the Swietochlowice Camp after witness articles appeared in the press.

    In 1994, Mr Morel sought political asylum in Sweden. This was refused. He then successfully sought sanctuary in Israel.

    Poland tried to extradite him seven years ago on torture charges. Israel refused. So prosecutors began preparing a genocide case, for which there is no statute of limitations.

    Last week, they received a blank refusal from Israel saying "there was no basis whatsoever" to extradite Mr Morel.

    A Polish prosecutor said testimony from former inmates documented Mr Morel's torture of at least 13 prisoners.

    "There should be one measure for judging war criminals, irrespective whether they are German, Israeli, or any other nationality," the prosecutor said.

    Reproduced from: http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/holocaust-jew-accused-of-war-crimes/2005/07/10/1120934125780.html#

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