No. 215 Revisionist News & Comments September 2015 Some of It Happened – Some of It Didn’t Online at www.SmithsReport.com

Subscription News Being Jewish: Smith’s Report is currently operating in a financial vacuum. The entire operation Remembering has been moved out of Bradley’s Mex- ican redoubt, yet our new financial mo- by Jett Rucker dus vivendi hasn’t been established yet. The reason for that delay is that Bradley needs to sign a contract granting us the n 2013, the Pew Research Center better, than the modal American right to use CODOH as a business I conducted a major survey, A Por- or Jew. Revisionists advocate a name. He almost did it, but then he de- trait of Jewish Americans, among more-accurate—more-measured, cided that his step-daughter, who has a American Jews to ascertain various in two senses of the word—re- professional background in law, should group characteristics and opinions. membering of the Holocaust, one take a look at the contract. Fair enough, In that study’s Chapter 3, “Jewish that, among other things, reposi- but without it we cannot rent a PO Box Identity” (tinyurl.com/ok8jp4d), a tions it better in the context of the within our reach, and so collecting pay- striking finding emerged that must times, places and people in- ments will be a challenge for a while. be of great interest to Holocaust re- volved in it, as well as the times, When Brad sent us the SR subscriber visionists everywhere: “Remember- places and people of the present. list last month, it did not include any ing the Holocaust” is an important Some revisionists might favor data about the subscription status of element of “being Jewish” to more some toning-down of remem- our subscribers. So we can’t even re- Jews than is any of a list of eight brances of the Holocaust along mind subscribers whose subscriptions other surveyed elements, including with extensive reshaping of the have expired. To get out of this quan- “Observing Jewish law” and even factual assertions involved in the dary, we have given every subscriber 5 “Caring about Israel” (see table on more-common manifestations of free issues starting with SR 214. You next page). This finding could go a the sentiment, and above all, per- will hear from us about renewals after long way toward helping revision- haps, complete abandonment of SR 217 will have gone out. We might ists understand the common and vo- all imputation of guilt to any per- change that, if and when we get any ciferous opposition evinced by son who did not take an active, subscription data from Bradley, or many Jews against revisionism. personal hand in the commission whenever we hear from you, our valued As for revisionism, it is by no of atrocities. To start with, this subscriber. means our position that the Holo- would instantly exonerate any- Renew early, and renew long. The caust should be forgotten (much one and everyone who had not battle is not yet half won, though we less, of course, “denied”). To the yet been born at the time, along fight harder every day. contrary, revisionists tend to re- with virtually everyone who was The Loyal Team Carrying on Smith’s Report member the Holocaust far more, and not in Europe during the period in

1/16 question. again, the force behind the “remem- from me to deny my (Jewish) inter- Returning to the central sentiment bering” is diminished. locutors credit for rising above the of Jewish identity, “remembering,” It is impossible to disentangle op- tribal prejudices among which each strictly defined, is an internal feel- position to Holocaust revisionism of us was raised in one way or an- ing, not an external demonstration, from the assertion of Jewishness, other. Obviously, when I am care- and much less the subject of laws nor from the philo-Semitism dis- less or unlucky, my approach raises such as France’s Loi Gayssot pro- played by large segments of the disapproval along with the expected viding criminal penalties for any American population. Every revi- disagreement—reflexive reactions person assertively failing to “re- sionist, particularly those such as precede more-thoughtful ones in the member” the subject in legally per- myself who have numerous Jewish best of us, to say nothing of those of missible terms. “Remembering” in friends and relatives, must develop us who are more typical of our spe- this sense is certainly not what the and constantly heed an exquisite cies. In virtually every such case, es- word implies in the survey question, sensitivity toward the indoctrination pecially as my companions them- nor in the meaning intended by most that American Jews and non-Jews selves recognize that their initial re- of those responding to the survey. alike have been subjected to all their actions might not withstand dispas- The word “Celebrating” sionate contemplation, would serve better ex- I’m able to refine and cept, of course, for the define not only my exact connotation that word views of the matters at has of a happy ob- hand, but also, very im- servance of a positive portantly, the specific occasion. Had the ques- sentiments that underlie tion been worded “De- my inquiries and con- fending, perpetuating clusions arising there- and enforcing the story from. of the Holocaust,” the On the recent occa- response would have sion of the “70th anni- been of much greater versary of the Holo- pertinence to revisionist caust,” the Pew Center concerns. published on its Fact At the same time, the Tank webzine an article number of respondents (tinyurl.com/ouy8zdj) choosing an item so re- titled “70 years after worded might be con- lives teaching them not only the par- WWII, the Holocaust is siderably less than the number who ticulars of the (literally) unbelieva- still very important to American chose the item as actually worded. It ble atrocities visited by Germans Jews,” a headline reflecting a pro- most emphatically does not follow upon Jews during and prior to World found misapprehension of the his- that every Jew, or even most Jews to War II, but also to impute equally tory of “Holocaustography” in the whom “Remembering the Holo- evil motivations to any person who US and around the world. The un- caust” is an important part of Jewish would express doubt as to any of doubtedly young headline writer identity in fact wishes to defend, those particulars. simply didn’t realize that the Holo- perpetuate or enforce the regnant For my part, when I am in the caust was an almost-undetectably story of the Holocaust, especially company of a Jew(s) to whom I as- minor subject among Jews and where non-Jews happen to be con- cribe good will and intelligence (a Americans alike sixty years ago and cerned. And, as the survey explores large proportion of the Jews whom I much of the time since, as I well re- in considerable detail in other sec- know well enough to make such member myself. In Israel in particu- tions, being (or being seen as) Jew- judgments), I speak of my interests lar, the very numerous real and false ish itself is not necessarily of para- in The Subject virtually the same Holocaust “survivors” were often mount importance to every Jew, so way I would with any group of sim- maligned with the nickname “soap,” in those quite numerous cases, ilarly disposed Gentiles. Far be it recalling the myth of Nazis making

Smith’s Report ∙ www.SmithsReport.com 2/16 No. 215, September 2015 soap from the fat of boiled-down company of most American Jews— overlooked, either. Even if revision- Jewish corpses. Survivors there and to do so is an insult to their intellects ists do not regard Jews or Jewish- then were, with some justification, and integrity. After all, thoughtful ness to be enemies of our beliefs, it suspected not just of seeking un- Jews are very much to be found in should be kept in mind that many earned sympathy, but further of col- the ranks of revisionists ourselves, Jews are taught in no uncertain laboration or even worse offenses although they might be granted a terms that revisionism is, indeed, enabling their survival. What a dif- pass for being discreet among their their enemy. This trend is as likely ference a half-century makes! co-religionists. to become worse in the near future It simply will not do for revision- But an awareness of the findings as it is to abate, which latter it cer- ists to suppress or misrepresent their of the Pew survey should not be tainly must do in the (very) long views on Holocaust history in the term.

Irving v. Lipstadt Trial for Movie Theaters

by David Merlin

Ms. Alison Thompson Charles Gray. Irving had sued Lip- several pages of the book. We are Mr. Mark Gooder stadt and Penguin Books, the pub- told in Martin Gilbert’s paean, “A Cornerstone Films lisher of Lipstadt’s earlier book, London courtroom was the scene of c/o Sunray Films Denying the Holocaust: the Grow- a titanic struggle between the forces 12 Sunray Avenue Herne Hill ing Assault on Truth and Memory. I of historical distortion and those London am writing a two-part letter to com- who upheld the truth…” and, from SE24 9PY ment on History on Trial prior to the the Australian Jewish News, “Like [email protected] release of the movie. The first letter her namesake from the book of Tel: +44 (0)758 033 758 is a general analysis of the book. Judges, Lipstadt can rightly be con- The second letter is a discussion of sidered a latter-day Jewish heroine Hello Ms. Thompson some of the many historical issues of truly biblical proportions…” It is and Mr. Gooder raised at the trial. informative to compare what is writ- I read that your company is handling ten in History on Trial with the trial international sales for a new movie A Latter-Day Heroine of Truly transcript, the Judgment, and other based on Deborah Lipstadt’s book Biblical Proportions facts about the case. History on Trial: My Day in Court While enthusiastic promotion is with a Holocaust Denier. The movie common on book covers, History on Undisputed Defamation is called Denial, and Cornerstone Trial hits new heights; favorable A point, barely mentioned in the Films has promoted the movie at the comments run off the cover and fill book, is that Lipstadt was found by Cannes Film Festival as “a Judge Gray to have actu- powerful story about the ally defamed Irving. In his legal and personal battle massive 333-page Ruling, Deborah Lipstadt fought Gray wrote: to defend the veracity of “The Defendants made historical facts.” History no attempt to prove the on Trial is Lipstadt’s ac- truth of Lipstadt’s claim count of her long vendetta that Irving was scheduled against author David Ir- to speak at an anti-Zionist ving, culminating in a libel conference in Switzerland action tried in a London in 1992, which was also to court in 2000 before Judge be attended by various Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder form Cornerstone Films

Smith’s Report ∙ www.SmithsReport.com 3/16 No. 215, September 2015 representatives of terrorist organi- Evans.” Emphasis added. Outgunned and Outflanked zations such as Hezbollah and Ha- A striking fact about Irving v. Pen- mas. Nor did they seek to justify Lip- Why Abandon a Winning Case? guin, et al. was the vast disparity in stadt’s claim that Irving has a self- How Irving came to be arguing var- economic resources between the portrait by Hitler hanging over his ious esoteric facts about Auschwitz parties. The trial was not a “titanic desk. Furthermore the Defendants was a strange turn of legal events. Ir- struggle” but a David vs. Goliath af- have, as I have held, failed in their ving opened the case telling the fair, with David Irving in the role of attempt to justify the defamatory im- court: David and Penguin Books as Goli- putations made against Irving in re- “I have never held myself out to be ath. The disparity showed itself in lation to the Goebbels diaries in the a Holocaust expert, nor have I writ- the legal team each side marshaled. Moscow archive. If Irving had stuck ten books about what is now called Lipstadt hired British lawyer An- to these clear defamations by Lip- the Holocaust.” thony Julius, while Penguin hired li- stadt and had not gone off on his For her part Lipstadt told an inter- bel experts Kevin Bays and Mark classification as a ‘Denier,’ he viewer shortly after the trial: Bateman of media law firm Daven- would have won his case.” “I wasn’t proving how many peo- port Lyons. Together they briefed The Judgment can be read at the barrister, Richard Rampton. tinyurl.com/ouxodf7. The praise Penguin also retained Heather Rog- that Judge Gray had for Irving as a ers as junior barrister. Lipstadt also military historian and, importantly, engaged the firm of Mishcon de his rejection of the opinion of de- Rey. A veritable phalanx of solici- fendants’ expert Richard Evans un- tors, legal talent, staff and barristers derscore the idea that Irving would represented the defendants. Irving, have prevailed in a “normal” trial: on the other hand, was unable to re- “My assessment is that, as a mili- tain either counsel or barrister. He tary historian, Irving has much to would show up at court alone and commend him. For his works of mil- with his papers carried in a plastic itary history Irving has undertaken shopping bag. thorough and painstaking research The importance of competent le- into the archives. He has discovered gal representation in complex litiga- and disclosed to historians and oth- tion is hard to overstate. Lipstadt ers many documents which, but for herself repeatedly claims she was his efforts, might have remained un- confused or didn’t understand what noticed for years. It was plain from was going on in the courtroom even the way in which he conducted his after explanations by her legal team. Justice Charles Gray case and dealt with a sustained and While Irving was far more compe- penetrating cross-examination that ple were murdered at Auschwitz. tent than Lipstadt, he lacked a stra- his knowledge of World War 2 is un- But when they say only 68,000 peo- tegic perspective. Defendants’ legal paralleled. His mastery of the detail ple were killed — it didn’t happen. team realized that Irving’s weak- of the historical documents is re- We weren’t proving how many peo- nesses lay with his various flamboy- markable. He is beyond question ple were killed…” ant statements about the Holocaust able and intelligent. He was invari- And Judge Gray specifically and made them the main issue of the ably quick to spot the significance of stated: trial. They adroitly steered the case documents which he had not previ- “It is no part of my function to at- away from the original defamation ously seen. Moreover he writes his tempt to make findings as to what of hobnobbing with terrorists and military history in a clear and vivid actually happened during the Nazi decorating an office with portraits of style. I accept the favorable assess- regime.” Hitler, and toward the thorny ques- ment by Professor Watt and Sir John Why did Irving, Lipstadt and tion of whether Irving was a “Holo- Keegan of the calibre of Irving’s Judge Gray all end up trying facts caust Denier.” Irving naively fol- military history and reject as too they said they were not concerned lowed along. sweeping the negative assessment of with or even incompetent to judge?

Smith’s Report ∙ www.SmithsReport.com 4/16 No. 215, September 2015 One wonders how an English his- The London Times took note and courtroom. Instead, Lipstadt relied torian like Irving could have made printed an article entitled “Specialist on her phalanx of attorneys and ex- this kind of mistake. Not only did witnesses do not come cheap,” men- perts to defend her prior comments the defamation case of Wilde v. tioning the huge costs of “expert on Irving. By her own account, Lip- Queensberry serve as a cautionary witnesses” in the case. The Austral- stadt was remarkably passive light, but so too did the contempo- ian Jewish News must envision lat- throughout the trial; often not under- rary case of Aitken v. Preston and ter-day Biblical heroines as accom- standing what was going in the court Others. Under English law, a plain- panied by their own legal depart- or “blindsided” by her attorney’s ac- tiff in a defamation case needs to be ment, PR spokesmen, and troupe of tions. She contributed nothing to the quite sure of a spotless record before spin doctors. defense. She even seems confused he makes his reputation a matter of about the number of “recreated” gas litigation. This is particularly true You Are Our Witness chambers at Auschwitz, and the lo- when the alleged defamation con- Lipstadt fills her book with self- cation of structural features in build- cerns criminal conduct. Jonathan praise as lavish as that on the cover. ings. Aitken ended up in prison as a result Her favorite gambit is to recount be- of his law suit against the Guardian High School Diary newspaper, as issues relating to cor- Instead, History on Trial is filled ruption evolved into questions of with a detailed, blow-by-blow, in- perjury and obstruction of justice. depth, comprehensive recounting of Oscar Wilde’s indignation at being her emotional state during the trial; called a “posing sodomite” morphed how she “almost fell out of her into a criminal conviction for gross chair” at some remark Irving made, indecency. Judge Gray’s ruling that how some other comment of Ir- Irving was, in fact, a “Holocaust De- ving’s “left me reeling,” or how a fa- nier” cleared the way for Irving’s vorable remark to Irving by Judge criminal prosecution for being a Gray sent her into a spasm of worry. Holocaust Denier five years later in She giggles at cartoons of Irving Austria. drawn by her attorneys. She aug-

Dr. Richard Evans ments her emotional drama with Specialist Witnesses Do Not personal comments: Flattering for Come Cheap ing approached by a stranger who her friends and nasty for Irving and As the case expanded into a wide- thanks her and often blesses her. Af- his supporters. Her friends hold ranging questioning of Irving’s ter a tourist trip to East Jerusalem in spirited discussions about Rachel competence as a historian, the 1967, she claims the border guards Carson and J.D. Salinger, drink power of a large purse was shown in tell each other, “She’s got guts.” In 1995 Pommard or 1992 Clos de La the purchase of expert testimony. Russia in 1972, old Jewish women Roche and play classical music on The defense spared no expense. kiss her hand. Of course, there is the the piano perfectly. Their offices Richard J. Evans was hired to jus- mandatory “Survivor” who ap- have “the familiar chaos of a crea- tify, ex post facto, Lipstadt’s com- proaches Lipstadt during the trial: tive mind at work.” They are “easy- ment that Irving “falsified history.” “You are fighting for us. You are going, kind, unpretentious… but Evans and his team spent two years our witness.” can be tough.” Her friends look like examining Irving’s lifework in pain- This is ironic since Lipstadt never “young professors” or “graduate ful detail, and presented a 740-page was a witness at the trial. She never students.” On the other hand, David report for the defense. He came up gave a statement to the press. While Irving is noted to have, “rough fea- with 19 possible errors, as discussed the promotional material for the tures… a rather blotchy complexion below. An additional sum of over movie claims that Lipstadt was en- and unbelievably large hands.” £400,000 was paid to 13 other wit- gaged in a personal battle to defend Dealing with Irving is compared to nesses who were brought into court, the veracity of historical facts, she stepping into shit. A female sup- one after the other, to joust with Ir- never took advantage of the oppor- porter of Irving is noted as having a ving. The expense was so large that tunity to face David Irving in the “bouffant hairdo” and given the

Smith’s Report ∙ www.SmithsReport.com 5/16 No. 215, September 2015 name “Brunhilda.” An attorney who remnant is in museums.” along with being his own legal represented Irving (on his appeal) is Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice counsel, his own barrister, his own described as having “a round, very offends her, and she admits that she expert on a vast array of historical white, soft pudgy face, a thick neck, is “deeply troubled by intermarriage material, and his own PR person, a and as I soon discovered, a high- between Jews and non-Jews.” Ironi- witness in the trial. Day after day, pitched nasal voice.” Even two cally, Lipstadt writes that she is “in- for 31 days, he personally defended prominent British historians who trigued by what scholars called the his case. It was an impressive tour publicly defended Irving as a histo- ‘paranoid style in American poli- de force. rian are trashed. With breathless in- tics,’ an American susceptibility to dignation, History on Trial’s Intro- all sorts of conspiracy theories, par- How Are Sales? duction demands: ticularly those that fostered preju- I have to wonder why anyone would “How can we explain the reaction dice and antisemitism.” Paranoid put money into a movie based on of Watt and Keegan? politics fills her blog: the Arab head- Lipstadt’s book. Was it fostered by resentment of dress (the kaffiah) has “become a The only dramatic character is Ir- an outsider, someone who was not symbol of international terrorism.” ving; brilliant, arrogant, obnoxious, member of the club, Jewish, a There are stories of violence against muttering anti-Semitic and racist women? Whatever informed their women perpetrated by Muslims, things, and he loses his case. He is perverse response, it was a chilling general anti-Muslim comments, and an old lion at bay. Lipstadt comes specter at the table of justice.” attacks on Jimmy Carter for across as paranoid, obsessed with “dwell[ing] on the Palestinian refu- Jewish identity, her own minute-by- Deeply Troubled gee experience:” She quotes the minute emotions, and not particu- This paranoid critical streak runs smear: larly honest with the facts. I have to throughout the book. She is upset “But the clearest endorsement of wonder how much Denier is going that Christians got to go in and out terror as a legitimate instrument of to cost, and if anyone is taking up of the Mandelbaum Gate to visit political bargaining came from for- Cornerstone Films’ attempts to mar- Bethlehem on Christmas Day while mer President Jimmy Carter.” ket the film. Jews could not. She goes to the Brit- Yours for honesty in history, ish Museum just to see the Assyrian A Tour de Force exhibit because: In contrast to the do-nothing Lip- David Merlin “Once the Assyrians tried to de- stadt, the trial was very much a per- Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust stroy the Jewish people. Today their sonal battle for Irving. He was,

Revisionist Persecution and Prosecution Sylvia Stolz Sent to Prison for Criticizing German Law

by Roberto Hernandez

hen I first heard of thought existed for me as an unquestionable question the orthodox Holocaust W crimes, about a decade ago, I fact. I really thought we all were free narrative openly are among the most thought it was just one of those ur- to say and think unpopular ideas. undesired people of society. They ban myths or conspiracy theories This was unshakable ground for me. have lost their jobs, friends, their re- which people repeat mantra-like Well, I was very naïve, and of spected lives and in many cases they here and there. No democracy in the course also very new to revisionism. have been persecuted and jailed for 21st century would dare jail dissi- Later I learned most importantly expressing opinions contrary to the dents for saying what many don’t that using it or fighting for it comes holocaust orthodoxy. For old timers want to hear. Intellectual freedom at a price. Those who have come to in the revisionist scene, this is an old

Smith’s Report ∙ www.SmithsReport.com 6/16 No. 215, September 2015 hat, yet nothing to pass by lightly. omit that for which there is no time. legal vacuum. (See the transcript at Sylvia Stolz, a criminal defense But there are certain points, which I pastebin.com/xBDxkLcM.) lawyer, is one of those cases where think are essential to emphasize. Almost a year after her speech, in the effects of legislation, in this case First of all, it must be said that the January 2013, the Swiss lawyer German in nature, have been sadis- principle of the ‘defined penal code’ Daniel Kettiger filed a criminal tic and immoral regarding her free- has not been fulfilled. It has been complaint against Sylvia Stolz and dom of speech rights. She first ap- outright violated. This principle dic- Ivo Sasek for violating the Swiss peared on the revisionist scene as a tates that the accused must be al- anti-racism law, Section 261bis of member of Ernst Zündel’s defense lowed to know what he did wrong. the Swiss Penal Code. Kettiger com- team during his free speech trial in And what he should have done oth- plained that Stolz had claimed that Germany in 2006/2007. Due to her erwise. If someone takes a bicycle the Holocaust had never been confrontational defense style, she that does not belong to him, then this proved by a court of law. This is was eventually banned from defend- of course constitutes ‘theft,’ as we true, of course, because courts don’t ing Zündel and even physically car- all know. prove entire historical events—they ried out of the court room. Zündel In cases of libel, where a person merely deal with individual crimes. was convicted to serve a five-year says something negative, causing There are, of course, more than a prison sentence for revisionist state- thousand court decisions in Ger- ments he had made online and in many alone where alleged individ- print, even though those statements ual crimes had been dealt with were and are perfectly legal in the which are said to have been a part of US and in Canada, from where he what we call “the Holocaust,” but had distributed his statements. there is no court decision by any Stolz, on the other hand, was put court exactly defining what “Holo- on trial for written statements she caust” or the “NS genocide against had made while defending Zündel in the Jews” means exactly. court. In January 2008 she was con- As a result of this complaint, Syl- victed under some of the same via Stolz was again indicted—in charges that had been used against Germany–—and put on trial in Mu- Zündel. She was sentenced to a 3½- nich in February 2015, resulting in a year prison term. 20-month prison term for her free But the story does not end there. Sylvia Stolz during an Interview at the speech presentation of 2012. Alt- On November 2012 Stolz was a 2012 conference of the Swiss Anti- hough she committed her “thought Censorship Coalition’s guest speaker at the Anti-Censorship crime” outside Germany, German Coalition’s 8th conference held at reputational damage, then the ques- case law considers as the crime Chur, Switzerland, to which she had tion before the court is whether what scene not the location where a state- been invited by Ivo Sasek, the was said is true or false. And if true, ment was made, but where people founder of this Swiss association. it does not constitute ‘libel,’ because could potentially hear or read it. In Her presentation was not about his- in theory one is allowed to speak the today’s internet world, this means tory but about freedom of speech. truth. In the case of ‘holocaust de- that German courts are empowered In her speech she talked about nial,’ the first problem we are faced to prosecute anyone who has vio- banned speech and the Holocaust with is that the holocaust isn’t de- lated German censorship law, no problem in court—mainly in Ger- fined anywhere. That is the problem matter whether that violation oc- man courts. She says, and I quote of a ‘defined penal code.’ An au- curred in a German court room or on from a transcript of her talk: thoritative definition cannot be the far side of the moon, as long as “…banned legal defense within found anywhere.” the offensive statement was posted the area of ‘.’ Much I am not a lawyer, but the point she online or delivered to Germany in could be said about this, one hour is makes surely is an interesting philo- any way, shape or form. far from sufficient. My job here is to sophical problem, if not an outright

Smith’s Report ∙ www.SmithsReport.com 7/16 No. 215, September 2015 Vincent Reynouard: 23 Years of Persecution

by Roberto Hernandez

he chemical engineer and for- resistance explosives. The book was You) to museums, tourist offices and T mer math teacher Vincent Rey- subsequently banned by the French town halls throughout Alsace. The nouard is a well-known French fig- authorities. He repeated his hypoth- French International League against ure in the revisionist world. A very esis on a videotape and DVD, which Racism and Anti-Semitism close friend and colleague of Profes- were also banned in 2001. In June (LICRA), a French organization sor Robert Faurisson, he calls the 2004, the Limoges Court of Appeals comparable to the ADL in the US, current “post-revisionists” Fauris- sentenced him for this book to two was awarded 3,000 euros in dam- son’s heirs. years in prison, 18 of them on pro- ages. Born on February 18, 1969, in bation. In June 2008, he was sentenced Boulogne-Billancour to wealthy This persecution did not end his again, together with the Belgian re- parents (both his parents were phy- desire for free inquire into the Holo- visionist Siegfried Verbeke, by the sicians, and his father a mayor at caust question, though. Quite to the Brussels criminal court for express- some point), he began his main ac- contrary, driven into the corner and ing his revisionist views. tivities as a revisionist in the early with no way out, he stepped up his To avoid spending time in prison, 1990s while he was still a university activities by establishing his own or- Reynouard went into hiding for a student. He created the “Norman ganization called Pour une Histoire year in Belgium. In February 2009, Association for the Awakening of Débarassée des Nombreux Men- however, the Belgian investigative Citizens” (ANEC), which published songes (PHDNM; For a History journalists Frederic Loore and Ma- the revisionist newsletter Nouvelle Cleansed of Numerous Lies; it was nuel Abramowicz tracked him down Vision, which later turned into a later renamed to Pour une Histoire and published his whereabouts full-fledged magazine. Libre et Indépendante, For a Free online and in the French weekly His first criminal charges resulted and Independent History), and in Paris Match. Reynouard was ar- from brochures he had sent anony- 2003 he launched his new revisio- rested on July 9, 2010, and extra- mously to 24 high school students nist magazine Sans Concession dited to France where he was im- who had won a history-writing con- (Without Concession). As of now he prisoned at Valenciennes to serve test called “Resistance and Deporta- has published 91 issues of it (many his sentence. tion.” The brochure contested the of them multiple issues in one edi- Released after nine months of de- existence of homicidal gas cham- tion). Numbers 9 through 75 have tention in April 2011, he remained bers in German-controlled areas been posted on CODOH as free PDF under judicial supervision and got during World War II. On 8 October downloads since 2012 (see into the judiciary’s crosshairs again 1992, the Caen Court of Appeals tinyurl.com/noaeyds), and many for the distribution of a revisionist sentenced him for this to a sus- previous issues are still for sale on CD in 2009 to 120 high schools. pended prison term of one month one of Reynouard’s websites Among other activities at this time, and a fine of 5,000 francs for deny- (tinyurl.com/osph487). Reynouard wrote in the French ing one or more crimes against hu- It is needless to say that his persis- rightwing weekly journal Rivarol in manity. tence in exercising his right to con- November 2011, and created his re- In 1997, he published a book titled troversial speech led to more perse- visionist website phdnm.org. The Massacre of Oradour, for cution. On 8 November 2007 he was In 2013 he launched his own video which he became quite notorious. In sentenced to one year in prison and channel at sansconcessiontv.org, it he claims, based on a wide variety 10,000 euros fine by the Criminal where he keeps posting his revision- of evidence, that the Waffen-SS did Court of Saverne for denying crimes ist documentaries, news and opinion not commit a massacre against the against humanity by having written clips. One of his documentaries civilians of the French village of and distributed the brochure Holo- which attracted more attention than Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944, but that causte: ce que l'on vous cache (Ho- usual is “On a tous 70 ans,” in which it was an accident caused by hidden locaust: What They Are Hiding from

Smith’s Report ∙ www.SmithsReport.com 8/16 No. 215, September 2015 he explained that the com- ally supported his revisionist memoration of the 70th anni- endeavors, but she has come versary of the landing in Nor- to realize that a life by Vin- mandy claimed to have been cent’s side is one of blood, the beginning of a “liberation” sweat, toil and tears, and that’s was pure propaganda. He the last thing she wants. Vin- promptly got indicted for this cent is now a lonely, home- and three more videos, and on less, jobless refugee strugg- February 11, 2015, he was ling to recover from this utter sentenced to two years’ im- destruction of his existence by prisonment plus a hefty fine Vincent Reynouard the French authorities. by the Criminal Court of Cou- We will keep on following tances after having defended him- prison for an article he had pub- Reynouard’s activities as he contin- self without a lawyer. lished four years earlier in Rivarol, ues his seemingly unending struggle However, the prosecutor Renaud in which he had once more chal- for his right to free inquiry and free Gaudeul, noting that the sentence lenged the veracity of the orthodox speech on the Holocaust. imposed exceeded the limits set by Holocaust narrative. Any contact with him has to be in- the law, resolved that “this sentence As a result of all this persecution, direct for the time being. Again, as was illegal,” and he himself filed an Vincent Reynouard finally gave up in 1996 through 1998 with Germar appeal. On June 17, 2015, the Court on France and left the country in Rudolf when he fled Germany, the of Appeal of Caen reduced the sen- June, going into exile permanently, Belgian revisionist Siegfried Verbe- tence to one year in prison without or so he hopes (see his video “Je suis ke has decided to once more lend an additional fine (see phdnm.org désormais réfugié à l’étranger”, “I Vincent a helping hand. You can with English subtitles). am now a refugee abroad”; write letters to Vincent by mailing The latest act of persecution oc- sansconcessiontv.org). In fleeing, them to Verbeke at Italiëlei, 203B, curred in May 2015, when he was he had to leave behind his archives B-2000 Antwerpen, Belgium. For sentenced to another two months in and his second wife, who once loy- donations please see the instructions given at phdnm.org.

Horst Mahler Calls for Help

By Santiago Alvarez

ince February 2009, German out there, as is common in severe and the lower part of his left calf was S lawyer has been cases of that disease, that the blood the only way of saving Mahler’s serving his cumulative 12-year circulation to his lower legs had de- life. This amputation occurred on prison term for a number of convic- teriorated so badly that he had suf- July 14. Only then did the prison au- tions due to his writings in which he fered a severe case of blood poison- thorities consent to interrupting both contests the orthodox Holo- ing. The prison authorities insisted, Mahler’s incarceration. caust narrative and justifies as well however, that he be transferred to Mahler is currently trying to be re- as recommends repeating some of the prison section of another hospi- leased early on parole after having the NS measures against the Jews, tal in order to keep him under lock served two thirds of his latest sen- among other things. and key even while on the verge of tence of 10 years and two months. Suffering from diabetes, however, dying. However, there is yet another case his health has been deteriorating After the blood poisoning had pending against him for his 2013 steadily. On June 29, he collapsed in been brought under control, it was book Das Ende der Wanderschaft: his prison cell and was subsequently found out that his left foot had al- Gedanken über Gilad Atzmon und die admitted to a hospital. It was found ready died, and that amputating it Judenheit (The End of Nomadism:

Smith’s Report ∙ www.SmithsReport.com 9/16 No. 215, September 2015 Thoughts on Gilad Atzmon and ducted an oral hearing on this mat- Jewry; tinyurl.com/osbyx98), which ter. At the last minute a defense law- he managed to write and get pub- yer agreed to represent me. lished while imprisoned. In prison, I also need legal assistance from a of course, he is subjected to intense defense lawyer for the upcoming censorship of all incoming and out- prosecution due to my book The End going writings. This shows that of Nomadism: Thoughts on Gilad there can be nothing wrong with this Atzmon and Jewry. book, and that the German authori- The most urgent problem is to re- ties merely keep this criminal inves- tain my lawyer in an appropriate way. tigation pending so they can deny Therefore please help! […] him an early release. Wolfgang Seifert in Berlin has In order to be able to have legal kindly agreed to open a bank ac- representation both for his applica- count with the keyword ‘Solidar- Horst Mahler tion to be released on parole and to ität,’ into which supporters can defend himself against the new to say, it’s about my life. The left leg transfer their financial aid. The ac- charges for his latest book, he has has been amputated. My physicians count details are: called for donations. Here are his are struggling to make sure they […The account was cancelled by own words don’t have to remove even more of the bank when they learned about (tinyurl.com/pgth2z6): my body. the background. Please use the Pay- Brandenburg on Havel Apart from that, this is regarding Pal account of Horst Mahler’s wife, August 20, 2015 the suspension of the rest of my as long as it lasts: Dear friends, prison term after serving 2/3 of my [email protected]] sentence (concurrent sentence of 10 With all my gratitude in advance, I have hesitated for a long time to years and two months). The criminal send out a call for help. Cordially court of Brandenburg has con- Horst Mahler But it’s now all or nothing, that is

Ursula Haverbeck Challenges German Authorities

By Santiago Alvarez

rsula Haverbeck (86) is the orthodox Holocaust narrative “is the funded Institut für Zeitgeschichte U widow of the late German his- biggest and most persistent lie in his- (Institute for Contemporary History). torian Prof. Dr. Werner Georg Ha- tory.” (With English subtitles at The documents in it do not contain verbeck. Both have been supporters tinyurl.com/ng7ypdp.) The viewer is any trace of any extermination pro- of revisionism for decades. After her warned, though, that not all of her gram; quite to the contrary, they husband’s death in 1999, she started statements are historically accurate. prove that the camp authorities tried becoming more outspoken about her One of the inspirations why Mrs. to save the inmates’ lives. (Castle skepticism regarding the Holocaust. Haverbeck became so outspoken re- Hill Publishers will have their own, As a consequence she was tried cently is the book Commander’s and critically commented English edi- thrice for “denial” and sentenced to Headquarter’s Orders in the Con- tion, see at tinyurl.com/p48yy64.) pay several thousand euros in fines. centration Camp Auschwitz (in Ger- It goes without saying that a crimi- She became a public figure in early man; amzn.com/3598240309), which nal investigation for “denial” was 2015 when she was interviewed by contains reproductions of German subsequently initiated against Mrs. the German government TV channel wartime documents by the Ausch- Haverbeck, in the course of which ARD (aired on April 23). In this in- witz camp authorities. The book was her house was raided by the police in terview she confirmed that for her the edited by the German government- early June (see tinyurl.com/pkfl274).

Smith’s Report ∙ www.SmithsReport.com 10/16 No. 215, September 2015 Revisionist Activities

by Santiago Alvarez

Starting with this issue, Smith’s Report will re- papers (in print or online), videos or podcast port about new revisionist activities and pro- releases ductions. With this we want to increase public If you want any of your activities or produc- awareness of the community’s productivity. tions to be announced here, please send a brief This will hopefully improve attention and in- description to [email protected]. Please crease participation in revisionist events, and write your submission in English. Although we might help our revisionist producers to success- can translate from a number of languages, we’d fully market their products. like to spend our time more productively. Our list of activities covers anything which has Keep your submissions brief (not more than occurred during earlier months, or which is im- 2000 characters). If we are interested in pub- pending and deserves an early announcement. lishing longer articles on certain events/items of We strive to include activities and productions interest, we will approach you directly. form all over the world, no matter which lan- We have gathered a list of contacts we will ap- guage. The activities and products covered may proach each month for their submissions. If you include, but are not limited to: did not receive our email, please contact us so – gatherings, conferences, tours, rallies, media we can include you. We hope to receive a interviews, mainstream media coverage steady flow of submissions in the future, so that – new books, periodical issues, websites, major we can report all pertinent activities.

n July, Frie- Jews. The book I drich P. Berg can be obtained published his either from CHP long-awaited or from any other monograph, book outlet, like which was ex- Amazon. It is pected to sum- also available as marize the re- an eBook in Kin- sults of his dec- dle and ePub formats. German out- ade-long revisionist research activi- lets are prohibited from offering the has only a number of corrections of ties: Nazi Gassings: Thoughts on book, though: J. Graf, “Die Ver- typos and factual errors (266pp., Life & Death. The book will be re- nichtung der europäischen Juden”: £20/ $25, amzn.com/ 1591480973), viewed in the upcoming fall issue of Hilbergs Riese auf tönernen Füßen, whereas the second title is a com- Inconvenient History (201 pp., 184 pp., £12/$17. A new English pletely revised and expanded edi- £10/$15; amzn.com/1515154602). edition appeared in January. tion of Thomas Dalton’s Debating (tinyurl.com/qzmsx7c) the Holocaust: A New Look at Both lso in July, Castle Hill Publish- Sides, 322 pp., £18/$25 (amzn.com/ A ers (CHP) released a new, n addition, CHP published two 1591480868). Both books are part slightly revised and expanded Ger- I revised editions of two revisionist of the growing series Holocaust man edition of Jürgen Graf’s cri- bestsellers in August: The first is Handbooks, now counting 32 vol- tique of the late Raul Hilberg’s clas- Nick Kollerstrom’s Breaking the umes (see at www.holocausthand- sic The Destruction of the European Spell, the second edition of which books.com). They are also available

Smith’s Report ∙ www.SmithsReport.com 11/16 No. 215, September 2015 as eBooks in Kindle and ePub for- avid Irving interesting anecdotes surrounding mats. D is advertis- World War II and its historiography. ing his upcoming The speech is posted on YouTube he most bor- tours. It may be for everyone to view who missed the T ing book over by the time real thing: ever”—the copy you have this tinyurl.com/omk8yhl editor’s words— note, but it’s in- has also been is- teresting to know ez Turner was also involved in a sued in a second what folk are doing. J two-hour documentary of a edition by CHP ”Book now for David Irving’s wreath-laying event on Aug. 1 spon- in August after week-long September 2015 guided sored by the “Forgotten British He- the first sold out tour of Hitler’s headquarters and roes” campaign lobbying for the (some people must love boredom): other historic sites. Reserve your commemoration of British service The Central Construction Office of place online now with a fully refund- men who died as a result of Jewish the Waffen-SS and Police Auschwitz able deposit of $500. Apply now, attacks in Palestine during the Brit- by Carlo Mattogno. Yes, it’s as bad and qualify for a $250 discount. ish mandate over the “Holy Land.” as it sounds. Although boring, it’s “The 2015 tour starts on Septem- still banned in Germany, and hence ber 2 from Warsaw, Poland, and it’s a collector’s item (vol. 13 of the ends back there on September 10. It HH series, 188 pp., £13/$18; includes the bunker headquarters of amzn.com/1591481120) (‘The Wolf’s Lair’), SS chief Heinrich Himmler (‘Hoch- nterestingly, wald’), and the German Army high I CHP have also command, and the sinister Opera- released this past tion Reinhardt sites (Treblinka, So- Other notables were Lady Michèle August an Eng- bibor, Belzec, Majdanek). There is Renouf (tellingfilms.co.uk), Martin lish translation of also a two-day optional Riga, Latvia Webster, historian Peter Rushton, Germar Rudolf’s tour, beginning on August 31. and Richard Edmonds PhD thesis, REGISTER now for David Ir- (tinyurl.com/q9akmtt). which he wrote ving’s week-long guided tour of Hit- between 1990 and 1993 while work- ler’s Headquarters and other his- rue to his ing at the Stuttgart Max Planck In- toric sites, September 2-10, 2015. If T record of stitute for Solid State Research. The you book online now here with a hyper-activism, thesis, which Rudolf had to with- fully refundable deposit of $500, you French super-re- draw in 1996 due to threats from will save $250 on the final ticket visionist Vincent Stuttgart University caused by his price.” (tinyurl.com/o4vtgbu) Reynouard has revisionist activities, is about solid- released a num- state chemistry and theoretical crys- n July 25, ber of hard-hit- tallography. This is not exactly any- O the indefati- ting videos during the past two thing a revisionist is interested in, gable Jez Turner months, which are a boon for every except for the revisionist aficionado hosted yet an- francophone on the planet. Here are keen on collecting items written by other London the titles in English translation: Rudolf: Periodic Nodal Surfaces: Forum meeting – Robert Faurisson, Vincent Rey- Their Generation, Analysis, and Ap- where the fa- nouard: Appeal to JM le Pen on the plication in Structural Chemistry, mous (or infamous, according to the “Gas Chambers” 182 pp. letter size, color illustra- establishment) British historian Da- – “Expelled from the National Front, tions, £30/$50 vid Irving spoke about “Saturation Le Pen Pays for Having Been Careful (amzn.com/1591481147). Bombing in World War II – who is about the ‘Gas Chambers’” – “At Auschwitz: Open your Eyes, and to blame?” Being true to himself, Don’t Listen to the Guides” though, Irving related many more

Smith’s Report ∙ www.SmithsReport.com 12/16 No. 215, September 2015 – “Thanks, with You I Continue the – “Holocaust: More Illusory Evidence” See his channel at Battle” – “The Queen of England, the Nazi Sa- tinyurl.com/omnvc7q. – “Before I Say Good Bye to You” lute, and the Happy Lesbians” And here are some videos which got – “Revisionism: The Reason for the Si- – “Jérôme Bourbon Assaulted: an censored by YouTube: lence in Germany” Analysis” – “Gas Chambers”: No Proof after 33 – “The Number of Furnaces at Ausch- – “Race, Racism and Immigration: Years of Research witz Is Not Proof of a Massacre” Breaking the Deadlock” – Within 2 Months My Judicial Execution – “The Diabolical Cynicism of the Vic- – “God, Soral, Zemmour, Mahler: Why – François Hollande, Servant of the Jews tors in 1945” Freedom of Expression Disappeared” – I am not Charlie – “Nagasaki or Oradour: Who Were – “Response to Aboudner, the Anti-Re- These can be viewed on Vincent’s the Real Savages?” visionist Cross” website at tinyurl.com/npbb8x3 (just – “Jewish Complot” (4 parts) – “Thought Crimes in France: The – “From Hiroshima to Rothschild” Mechanisms of a Dictatorship” as we go to press, the link goes dead…)

– “ Another Hammering for Loupi”

Fragments

by Bradley R. Smith

Hi Gang! Well, I’m back, for the *** Hernandez, my right-hand time being anyhow. In the bigger man here in the office for several scheme of things of course it’s al- years, left for the South two years ways for the time being. Eight days ago. He still works with me from his ago I received a blood transfusion at home in Jalisco. The Internet/Web the VA. When it was done I felt bet- miracle. He sends our stuff to our ter. Still do. This week I began private mailing list, posts on my Fa- working. Getting my affairs in or- cebook page, the Blog, on A Light der, thinking about Smith’s Report on Campus, and he has specialty again. We’ll see what goes down. mailing lists that we send to free- press organizations, Hillel (not one *** CODOH’s David Merlin has of those) and other such. Tony, who addressed a sophisticated and very lives here in town and is responsible well informed letter to the folk at for gathering large numbers of cam- Cornerstone Films in London. The pus e-mails, makes himself availa- entire letter is in this issue of Smith’s ble even when I can’t really pay Report. Cornerstone is promoting him. You will be surprised as I tell the production of a new “Holly- you how much e-mail we are send- wood” film about Deborah Lipstadt ing. Tonight he is working on aca- Hillary Swank will Play Deborah Lipstadt in new Hollywood movie. which will feature Hillary Swank as demics and student organizations on Ms. Lipstadt. That’s how we know campuses in New Jersey that have Much better than the real thing: that it is a “Hollywood” movie even student bodies of at least 15,000. though it is being produced in Brit- ain. Merlin opens with a familiar re- *** A question from Giuseppe Fu- counting of the David Irving/Debo- rioso re. the casting for the new Lip- rah Lipstadt trial that took place in stadt movie: London and where the final decision “Who is going to play Deborah against Irving was made in the year Lipstadt? Ernest Borgnine?” Deborah Lipstadt 2000. Here she is: The Thing itself.

Smith’s Report ∙ www.SmithsReport.com 13/16 No. 215, September 2015 *** I was really sick for weeks working on the New Jersey total as “Germany’s debt to Europe can these past few months. A couple I write this. never be repaid.” weeks back when I was given the Never? And to Israel? blood transfusion at the VA it took *** Hernandez was here a few 5.5 hours. I was exhausted so I slept days a couple months ago, and be- *** Rebecca Goldstein is the wife through most of it. Once I got up, in fore he left, we did a brief video we of Steven Pinker. As Steven Pinker about thirty minutes, I could feel titled “Should Smith Apologize to rarely mentions the Holocaust, and that it was better. It’s been better Harvard Professor Steven Pinker?” never discusses it so far as I have since. There is talk of my doing this This was a follow-up to my open let- found out, I wanted to see if his wife procedure every 20 days. I’m all in ter to Pinker, which we sent all over did. She does not, so far as I have for it. But we’ll see. Harvard, questioning why, when he been able to find out. She touches on is such a core Free Speech guy, he this in an interesting way in The *** Shafar Nullifidian writes did not respond to the hysteria that Jewish Chronicle Online. There she from New Hampshire: broke out in the Harvard Crimson in is interviewed by Ariel Kahn in “Five hundred ninety-four men 2009 when it ran a small ad I sub- 2010 (tinyurl.com/q96q257) and woman have been ‘extermi- mitted asking why Dwight D. Eisen- Goldstein says that Jewish history nated’ in homicidal gas chambers in hower, in his book Crusade in Eu- bears heavily on her as an author. the United States of America. I’ve rope, did not mention the German got a listing of the names, ages, gen- weapons of mass destruction, the der, race, the crime(s) for which gas chambers? The scandal went all they were condemned, the dates and over New England and onto the wire states where the executions took services and CNN. Not a peep from place. Free Speech advocate Professor Ste- “This is 594 more forensically ven Pinker verifiable, documented names than It later occurred to me that Pro- the unverified name of one Jew, or fessor Pinker might not have been Catholic, or Protestant of any de- on campus at the time. He might nomination, or any homosexual of have been on vacation, home sick, either gender, or atheist, or Gypsy who knows? So we did this little man, woman or child, or Roma man, video, less than four minutes, where I admit publicly I did not check on Rebecca Goldstein woman or child, Communist, Social- (Pinker) ist, or Trade Unionist executed in a his whereabouts at the time of the homicidal gas chamber by National Eisenhower question scandal and “I don’t like to identify myself as a Socialist Germany at Auschwitz I, or offered my apology if it were true he Jewish writer, but it’s hard to be, was not there. At the same time, if at Auschwitz Birkenau, Auschwitz let’s say, a writer who, occasionally, he was there, I asked again how he Monowitz, or at Majdanek, more than she anticipates, writes could explain his silence with regard Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, or Tre- about Jewish themes, and not place to a straight-out Free Speech story your characters in a historical nar- blinka. on his campus. rative. “Go figure.” In the event with Hernandez, I got sick and we did nothing with the “It’s a great gift to those of us *** We’re in the process of doing video. Earlier this week however we from our heritage, but it can also of- e-mail sends to campuses in New got it up on A Light on Campus, and ten feel like a trap, something you York and surrounding. In the last on the blog, and are preparing to dis- have to rebel against. I think it’s a few days we have sent the David tribute it widely. You can view creative tension – to be Jewish is to Merlin article on the Deborah Lip- Pinker speaking on Free Speech, locate your individual story within a stadt “Hollywood” movie (includ- and Smith’s little video in response historical narrative, whatever you ing the two photos above) to 5,800 here: www.alightoncampus.com think of that narrative. folk at Harvard, 4,800 to New York “In America, and I would imagine University in Manhattan, and 2,400 *** On August 10 Roger Cohen in England too, what happened in to campuses in New Jersey. We are wrote in the New York Times: Europe, it looms. I have terrible

Smith’s Report ∙ www.SmithsReport.com 14/16 No. 215, September 2015 fights with some of my best friends rally in the West Bank city of Her- their cowardice, and deserve no who write only about the Holocaust, zliya, according to Al Ray corre- apologies, in particular over mi- and who want to identify the mean- spondence (Andalou).” nor/moot points! Keep it up Bradley, ing of Jewish identity in the Holo- This from the Israeli Foreign you do a magnificent job!” caust. I just fight against that with Minister! Makes our own Donald every neuron I have. That’s not us – Trump sound like a weak sister. *** The Donation Page on to identify oneself with victimhood is CODOH had been infected by “mal- just such a diminishment of this his- *** Peter Adams is first to com- ware” for a while, but it was cleaned tory, which is heroic, moving.” ment on our new video: Should up toward the end of August by I buy her sincerity here. Smith Apologize to Professor Steven cleaning out and re-installing the en- When I first ran into her on the Pinker? tire site. There are those in America Web, I was drawn to one of her “Moot point in my opinion. Peo- and elsewhere who do not want me books. It’s titled Plato at the Goog- ple like Pinker KNOW that freedom or CODOH to receive contributions. leplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go of speech is suppressed, and those Organizations like the USHMM, the Away. Plato at the Googleplex? In attempting to invoke it are perse- ADL, the Wiesenthal Center, Yad the moment I didn’t care about lik- cuted on this particular topic. Irre- Vashem, have budgets of tens of ing or disliking the book. The title spective of whether or not he was millions of dollars. Today I received itself was worth the price. Plato at there, he has had ample opportunity one check for ten dollars. Still, there the Googleplex? I don’t really buy to speak but chooses not to. are those who don’t want to risk the books any longer, but I bought this “Here in Europe we have many possibility that we could receive one. That was about the time I got advocates of ‘free speech’, and or- considerably more. real sick so I have yet to start read- ganizations too, ALL remain silent ing it. I don’t think my getting sick when it comes to the Holocaust and *** The image to the left is an old had anything to do with holding her those who doubt/dispute it. Charlie cartoon that originated in the Per- book in my hands, gazing at it. Hebdo and its employees made their sian contest in 2006. You’ve proba- name and ‘paid a price’ for exercis- bly seen it. It revives old memories *** We sent a story from my Per- ing free speech, while that same for me, not of the contest or of the sonal History of Moral Decay to magazine supported the laws in conference there in Teheran where I 4,500 folk at Harvard. “The Daring France which jail people for saying spoke, but of walking on Hollywood Young Man Meets William Sa- they dispute the holocaust. Boulevard in the late afternoons and royan.” It tells the story of the mo- “Europe’s leaders, in particular seeing the sign when it read “Holly- ment I decided to become a writer. I Merkel and Hollande, marched in wood.” was 23 years old. The idea was to support of Free Speech through the It was there for years. It is still interest a few people in the book, center of Paris when Charlie there. Today I got a check for $300 perhaps start a couple conversations Hebdo’s employees/owners were and a note from Robert in San Di- with students. It didn’t work. killed, yet 7 weeks later Sylvia Stolz ego. He wrote that he is in his eight- was jailed for two years without ap- ies as I am and used to walk on Hol- *** International Middle East peal for making a speech to an in- lywood Boulevard as I did. He as a Media Center news reports: vited audience in Switzerland. lawyer, me as a – I can’t quite make “Israeli Foreign Minister and the “No, they know their hypocrisy, it out but at the time much of it had head of Yisrael Beiteinu Party, Avi- to do with my being down and out gdor Lieberman, lashed out at Is- on Hollywood Boulevard. I was okay with it. Then suddenly in 1984 rael’s Arab citizens, Sunday, threat- there was Revisionism and I had an ening to cut their heads off with an office at the corner of Hollywood axe. and Vine. Up on the third floor. “‘Those who are with us deserve Those were the days. I had started to everything, but those who are work for IHR and one day Willis against us deserve to have their Carto visited me. He wanted to see heads chopped off with an axe,’ what they were paying for. I imag- Lieberman said during an election ine it was smaller and simpler than Smith’s Report ∙ www.SmithsReport.com 15/16 No. 215, September 2015 he could have imagined. There that have access to the Internet was a desk and two chairs and a and the Web is known to be in the window that looked down over the several millions and may be as Boulevard. He sat down in the many as twenty or more millions. other chair and kind of looked Presently, literally, there is no end around. Not much to see. He said in sight to its growth. Being on the something to that effect, I don’t re- Internet is like having touch-tone call his words. We chatted for a access to the computer-literate few minutes and he excused him- world. We’re talking major out- self. That’s when I was doing my reach here. first newsletter: Prima Facie, for “CODOH will soon have a Web IHR. site on the Internet and the atten- tion of those who do not want to *** It’s August 1995, 20 years see it there. At first it won’t neces- ago, and I report in SR #25 that I sarily have more than a handful of am going to set up a still somewhat readers. While millions of individ- mysterious thing for me called a uals will be able to access the site, Web site. That would be on the In- at first no one will know it’s there. ternet, a place that I did not have So the first order of business once much familiarity with. That was Smith’s Report No. 25, August 1995 we’re established is to get the when we were still living in Cen- word out that we exist and where tral California, in Visalia. I ex- way. Those who publish the maga- we can be found.” plained in SR that a Web page is a zine decide what goes in it and what “place” on the Internet where indi- doesn’t. *** It’s August 2015 now, I’m viduals and organizations can set up “While a magazine can be sent here again, and just as I needed your permanent electronic information anywhere in the world to anyone help back then, I need it now. If you sites. (Not everybody knew that.) who asks for it, the Web site remains still believe this work is worthwhile, Those who set up the site control it in one place and all those all over please take a moment to contribute. and manage it to their own satisfac- the world who have computers and The Donation page will be working tion and benefit. Not just anyone can are ‘on-line’ can reach any Web site fine by the time you have this issue jump in and start throwing bombs anywhere in the world by tapping a of SR to hand. around. It’s like a magazine in that few numbers and letters on their keyboard. The number of computers Bradley R. Smith

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