Posted on 12/15/2004 11:22:09 PM PST by yonif
(IsraelNN.com) A former senior aide to talk show host and one-time presidential candidate Pat Buchanan spoke at a meeting of Holocaust-deniers earlier this year, according to this year’s annual report on Holocaust-denial activity around the world.
The year-end report, Holocaust Denial: A Global Survey - 2004, has been issued by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which is located on the campus of Gratz College, near Philadelphia. The report’s co-authors are Holocaust scholars Dr. Alex Grobman (author of a recent book on Holocaust denial) and Dr. Rafael Medoff (director of the Wyman Institute).
(The complete text of the Wyman Institute’s report may be viewed on the Wyman Institute’s website).
The report notes that Peter Gemma, a senior staff member of Pat Buchanan’s 2000 presidential campaign, spoke at a February 19, 2004 meeting in Virginia of the Institute for Historical Review, the leading Holocaust-denial organization in the United States. Gemma introduced the evening’s keynote speaker, IHR director Mark Weber.
The association of a former Buchanan aide with Holocaust-deniers is particularly noteworthy in view of Buchanan’s own troubling positions concerning Hitler and the Holocaust. He has written that 850,000 Jews could not have been gassed in Treblinka because “diesel engines do not emit enough carbon dioxide to kill anybody”; he spoke out on behalf of accused Nazi war criminals Karl Linnas and Arthur Rudolph; he wrote columns defending Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk; he described Hitler as “an individual of great courage”; and he mocked Holocaust survivors’ memories as “group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.” (The New Republic, Oct.15 and Oct.22, 1990) In his 1999 book, A Republic, Not an Empire, Buchanan argued that the U.S. should not have gone to war against Nazi Germany.
Other highlights of this year’s report:
* Holocaust-deniers in the United States continued their efforts to gain a measure of respectability in 2004, and benefited from the willingness of several individuals of prominence to associate with them. In addition to the aforementioned Peter Gemma, a newsletter edited by pundit Alexander Cockburn defended imprisoned Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel. Also, Hutton Gibson again publicly denied the Holocaust, while his son, actor Mel Gibson, declined to clearly dissociate himself from his father’s views.
* Some Arab governments continued to actively promote Holocaust-denial in 2004, and a Holocaust-denier emerged as the leading candidate for chairmanship of the Palestinian Authority.
* A number of Western governments and other institutions took important steps against Holocaust-deniers. The Canadian government sought to deport Ernst Zundel; the government of New Zealand denied entry to David Irving; the French government brought charges against Bruno Gollnisch; Harvard University returned a gift from an Arab leader who promoted Holocaust-denial; and The Nation magazine said it would no longer accept advertisements from Holocaust-deniers. Most notably, U.S. intervention brought about the first-ever public disavowal of Holocaust-denial by an Egyptian government official.
Ping.
Just delusional.
SHOCKED?
I'm not.
No doubt his name should be pronounced 'VAY-bur' and not 'WEH-ber.' Good gravy, those IHR creeps make me sick.
Devil's Advocate?
Now there's truth in advertising.
Why am I not surprised?
Censorship of a few utterly marginal loons is so much easier than controlling immigration from the Arab world.
If it weren't for the latter, the Holocaust deniers would be of absolutely no significance in the Western world.
I'm not surprised he probably went out for drinks with a few DUmmies afterwards.
Atigun the Devil's Advocate. Seems you're something.
Not all people killed in the concentration camps were Jews. Some were Germans that rebelled against the Nazis. Some were gypsies. Some were political enemies within Hitler's government. Some were POWs. Some were Jehovah's Witness. Some were Seventh Day Adventists. I guess all these groups are lying too.
Not all people were burned. Of the 6 million Jews killed by the Germans, some were shot and buried in mass graves. Some were experimented with by doctors and many were gassed and burned. We literally overran concentration camp after concentration camp as we destroyed this EVIL EMPIRE. We found and chronicled the discoveries that lay smoking in the ovens. We found the warehouses full of teeth, clothing, hair, and all other personal effects. We found the half-dead people. We found the open pits with the bodies decomposing. You can't make this stuff up, just like we can't make up the Cambodian killing fields, or the Iraqi torture cells, or the Japanese atrocities in Nanking/Burma/Korea/Manchuria/and the Phillppines.
Some of my closest friends lost family to Hitler's concentration camps while others lost family to Hitler's war machine, whether they were Jewish, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, French, or whoever-it made no difference to the Germans. You think they lie about all those relatives dead? You think they made up stories of slavery, rape, torture, depravation, and the inhumanity from German hands? You think the gold, paintings, and real estate that once were held by all these people magically appeared in Nazi's hands as reward from Thor?
Finally, the Germans kept meticulous records, just as the Stazi (East German Intelligence), the Stalinists, the Kmer Rouge, and Saddam's regime kept meticulous records of their savage insanity.
Sadly Atigun, it is people like you that will enable dictators to do all again.
Who're you trying to kid?
Get a grip man. Understand the Tripartite agreement. Mistakes were aplenty on all sides. But finally, the Axis decided to attack and attack it did.
You'd be non-existent, dead, or speaking Japanese now if it hadn't been for your uncle and several million of his fellow Allied troops.
If you haven't read Mein Kampf, you really should.
Showa business so I'm like my aunt.........
MORON. Learn how to spell Shoah first before you dispense your bar room wisdom.
A Buchanan staffer can not provide any measure of respectability. Hey they also have the support from Louisiana legislator David Duke. I see the tide turning...NOT!
A guilt by (past) association smear.
This is a bizarre cheap shot against a small timer. IMO
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