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.
Lay off the bottle, and put the needle down.
Actually, I have trouble you're real. You're such a caricature. You're the epitome of every liberal's dream clown.
I hope he has a Merry Christmas.
You may have missed it, his political career resembles that of Harold Stassen at best. Pat's a news-yapper these days, not a politician.
Not worth it, those that know, KNOW....This guy is a poser. He only served by his own admission, for 3 years. 1 of those is for training, the other two was for either filling sandbags in Korea or he was being staged for Viet Nam. In either case, he didn't see any action. Besides, wasn't it the 7th Cav that went into Viet Nam in 1966?
Actually I think they might have been in Okinawa in 61 or 62, part of the 1st Special Ops group. The troll's looking it up on the internet as we speak, so we'll know soon.
Atigun, sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee from your Aunt's Krups.
Hey, that's REAL adult behavior now.
Rather intellectual of you.
How about BLAUPUNKT?
1 Oct 82 - 1st Special Operations Command (Airborne) provisionally activated at Fort Bragg.
Special Forces was the term before SOC.
And all that means is that you'll give the name of someone whose DD-214 you looked up.
You didn't serve in any SOC! Special Operations wasn't around...Special Forces on the other hand...
"I'm full of crap."
Can't argue with you there.
"I didn't serve."
Hey, you said it, not me.
"All that remains now is for you two-bit blowhards to put up some cash in an escrow account in a bank of your choosing. I'll match it."
Sorry, we don't do the Bev Harris scam thing here.
"You little weasels haven't the money or the hair."
Really?
You're doing some projectionism there.
He's been Zotted!
Times have changed. These days most people are proud to say they are part Cherokee down south. So many in Georgia have some Cherokee blood. People are generally impressed if you have some Injun blood
OOps, someone was a little too harsh on his abuse button.
Atigun: "You don't believe me. You say I made it up. You say it's all a forgery."
Freepers: "Isn't that what you neo nazis say about the Jewish Holocaust?"
Atigun: "No no, this is what you say about me."
(Waiting for a glimmer of reality to set into your pea brain)
Oops. I pressed the button.
$10 to the charity of your choice says Baracada or whatever his name was doesn't come back. He's a hit and run poster who will finally be outed and banned.
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