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.
Thanks RETARD.
Yeah that you are brain damaged.
Yes, clearly the Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies has no business publishing information on Holocaust deniers, it's just none of their business.
Yeah atigun, you got the definition of the showa just right, a bunch of whining Jews making money off good White Christians and Muslims.
Regarding Pat’s “exposure” of the Treblinka “fraud” (can’t kill Jews with fumes after all) in his column, based on “research” published by the IHR.
Nobody paid any attention, until Pat Buchanan repeated the whole study and materials in one of his syndicated col umns, and that really caught everybody's attention. Everybody was talking about it. Very effective. Pat took all of our findings and worked [them] into his column.
Mark Weber, director, Institute of Historical Review.
Nothing like popularizing Holocaust denial.
Pat? Is that you?
Yup on all that. Atigun is out trolling. Is thrilled to get some bites.
I liked Buchanan in 1996 until I watched an interview with him on TV. I was in high school then, didn't know that much about him except that he was most conservative of all the Republican candidates in the primary, and his anti-semitism really, really shocked me.
Your comments make you sound like an idiot.
If you are going to argue a point, at least use complete sentences, which demonstrate a complete thought.
Of course the Holocaust occurred. I know a few of the survivors. They converted to Christianity some time ago, and pastor a church here in Georgia.
Is it possible that some have escalated numbers purely for political gain? Maybe... but I doubt it.
It's a Holocaust if even one of the Jews was killed by the Germans, simply for being Jewish.
Sometimes a one-liner says it all.
Hmmm... you signed around the time when Stormfront was having its campaign to infiltrate FreeRepublic. I wonder.
"It was a long time ago".
Not that long. The problem is we (Americans) consider anything over 10 years old as ancient history.
That's not to say most people should obsess on it. But lets be aware that this went a looong way towards making the XXth century such a bloody century.
I'm talking about going after Buchanan by associating him with this nobody.
They're free to publicize any H-deniers. Pat has never denied the Holocaust took place.
This was a cheap shot at him. IMO
BTW: I would hardly call Buchanan's 2000 candidacy a "campaign". I was pitiful by any measure.
Pat has denied forcefully the use of gas chambers at Treblinka based on "scientific evidence" provided him presumably second hand from a Holocaust denial outfit.
Pat displays the typical trait of many bigots, inverting victim and victimizer. He describes victims of the Holocaust as mentally ill and Nazis as the victims of the revenge obsessed. In the words of Neil Sher, former director of the OSI, Buchanan went to bat for every Nazi war criminal in America. The only cheap shot here is pat himself.
If they think Pat is of any importance, they should attack him directly.
I'm sure you wouldn't like it if you were smeared by linking you to someone who subsequently did something horrible.
It is the tactic I despise, not the facts. It is cowardly way to go after somebody on their part. Again, they should go right after him directly if they really feel that strongly. Then, PB can sue them if it isn't true.
I worked on the Buchanon campaign in 96. We had a central comittee set up for who was to lead the efforts.
One guy took over the efforts in the town where I live, I didnt hear his name at the head meeting.
So, I called the state campaign leader, told him what I heard, and he freaked out!
Seems the guy who took over the campaign was a DAVID DUKE supporter!
I repeated what I was told to a junior leader in town, and he told me HE AGREED WITH DAVID DUKE on foreign policy!
I was stunned. And, it was the last time I worked for them.
I do NOT believe it was lead by anti-semites, but I am convinved it ATTRACTED anti-semites!
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