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Beirut Conference 2001 Revisionist conferences always attract a lot of attention, but the upcoming conference on "Revisionism and Zionism" in Beirut, Lebanon, is fast becoming a focal point for interested parties around the world.
March 8, 2001
Holocaust deniers spread their lies in Mideast
By Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman
Veteran war reporter John Sack recently penned an Inside the Bunker account for Esquire magazine -- not of Adolf Hitler's last days, but of the lives of those who today deny that the Nazis ever intended to annihilate the Jews. Sack presents a sympathetic "insider's view" of a California convention of the Institute for Historical Review (IHR), the organized front for Holocaust revisionists who deny the reality of Hitler's Final Solution.
Sack's prose is satirical, but his serious purpose is to score the Jewish critics of Holocaust deniers. Though not denying the Holocaust, Sack dismisses the deniers as no more dangerous than devotees of flying-saucer cults. Pictured as harmless Germanophiles, they emerge through Sack's prose as heroic martyrs to the cause of free speech, allegedly under assault by organized Jews.
Perhaps Sack and the editors of Esquire don't take Holocaust denial seriously, but the rest of the world views matters differently.
Many countries are concerned about the resurgence of Nazism and have made it a crime to defame the memory of the dead. Americans may not agree with these laws on free-speech grounds, but we all can applaud last year's declaration of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust, which encourages all European states to include the study of the Holocaust "in all its dimensions" in the curriculums of their schools.
Unfortunately, however, too many in the mainstream Arab and Muslim worlds teach their children just the opposite: that there was no Holocaust. This is why the supposedly harmless IHR has, for the first time, scheduled a gathering in the Middle East: a conference March 31 through April 3 in Beirut titled, "Revisionism and Zionism." The event is coordinated by Jürgen Graf, a professional bigot who fled Switzerland in 1998 for Tehran after being sentenced by a Swiss court for denying the Holocaust.
A frightening fusion
From Tehran to Baghdad to Damascus to Gaza to Cairo, the Holocaust-denial ideology has been fused with "holy war" gospel by those dedicated to delegitimatize the Jewish people and destroying the state of Israel. A few examples:
- According to Palestinian intellectual Abdallah Horani, "instead of talking about the so-called Holocaust, (we) should have followed the doubts (about it) that are gaining momentum in the international arena and among leading European intellectuals."
- Sheik Nafez Azzam of the "Palestinian Jihad" movement in Gaza insists that any "intention to teach the Holocaust in the Palestinian schools contradicts the natural order of the universe."
- Columnist Anis Mansour, writing in Egypt's official Al-Ahram newspaper, says it should "become clear to the world that what happened to the Jews of Germany, Poland and Russia was justified."
Sustenance for haters
Such denial or dismissal of the Holocaust is devastating for the forces of moderation and reconciliation in the Middle East.
Haters are counting on society's collective lapsed memory to whitewash the crimes of the past and rehabilitate Hitler's legacy. Holocaust deniers, whatever their nationality or religion, are trying to complete the work of SS storm troopers who, according to Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, taunted death-camp inmates: "However this war may end, we have won the war against you; none of you will be left to bear witness; but even if someone were to survive, the world will not believe him."
Today's hate merchants and Holocaust deniers believe that they can reinvent history. Our obligation is to reject their "big lies" because, as philosopher George Santayana warned, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Rabbi Abraham Cooper is associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Harold Brackman is consultant on intergroup relations for the Museum of Tolerance.
Conference information
- Conference news from the Journal of Historical Review
- Registration information (January 2001)
- First announcement (December 2000)
- Conference background
Media attention
- IHR letter to USA Today in response to their op-ed piece by Rabbi Cooper (March 9, 2001)
- A South African Jewish Report article tells of strong objections from the SA Jewish Board of Deputies -- March 9, 2001
- Rabbi Abraham Cooper gets hysterical in USA Today -- March 8, 2001
- IHR Press Release on Zionist efforts to ban the Conference (March 7, 2001)
- The Tehran Times reports that the U.S. State Department is trying to stop the conference -- March 4, 2001
- As-Safir reports that the U.S. State Department is trying to stop the conference -- March 3, 2001
- The Simon Wiesenthal Center calls on the Prime Minister of Lebanon to end free speech -- March 1, 2001
- News item from Reuters -- February 22, 2001
- Article in the Canadian Jewish News -- February 22, 2001
- Press release from the Simon Wiesenthal Center -- February 12, 2001
- Press release from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) -- February 11, 2001
REVISIONISM
Zionism & Israeli Apartheid
Israeli/Zionism's racism & discrimination --- Sabra & Shatila massacre
WWII Zionists' indifference to Jewish suffering --- Politicizing the Holocaust
Israeli Terrorism & aggression --- Home demolitions & torture
Israeli Ethnic cleansing, expansionism & settlements
Zionist-Nazi & Zionist-Fascist alliance --- Israeli human right violations & massacres
- Israel Allowed Argentinian Jews to Die (Return 12/1990)
- Zionism's Attitude to Anti-Semitism by Tony Greenstein, (Return 03/1989)
- The Jewish Question and the Zionist Movement by Udi Adiv, (Return 12/1990)
- Zionism's Failure to Support Resistance. (Excerpted from Nazi-Zionist Collaboration, pamphlet published in 1981 by BAZO-PS - British Anti-Zionist Organization/Palestine Solidarity, London.)
- The Kastner Case. Kastner, a Jew, helped Nazis (Eichmann) locate and send a Million Hungarian Jews to concentration camps. (Excerpted from Nazi-Zionist Collaboration, pamphlet published in 1981 by BAZO-PS - British Anti-Zionist Organization/Palestine Solidarity, London.)
- Zionism and the Holocaust by Haim Bresheeth (Return 03/1989).
- Closed Door Policy Excerpts from the Nazi-Zionist Collaboration, pamphlet issued by BAZO-PS - British Anti-Zionist Organization/Palestine Solidarity, London, 1981)
- Hannah Arendt Author of the famous book Eichmann in Jerusalem
- Zionism and Anti-Semitism: A Strange Alliance Through History by Allan C. Brownfeld (Washington Report 07/1998)
- The Role of Zionism in the Holocaust (from Jews Not Zionists)
- Pleas to Rescue Jews in the Holocaust Ignored by Zionist Leaders (from Jews Not Zionists). The Zionists here ignored the pleas of Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel.
- The Millions That Could Have Been Saved by I. Domb (from Jews Not Zionists)
- Sharon Faults 'Left' for Jews' Holocaust Plight by Yossi Verter (Ha'aretz 03/16/2000)
Elie Wiesel:
A Prominent False Witness
The victims
of Jewish Persecution
- Revisionism from the Orient
Joachim Gross interviews Ahmed Rami, the founder of Radio Islam
- Introduction to Écrits révisionnistes (1974-1998)
By Professor Robert Faurisson
- Talk given in Stockholm
By Professor Robert Faurisson
- Elie Wiesel - A Prominent False Witness
by Robert Faurisson
- "Genocide By Telepathy", Hilberg Explains
by: Robert Faurisson
- Listen to Robert Faurisson
- The Dictatorship of Imbecility
By Serge Thion
- 'Schindler's List'. A review.
by: Greg Raven.
- Anatomy of a Hoax
by Professor Robert Faurisson and David Irving
- Jewish Soap
by Mark Weber
- The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics
by Roger Garaudy
- The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum - A Challenge
by Robert Faurisson
- How Many Deaths at Auschwitz?
by Robert Faurisson
- What is Holocaust Denial?
by the Canadian Free Speech League
- How the British Obtained the Confessions of Rudolf Hoess
by Robert Faurisson
- An Auschwitz Revaluation
by Fredrick Wilhelm
- The Wannsee Conference Protocol: Anatomy of a Fabrication
by Johannes Peter Ney
- Major French Magazine Acknowledges Auschwitz Gas Chamber Fraud
- Bergen-Belsen Camp: The suppressed Story
by Mark Weber
- Abraham Bomba, Barber of Treblinka
by Bradley R. Smith
- Buchenwald: Legend and Reality
by Mark Weber
- The Diesel Gas Chambers: Myth within a Myth
by Friedrich Paul Berg
- Khatyn - another Hoax
by Louis FitzGibbon
- The Leuchter Report
by Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
- The Second Leuchter-Report
by Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
- Is there a life after persecution?
by Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
- A response to Pressac´s Critique
by Paul Grubach
- The Lüftl Report
by Walter Lüftl
- The Krakow Report
an "official" Polish report on the Auschwitz "gas chambers"
- The "Gas Chambers" of Auschwitz and Majdanek
by Germar Rudolf
- Treblinka
by Mark Weber and Andrew Allen
- The Simon Wiesenthal Center
- Simon Wiesenthal: Fraudulent "Nazi hunter"
by Mark Weber
- Zionism and the Third Reich
by Mark Weber
- The "Holocaust" - 120 Questions and Answers
by Charles E. Weber
- Made in Russia: The Holocaust
by Carlos W. Porter, [Excerpts]
- Revisionist pictures with descriptions
- Revisionist study of Allied aerial photographs
link to Air-Photo Homepage
- The Evidence from Aerial Photography
by John Clive Ball
- Alphabetical Library of Revisionist Authors and their Works
- A.Rami interviews M.Weber, T.Marcellus, Ted O'Keefe...
on revisionism and the Jewish power in USA
- The German National Journal (NJ)
on revisionism and the Jewish occupation
- Revisionist Publications around the World
- Did Six Million Really Die?
by Richard E. Harwood
- The Journal of Historical Review
- Fredrick Toben, Director of Adelaide Institute Arrested!
- A letter from Dr Toben's German jail cell
- Revisionist pictures with descriptions