What about the claim that those who question the
"Holocaust" are anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi?
62. What about the claim that those who question the
"Holocaust" are anti-Semitic or neo-Nazi?
The IHR says:
This is a smear designed to draw attention away from facts and honest
arguments. Scholars who refute "Holocaust" claims are of all
persuasions -- Democrats, Republicans, libertarians, socialists,
Christians, Jews, etc. There is no correlation between
"Holocaust" refutation and anti-Semitism or neo-Nazism. As a
matter of fact, there are increasing numbers of Jewish scholars who
openly admit that evidence for the "Holocaust" is severely
lacking.
Nizkor replies:
There is a tremendous correlation between Holocaust-denial
and antisemitism/Naziism. To claim the opposite is such a colossal lie
that one hardly knows where to begin.
There are hundreds of examples that could be given, but we'll only
list a few:
Here is what Willis Carto has had to say about Hitler, Jews, and
blacks (see National Review, September 10, 1971, p. 979):
Hitler's defeat was the defeat of Europe. And of America. How could
we have been so blind? The blame, it seems, must be laid at the door of
the international Jews. It was their propaganda, lies, and demands that
blinded the west to what Germany was doing....
The Jews came first and remain Public Enemy No. 1.
The revolutionists have seen to it that only a few Americans are
concerned about the inevitable niggerfication of America.
Regarding The Hitler We Loved And Why, Hoffman claims
that Zündel only "provided photos for the book...it was
largely Mr. Dietz's opus," p. 72.
Also according to Hoffman, p. 74, we learn that he:
...told the court that he is the first to freely admit that the
National Socialists committed some ruthless actions in World War II.
But what was to Zundel the undeniable, fundamental goodness of the
Hitler party, was something he would not deny.
Suppose I made a flick, "Finklestein's Piss," about
Israel and the Palestinians...
Mr. Hoffman went on to inform Dr. Shermer that he was "a
fucking idiot posing as an original intellectual," and included a
sticker
with his letter which depicted a Jew in crude caricature, and read:
REMEMBAH DE SIX MILLION! For the Next Six Million Years! ...
Prevent Thought Crime: Worship and Obey the Chosen Pimples
Mr Kaufman is obviously Jewish and a living example of why the Nazis
tried to remove Jews from Europe and short of that, into concentration
camps for the duration of the war.
He made other, similar antisemitic and Nazi-apologetic comments as
well, which are not worth repeating here. According to the index
available at
the IHR's web site,
he has contributed at least three articles to the Journal of Historical
Review (and his wife worked for the IHR as a translator until recently).
At least
one
of the articles is online at the IHR web site.
How many more examples are necessary?
We will not claim that all Holocaust-deniers are antisemitic
and/or racist, but to claim that there isn't an obvious and significant
correlation is ludicrous.
More importantly -- and this cannot be stressed enough -- we do not
claim that because these people are racist and antisemitic,
therefore they are wrong. They are wrong about the Holocaust
regardless of their opinions on race and ethnicity.
"Increasing numbers of Jewish scholars" who supposedly
support Holocaust-denial is probably a reference to Professor
Noam Chomsky
of MIT. They tend to claim that Chomsky supports their absurd theories,
but that is a lie. Chomsky has defended the right of the French
"revisionist"
Faurisson
to free speech, but he completely rejects Holocaust revisionism itself.
Here is what he wrote on the matter:
My views are quite explicitly stated: the Holocaust was the most
extreme atrocity in human history, and we lose our humanity if we are
even willing to enter the arena of debate with those who seek to deny or
underplay Nazi crimes.
And when asked his opinion on the writings of Faurisson and other
Holocaust "revisionists," he answered:
I have seen no reason to doubt the conclusions of authentic Holocaust
historians (Hilberg, Bauer, etc.) on the facts of the matter.
Hilberg and Bauer are well-known Holocaust historians. Each has
written numerous books and articles. Needless to say, neither of them
doubts the murder of millions in gas chambers.
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