I don’t find myself agreeing with the prime minister of Iran about many things, but about one thing, I believe, he is right. It is inconsistent to claim, in the name of freedom of expression, that a Danish newspaper has the right to publish any cartoon of Muhammad that it wants and at the same time to have laws, as do at least seven Western countries, outlawing denial of the Holocaust.
Author: Webb
Newspaper ad attacks Art Butz
This appeared in the February 13 issue of the Daily Northwestern.
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The cartoons and the camel in the room
Dear Ms. Mercer,
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Iran paper plans Holocaust cartoons
Iran’s largest-selling newspaper has announced it is holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
NU professor backs denial of Holocaust by Iran chief
A Northwestern University professor known for denying the Holocaust happened has publicly sided with Iran’s hard-line president, who has been on a campaign against Israel.
Revisionists only deny one aspect of Holocaust story: Butz
In the wake of the international uproar that arose in response to Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s contention that the Holocaust is a myth, the Mehr News Agency spoke with Prof. Arthur R. Butz, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University, about his views on the issue.
Archbishop of Westminster Labels Holocaust Denial as ‘Sacrilege’
LONDON —The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor has said that Holocaust Denial is tantamount to “sacrilege” after he issued a message of solidarity to Britain’s Jewish community ahead of of Holocaust Memorial Day, on January 27, 2006.
The Private Thoughts of a Public Man
When Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953, the citation hailed him for “his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.”
Six Million Little Pieces?
Days after Oprah Winfrey’s last Book Club selection was unmasked as fraud, triggering a national conversation among literati and lay readers alike about the definition and significance of memoir, the talk show host and cultural arbiter announced her next choice: “Night,” Elie Wiesel’s seminal autobiographical account of his experience during the Holocaust. Continue reading
Jan Sehn
If one reads and examines the book written by Jan Sehn, the Judge who presided over the Auschwitz trials in Poland, one is immediately compelled to acknowledge the book’s numerous, woeful deficiencies. If researchers are expecting to find any startling revelations from the Auschwitz trials conducted in Poland immediately after the war or entertaining hopes to discover any other convincing evidence as to the existence of homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz, they should think again. Nary one word from the actual trials of Hoess, Grabner, Liebehenschel, et al is cited. For rather predictable reasons, Sehn prefers to rely not on the records of the trials over which he personally presided, or on the affidavits or testimony of the accused and the accusers, or any additional supporting documentation, opting instead to quote liberally from Hoess’ memoirs. There is an underlying reason for this, of course. Testimonies and statements can be examined and compared for their truthfulness, coherence, and consistencies. They can also be examined for their untruthfulness, incoherence, and inconsistencies. Ergo Sehn deliberately avoids any mention of embarrassing testimony or statements which might lend themselves to an in-depth scrutiny by impartial researchers. Continue reading