"It was naive to believe that the 'light of day'
can dispel lies, especially when they play on familiar stereotypes.
Victims of racism, sexism, antisemitism, and a host of other prejudices
know of light's limited ability to discredit falsehood. Light is
barely an antidote when people are unable, as was often the case
in this investigation, to differentiate between reasoned arguments
and blatant falsehoods. Most sobering was the failure of many of
these student leaders and opinion makers to recognize Holocaust
denial for what it was. "
- Deborah Lipstadt,
Emory University
The Varsity a University of Toronto
newspaper will issue an apology and retraction for mistakenly allowing
a Holocaust denial advertisement by Bradley Smith into its paper.
As well, the revenue paid to The Varsity by Smith is
being donated to "The Holocaust Education and Memorial Center of
Toronto."
- Bernie M. Farber,
Canadian Jewish Congress
"Maybe it takes more sophistication than one can
expect The Daily's busy leaders. How can they know
enough to make qualitative judgments about the sort of groups that
submit ads to the paper? It sounds like a reasonable question."
- Peter Hayes, associate
professor of history and German at Northwestern University
"College students are young, idealistic, predisposed
toward the underdog and against authority, often willing to challenge
received wisdom, struggling to cope with many new, disorienting
ideas and, today, frequently without a strongly formed sense of
history."
- ADL, High-Tech
Hate: Extremist Use of the Internet
"Emotionally, the decision made by the editors of
The Justice is unforgivable. How many of you asked
your grandparents what they thought of this ad? ... I don't think
[they] would have approved."
- Leo L. Bases, president, Boston
University Hillel
"The Voice... had run an advertisement
from Bradley Smith of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust
challenging the historicity of the Holocaust and attacking the Holocaust
Memorial Museum that I helped create. One would have imagined that
Georgetown students would have known better.... There is no debate
as to whether the Holocaust happened."
- Michael Berenbaum, former director
of the United States Holocaust Museum and Adjunct Professor of Theology
at Georgetown University.