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- Number 42 -
April 1997

Contents

• ADL coordinates "response" to CODOH's Campus Project
• Elie Wiesel: sometimes the truth is an accident
• New Revisionist quarterly is launched in Europe
• SR Worldscope on revisionism and revisionists
• CODOHWeb Gets the Truth Out by Richard Widmann
• Of Bomb Shelters and Bombshells: Auschwitz Crematoria
• and more!

and now... our front page!

ADL coordinates "response" to CODOH's Campus Project

    They're saying as little as possible in public, they're ashamed of what they're about, but electronic mail communications obtained by CODOH confirm that the Anti-Defamation League and Hillel are doing what they can, under the table, to stop CODOH advertisements from running in student newspapers across America.

    It's clear they're worried--worried that these simple, inexpensive ads announce our World Wide Web address; worried that the ads encourage students--and faculty--to access CODOHWeb directly, to read and judge the evidence for revisionist theory themselves. On February 25, the following message went out to Hillel headquarters:

From: Ari Hoffnung ahoffnun@hillel.org>
To: Hillel-public-policy@offer-ent.com
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 10:16:41 -0400
Subject: Holocaust Revisionist

    We wanted to inform you that Bradley Smith, a Holocaust revisionist, recently placed a small ad in the Daily Texan (The University of Texas student newspaper). It did not contain any of his usual propaganda, but did contain his web site (www.codoh.com) and his email address (brsmith@lightspeed.net) in case people wanted to "ignore the thought police" and "read the evidence" for themselves. This "subtle" way of advertising in college papers may be his new tactic to reach college students and must not be ignored. Please pass this message on to as many people as possible.

    On March 7, in a somewhat more breathless communiqué (for the Campus Project had begun to roll with ads running on campuses in half a dozen states), Luisa Ellenbogen, Assistant Director of Campus Affairs for the Anti-Defamation League, passed along, to campus Hillel offices across the country, the dread news that CODOH was calling for intellectual freedom on the Holocaust story, and worse, alerting readers to our high-tech center on the World Wide Web. ADL's campus director told the Hillel rabbis and officers what to do :

To: hillel@offer-ent.com,
hillel-public-policy@offer-ent.com,
hillel-women@offer-ent.com,
hillel-grad@offer-ent.com,
hillel-jcsc@offer-ent.com
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997
Subject: Holocaust Denial Advertisements: Important Information From The Anti-Defamation League.

    Bradley Smith, a major proponent of the Holocaust denial movement, works through the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) to place Holocaust denial advertisements in college newspapers. Smith has recently submitted an advertisement that contains his web site and his e-mail address in case people want to "ignore the thought police" and "read the evidence" for themselves. This is a new tactic of exposing students to Holocaust denial.

    This advertisement has been published at the University of Texas and at Georgia State. If you see an advertisement like this in your campus newspaper please CONTACT YOUR HILLEL DIRECTOR AND THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE IMMEDIATELY. We need to respond to this new wave of Holocaust denial ads. You can e-mail me at LUISAE4@aol.com. The ADL's Campus Affairs Department will help you respond to these two issues.

Luisa Ellenbogen
Assistant Director of Campus Affairs
for the Anti-Defamation League

    CODOH has been made privy to these two egrams thanks to watchful friends in cyberspace. They are two of what must have been an electronic firestorm. These two alone make it clear that the watchdogs are puzzled and perturbed.

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