SMITH'S REPORT
 
 
 
 
 
America's Only Monthly
Revisionist Newsletter
 
 
 

 
- Number 49 -
December 1997

Contents

• Smith Storms Campuses with Ad Blitz
  ADL, Campus Censors Flack for CODOHWeb
• Holocaust narrative as a species of imaginative literature, by Samuel Crowell
• Inconvenient History: Churchill and Hitler on the "Gassing" Question, by Richard Widmann
• and more!

Smith Storms Campuses with Ad Blitz
ADL, Campus Censors Flack for CODOHWeb

CODOH's CAMPUS PROJECT has blasted back into the headlines, in major media as well as in college newspapers on over thirty campuses from South Carolina to Washington State, from San Diego, California to Toronto, Canada.

   This time, the enemies of intellectual freedom at the Anti-Defamation League and other like groups were ready for us -- or so they thought. But they found themselves outflanked, then steamrollered by a triple-pronged blitz that placed three different sorts of CODOH messages in dailies at universities as eminent as MIT and Johns Hopkins, as all-American as the University of Nebraska and, well, as Canadian as the University of Toronto.

   At some colleges where our ads ran, campus Jewish organizations, aided by representatives of the ADL, were able to wring apologies from student editors who accepted the ads; at others, not even the heavy-handed interventions of university administrators could intimidate the young journalists. At most campuses where the ads have appeared (and new ads are being placed even as I type), the efforts at suppressing them have made CODOH and CODOHWeb campus and area-wide news.

Reward Ad Rewarded

Unquestionably it was the debut of CODOH's unique $50,000 Offer to the individual instrumental in convincing a national TV network to air our video on Auschwitz, David Cole Interviews Dr. Franciszek Piper, in prime time that raised the most eyebrows and the most hackles. Published as it appeared in SR 48, our announcement has run in three dozen (and climbing) college newspapers, was picked up from the AP wire service by numerous city newspapers, and became the subject of big stories in at least two big city dailies, the (Denver) Rocky Mountain News and the New York Post (The Post reproduced part of the ad, and under it a caption titled, "Chilling").

   And why not? After all, if the offer of a $50,000 reward for convincing a major network to air a video made by a yound American Jew, a film roundly endorsed by prominent politicians, foreign heads of state, and two of the biggest fish in the exterminationist tank, and which features the curator of the Auschwitz museum denying the authenticity of the prime "gas chamber" at Auschwitz, isn't news, then what is?

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