 SMITH'S REPORT America's Only Monthly Revisionist Newsletter - Number 56 - July 1998
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and now... our front page! REVISIONISM'S INROADS SHOCK THE LOBBY A syndicated newspaper advice columnist counsels a college couple quarreling over whether CODOH's $50,000 Reward Offer should have run in the student newspaper they edit and write for. The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith confers a new award on college journalists for opposing "Holocaust denial" on campus and on the Internet. A top UN human rights official in Geneva, Switzerland takes a public stand against Swiss suppression of Roger Garaudy's revisionist Founding Myths of Israeli Politics and refuses to budge when bullied by a watchdog from the World Jewish Congress. These recent items in the news are not earth shaking, but they record important achievements and growing opportunities for CODOH and revisionism, as well as setbacks for the enemies of truth and freedom regarding the Holocaust and related historical questions. One difficulty in waging a long term campaign to bring taboo, and, in many lands, illegal information to the public eye is that it's often tough to measure progress. There is, of course, the frequent feedback from you, the readers of Smith's Report, who form the vital core of support for our revisionist work--yet we understand that even if we were hearing from every convinced revisionist in the world our work would not be done. David Thomas, Webmaster of CODOHWeb, can tabulate how many times documents (latest count: over six hundred thousand!) have been accessed on our Website, which reaches out over the Internet to revisionists and people interested in revisionism worldwide--but the names and the number of individual visitors to CODOHWeb remain, for the most part, unknown. Then too, of course, we can count the circulations of the scores of college papers where we placed our advertisements last year, but calculating their aggregate effect, at present, can't be done. CODOH's Campus Project: A Growing Cultural Presence. Now and then, however, something like Cherie Bennett's column, which ran last March in big-city papers across the nation, serves as something of a milestone for how far CODOH's come. By 1991, Bradley Smith's radio and TV work in taking revisionism to the American people had already won recognition, however grudging, from popular culture by way of such things as the inclusion of call-in "Holocaust deniers" in such movies as Talk Show (with Eric Bogosian) and Betrayal (with Tom Berenger and Debra Winger). It's not so important that Ms. Bennett (author of a play called Anne Frank and Me) counseled her correspondent and the boyfriend to give CODOH's ads the heave-ho in the future, and recommended Deborah Lipstadt's Holocaust Denial instead. What's more important is that CODOH and the Campus Campaign are now becoming part of the broader cultural landscape: in another recent instance, one Deborah Tannen, in USA Today's weekend magazine (Feb. 27-Mar. 1), made reference to the growing success of "Holocaust deniers" in gaining campus newspaper space. Such signals show, like it or not, that CODOH and its fight for revisionist truth have become a fact of public life. While "being there" is important, it's not enough, of course. Therefore we're happy to be able to report tangible advances over the past college year. Once again, scores of CODOH ads ran in campus newspapers, despite the redoubled efforts of the ADL and other censors to prevent that--efforts that included public reprimands to student editors and menacing visits to college administrators. CODOH ads made big news not only in major university newspapers, but also in big-city, big-circulation papers from coast to coast. Continued on page three For all of the contents of
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