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American
Holocaust:
Will there be people who deny it?
By Bradley R. Smith
Over the
summer the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai
B’rith (ADL) named me one of the “Top Ten
Extremists” in America. The ADL published the
charge in a print booklet, and to make certain
no one missed it, published it on its World Wide
Website on the Internet.
I have never thought of myself as an
extremist, the extremists I’m acquainted with
think I’m a cup cake, so I was very surprised to
see myself being taken so seriously. I feel a
little like one of those serial murderers listed
on the FBI’s Most Wanted list – it’s nice to see
my photo at the post office, but is it what I
really want?
What have I done to be taken so seriously?
Placing advertisements in student newspapers?
Asking for some back and forth on a historical
issue? Encouraging intellectual freedom -- even
with regard to the Holocaust question? Always
with the cooperation of student editors, their
business managers and faculty advisors? That
makes me one of the top ten extremists, maybe
one of the most dangerous men (there are no
women on the list) in the nation? What is it
about me that is so unsettling to these people?
On the Internet the ADL page for Extremism In
America shows a photograph of the Oklahoma City
Federal Building after it was bombed by Timothy
McVeigh, et al. Is that what intellectual
freedom leads to? The mass killing of civilians
and their children? I didn’t know that. I’ve
always thought that intellectual freedom would
lead to a non-violent exchange of ideas,
encourage communication among the citizenry,
create confidence in an open society, and
illuminate the activities of special interest
organizations, particularly those that have an
agenda that is anti-democratic. But of course --
that’s it!
The Anti-Defamation League does some good
human rights work, I’m not going to dismiss the
League entirely. At the same time it is a
leading ethno-centric Jewish organization that
puts Zionist political and cultural issues
before everything else, both here and in the
Middle East. It has provided unwavering support
for the humiliation and brutalization of
Palestinians by the Israeli Government for half
a century, and lobbied American politicos –
successfully -- to do the same.
The one common thread among nine out of the
ten of those on the ADL’s Top Ten list of
Extremists in America is that they are all
involved with the White racialist movement. I’m
the one exception, but I made the list anyhow.
What a guy! How did I pull it off? I have never
been a member of a racialist organization. I
have never written on racial issues. And then
there is the little irony that my family is
Mexican, my children are Mexican, and most of my
friends are Mexican. Why is CODOH and Smith on
the list then?
This is a no-brainer. Those who manage the
Holocaust Industry, and the ADL is in the top
management tier of that peculiar Industry,
exploit the premise that anyone who encourages
intellectual freedom with regard to the
Holocaust question hates Jews. This is a sickly
way of reacting to those who express skepticism
about what you happen to believe, but there you
have it. I’m one of the top ten extremists in
America because I have found that in one respect
the Holocaust story is like every other war
story I have ever heard, some of it’s true, some
of it isn’t -- and I have argued that the time
is come to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Well, that’s old news now. After 11 September
when the bin Laden people made their views known
about American and Israeli foreign policy in the
Middle East, my importance as a “top ten”
extremist became very small potatoes, even to
me. I understand now, I think I understand, that
Americans will never again find themselves so
bemused with the “Holocaust” that happened in
Europe over half a century ago. We all watched a
“holocaust” on our television screens – a
holocaust about which there is no doubt
whatever.
The airplanes actually existed. The World
Trade Towers existed. The airplanes really did
fly into the Towers. There really were great
fiery explosions. Immense columns of smoke
really did lift up into the heavens. There were
hundreds if not thousands of “eyewitnesses” to
the same specific event. People really did jump
from windows eighty and a hundred floors above
the ground. The towers really did fall down.
Are there going to appear “deniers” who will
try to dismiss the destruction of the World
Trade Center as a hoax? Will they try to
“revise” the story, claiming that the planes
missed their mark? That the towers did not
really collapse? That there really was no
deliberate plan to kill the people in the
towers? Not likely is it?
On the other hand, will this “American”
holocaust be exploited to promote imperial
foreign policy initiatives by the U.S.
Government and it’s little ally in the Middle
East? Entirely possible. In imperial politics,
that’s how “holocausts” are employed. |
