Abraham Cooper, Harold Brackman, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Institute for Historical Review, "Holocaust Deniers", John Sack, "Thought Crime"

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Beirut Conference 2001

I N S T I T U T E F O R H I S T O R I C A L R E V I E W
P.O. Box 2739 - Newport Beach, CA 92659 - USA E-mail: weber@ihr.org
Tel. 949 - 631 1490 Fax: 949 - 631 0981 Web site: www.ihr.org
Mark Weber, Director

Friday, 9 March 2001

FOR PUBLICATION

Letters to the Editor
USA Today
E-mail: editor@usatoday.com
Fax: 703 - 247 3108
1000 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22229

Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center dismiss Holocaust skeptics and the Institute for Historical Review as "haters" ("Holocaust Deniers Spread Their Lies in Middle East." March 8). But in the very Esquire article they cite, veteran journalist John Sack, who is Jewish, rejects that label, and instead describes the IHR and revisionists as "affable, open-minded, intelligent [and] intellectual." Sack also affirms that numerous revisionist arguments and findings are, indeed, true.

In recent weeks the Wiesenthal Center, along with other major Jewish organizations, have been pressuring Lebanon to ban the forthcoming "Revisionism and Zionism" conference in Beirut (March 31-April 3), which the IHR is helping to organize. These efforts to prohibit a peaceful, privately-organized meeting that, if held in the United States, would be perfectly legal, underscore the insincerity of the Wiesenthal Center's claim to promote "tolerance."

The seeming concern for "moderation and reconciliation in the Middle East" expressed by Cooper and Brackman is sheer hypocrisy, considering the Wiesenthal Center's record as an ardent apologist for Israel's oppressive policies -- policies that have justly earned the scorn and opprobrium of most of the civilized world.

Jürgen Graf, the Swiss educator cited by Cooper and Brackman who was forced into exile after being sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for "denying the Holocaust," is just one of many victims of the "thought crime" laws that several European countries have enacted at the urging of various Zionist groups. These bizarre laws, which have received little attention in the United States, punish those who express dissident views on the Holocaust -- even when these views are demonstrably true.

The Wiesenthal Center and similar groups support such laws because everywhere skepticism of specific Holocaust claims, and awareness of what Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein calls "the Holocaust industry," are growing. Ever more people recognize how Zionist groups exploit the Holocaust to extort billions from a seemingly endless list of countries and corporations, and to excuse otherwise inexcusable Israeli policies.

Sincerely,

Mark Weber
Director

See Also: Holocaust Revisionism and Its Political Consequences, by Jürgen Graff

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Media attention

IHR letter to USA Today in response to their op-ed piece by Rabbi Cooper (March 9, 2001)
A South African Jewish Report article tells of strong objections from the SA Jewish Board of Deputies -- March 9, 2001
Rabbi Abraham Cooper gets hysterical in USA Today -- March 8, 2001
IHR Press Release on Zionist efforts to ban the Conference (March 7, 2001)
The Tehran Times reports that the U.S. State Department is trying to stop the conference -- March 4, 2001
As-Safir reports that the U.S. State Department is trying to stop the conference -- March 3, 2001
The Simon Wiesenthal Center calls on the Prime Minister of Lebanon to end free speech -- March 1, 2001
News item from Reuters -- February 22, 2001
Article in the Canadian Jewish News -- February 22, 2001
Press release from the Simon Wiesenthal Center -- February 12, 2001
Press release from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) -- February 11, 2001

REVISIONISM

Zionism & Israeli Apartheid
Israeli/Zionism's racism & discrimination --- Sabra & Shatila massacre
WWII Zionists' indifference to Jewish suffering --- Politicizing the Holocaust
Israeli Terrorism & aggression --- Home demolitions & torture
Israeli Ethnic cleansing, expansionism & settlements
Zionist-Nazi & Zionist-Fascist alliance --- Israeli human right violations & massacres

Israel Allowed Argentinian Jews to Die (Return 12/1990)
Zionism's Attitude to Anti-Semitism by Tony Greenstein, (Return 03/1989)
The Jewish Question and the Zionist Movement by Udi Adiv, (Return 12/1990)
Zionism's Failure to Support Resistance. (Excerpted from Nazi-Zionist Collaboration, pamphlet published in 1981 by BAZO-PS - British Anti-Zionist Organization/Palestine Solidarity, London.)
The Kastner Case. Kastner, a Jew, helped Nazis (Eichmann) locate and send a Million Hungarian Jews to concentration camps. (Excerpted from Nazi-Zionist Collaboration, pamphlet published in 1981 by BAZO-PS - British Anti-Zionist Organization/Palestine Solidarity, London.)
Zionism and the Holocaust by Haim Bresheeth (Return 03/1989).
Closed Door Policy Excerpts from the Nazi-Zionist Collaboration, pamphlet issued by BAZO-PS - British Anti-Zionist Organization/Palestine Solidarity, London, 1981)
Hannah Arendt Author of the famous book Eichmann in Jerusalem
Zionism and Anti-Semitism: A Strange Alliance Through History by Allan C. Brownfeld (Washington Report 07/1998)
The Role of Zionism in the Holocaust (from Jews Not Zionists)
Pleas to Rescue Jews in the Holocaust Ignored by Zionist Leaders (from Jews Not Zionists). The Zionists here ignored the pleas of Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel.
The Millions That Could Have Been Saved by I. Domb (from Jews Not Zionists)
Sharon Faults 'Left' for Jews' Holocaust Pligh t by Yossi Verter (Ha'aretz 03/16/2000)