Holocaust history battle raged in Torrance
Sunday, December 04, 2005
Holocaust history battle raged in Torrance
Group that offered a reward for evidence of the genocide was sued by a survivor after refusing to pay.
By Denise Nix
Daily Breeze
Three decades and thousands of miles from the Eastern European camps where 6 million Jews were killed by Nazis, Torrance became the literal and figurative hotbed for a movement that questioned the accuracy of reported atrocities of the Holocaust. For full story.
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How deep does a newspaper blog have to sink to create non-news and create animosity toward Jews? Read this article and weep.
Holocaust denial has taken on a completely new methodology here. Perhaps Denise Nix needs to be nixed with a steady flow of information from survivors–she accuses the Jews, subtly of course, but clearly, for victimizing the Institute for Historical Review. (The Criminologist reports: David Irving [now in jail for Holocaust Denial in Austria] is well known for his lectures, many of which have been at conventions for organisations with a revisonist, and far-right leanings, such as âThe Institute for Historical Reviewâ?.
One has to wonder why this newspaper ran this article pointing out that Mel Mermelstein’s “malicious lawsuit” against IHR was dismissed. As if history, eyewitnesses, documentary footage, congressional resolutions, international laws that make Holocaust denial illegal and suvivors stories weren’t enough to prove the truth, Ms. Nix implies Mermelstein didn’t deserve to win; that based on hearsay evidence, Irv Rubin of JDL firebombed IHR offices and that they moved for security reasons because of violent Jews.
I think a letter writing campaign to the reporter who wrote this misleading article, and the editor who chose to run it, might help; they need to be told they are out of line. Perhaps it is due to Ms. Nix’s ignorance of history or lack of historical perspective. She never mentions David Irving’s relationship to IHR.
Their article reads like an effort to “rehabilitate” the Institute for Historical Review, a well- known and deliberate Holocaust denial machine, endorsed by the known criminal, Holocaust denier and antisemite, Lyndon LaRouche, as well as Irving.
It looks like Nix and her editors want to turn IHR into a legitimate historical institution while blaming Mermelstein and Rubin for harrassing them. Perhaps that is unintentional, but that’s what it looks like to me.
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In our book, Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It, Michael Shermer and I state very clearly that IHR is the institute for Holocaust denial in America.
Ms. Dix says that IHR has “critics” — but names the marginalized JDL and a single Holocaust survivor — instead of critics like the governments of the countries that perpetrated and participated in the commission of genocide on the Jewish people, the UN, the US Congress, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust scholars in countries throughout the world and hundreds of thousands of eyewitnesses, as well as hard evidence brought at the Nuremberg Trials and in other trials in the US and Europe.
IHR does indeed deny the Holocaust (it does not merely question the numbers and atrocities, as Ms. Dix states) and is without question an organization, recognized throughout the world for its views. It would not be permitted to exist in Germany, Austria, Belgium and France.
Ms. Nix tries to show a “fair and balanced view,” implying that IHR is an underdog. But history is not “fair and balanced.” History is truth, and the truth is that IHR is what it is–a deplorable engine of hate speech and racism.
Perhaps Ms. Nix and her editors need to examine what motivated that article…because it certainly appears from its tone that they regret the departure of IHR from Torrance–and it behooves the rest of us to wonder why that is.