doubters

Instead of dismissing holocaust doubters as pseudo-academics with murderous views, why not involve them in open public discussion of this issue? Instead of incessant claims that there is ‘overwhelming evidence’ and that it is ‘the most thoroughly documented event in history’ why not produce the documentary and forensic evidence for public view? You say you don’t want to give them a platform to air their views? Well guess what, jailing and persecuting them does just that. Indoctrination will never supplant open discussion and debate.

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Holocaust Denial

No event in human history has been studied as thoroughly and carefully than the Holocaust.  Thousands of thesis and dissertations papers have poured over mountains of data, from physical evidence and anecdotal testimony to captured German war documents.  Virtually everyone with a PhD in History will stake their career on the fact that millions of Jews were systematically exterminated by Nazi Germany.  One can no more “revise” this fact than one can revise the existence of gravity.  Wannsee Conference records prove that Nazis planned the extermination of Jews as, “The Final Solution.”  German concentration camp records prove that it was carried out.

Whenever we stand up to those who deny or minimize genocide we send a critical message to the world. As we continue to live in an age of genocide and ethnic cleansing, we must repel the broken ethics of our ancestors, or risk a dreadful repeat of past transgressions.

Holocaust deniers ply their mendacious poison everywhere, especially with young people on the Internet. Deniers seek to distort the truth in a way that promotes antagonism against the object of their hatred, or to deny the culpability of their ancestors and heroes. 

Museums and mandatory public education are tools to dispel bigotry, especially racial and ethnic hatred.  Books, plays, films and presentations can reinforce the veracity of past and present genocides.  They help to tell the true story of the perpetrators of genocide; and they reveal the abject terror, humiliation and degradation resulting from prejudice.  It is therefore essential that we disclose the factual brutality and horror of genocide, combating the deniers’ virulent, inaccurate historical revision.  We must protect vulnerable future generations from making the same mistakes.

A world that continues to allow genocide requires ethical remediation.  We must insist that religious, racial, ethnic, gender and orientation persecution is wrong; and that tolerance is our progeny’s only hope.  Only through such efforts can we reveal the true horror of genocide and promote the triumphant spirit of humankind.

Charles Weinblatt
Author, “Jacob’s Courage”
http://jacobscourage.wordpress.com/

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You try it too!

Ephraim Kaye urges a simple Google search. Type in the word “Holocaust” and see what pops up. “Of the first 60 hits, a third are of Holocaust deniers.”
Yes, I tried this and NONE of the first 60 were ‘holocaust deniers’.
Zero. Nada. Zip.

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Try it some more...

In fact, not until you get to 90 do you get any kind of website the supports a revisionist theory. Nobody looks that far into a Google search. There are a couple of book reviews,(Norman Finklestien in particular) but that doesn’t count.

It doesn’t help your argument when you start with a fraudulent statement, especially so easily discredited.

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