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Siegfried Verbeke of Free Historical Research Arrested by Joint German-Belgian Thought-Police.
After a decennium of bullying, house searches, the Flemish revisionist publisher Siegfried Verbeke (pictured; founder of Free Historical Research, or VHO, which was previously shut down by the corrupt Jewish politician André Gantman) was convicted in the end and sentenced to one year and a half of probation and a rather large fine. The investigation that took seven years could hardly convince any serious jurist, but the judge must have felt the breath of the judeo-liberal ruling class down his neck.

If this were not harsh enough, Siegfried Verbeke was arrested again on Saturday 27th of November 2004 in his Flemish town of residence, Kortrijk on the same charges. Given the recently established "European Arrest Warrant" Belgium will pass this martyr of free speech on to the Germans, who was very eager to prosecute him to even further lengths. The 63-year old revisionist scholar will then probably spend his last days in a German jail. In the best case scenario, he will sit in the same prison block as Ernst Zündel once he is extradited.

Germar Rudolf: The Persecution of a German Scholar
He is lauded as an academic of high standards by many professors from around the world. Yet the German authorities want to imprison him exactly because of his scholarly success, for his ground-breaking academic writings. They intend to imprison him for at least five years, if not even ten years, and they have ordered to confiscate all of his property.

Rudolf’s crime: he did and does not obey a German penal law that forces everybody to parrot the official version of a detail of German history. You may wonder what detail that may be, but to be sure: It does not matter, because a government that prescribes the writing of history by penal law is dictating to its citizens what to think, and that is the exact definition of a dictatorship.

Israel Shocked by Image of Soldiers Forcing Violinist to Play at Roadblock
Of all the revelations that have rocked the Israeli army over the past week, perhaps none disturbed the public so much as the video footage of soldiers forcing Wissam Tayem, a Palestinian man, to play his violin.

The rightwing Army Radio commentator Uri Orbach found the incident disturbingly reminiscent of Jewish musicians forced to provide background music to mass murder. "What about Majdanek?" he asked, referring to the Nazi extermination camp.

The critics were not drawing a parallel between an Israeli roadblock and a Nazi camp. Their concern was that Jewish suffering had been diminished by the humiliation of Mr Tayem.

Yoram Kaniuk, author of a book about a Jewish violinist forced to play for a concentration camp commander, wrote in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that the soldiers responsible should be put on trial "not for abusing Arabs but for disgracing the Holocaust."

Checkpoints Take Toll on Palestinians, Israeli Army
For two neighboring societies segregated by the physical and psychological barriers of a conflict dragging into its fifth year, the most intimate contact between Israelis and Palestinians occurs over the barrel of a gun at the 61 manned military checkpoints throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Such encounters exact a heavy toll on both sides, as evinced by accounts from former checkpoint guards who describe working under dehumanizing conditions, and by numerous reports of abuses committed by such soldiers against Palestinian civilians.

Historian Questions Authenticity of 'Schindler's List'
A Holocaust historian, in a new book, has questioned the authenticity of the facts portrayed in "Schindler's List," the Oscar winning movie directed by Steven Spielberg.

"Schindler had nothing to do with the list," the author David M. Crowe writes in the new biography of the German businessman who saved more than 1,000 Jews from the Nazis.

Oskar Schindler, the German businessman, was in jail for bribing the Secret Service commander Amon Goeth when the famous list was being drawn and had little involvment in it, local media reported quoting a New York Times report.

IHR Movie Review of Schindler's List
Director/producer Spielberg worked on "Schindler's List" for ten years, starting soon after finishing "E.T.: The Extraterrestrial" in 1983. Spielberg learned about the Holocaust from his grandparents, who, according to Spielberg, "constantly spoke about the Holocaust" even though they were not affected by it personally. He now says, "I've been preparing for this film my whole life," although he alternately claims to have discovered his Jewishness during the making of the film.

Could a Photograph have Saved Thousands from the Gas Chamber?
It is the photograph that showed the true horror of Auschwitz work...er, extermination camp: murder on an industrial scale!

A train convoy can be seen bearing thousands of new inmates to the site; there are five crematoria, in which corpses from the gas chambers were burnt, and a huge plume of smoke spews from bodies burning in open pits.

Yet the picture, from 23 August 1944, was taken by accident, and Britain's war leaders did not realise what it meant. Allied air reconnaissance planes flying at 15,000ft had been on a mission to photograph the Nazis' IG Farben chemical factory, four miles away near Monowitz. The images were examined by Allied interpreters, who studied the plant in minute detail but failed to identify the rows of huts, gas chambers or crematoria. They then filed away the image without further analysis.

Air Photo Evidence
Stunning information, with great graphics, by Canadian photo analyst John Ball.

From the Journal of Historical Review:
What Happened to the Jews Who Were Deported to Auschwitz but Were Not Registered There?
by Jurgen Graf

From the Journal of Historical Review:
How the Simon Wiesenthal Center Falsifies History

Why Israel Really Fears Iranian Nukes
Tel Aviv's concern about an Iranian bomb is more likely political rather than military.

Israel's leaders are apt to portray the prospect of an Iranian nuclear warhead in highly apocalyptic terms. Earlier this year, for example, Ariel Sharon was prepared to call Iran "the biggest danger to the existence of Israel" and warned that "Israel will not allow Iran to be equipped with a nuclear weapon."

But though the image of fanatical mullahs brandishing nuclear weapons is of course a terrifying one, and a reality that the outside world must of course try very hard to prevent, the real reasons for Israel's alarm are, on closer inspection, easy to misapprehend.

On to Iran
Won't Get Fooled Again?

It is not yet Bush's second term. All available US troops are tied down in Iraq by a few thousand lightly armed insurgents. Go-it-alone Bush has isolated America from her allies. And the neocons want to spread their war to Iran.

The Bush administration is recycling the lies that it used to invade Iraq: Iran is acquiring nuclear weapons that will be given to terrorists. In a display of loyalty to a ruthless neocon administration calculated to win him appointments to corporate boards, outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters that Iran was working on nuclear missiles.

Israel Didn't Do Enough to Reclaim Shoah Victims' Funds
Former U.S. deputy cabinet secretary, Stuart Eizenstat, said the Israeli government did not do as much as it could to assist in efforts to reclaim the property of Holocaust victims, Israel Radio reported early on Wednesday.

He said that the burden in reclaiming over 8 billion dollars from Swiss, German, Austrian and French banks and companies, fell primarily on the U.S. government.

ADL and "Paper Clips"

In 1998, the students embarked on a classroom project aimed at teaching about cultural diversity in a small community almost exclusively white and Christian. Their "Paper Clips" project sparked one of the most inspirational and profound lessons in tolerance, in the least likely of places.

Out of a desire to help students open their eyes to the diversity of the world beyond their insulated valley, the school's principal, Linda Hooper, created the "Paper Clips" project to help her students to grasp the enormity of human suffering during the Holocaust. The idea was to collect six million paper clips - one for each of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust — an idea that touched a chord among Holocaust survivors, their families and even world leaders and celebrities as word of the project spread.

Never Forget: ADL Boss Makes List of '50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers' (#37)

ADL Urges French to Terminate Broadcast License of Hezbollah Satellite Network
The Anti-Defamation League called on France to reconsider its decision to allow the satellite network of a terrorist organization to continue broadcasting in France, despite the recommendation of the Interior Ministry that its transmission be terminated because of its regular anti-Semitic content.

Noting that "anti-Semitism continues to be a serious problem in France," and that the "government has taken a number of steps to quell these anti-Jewish acts," Mr. Foxman said that by "allowing Al-Manar to preach its message of hate through television sets across France sends a very contrary message."  He urged President Chirac to have "your government to reconsider this decision."

Powell 'Pushed Out' by Bush for Seeking to Rein in Israel
Colin Powell, the outgoing US secretary of state, was given his marching orders after telling President George W Bush that he wanted greater power to confront Israel over the stalled Middle East peace process.

Powell to Press Israel, Palestinians to Facilitate PA Vote
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell met Monday with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in a round of talks in which he was expected to press both Israelis and Palestinians to take steps to foster PA elections planned for January 9.

American officials suggested before Powell's one-day visit that he would lean on Israel to pull back forces from West Bank cities and Palestinian officials to restrain militant groups to restore
free movement and calm for the election.

Triumph of the Neocons: Bush Cabinet Shuffle Deals the War Party a Winning Hand

The neoconservatives won't have Colin Powell to kick around anymore, who's leaving along with his sidekick Richard Armitage: with them go the last vestiges of sanity in this war-maddened administration. The general purge of Republican "realists" from the Bush cabinet is a great victory for the War Party, but that's only half the battle. The other half consists of inserting their own people in key positions, but they aren't doing too badly so far. Let's take the new foreign policy related appointments one by one...

Analysis: Israel Pleased with Rice-Hadley Team
Senior diplomats in Jerusalem strained to contain their pleasure Tuesday at US President George W. Bush's appointment of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state and Steven Hadley as national security adviser, replacing Rice.

Both, as one official put it in diplomatic understatement, are "positively predisposed toward Israel." Or, as another said, "they are both our good friends."

The Sweetheart Contract With Sharon
by Patrick J. Buchanan

While a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem, midwifed by America, would not mean an end to all terror, it would end an injustice. It would drain off resentment of America in a part of the world where we were once admired. It would erase a glaring anomaly that has been morally crippling to America among our remaining friends in the world. And it would accord with our national interests – and our values.

Important Zundel Hearing Set for Thursday
An important hearing in the legal fight by Ernst Zundel to revoke his February 2003 deportation from the United States is set for Thursday morning.

by Paul Findley

During my years in Congress, Yasser Arafat's name was often mentioned in committee meetings and on the floor of the House of Representatives but rarely without an ugly prefix. "Terrorist" Arafat led the "terrorist" PLO consisting of "terrorist" Palestinians. Observers unfamiliar with the Arab-Israeli conflict might have mistakenly assumed that the adjective "terrorist" was actually a proper part of these names.

Liberating America From Israel
by Paul Findley

The U.S. lobby for Israel is powerful and intimidating, but any determined president — even President Bush this very day — could prevail and win overwhelming public support for the suspension of aid by laying these facts before the American people...

Secret Papers Finally Tell the Truth of Hess's Flight

For years conspiracy theorists suggested British intelligence lured Hess to Britain with a proffered peace deal between Britain and Germany.

The Inside Story of the Hess Flight
From the IHR's Journal of Historical Review

Why Rudolf Hess took the sky road to Scotland has never been revealed officially, principally because two leaders of Allied strategy, Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, believed at the time that no useful purpose could be served by the telling. Hess was consigned to the limbo of hush-hush and all attempts to probe the craziest episode of the war were resolutely suppressed.

A Blast from the Past
What did the U.S. know in the 1960s about Israel's nuclear "option?" Apparently, the U.S. knew everything:

Within six to eight years Israel would conduct its first test and by 1975 it would have an "appropriate" nuclear force, as a new study reveals.

Duty, Honor, Betrayal:
How U.S. turned its back on poisoned WWII vets

As enlisted men, they were the military's lab rats... By the end of World War II, the military had exposed more than 70,000 Army and Navy recruits to poison gases in various forms — from swabs of mustard agent on their arms, to the more than 4,000 servicemen who marched into chambers or through fields soaked with chemicals. The mission was noble: to develop protective gear and ointments that would insulate troops from enemy chemical attack. The means were not: Officers deceived the men about the health risks and intimidated those who balked.

Book Review:
Philip Knightley's The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq

This 1975 book, now in its third edition, remains the single most perceptive treatment of journalism in times of war and conflict. That long forgotten progressive senator from California, Hiram Johnson, put it perfectly during World War I: “The first casualty when war comes, is truth.” Hence Knightley’s book's apt title.

Zundel Not a Threat, FBI Ruled
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation closed its file on 'holocaust denier' Ernst Zundel in 2001 after deciding he was not a security threat, documents released under U.S. Freedom of Information laws have revealed.

"In view of the fact that there is no indication that the subject is, or ever has been, involved in any acts of violence, acts of terrorism or any other criminal activity within the United States, recommend this case be closed administratively," an FBI report concluded on April 9, 2001.

The agency's conclusion is in stark contrast to that of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, which believes Mr. Zundel's status as an inspirational guru to the extreme right renders him a danger to national security.

Judge Assailed at Zundel Hearing
'Holocaust denier's' lawyer criticizes 'draconian' security certificate process 'that has no place in a democracy.'

Ernst Zundel's 18-month deportation hearing ended on a fiery note yesterday, as his lawyer accused the Federal Court judge hearing the case of actively "embracing" the extraordinary secrecy provisions that surrounded it.

The Long Arms of Rabbi Elyashiv and of the Knesset
Israeli law allows people to be tried in Israel for several types of crimes committed beyond its borders — Nazis and their cohorts, for example, terrorists who harmed Israelis or Jews, or Israelis who broke the law abroad. There is now doubt, however, that the passing of the bill initiated by MK Arieh Eldad (National Union) and which is in an advanced stage — being prepared for second and third readings in the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee — will vastly extend Israeli legal jurisdiction. The bill calls for any Holocaust denier to be tried in Israel.

David Irving comments: Given the subservience of the judges, and the state of the legal system and justice-ministries in many countries and provinces, for example in Ontario, Canada, where the bench is predominantly occupied by their fellows, it hardly seems necessary for Israel to pass such a weird domestic law as is contemplated in this article.

Holocaust Man's Claims Queried
[That means he's a fraud]
A Western Australia author who wrote a book allegedly based on his harrowing life as a Holocaust survivor is at the centre of a row over his credibility.

UWA Press has pulled copies of Stolen Soul from bookshops after a private investigator was called in to probe the author's background.

The book, written by Secret Harbour man Bernard Holstein — whose real name is Bernard Brougham — claims to be "the amazing true story of survival and mateship in Auschwitz."

AUDIO: Listen to this story on Australian news.

From the IHR: Holocaust Survivor Memoir Exposed as Fraud
by Mark Weber

A Holocaust survivor memoir that has received prestigious literary awards and lavish praise has been exposed as a hoax.

In Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood, Binjamin Wilkomirski describes his ordeal as an infant in the Jewish ghetto of Riga (Latvia), where his earliest memory is of seeing his father being killed. Wilkomirski also tells how he survived the terrible rigors of wartime internment, at the age of three or four, in the German-run concentration camps of Majdanek and Auschwitz.

Good Old Uncle Joe
He is considered one of the cruellest dictators of the last century. And no historian has dared to examine his human side, until now. Biographer Robert Service presents an intimate portrait of a man who is still remembered fondly — even by the relatives he incarcerated.

A Role Model for all Dictators
When Napoleon died in 1821, Talleyrand, rebuking someone who described the death as an "event," pronounced it as a mere "news-item." Had the British had the sense, at the time, to cremate the body and scatter the ashes in the Atlantic, history would have been different.

Instead, Napoleon was buried wearing his favourite green uniform of the guards cavalry and the famous grey overcoat he had worn at Marengo. The site was the beautiful Rupert Valley in St Helena and the stone merely bore the words Ci-git - "Here lies" - because his French staff and the British authorities could not agree on how to describe the corpse. The French wanted "The Emperor Napoleon", the British "General Bonaparte", as he was named in the Act of Parliament which gave authority for his perpetual detention on the island.