For years, Israeli academics have by and large served in the occupation army, thereby participating in, or at least witnessing, crimes committed on a daily basis against the civilian population of Palestine. They have hardly ever publicly denounced Israel's occupation, its system of racial discrimination against its own Palestinian citizens, or its adamant denial of the internationally-sanctioned rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties. This constitutes collusion.

New York Times Minimizes Palestinian Deaths
Alison Weir

...Our statistical analysis of their coverage, showed that there was startling disparity in how deaths were reported, depending on the ethnicity of the victim.

For example, we found that in 2004, at a time when 8 Israeli children and 176 Palestinian children were killed – a ratio of 1 to 22 – Times headlines and lead paragraphs reported on Israeli children’s deaths at a rate almost seven times greater than Palestinian children’s deaths.

A one-month sub-study indicated that this disparity grew even larger when the entire article was analyzed, with Israeli children’s deaths mentioned (through repetitions of deaths reported on previous days) at a rate ten times greater than Palestinian children’s deaths.

The Mongol Devastations
The Luftwaffe had pioneered bombing raids over Warsaw, Rotterdam and Coventry. But it was only since 1943 that the incineration of cities from the air had amounted to deliberate mass killing. The fire bombing of Hamburg killed 45,000 people overnight, more than the Luftwaffe had achieved in nine months of dropping bombs on England. Only eight weeks earlier, the fire in Wuppertal had resulted in 3,000 deaths, an unprecedented figure until then.

The fire in Wuppertal burnt in the air circulation pattern particular to enclosed river valleys. In Hamburg it was the dry summer heat; in Heilbronn, Dresden and Pforzheim it was winter snow. Tokyo was built almost entirely of wood and paper, Darmstadt of sandstone, Munster of brick. Hildesheim and Halberstadt were criss-crossed by narrow streets lined with half-timbered houses, Mannheim was divided into classic quadrants, Dortmund and Duisburg were made up of sprawling 19th century blocks. The thermonuclear planners delved into the fund of knowledge left by the area bombing of the Axis powers. This was the only way to understand how individual cities burn.

Churchill and Roosevelt unleashed with their 3,000 aeroplanes an "around-the-clock-bombing," which Basil Liddell Hart, the greatest British military historian of his day, termed "the Mongol devastations." Two thirds of the bomb tonnage of the five year air war fell in February, March and April of 1945, most of it on militarily insignificant targets. The tiniest part of this tonnage, the precision strikes on the 16 major train routes connecting the Ruhr region with the rest of Germany, had the greatest effect.

Churchill for Dummies
The Spectator

Winston S. Churchill is the hero of George W. Bush and the neocons. But, says Michael Lind, they know very little about the great wartime leader. If they did, they’d be horrified.

Soon after the installation by the Republican-majority Supreme Court of George the Second of the House of Bush, the American people learned that they had a new Founding Father: Winston Churchill. President George W. Bush let it be known that he had placed a bust of the British statesman in the White House Oval Office he had inherited from his dad. After the attack on the World Trade Center, the President’s speeches became self-consciously Churchillian. Earlier this year, marking the opening of a Churchill exhibition at the Library of Congress, Bush observed that Churchill was not just ‘the rallying voice of the second world war’ but also ‘a prophet of the Cold War.’

Like his grand strategy, with its combination of unilateral American world domination with nearly indiscriminate support for Israel’s Ariel Sharon, the cult of Churchill has been adopted by Bush from American neoconservatives. Churchill looms far larger in the mythology of neoconservatives than in the minds of mainstream Americans, who think of him as the brave and witty ally of President Franklin Roosevelt in the war against Hitler.

Downfall: The Story of a Nazi Boy Hero

Alfred Czech was Adolf Hitler's "youngest hero." He was just 12 when German newsreel cameras famously filmed him having his cheeks pinched by an ashen-faced Nazi Führer at his Berlin bunker after he was ceremoniously awarded the Iron Cross medal for outstanding bravery.

The encounter between the young boys and their ailing Führer was dramatised in the new film Downfall, with the young Alfred as the inspiration for the blond boy whom Hitler singles out for praise.

Today, Mr Czech, now 72 and living in the Rhineland, still vividly remembers those moments, 60 years ago, when he met Hitler for the first and only time. "I was only 12, but the Führer shook my hand, then he pinched my left cheek. He told me, 'Keep it up!'," Mr Czech said. "I certainly had the feeling that I had done something remarkable."

Finnish and Russian Experts Clash over Wartime History
Alexei Sazonov, deputy director at Russia’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs, has lashed out at the view that both the Soviet Union and Germany share blame for the start of the Second World War.

"Rewriting history is not morally right. Western historians demonise the Soviet Union and say that it started the war," Sazonov said in Helsinki on Thursday. He was speaking at a Finnish-Russian seminar on the Second World War arranged by the Finland-Russia Society and the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki.

...Finnish historian, Professor Emeritus Osmo Jussila, feels that the views of the Russians have gone back to those which prevailed in the Soviet period in their interpretation of wartime events.

"We have very great differences. The Finns emphasise the view of a separate war and feel that the Continuation War was a way of getting even for the Winter War. For the Russians, the Winter War was merely a preliminary conflict, and the actual war began in 1941, when Finland attacked alongside Hitler," Jussila said.

"Only Boris Yeltsin admitted that the Soviet Union attacked Finland in the Winter War. Now President Vladimir Putin has denied it again."

About 11 million people perished in the Holocaust. A student remembrance project is raising awareness about the horrifying events that unfolded in Europe during World War II.

In the process, seventh and eighth graders at D.W. Higgins Institute, a private school in Tempe, are making a difference in their community, one nail at a time.

The kids have set their hearts on collecting 11 million concrete nails before the school year ends and donating them to Habitat for Humanity, which helps poor families become homeowners.

"It's really sad that someone could be like that, be that mean to a race because they are different from us," said Brianna Lawson, 13, referring to the 6 million Jews who were killed.

Classmate Holly Martino, 14, agreed: "It's really upsetting and depressing."

"I don't like it, it's not right what Hitler did," said Junior Martinez, 14.

Teaching about the Holocaust is a good way to make sure it won't be repeated, they said.

"It helps us to learn to be tolerant about other cultures," Junior added.

Shaking Up Israel's Spy Nest — AIPAC Scandal Resurfaces
Justin Raimondo

The Washington Post: "Two senior employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, one of Washington's most influential lobbying organizations, have left their jobs amid an FBI investigation into whether they passed classified U.S. information to the government of Israel, a source close to the organization said yesterday. The source characterized the departures as firings."

Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman aren't mailroom clerks: Rosen, a longtime AIPAC official, is the group's director for foreign policy issues; Weissman is his deputy and a specialist on Iran. The two are accused of procuring the contents of a secret presidential directive on Iran at a luncheon meeting with Franklin. Lawyers for the duo denied any wrongdoing, but the big news here is that AIPAC is clearly trying to distance itself from two of its top officials.

Urgent Call to Action from Yad Vashem: Register Names of Holocaust Victims

In advance of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) on May 5, 2005 and of the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II and VE day, Yad Vashem is issuing an urgent call to action to the Jewish world to join the International 11th hour campaign to gather names of Holocaust victims.

"The memory of millions of Holocaust victims will pass into oblivion as those that remember them leave us," warned Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate. "Now is the time for the Jewish people to work together to register the unrecorded names."

Power Struggle Wracking JDL
The Forward

A power struggle is tearing apart a right-wing vigilante group that once served as the stander bearer of Jewish militancy in America.

The Jewish Defense League, founded in 1968 by late militant rabbi Meir Kahane, has been in a virtual tailspin since 2001, according to experts who monitor extremist groups. It was then that Irv Rubin, the group's national chairman and Kahane's handpicked successor, was arrested in Southern California by federal authorities in connection with a plot to kill Arabs, including a local congressman. Rubin died — in what authorities called a suicide — just four days before preliminary hearings on his case were slated to begin.

More on the JDL's internal problems at Cult News.

Sharon: Iran's Nuke Program Nears 'Point of No Return'

In a CNN interview, Sharon said Iran was years away from possessing a nuclear weapon -- but could be just months away from overcoming "technical problems" in building one.

"The point of no return depends upon the ability of the Iranians to solve some technical issues, and once they solve it, I think that will be the point of no return," he said.

Don't be Fooled by the Spin on Iraq

Instead of being done by US marines with a few dozen Iraqi bystanders, 300,000 Iraqis were on hand. They threw down effigies of Bush and Blair as well as the old dictator, at a rally that did not celebrate liberation but called for the immediate departure of foreign troops.

Washington Post Reports on Recent David Irving Meeting

Reston resident Peter Gemma, the event's organizer, said the dinner drew 95 attendees of a World War II study group he runs.

Irving, Gemma said, "has caused waves in the establishment by uncovering documents and evidence some historians don't like to admit."

Recent Report from Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
The report notes that Peter Gemma, a senior staff member of Pat Buchanan’s 2000 presidential campaign, spoke at a February 19, 2004 meeting in Virginia of the Institute for Historical Review, the leading Holocaust-denial organization in the United States.  Gemma introduced the evening’s keynote speaker, IHR director Mark Weber.

German Ruling Says Dresden was a Holocaust
German prosecutors have provoked outrage by ruling that the 1945 RAF bombing of Dresden can legally be termed a "holocaust".

The decision follows the refusal by the Hamburg public prosecutor's office to press charges against a Right-wing politician who compared the bombing raids to "the extermination of the Jews".

German law forbids the denial or playing down of the Holocaust as an incitement to hatred.

So delicate is the subject of the slaughter of Jews under Hitler that any use of the word "holocaust", or comparison with it, faces intense scrutiny and sometimes legal action.

Pupils Must be Taught a Cleaner Side of France's 'Dirty War'
French historians are protesting against a new law that obliges schools to present the country’s colonial exploits in a favourable light, especially in Algeria, where hundreds of thousands were killed in the fight for independence.

The row, which moved yesterday from academia to the tabloid newspapers, once again shows how deeply France still suffers from the trauma of the eight-year “dirty war” that led to the 1962 withdrawal from a land that was deemed part of French national territory.

Although France was forced out of Indo-China and its African colonies while Britain was conducting its own painful colonial retreat, no conflict left a legacy like that of Algeria. The current Fifth Republic, with its muscular presidency, was created in 1958 for the late General Charles de Gaulle to tackle the Algerian emergency.

Eminent historians said this week that the law “imposes an official lie about past crimes and massacres that sometimes went as far as genocide.”

Bunker Film 'Is Too Kind to Nazis'
Professor David Cesarani, a specialist in Jewish history, praised Bruno Ganz's portrayal of Hitler, which some criticised for being "too human." But he said the film had "almost capitulated to the Nazi myth of the Germans holding back the eastern hordes," and there was a whiff of "victim culture" about the film, "emblematic of a certain current mood in Germany."

Hirschbiegel denied that. "There is no way the Germans can underplay the "worst crime that ever happened in mankind" ... but there was a certain aspect of heroism derived from the fighters ... There is some nobility in it, even. I wanted to supply a picture of humanity."

China Issues Statement Against Japan
In the strongest stand so far against the Japanese bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, China's premier told Japan on Tuesday to face up to its World War II aggression before aspiring to a bigger global role. It was the strongest hint yet that China might exercise its veto as one of the council's five permanent members to block Japan.

"Only a country that respects history, takes responsibility for history and wins over the trust of peoples in Asia and the world at large can take greater responsibilities in the international community," Pemier Wen Jiabao said during an official visit to India.

China, South Korea and other Asian nations have long accused Japan of not apologizing adequately for invading and occupying its neighbors, and Chinese animosities are aggravated by their rivalry with the Japanese to be the region's dominant power.

Chinese Rally Against Japanese Bid to 'White-Wash' History
Beijing, April 9 - Over 10,000 Chinese today staged a peaceful protest rally against Japan's attempt to "distort" its wartime past and Tokyo's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.

Sino-Japanese relations have suffered in recent times due to differences of opinion over historical issues, territorial disputes and a Chinese nuclear submarine's intrusion into Japanese waters in last November.

High-level political visits have ceased due to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's repeated visits to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.

China has repeatedly complained about Koizumi's visits to the shrine, which honours convicted Class-A Japanese war criminals along with other Japanese citizens who died in World War II.

Sharon Warns US of Iran's Nuclear Threat
Senior Israeli officials said Tuesday that the decision on when to bring the Iranian issue to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions should not be dragged out indefinitely. The important time issue to keep in mind, they said, was not the date when Iran would acquire a nuclear bomb, but rather when it would pass the "threshold of no return" and develop the technology that would allow it – in the future – to build such a weapon.

Sharon told US President George W. Bush on Monday that Iran was only one technological step away from enriching uranium and, from that point, achieving nuclear capability was just around the corner.

...On Tuesday evening, Sharon was slated to meet a group of some 26 Jewish senators and congressmen (13 of the country's 100 senators are Jewish), followed by a meeting with outgoing Deputy Defense Minister Paul Wolfowitz, who is slated to become the next head of the World Bank, followed by a dinner with House and Senate leaders from both parties.

Schröder Attacks Far Right at Buchenwald Memorial

Referring to the recent political gains by far right parties, including the German National Democratic Party (NPD), Mr Schröder said: "Democratic Germany will not allow injustice, violence, anti-Semitism and hatred of foreigners to have a chance of success. Humanity and the principles of a free and socially just society are values which we must and will go on defending every day."

The NPD won more than nine per cent of the vote, and parliamentary seats, in key regional elections in the east German state of Saxony last autumn with a campaign that focused on anti-foreigner and anti-EU sentiment.

Buchenwald: Legend and Reality
Mark Weber

[This article appeared in the Winter 1986 issue of The Journal of Historical Review. Back issues of the Journal can be read online here, and can be purchased on the Noontide Press Website.]

Buchenwald is widely regarded as one of wartime Germany's most notorious "death camps." In fact, though, this carefully cultivated image bears little resemblance to reality. Today, more than forty years after the end of the Second World War, the camp deserves another, more objective look.

The Buchenwald concentration camp was located on a wooded hill outside of Weimar, in what is now East Germany. It was opened in July 1937. Until the war years, almost all the inmates were either professional criminals or political prisoners (most of them ardent Communists). Some 2,300 Buchenwald inmates were pardoned in 1939 in honor of Hitler's 50th birthday...

New Zealand MP "Sick" of Holocaust
"I am sick and tired of hearing how many Jews got gassed," announced New Zealand Labor Party MP John Tamihere, in an interview released on Sunday.

In response to the New Zealander MP's comments, Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Israel director (above) suggested that such a lack of understanding of the significance of the Holocaust makes Tamihere unfit for political leadership.

"It would appear that MP Tamihere is in urgent need of psychological assistance to increase his ability to deal with the sad history and reality of life on the planet Earth during the past century, an absolutely necessary quality for anyone who desires to serve as a public representative. In that respect, "Holocaust fatigue" is simply a new form of mental illness, which is a condition which should disqualify him from public service," said Zuroff on Sunday.

Iraqis Protest American Occupation
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Chanting “Death to America” and burning effigies of President Bush and Saddam Hussein, tens of thousands of Iraqis flooded central Baghdad on Saturday in what police called the largest anti-American protest since the fall of Baghdad, the capital, exactly two years ago.

Once staunch supporters of the U.S. invasion to oust the dictator who ruthlessly suppressed them, many Shiite Arabs in Iraq have grown so frustrated by the lingering military occupation, with its checkpoints, raids and use of force, that they took to the streets to call for a deadline for troop withdrawal.

...Carrying banners that read “Go Out” and “Leave Our Country,” marchers hit the streets early Saturday morning, blocking roads and causing traffic jams around the city.

U.S. Citizenship of Ex-Nazi Guard Revoked

John Hansl, 80, had argued that he freely disclosed he'd been in the German army when he and his family came to the United States in 1955. Prosecutors said, however, that Hansl failed to reveal he'd been in the SS Death's Head battalion that guarded concentration camps at Natzweiler in France in 1944 and at Sachsenhausen near Berlin in 1943.

Thousands of people were imprisoned and murdered at the two camps. Hansl's testimony "regarding his personal conduct as a Death's Head guard leaves no room for factual dispute whether he personally advocated or assisted in persecution," U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt wrote.

"He accomplished this by carrying either a machine gun or rifle and standing watch over the camp or over work-details outside the camp," Pratt wrote, adding Hansl admitted to assisting in the search for an escaped prisoner, "who ended up being shot."

[He was a guard AND he carried a gun? Here are some scenes from Iraq, Chicago, and Israel.]

Is Iran Next?
Alan Bock

Iran has been on the neocon "to-do" list for a long time. Few have been as persistent as the American Enterprise Institute's Michael Ledeen, who has been hoping for and writing about a democratic revolution in Iran for years. But weakening Iran featured tangentially in the "A Clean Break" paper prepared by neocon stalwarts Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser, and others for Benjamin Netanyahu's incoming Likud government in Israel in 1996. The 2000 Project for a New American Century report, "Rebuilding America's Defenses [.pdf]," stated, "Over the long term, Iran may well prove as large a threat to U.S. interests in the Gulf as Iraq has."

During the buildup to the Iraq invasion, neocon writers cited Iran as an example of the beneficial side-effects of the proposed invasion. In August 2002, AEI's Joshua Muravchik wrote, "Change toward democratic regimes in Tehran and Baghdad would unleash a tsunami across the Islamic world." Michael Ledeen in September 2002 called for the U.S. to begin "a vast democratic revolution to liberate all the peoples of the Middle East. … It is impossible to imagine that the Iranian people would tolerate tyranny in their own country once freedom had come to Iraq."

Schröder Attacks Far Right at Buchenwald Memorial

Referring to the recent political gains by far right parties, including the German National Democratic Party (NPD), Mr Schröder said: "Democratic Germany will not allow injustice, violence, anti-Semitism and hatred of foreigners to have a chance of success. Humanity and the principles of a free and socially just society are values which we must and will go on defending every day."

The NPD won more than nine per cent of the vote, and parliamentary seats, in key regional elections in the east German state of Saxony last autumn with a campaign that focused on anti-foreigner and anti-EU sentiment.

Buchenwald: Legend and Reality
Mark Weber

[This article appeared in the Winter 1986 issue of The Journal of Historical Review. Back issues of the Journal can be read online here, and can be purchased on the Noontide Press Website.]

Buchenwald is widely regarded as one of wartime Germany's most notorious "death camps." In fact, though, this carefully cultivated image bears little resemblance to reality. Today, more than forty years after the end of the Second World War, the camp deserves another, more objective look.

The Buchenwald concentration camp was located on a wooded hill outside of Weimar, in what is now East Germany. It was opened in July 1937. Until the war years, almost all the inmates were either professional criminals or political prisoners (most of them ardent Communists). Some 2,300 Buchenwald inmates were pardoned in 1939 in honor of Hitler's 50th birthday...

New Zealand MP "Sick" of Holocaust
"I am sick and tired of hearing how many Jews got gassed," announced New Zealand Labor Party MP John Tamihere, in an interview released on Sunday.

In response to the New Zealander MP's comments, Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Israel director (above) suggested that such a lack of understanding of the significance of the Holocaust makes Tamihere unfit for political leadership.

"It would appear that MP Tamihere is in urgent need of psychological assistance to increase his ability to deal with the sad history and reality of life on the planet Earth during the past century, an absolutely necessary quality for anyone who desires to serve as a public representative. In that respect, "Holocaust fatigue" is simply a new form of mental illness, which is a condition which should disqualify him from public service," said Zuroff on Sunday.

Iraqis Protest American Occupation
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Chanting “Death to America” and burning effigies of President Bush and Saddam Hussein, tens of thousands of Iraqis flooded central Baghdad on Saturday in what police called the largest anti-American protest since the fall of Baghdad, the capital, exactly two years ago.

Once staunch supporters of the U.S. invasion to oust the dictator who ruthlessly suppressed them, many Shiite Arabs in Iraq have grown so frustrated by the lingering military occupation, with its checkpoints, raids and use of force, that they took to the streets to call for a deadline for troop withdrawal.

...Carrying banners that read “Go Out” and “Leave Our Country,” marchers hit the streets early Saturday morning, blocking roads and causing traffic jams around the city.

U.S. Citizenship of Ex-Nazi Guard Revoked

John Hansl, 80, had argued that he freely disclosed he'd been in the German army when he and his family came to the United States in 1955. Prosecutors said, however, that Hansl failed to reveal he'd been in the SS Death's Head battalion that guarded concentration camps at Natzweiler in France in 1944 and at Sachsenhausen near Berlin in 1943.

Thousands of people were imprisoned and murdered at the two camps. Hansl's testimony "regarding his personal conduct as a Death's Head guard leaves no room for factual dispute whether he personally advocated or assisted in persecution," U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt wrote.

"He accomplished this by carrying either a machine gun or rifle and standing watch over the camp or over work-details outside the camp," Pratt wrote, adding Hansl admitted to assisting in the search for an escaped prisoner, "who ended up being shot."

[He was a guard AND he carried a gun? Here are some scenes from Iraq, Chicago, and Israel.]

Is Iran Next?
Alan Bock

Iran has been on the neocon "to-do" list for a long time. Few have been as persistent as the American Enterprise Institute's Michael Ledeen, who has been hoping for and writing about a democratic revolution in Iran for years. But weakening Iran featured tangentially in the "A Clean Break" paper prepared by neocon stalwarts Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser, and others for Benjamin Netanyahu's incoming Likud government in Israel in 1996. The 2000 Project for a New American Century report, "Rebuilding America's Defenses [.pdf]," stated, "Over the long term, Iran may well prove as large a threat to U.S. interests in the Gulf as Iraq has."

During the buildup to the Iraq invasion, neocon writers cited Iran as an example of the beneficial side-effects of the proposed invasion. In August 2002, AEI's Joshua Muravchik wrote, "Change toward democratic regimes in Tehran and Baghdad would unleash a tsunami across the Islamic world." Michael Ledeen in September 2002 called for the U.S. to begin "a vast democratic revolution to liberate all the peoples of the Middle East. … It is impossible to imagine that the Iranian people would tolerate tyranny in their own country once freedom had come to Iraq."

HITLER IN HISTORY: IRVING, WEBER TO ADDRESS CALIFORNIA MEETING

David Irving Mark Weber

David Irving, international best-selling historian, is widely recognized, even by his adversaries, as an outstanding expert on Hitler and the Third Reich. His major work, Hitler’s War, has been published in all major languages. He will speak on:

“The Faking of Adolf Hitler for History”

Mark Weber, director of the IHR, has written extensively on twentieth century European history, and is a court-recognized expert on Germany’s “Final Solution” policy. He will speak on:

“Is an Objective View of Hitler Possible?”

Join us Sunday evening, April 17, 2005, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.

more details here

Second Top Neo-Con Jew Smacked with Pie within a Week
A "conservative activist" who criticizes what he calls the leftist domination of college campuses was struck with a pie Wednesday night at Butler University in Indianapolis.

David Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, had just started a lecture at Butler when he was hit.

Horowitz's supporters followed the assailants out of the hall, and confronted them with what a witness called "pushing and shoving." However, the attackers got away.

Click Here for Video of William Kristol and Pie
...It was the second time in a week that a "conservative" lecturer was hit by a pie at an Indiana university. On March 30, William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, was attacked during a speech at Earlham College in Richmond.

From PBS: Israel's Next War?
Kahanist militants are dedicated to a country without Arabs and democracy. They see themselves at war with secular Israeli society, and believe they are acting out God's will... This is a Fontline investigation of Israeli religious right-wing extremists who are girding for battle to stop Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from Gaza.

Includes interview with filmmaker Dan Setton, a chronology of events, and full program available online in streaming video.

Also see the Zionist Terror Network

David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: C-SPAN Admits Error in Plan to Air 'Holocaust-Denier'

"C-SPAN now admits it was wrong to try to 'balance' the history of the Holocaust by broadcasting a professional liar who claims the Holocaust never happened. This is a significant victory over the antisemitic industry of Holocaust-denial," said Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the Wyman Institute.

The Honorable Dr. Medoff would love to hear your thoughts!

Click here to watch the C-SPAN broadcast

Canada: Indian Leader Says He Still Believes Jews Started Second World War... Now on Trial for 'Hate'

Indian leader David Ahenakew told his hate trial Tuesday he still believes Jews were the cause of the Second World War.

The former head of the Assembly of First Nations and member of the Order of Canada is charged under the Criminal Code with wilfully promoting hatred against an identifiable group. "So you still believe today, in 2005, that the Jewish people started the Second World War?" Crown prosecutor Brent Klause asked Ahenakew.

"Yes," he responded.

Ahenakew testified it was the Germans who told him that when he served overseas in the military after the war. He joined in 1951.