Giving in to Jewish pressure:
"Revisionism and Zionism" Conference
in Beirut, Lebanon,
canceled
Giving in to Jewish pressure Thursday, March 22 - 2001
Lebanon Won't Host Revisionists
By SAM F. GHATTAS,
Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanon's government said on Thursday that it would not allow a gathering of Holocaust revisionists in Beirut planned for later this month.The move won the praise of Jewish groups, which had called the conference organized by groups that say accounts of Holocaust atrocities are exaggerated.
"This conference will not be held in Beirut," Prime Minister Rafik Hariri told The Associated Press, several hours after a Cabinet meeting that discussed the issue.
In the United States, the jewish Simon Wiesenthal Center praised Lebanon's decision.
"It is an extraordinary development and I think it is very, very positive..." said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an associate dean of the center.
But one of the organizers, the Institute for Historical Review of Newport Beach, California, accused Lebanon of giving in to pressure from Jewish groups.
"I regard this as outrageous," institute director Mark Weber said, charging it was hypocritical to support free speech and ban a conference that would have been legal in other countries.
Organizers had not revealed the exact location of the March 31-April 3 conference, citing security concerns.
March 23, 2001
The conference canceled
The "Revisionism and Zionism" conference, which was to take place in Beirut from March 31 through April 3, is canceled. The conference organizer, the Swiss group Vérité et Justice, called it off following he announcement by the Lebanese Prime Minster yesterday that it would not permit the four-day meeting to take place.A Verité et Justice statement on the cancellation, issued today, is posted on the "Beirut 2001" section of the IHR web site.
As newspapers have reported, the Lebanese government decision was made following demands by major Jewish organizations, and pressure from the United States and other foreign governments, to prohibit the peaceful, privately-organized conference.
March 23, 2001
An outrageous assault
against freedom of speech
The Lebanese government ban of the "Revisionism and Zionism" conference is an outrageous assault against freedom of speech and expression. The people of Lebanon should be ashamed of their government for restricting their freedom, obviously in response toforeign pressure, in forbidding a peaceful, privately-organized meeting that would be entirely legal in most countries, including the United States. People everywhere should have the right to investigate and make up their own minds about 20th century history, including "the Holocaust," free of censorship and intimidation. Lebanese are entitled to the same standard of freedom of speech and expression as people in other countries.
This Lebanese government ban underscores the need for precisely such a conference. It shows, once again, how greatly Zionist groups fear open debate about "the Holocaust," which is a major weapon in the Israeli-Zionist arsenal. This ban points up the fragile and mendacious character of what even a few courageous Jewish scholars are aptly calling the "Holocaust cult" and the "Holocaust industry."
Mark Weber
Director
Institute for Historical Review
P.O. Box 2739
Newport Beach, California 92659
Tel. 949 - 631 1490
weber@ihr.org
Continue to stand...
Vérité et Justice Statement on the Lebanese Government Ban of the 'Revisionism and Zionism' Conference
For decades, revisionist researchers have diligently and tirelessly endeavored to separate historical facts from legends and downright lies. Their work has never been easy, because from the very beginning, they have been subject to all kind of harassment and persecution.In particular, they have refuted the popular version of the Jewish fate during the Second World War. With their historical and technical arguments, they have proved beyond doubt that the "Holocaust." that is, the purported systematic extermination of six million Jews, most of them supposedly killed in gas chambers, is not only a historical lie, but also an instrument of political and financial blackmail. For an offense that was never committed, not only Germany, but other European countries as well have been denigrated and humiliated ever since 1945.
In the last years, anti-revisionist repression has become ever more ferocious. Numerous revisionist have been sentenced to prison terms and stiff fines; others have had their professional careers shattered, been subject to social ostracism or driven into exile because of their fight for truth in history.
Despite all these hardships, the revisionists have every reason to be proud of their achievements. An ever-growing part of the population all over the Western world is becoming familiar with the results of their scholarly work. Recently, there has been an increased interest in Holocaust revisionism in the Muslim world. More and more people now understand that the Holocaust story is nothing but a gigantic fraud.
As our friends and sympathizers know, Vérité et Justice, in cooperation with the Institute for Historical Review, has planned to hold a conference on Revisionism and Zionism which was to be attended by almost thirty scholars from western Europe, the United States, Australia, Russia, and the Arab world, plus several religious and political leaders, writers, and journalists. At this conference, a broad variety of topics were to be discussed. The conference would have been the first of its kind to take place in a country belonging to the Arab and Islamic world, which has been the victim of incessant Zionist aggression in the last 50 years. It would have highlighted, once more, the solid scholarly basis of Holocaust revisionism.
Unfortunately, the Lebanese government, influenced by certain figures, has prevented the conference from taking place. For the time being we do not wish to disclose details.
For us revisionists, who have taken all kind of risks to expose Zionist lies, it is totally unacceptable that the Lebanese people, who have been fighting Zionist aggression for decades, are being deprived of their freedom to attend a conference that would have exposed Zionist distortions of history.
We urge all freedom-loving and patriotic Lebanese to think about the factors that have induced their government to grossly violate the most elementary rights of its citizens.
We solemnly declare that we will not compromise with the liars and oppressors. The conference on Revisionism and Zionism will definitely take place. It will be held in a country that will not yield to threats and blackmail.
Vérité et Justice sincerely thanks its numerous friends and supporters, and entreats them to continue to stand with us at this difficult stage of our struggle.
Vérité et Justice
March 23, 2001
From the IHR:
December 26, 2000International Conference on Revisionism and Zionism Set for Beirut
Prominent scholars, researchers and activists will participate in a landmark international conference on "Revisionism and Zionism" in Beirut, Lebanon, March 31-April 3, 2001. The meeting reflects, and will further strengthen, growing cooperation between revisionists in the West and in Muslim countries.The event is being organized by the Swiss revisionist organization Verité et Justice, in cooperation with the Institute for Historical Review. Conference addresses will be given in Arabic, French and English. Measures have been taken to insure complete security for the event.
Verité et Justice director Jürgen Graf, who was sentenced by a Swiss court in July 1998 to 15 months imprisonment for "Holocaust denial," has fled his homeland to live in political exile rather than serve the politically-motivated sentence. The 49-year-old educator is currently visiting Tehran, Iran, as a guest of scholars.
Guests are welcome to attend the Beirut conference, but they must cover their own travel and hotel expenses. United States citizens traveling to Lebanon require a valid US passport and a visa issued by the Lebanese embassy or a Lebanese consulate.
Updated information about the Beirut conference is posted on the special "Beirut conference" section of the IHR web site as it becomes available.
For further information, contact:
Mark Weber, Institute for Historical Review
E-mail: weber@ihr.org Web site: http://ihr.org
P.O. Box 2739, Newport Beach, CA 92659, USA
Tel. 949 - 631 1490 Fax: 949 - 631 0981
Conference information
- Conference news from the Journal of Historical Review
- Registration information (January 2001)
- First announcement (December 2000)
- Conference background
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 Plight by Yossi Verter (Ha'aretz 03/16/2000)
Elie Wiesel:
A Prominent False Witness
The victims
of Jewish Persecution
- Revisionism from the Orient
Joachim Gross interviews Ahmed Rami, the founder of Radio Islam
- Introduction to Écrits révisionnistes (1974-1998)
By Professor Robert Faurisson
- Talk given in Stockholm
By Professor Robert Faurisson
- Elie Wiesel - A Prominent False Witness
by Robert Faurisson
- "Genocide By Telepathy", Hilberg Explains
by: Robert Faurisson
- Listen to Robert Faurisson
- The Dictatorship of Imbecility
By Serge Thion
- 'Schindler's List'. A review.
by: Greg Raven.
- Anatomy of a Hoax
by Professor Robert Faurisson and David Irving
- Jewish Soap
by Mark Weber
- The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics
by Roger Garaudy
- The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum - A Challenge
by Robert Faurisson
- How Many Deaths at Auschwitz?
by Robert Faurisson
- What is Holocaust Denial?
by the Canadian Free Speech League
- How the British Obtained the Confessions of Rudolf Hoess
by Robert Faurisson
- An Auschwitz Revaluation
by Fredrick Wilhelm
- The Wannsee Conference Protocol: Anatomy of a Fabrication
by Johannes Peter Ney
- Major French Magazine Acknowledges Auschwitz Gas Chamber Fraud
- Bergen-Belsen Camp: The suppressed Story
by Mark Weber
- Abraham Bomba, Barber of Treblinka
by Bradley R. Smith
- Buchenwald: Legend and Reality
by Mark Weber
- The Diesel Gas Chambers: Myth within a Myth
by Friedrich Paul Berg
- Khatyn - another Hoax
by Louis FitzGibbon
- The Leuchter Report
by Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
- The Second Leuchter-Report
by Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
- Is there a life after persecution?
by Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
- A response to Pressac´s Critique
by Paul Grubach
- The Lüftl Report
by Walter Lüftl
- The Krakow Report
an "official" Polish report on the Auschwitz "gas chambers"
- The "Gas Chambers" of Auschwitz and Majdanek
by Germar Rudolf
- Treblinka
by Mark Weber and Andrew Allen
- The Simon Wiesenthal Center
- Simon Wiesenthal: Fraudulent "Nazi hunter"
by Mark Weber
- Zionism and the Third Reich
by Mark Weber
- The "Holocaust" - 120 Questions and Answers
by Charles E. Weber
- Made in Russia: The Holocaust
by Carlos W. Porter, [Excerpts]
- Revisionist pictures with descriptions
- Revisionist study of Allied aerial photographs
link to Air-Photo Homepage
- The Evidence from Aerial Photography
by John Clive Ball
- Alphabetical Library of Revisionist Authors and their Works
- A.Rami interviews M.Weber, T.Marcellus, Ted O'Keefe...
on revisionism and the Jewish power in USA
- The German National Journal (NJ)
on revisionism and the Jewish occupation
- Revisionist Publications around the World
- Did Six Million Really Die?
by Richard E. Harwood
- The Journal of Historical Review
- Fredrick Toben, Director of Adelaide Institute Arrested!
- A letter from Dr Toben's German jail cell
- Revisionist pictures with descriptions