Listen HERE In Denial: The Unspeakable Truth, Keith Kahn-Harris argues that “Holocaust denial is not just eccentricity; it is an attempt to legitimate genocide through covert means. Denials of the harmfulness of tobacco, of the existence of global warming, and other denialisms, are, similarly, projects to legitimate the unspeakable.” Among the “other denialisms” he cites non-Western-mainstream views on 9/11, AIDS, vaccines,…
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Listen HERE What exactly is “holocaust denial”? Why do so many seemingly well-informed people doubt the canonical narrative of the Nazi holocaust? Or perhaps we should ask: Why do so many people who know little or nothing about the historical questions involved express such fervent belief in that canonical narrative? And why has such faith become legally mandated—to the point…
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Dave Lindorff, one of America’s best investigative journalists, just responded to an absurdly mendacious letter from Stephen Brown concerning the banned panels at the Left Forum. Brown’s letter, mass-emailed to many people, is appended below. -Kevin Barrett Steve, Let me start by saying that I am an award-winning investigative jouralist with 43 years’ experience (Village Voice, Business Week, Minneapolis Tribune,…
Read MoreDavid Cole, under the name “David Stein,” just pulled off one of the all-time greatest hoaxes in history. As The Guardian explains: Over the past five years Stein’s organisation, Republican Party Animals, drew hundreds to regular events in and around Los Angeles, making him a darling of conservative blogs and talkshows. That he made respected documentaries on the Holocaust…
Read MoreWhen you point out simple, obvious, yet taboo political facts, you’re going to get smeared. Here is my latest Press TV interview: [Listen to the interview and read the transcript.] Because I’m willing to speak such simple, obvious truths, and because Press TV occasionally invites guests who say such things, both Press TV and I are under fire. Press TV…
Read MoreThis just in: The California State Legislature has passed a new law making holocaust denial mandatory on all college campuses. Anyone who refuses to deny the holocaust will be punished, sanctioned, or thrown out of the university. The holocaust that must be denied, of course, is the Palestinian holocaust. The law orders university bureaucrats to “squelch nascent anti-semitism” and “encourages…
Read MoreCollective Abuse Committee members celebrate unanimous findingsthat Americans are handling 9/11 well The Collective Abuse Trauma Committee of the American Psychological Association will soon issue a report concluding that the American public has handled the trauma of watching their own leaders murder 3,000 of their fellow citizens on live television, and then get away scot-free, “suprisingly well, considering the circumstances.”…
Read More(emailed today to editorial@thejc.com, letters@thejc.com) To the Jewish Chronicle, It has come to my attention that JC writer David Aaronovitch libeled me a recent article. Aaronivitch characterized my views on the Nazi holocaust in a false and defamatory manner when he wrote: “(Richard) Gage himself has appeared on a US radio programme hosted by one Kevin Barrett, who has…
Read MoreThoughts on Youtube’s banning of Anthony Lawson’s latest video, based on a vague complaint from an apparently nonexistent person. April 1st, 2011 Today is as good a day as any to admit it: I am a holocaust denier. I deny that the US military’s slaughter of two million Muslims as revenge for 9/11, funded by my family’s and friends’ and…
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