Post by been_there on Nov 11, 2021 10:01:09 GMT
On the old RODOH there was a topic thread recording names and details of those people of Jewish ethnic and/or cultural origin who courageously refuted ahistorical and racist narratives currently accepted and popular.
E.g. people self-identifying as ‘Jewish’ who refuted currently accepted inaccuracies in fact regarding Jewish history;
or who criticised Jewish institutionalised immorality in ethics and behaviour;
or who supported critical investigation of compulsory narratives related to Jewry during WW2;
or who criticised the colonialist Jewish state currently carrying out its own genocide of people based on their ethnicity in occupied Palestine;
or who spoke up for freedom of speech concerning these and other topics.
Prof Norman Finkelstein, Gideon Levy, Paul Eisen and Gilad Atzmon were a few of these.
Here is info on another, the reknowned academic and intellectual Noam Chomsky.
Although Chomsky did not agree with Prof. Faurissons findings and conclusions regarding the ‘holocaust’ narrative, in the late 1970’s he courageously supported his freedom of speech rights to state them and publish them.
He consequently became embroiled in controversy and himself became the target of Jewish ire for daring to put his name at the top of the following petition made in 1979:
It was published in French newspapers, with Chomsky's name at the top, along with other signatories including Alfred Lilienthal, anther Jew of some notoriety.
After the appearance of the petition, Chomsky received a great many letters of complaint and criticism. Chomsky understood that the extremely important principle of freedom of expression was under threat so he replied to the content of them in a public way by writing an article in French, for French newspapers, entitled: ‘Quelques commentaires élémentaires sur le droit à la liberté d'expression’, [Some elementary comments concerning the right of free expression].
In it he declared that everyone should have the right of free speech, including fascists and anti-Semites.
And he also expressed his opinion that Faurisson was neither one of these. Instead Chomsky described Faurisson as "a sort of apolitical liberal".
This reasonable, ethically irreproachable and intellectually consistent approach only won him more critics and persecutors amongst his co-religionists plus more letters of complaint and vilification. A response that demonstrates the illogical, anti-reason, emotion-driven, immoral, anti-social, ahistorical approach of all those who conflate ’revision’ with ’denial’ and who deny ’freedom of speech’ regarding this particular WW2 narrative.
Many of Chomsky’s Jewish critics accused him of supporting anti-semitism: a deceit that defenders of this ahistorical mythology repeatedly resort to.
Bill Rubinstein of Australia was one of many such outraged Jews making this spurious and illogical accusation, to whom Chomsky replied, writing the following:
E.g. people self-identifying as ‘Jewish’ who refuted currently accepted inaccuracies in fact regarding Jewish history;
or who criticised Jewish institutionalised immorality in ethics and behaviour;
or who supported critical investigation of compulsory narratives related to Jewry during WW2;
or who criticised the colonialist Jewish state currently carrying out its own genocide of people based on their ethnicity in occupied Palestine;
or who spoke up for freedom of speech concerning these and other topics.
Prof Norman Finkelstein, Gideon Levy, Paul Eisen and Gilad Atzmon were a few of these.
Here is info on another, the reknowned academic and intellectual Noam Chomsky.
Although Chomsky did not agree with Prof. Faurissons findings and conclusions regarding the ‘holocaust’ narrative, in the late 1970’s he courageously supported his freedom of speech rights to state them and publish them.
He consequently became embroiled in controversy and himself became the target of Jewish ire for daring to put his name at the top of the following petition made in 1979:
Dr. Robert Faurisson has served as a respected professor of twentieth-century French literature and document criticism for over four years at the University of Lyon-2 in France. Since 1974 he has been conducting extensive historical research into the "Holocaust" question.
Since he began making his findings public, Professor Faurisson has been subject to a vicious campaign of harassment, intimidation, slander and physical violence in a crude attempt to silence him. Fearful officials have even tried to stop him from further research by denying him access to public libraries and archives.
We strongly protest these efforts to deprive Professor Faurisson of his freedom of speech and expression, and we condemn the shameful campaign to silence him.
We strongly support Professor Faurisson's just right of academic freedom and we demand that university and government officials do everything possible to ensure his safety and the free exercise of his legal rights.
Since he began making his findings public, Professor Faurisson has been subject to a vicious campaign of harassment, intimidation, slander and physical violence in a crude attempt to silence him. Fearful officials have even tried to stop him from further research by denying him access to public libraries and archives.
We strongly protest these efforts to deprive Professor Faurisson of his freedom of speech and expression, and we condemn the shameful campaign to silence him.
We strongly support Professor Faurisson's just right of academic freedom and we demand that university and government officials do everything possible to ensure his safety and the free exercise of his legal rights.
It was published in French newspapers, with Chomsky's name at the top, along with other signatories including Alfred Lilienthal, anther Jew of some notoriety.
After the appearance of the petition, Chomsky received a great many letters of complaint and criticism. Chomsky understood that the extremely important principle of freedom of expression was under threat so he replied to the content of them in a public way by writing an article in French, for French newspapers, entitled: ‘Quelques commentaires élémentaires sur le droit à la liberté d'expression’, [Some elementary comments concerning the right of free expression].
In it he declared that everyone should have the right of free speech, including fascists and anti-Semites.
And he also expressed his opinion that Faurisson was neither one of these. Instead Chomsky described Faurisson as "a sort of apolitical liberal".
This reasonable, ethically irreproachable and intellectually consistent approach only won him more critics and persecutors amongst his co-religionists plus more letters of complaint and vilification. A response that demonstrates the illogical, anti-reason, emotion-driven, immoral, anti-social, ahistorical approach of all those who conflate ’revision’ with ’denial’ and who deny ’freedom of speech’ regarding this particular WW2 narrative.
Many of Chomsky’s Jewish critics accused him of supporting anti-semitism: a deceit that defenders of this ahistorical mythology repeatedly resort to.
Bill Rubinstein of Australia was one of many such outraged Jews making this spurious and illogical accusation, to whom Chomsky replied, writing the following:
I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the holocaust.
Nor would there be anti-Semitic implications, per se, in the claim that the holocaust (whether one believes it took place or not) is being exploited, viciously so, by apologists for Israeli repression and violence. I see no hint of anti-Semitic implications in Faurisson's work ...
Nor would there be anti-Semitic implications, per se, in the claim that the holocaust (whether one believes it took place or not) is being exploited, viciously so, by apologists for Israeli repression and violence. I see no hint of anti-Semitic implications in Faurisson's work ...
