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A
s the nation's college
campuses wrap up
their first semester,
students, professors and
Jewish community leaders
are not likely to forget one of
the most public displays of
Holocaust denial in many
years.
After an advertisement
was placed in campus news-
papers by a group of Holo-
caust revisionists, several
college campuses hosted
painful and provocative
debates over free speech,
historical memory and
truth.
The Committee for Open
Debate on the Holocaust
(CODOH), a California-
based organization with ties
to the neo-Nazi National
Youth Alliance according to
the Anti-Defamation
League, ran the advertise-
ment in five campus papers:
the Cornell Daily Sun, the
Duke Chronicle, the Daily
Northwestern, the Daily
Targum (Rutgers), and the
Michigan Daily.
The advertisement claims
the Holocaust never occured,
that gas chambers were used
solely for delousing and that
a "Holocaust Lobby" exists
"to sustain the Holocaust
legend and the myth of
German monstrosity during
the Second World War."
Several newspapers re-
jected the advertisement, in-
cluding newspapers at
Brown University, the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania,
Harvard University, Yale
University, Georgetown
University, University of
Texas-Austin, University of
California-Berkeley and
University of Wisconsin-
Madison.
To Jewish leaders, the
advertisement was a painful
reminder that the Holocaust
is still not a settled issue.
"Holocaust revisionism is
probably the leading pro-
paganda effort of anti-
Semites today," said Jeffrey
Ross, director of the Anti-
Defamation League's
Department of Campus Af-
fairs and Higher Education.
What distinguishes Holo-
caust revisionism, said Mr.
Ross, is its subtlety. The
advertisement's language
does not deviate from schol-
arly rhetoric, he said.
"It was not quite overt
hate," Mr. Ross said.
CODOH maintains in
their advertisement that it
seeks to "free Holocaust his-
tory from fraud and
falsehood." Nevertheless,
CODOH has been cited for a
veiled attack on Jews, alive
and dead.
"Those who were most
delighted to see the Holo-
caust first happen are happy
to say it didn't happen at
all," said Jewish author
Cynthia Ozick.
Ms. Ozick, who recently
finished a play on Holocaust
revisionism, said revi-
sionists use imagination not
to build images, but to
destroy them.
"The perversity of their
imagination is that it takes
something and turns it into
nothing," she said. "Who
would imagine that someone
would come and annhilate
history?"
CODOH's advertisement,
while raising the spectre of
The advertisement
claims the
Holocaust never
occurred.
anti-Semitism in the form of
truth-telling, is part of a
larger trend in American
society, said Dr. Gerald
Margolis, director of the
Simon Weisenthal Center in
Los Angeles.
"There is an ambiance
within our social landscape
providing fertile ground for
the seeds of hate to be
sown," he said.
The larger issue of hate, he
said, is afflicting the Ameri-
can campus in other ways.
Racial and cultural clashes
have been rising steadily on
college campuses; last year,
there were 115 incidents.
Plus, he said, the CODOH
advertisement plays on an
inadequate knowledge by
most students of what
happened in the Holocaust.
Professor Deborah
Lipstadt, who is writing
Destroying the Holocaust, a
book about Holocaust revi-
sionism, added that so-called
open debate on the Holo-
caust, no matter how well-
intentioned, inevitably leads
to a "Yes, but" syndrome.
Through a sequential
series of admitting one fact
— "yes, there was a Holo-
caust" — and then casting
doubt over a particular fact
within it —"but were there
really 6 million killed?" —
revisionists are able to
deconstruct an entire event,
relegating it to a position of
obscurity and irrelevance.
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