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Woodward Birmingham 1 block North of 14 Mile Rd 540-9548 We Pay Cash for Clothing and Accessories" HOURS: Mon: Sat. 12-6 NOAM M.M. NEUSNER Staff Writer 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. c J