Committee for Open Debate on the Holohoax
In 1987, Bradley R. Smith, a former media director of the Institute for Historical Review,[1] founded the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH).[2] In the United States, CODOH has repeatedly attempted to place advertisements questioning whether the Holocaust happened, especially in college campus newspapers.[3]
Bradley Smith took his message to college students with great success. Smith referred to his project as the "CODOH campus project". He said, "They (students) are empty vessels to be filled."
"What I wanted to do was I wanted to set forth three or four ideas that students might be interested in, that might cause them to think about things or to have questions about things. And I wanted to make it as simple as possible, and to set it up in a way that could not really be debated."[4]
—Bradley R. Smith
Activism
Holocaust truthers have placed full page advertisements in college and university newspapers, including those of Brandeis University, Boston College, Pennsylvania State University, and Queens College, City University of New York. Some of these ads gave proofs that the Holocaust never happened, which generated op-ed pieces by professors and students.[5] On September 8, 2009, student newspaper The Harvard Crimson ran a paid ad from Bradley R Smith. It was quickly threatened by local jew groups, and the editor caved, issuing an apology, and claiming that the full-page ad was "an accident". [6]
References
- ↑ http://www.axt.org.uk/antisem/archive/archive2/usa/usa.htm%7Ctitle=United States of America|date=1998|work=axt.org.uk
- ↑ "Poisoning the Web – Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust." ADL. 2001. April 24, 2008.
- ↑ "Bradley Smith and the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust: The New College Try". ADL. 2001. April 24, 2008.
- ↑ Bradley Smith, Holocaust Denial, Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust – Extremism in America. Adl.org.
- ↑ Shermar, Michael (2000). Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21612-9
- ↑ http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/09/09/massachusetts.harvard.holocaust/index.html%7Ctitle=Harvard Crimson says Holocaust denial ad published by accident|last=Buxbaum|first=Evan|date=September 10, 2009|publisher=CNN|access-date=September 10, 2009