Comments by Ernst Zündel to yesterday's Institute for Historical Review press release below:
"Revisionism is on a roll! We have broken through the intellectual sound barrier. The enemies of truth in history are in disarray and are retreating on many fronts.
"Even in Israel itself, in Ha'aretz, one of the country's most widely read newspapers, columnists like Gideon Levy and journalists like Israel Shamir tell it like it is - while in America, that bastion of Jewish power and influence, courageous Jewish intellectuals like Norman Finkelstein and community leaders like Carl Pearlston speak out, finding even Jewish journals to publish their vociferous critiques of the ones who seemed unassailable. Bronfman of the World Jewish Congress! Foxman of the disgraceful ADL!
"In far off Arabia an intellectual firestorm is gathering enormous speed. Rejoice! Read on!"
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News from the Institute for Historical Review
June 12, 2001
INSTITUTE'S OPEN LETTER TO ARAB INTELLECTUALS
WIDELY PUBLISHED IN THE MIDDLE EAST
The IHR's "Open Letter to 14 Arab Intellectuals," headed "No to Censorship!, No to Bigotry!," has been widely published in the Middle East. Written by Institute Director Mark Weber, it has appeared, in Arabic translation, in the influential Beirut daily An Nahar (May 9), the Saudi Arabian newspaper Al Watan, the Jordanian daily paper Al Arab Al Yowm, the Jordanian weekly magazine Assabeel, the Kuwaiti weekly magazine Al-Mujtamaa, and in two on-line Arab periodicals, Aljareeda and Al-Shaab.
In mid-March fourteen prominent Arab writers issued a public statement calling on authorities in Lebanon to ban a "Revisionism and Zionism" conference in Beirut, which the IHR had been helping to organize. Shortly before the four-day meeting was to begin on March 31, Lebanon's prime minister announced that it would not be permitted.
The IHR's Open Letter appeared, for example, in the Assabeel weekly magazine of Amman, Jordan, issue No. 381, April 25-30, in the regular column of Ibrahim Alloush. To find it on line, go to http://www.assabeel.com/ and then click on maqalat (articles). Assabeel is one of the country's largest circulation magazines. Dr. Alloush, a Jordanian writer, lived for 14 years in the United States. He studied at Ohio University and Oklahoma State University, where he earned a doctorate in economics. In the previous four issues of Assabeel, he devoted his regular weekly column to a four-part series entitled "Revisionist Historians and the Falling of Adonis, Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish." Dr. Alloush can be reached by e-mail at: alloush100@yahoo.com
The IHR Open Letter can also be found on line, in Arabic, in then April 25 issue of the Saudi Arabria daily Al Watan, in the paper's culture section: http://www.alwatan.com.sa
The original text of the IHR's Open Letter can be downloaded from the IHR web site: http://ihr.org/conference/ beirutconf/010410mwletter.html
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Thought for the Day:
History sometimes takes time to surface --- but it always does."
(Richard Z. Chesnoff, Jewish World Review / June 6, 2001)
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