Commentary: About the Zundel Petition

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Commentary
By Ingrid Rimland Zundel

A few days ago I received an email notifying me that an Internet 
petition titled "Our Call for the Release of Ernst Zundel" to the 
Canadian Envoy to the United Nations had been started.  The petition 
was initiated by Dr. Ibrahim Alloush, Dr.Muhammed Abu Nasr, John Paul 
Cupp, Ziad Shaker elJishi, and Salih Manasra.  ( 
anti_imperialist_solidarity at yahoo.com ) 

I clicked on the link given, 
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?122179&1, and saw 
that it was only minutes old.  It had four signatures.  I added mine 
as #5. 

Of the five authors of this petition, I knew only one, Dr. Ibrahim 
Alloush, through previous Internet correspondence.  Dr. Alloush had 
been introduced to me by my friend and fellow Internet activist, 
known on the Net as Mackenzie Paine, a young woman who was tragically 
killed in a car accident three years ago.  As an American-educated 
Jordanian - or maybe Palestinian? - Dr. Alloush had become interested 
in Holocaust Revisionism and had tried to organize an International 
Revisionist Forum in Beirut in April of 2001.  It was canceled due to 
government pressure by the Holocaust Lobby.  You can read about that 
cancellation at 
http://www.freearabvoice.org/revisionistHistoriansPanelPostponedByGovernmentDecree.htm

This was one of the first - maybe the only - attempt at making 
available to the Arab world in a scholarly forum the important, 
scientifically sound findings by Holocaust revisionists around the 
world proving that the so-called "Holocaust," as peddled to the 
masses by mainstream media and special interest groups, just didn't 
"add up." 

I have often heard Ernst Zundel express his disappointment that his 
early calls for "Information through Liberation" was not taken up by 
leaders and intellectuals in the Middle East, tormented as they were 
by Zionists.  It would have been in their interest.  A four-page 
brochure, titled "The West, War, and Isram", authored by Ernst, had 
been part of the "spreading false news" charge against him in his 
first, 1984 Great Holocaust Trial. 

Ernst was quickly cleared of having "spread false news" about 
bankers, freemasons and their fellow travelers he took to task in 
this pamphlet, while pleading with the Arabs to "arm themselves" - 
not by rusty, outdated military hardware bought at high cost from 
Western dealers, but by informing themselves on certain facts about 
the origins of wars known even then.

He was pronounced guilty, however, for the booklet "Did Six Million 
Really Die?" 

After a dramatic, protracted legal struggle that lasted nine years, 
Ernst briefly emerged as the winner.  The "false news" statute was 
stricken from the Canadian Criminal Code as being unconstitutional. 
Ernst said at the time:  "Even though I won my case, ironically I 
have now won for my enemies the right to lie about me."

And lie they did! Just as they lied before, character-assassinating 
him with a vengeance, Ernst's enemies have shrieked their lies about 
him ever since - as this petition reveals.  In non-stop media 
vilification campaigns, Ernst has been built up as a convenient 
bogeyman who wants to resurrect the Hitler ideology and reinstate the 
jackboots - all this for having exposed the Holocaust as fraudulent 
in order to neutralize its use as a psychological weapon of war.  

Probably no activist in Western countries has been more vilified, 
harassed, character-assassinated, and eventually physically attacked 
via 24-hour telephone terror, beatings, arson, bombs and other covert 
assassination attempts - culminating in his kidnapping in Tennessee 
two years ago and subsequent incarceration in Canada at the behest of 
the Holocaust Lobby. 

The Arab world knows little about this.  Dr. Alloush was one of the 
very few Middle East intellectuals who recognized this important 
dimension of the "Holocaust" as featured by the West - its use as a 
psychological weapon of war, both sword and shield for Israel by 
demonizing its opponents. 

In an incisive interview with the Editor of the Institute for 
Historical Review, Dr. Alloush explained how revisionist findings are 
vitally important to the Arab struggle against Zionism:

Alloush:  [Distrust] is not enough. Without more sophisticated 
defenses, i.e., without historical revisionism, the campaign to 
Zionize the Arab mind is likely to gain even more ground. Distrust 
cannot possibly substitute for serious political or historical 
education. This is even more relevant nowadays, since the Zionists 
choose to speak through the voices of certain prominent Arab 
intellectuals. What we need therefore is a coherent, principled, 
cognizant response to the campaign to Zionize the Arab mind. Therein 
lies the promise of historical revisionism for us Arabs, and the 
importance of the work of revisionists (Š).

After consolidating their gains in the West, the Zionists have 
essentially succeeded in bringing the battle to the Arab collective 
psyche through such Trojan horses as the fourteen Arab intellectuals 
who signed the petition to ban the conference on "Zionism and 
Revisionism" in Beirut. When persons such as Edward Said and Mahmoud 
Darwish, who occupy so estimable a stature in the Arab intellectual 
realm, openly embrace the religion of the "Holocaust," this means 
that the cancer of the "Holocaust" has metastasized outside the West. 
We cannot rely only on natural Arab defenses, as strong as these may 
be, to fight this cancer. We must resort to more conscious means of 
resistance, hence, historical revisionism. (Š)

The most important revisionist works are volumes written in abstruse 
language that is difficult for the average person, whether in the 
West or in the Arab worldŠ Painstaking research findings are not 
enough: revisionist findings should be popularized in pamphlets and 
articles directed to the average person, who has neither the time nor 
the background to delve into thick volumes. The research findings of 
historical revisionism can only become politically effective if they 
reach the people. Therefore, revisionist work should proceed along 
two parallel lines: the serious academic work of debunking the 
"Holocaust" myths, and the even more important work of popularizing 
revisionism. (Š)

The other lesson Š lies in recognizing the relevance of revisionism 
beyond its traditional boundaries. Since revisionism is not an 
ideology, but a method of historical research, it is crucial that 
revisionism obtain spokespersons from across the ideological 
spectrum, from the extreme left to the extreme right. Š What I am 
suggesting here is that efforts be made to reach people from 
different continents, races, and ideological affiliations Š there are 
many leftists, Muslims, Catholics, Jews, et al. amongst revisionists 
already. However, these elements are overshadowed by a myth that 
Zionists spread about revisionists: that they are all Nazi 
sympathizers seeking to justify Nazi crimes. More efforts need to be 
made to speak to each people in its own idiom, just as the Zionists 
do. I, for one, consider myself totally opposed to any form of racism 
and racialist ideology, including Nazism. (Š)

Editor: What was your initial opinion of Holocaust revisionism?

Alloush: It introduced me to a new aspect of the Arab-Zionist 
conflict, and, more important, it helped me understand much better 
why public opinion in the West supports Zionists and ignores 
Palestinian suffering. I realized that those times I had seen the 
"Holocaust" brought up to eclipse Palestinian Arab suffering at the 
hands of Zionists were part of a central Zionist strategy, not mere 
aberrations or excesses of misguided souls.

I think the most important thing for revisionists in the next stage 
of their work is to shatter the Zionist accusation that the purpose 
of revisionist work is to whitewash Nazism. They should establish 
beyond reasonable doubt that the purpose of their work is to promote 
truth and justice. To accomplish that, they need to reach out to 
people from across the ideological spectrum, from many races and 
continents. In addition, as it stands now, revisionism has too many 
prophets and not enough preachers. The next step will be to 
popularize revisionism, and to bring it the non-Western world.

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v20/v20n3p-7_alloush.html


I believe that it was Dr, Alloush's realization that Zionism is, by 
far, the greater danger to the entire world than someone like Ernst 
Zundel who insists that truth is truth, whether some people may like 
its by-products or not, that made him launch this petition.  He knew 
of Ernst's decades-long battles with the Holocaust Lobby, and he knew 
him, through his friend Mackenzie, as a good and decent man - despite 
his severe vilification baggage as the world's foremost "Nazi," 
"Racist," "Holocaust Denier" and, lately, "White Supremacist" - smear 
jobs the Holocaust Lobby makes sure will follow him wherever he goes 
and whenever he tries to talk reason. I was glad to reconnect with 
Dr. Alloush, and I agree wholeheartedly with what he says. 
Revisionists need all the help they can get, from the left and from 
the right, from all responsible and well-meaning people, regardless 
of demographics or ideological affiliation - and so do  Arabs of good 
will.  That there are differences in outlook across the ideological 
spectrum, we all understand.  While people on opposite sides of this 
largely spiritual battle may know or sense the many issues that 
divide us, what most don't understand sufficiently is this: 
something much more important to every one of us, regardless of race, 
religion, group interests or party affiliation unites us:  A common 
enemy. 


After Mackenzie's death, I lost track of Dr. Alloush and often 
wondered what might have happened to him.  I was touched and pleased, 
therefore, when I saw what he had done for Ernst with this petition, 
and I wrote to him and thanked him.  In response to my email, he 
replied:

We are not doing this for you, we are doing it for all of us, 
including you and your husband.  So keep up the fight, and hang in 
there.  You happen to be in the forefront here, and we are just going 
along for the ride : )

For the petition to turn into political pressure, we need to show 
that there are hundreds of people (so far) embracing Zundel's cause.

I watched this petition gather signatures fairly rapidly and was 
pleased that, on the first day, there was a virtual 100 percent 
consensus on the value of freedom of speech.  People from all walks 
of life, as judged by their names and their comments, strongly 
disapproved of Ernst's arrest and detention and blamed the Canadian 
government officials for acting like thugs in the service of Zion. 
It meant that the petition was not just preaching to the choir. 
Total strangers had taken up the banner of freedom of speech, and 
many of them were non-white.  It proved to me, as though proof were 
needed, that other races have no trouble with Ernst Zundel - only 
that one special interest group had felt the need to silence his 
voice by brutally kidnapping him and holding him in solitary prison, 
away from media. 

I made myself a note at the end of the first day that I would tally 
the responses and do a rough analysis of who supported us by using 
the criterion of foreign-sounding names.  Then I would do my best to 
place a call for signatures on as many friendly websites as I could.

Then the predictable happened:

Our enemies invaded the petition and tried to destroy it with 
disinformation, primarily character-assassination:  stealing ID's, 
filthy name-calling, revolting sexual innuendo that always - always! 
- involves the use of excrement. Don't ask me why - it is a mystery 
to me why this disgusting compulsion controls them. This kind of 
language is characteristic of the tribe, as every Internet 
revisionist knows from personal experience.  It's a dead giveaway who 
hides behind those slurs.  Why, even the Christian Son of God is said 
to have been boiled in excrement!  They know full well that normal, 
decent people will recoil.  Most well-intentioned folks who might 
have listened courteously, and perhaps curiously, to both sides of a 
divisive issue such as the alleged "gassings" in Auschwitz, a claim 
contested on scientific grounds by decades of painstaking revisionist 
research, will be intimidated and tuck tail.  And exactly as Dr. 
Alloush had outlined in his interview, the foremost insult was to 
shriek that Ernst Zundel was a well-known "Nazi" who deserved what he 
had coming to him. 

Still, the traditional "Holocaust" believers who like to censor other 
folks are far from being the majority, as this rough tally of the 
first 1000 signatures reveals:

Approximately 90% of the signatures and comments endorsed the 
petition and advocated freedom for Ernst Zundel
Approximately 10% of the signatures and comments involved insults, 
spewing filth, making death threats, etc.

So let's not lose sight - foul language reflects badly on "them", not 
on us.  If decent people are sufficiently sure of themselves, they 
can ignore verbally filthy intimidation, knowing it for what it is - 
the response of a scoundrel who has no argument.  It is quite easy to 
demonstrate, by mere juxtaposition, that we are winning the battle of 
speech by mere contrast of conduct.  Let's let them call us names - 
see if we care!  Try to imagine how little we care! 

A timid voice might ask:  But what do we know of Ernst Zundel?  If 
there is smoke, there must be fire, right?  If he surrounds himself 
with "racists", as the Canadian government proclaims, is it not 
reasonable to conclude that he is, in fact, a "White Supremacist", a 
"Racist" and a "Nazi" - and hence a "danger" to non-whites? 

No.  Science does not lie, not even for a "Nazi."  Ernst Zundel was 
the first who managed to debunk the so-called "Holocaust" 
forensically, and Durban was the watershed that showed that folks 
were catching on.  Big time!  That's when the Lobby ditched the 
"Holocaust"  - it was no longer tenable to hold onto that cash cow. 
Therefore, a brand new bogeyman was needed to justify a new growth 
industry:  the hunt for "terrorists."  Why not make use, therefore, 
of someone already tarred and feathered?  It was a cinch for Zundel 
foes to do a bit of their abracadabra and turn a "Nazi" with negative 
global name recognition into a "White Supremacist."

In his prison memoirs, "Setting the Record Straight:  Letters from 
Cell # 7" - banned as "hate literature" in Canada - Ernst tells in a 
letter to a long-time friend in South Africa how he views the issue 
of race:

As you so aptly pointed out, the 19th century idea of a "German 
race," or a "British race," is humbug! You said it right-if it looks 
white, thinks white, speaks white, behaves white-chances are it is 
white! In my experience, I've found "lesser" whites like Macedonians, 
Bulgarians, Sicilians, Spaniards, and Portuguese, often already a 
shade more suntanned than we, far more fiercely defensive of their 
white values than the big-boobed, blue-eyed, blond bombshells 
sleeping around with every basketball player and hip-hop star.  Look 
at American magazines!

As to "racists" who talk about "mud people"-I consider that unworthy 
of decent white folks.  To be white is, to me, a privilege-and also a 
sacred trust and obligation to comport myself as a white person 
should!  In all things! Especially sex!

I agree.  On race, as a matter of record, Ernst is an exceedingly 
tolerant man. He can offer you a lifetime's worth of tolerance of 
other races - their habits, their cultures, their ideologies, their 
religion, even their political desires and hopes - as long as they 
play by fair rules implicitly accepted by all decent men and women of 
whatever race and geographical background.  His accountant was a 
Pakistani.  His printer was Chinese.  His favorite lady lawyer is 
Polish.  For years, he has assisted two black men in making 
documentaries.  A mayor of a town in Mexico has offered him asylum. 
People of Iranian, Hungarian, Spanish and Portuguese descent have 
worked for him and with him.  Many have translated books and 
articles.  Ernst even spoke the eulogy at the funeral service of the 
German-born Jewish author Joseph (Ginz)burg who had testified for him 
in one of his Holocaust trials.  Since Burg's own tribal brethren 
never forgave him in their eternal hatred for goyim, they refused to 
let him be buried where other Jews are buried, and it was up to Ernst 
to do the final rites.  Ernst swears there was a rumble in Burg's 
coffin as he, a former Seventh-Day Adventist, thus bid a well-known 
Jewish atheist his last good-bye beneath a huge Catholic cross!

I could go on and on. I know that Ernst has never had any problems 
with people of another race.  He has had plenty of problems with the 
Holocaust Lobby - but that is not because they are not of his race; 
it is because, as a tribe and as an ethnic organism almost always 
acting in concert, they are obnoxious at their best and deadly at 
their worst.  They will not leave him alone.   This latest, 
politically motivated kidnapping proves it. 

No, Ernst is not a "Racist" as this term is negatively understood. 
That does not mean, however, that he does not prefer his own white 
race to any other race on earth - precisely for the very reasons he 
prefers his mother to any other mother, his family to any other 
family, his country, race, and home to any other country, race and 
home on earth. Would he trade all these ethnic and familial 
sentiments for other people's sentiment?  Of course not.  Would 
anybody with an ounce of common sense between his ears? His home is 
his home - guests are welcome, but not squatters.  For Ernst, these 
deeply ingrained loyalties come with the package called one's ethnic 
heritage put in his cradle at his birth.

It's natural to love one's own and to be loyal to one's own.  Every 
race on earth has that right.  And, yes, defiantly so - that ethnic 
heritage includes one's country's truthful history, not Allied 
postwar propaganda sludge about "six million gassed Jews" that is 
"proven" by ever more numerous "survivors" who make it their 
uncalled-for business to censor the rest of the world. 

So let it be said, for the record:  Ernst has no problems letting 
other races think their people are the greatest thing on earth, as 
long as they grant him that privilege.  But claiming that right for 
oneself, and granting that right to others extols an obligation that 
is called chivalry.  That means one must act  in the spirit of 
mutually understood and agreed-upon rules of respect with every ounce 
of good will one can muster.  It doesn't include shrieking 
invectives, spitting, cursing, engaging in vile character 
assassination, throwing plastic bags of excrement, beating, burning, 
bombing, kidnapping, torturing and murdering. 

His enemies have seen to it that Ernst is now the most widely 
recognized Prisoner of Conscience on the American Continent, a victim 
of the artificial "War on Terrorism."  He has become a symbol for 
having dug in his heels against the power of Zion, for having refused 
to live on his knees before a fraudulent historical event that 
benefits only the Lobby.  His name represents valuable political coin 
to all people of good will because it manifests what Zionists fear 
most - the loss of an almost foolproof weapon of mass intimidation 
that doesn't cost them a penny. If non-white activists not only do 
not mind Ernst Zundel and his ethnic loyalties but find his 
Holocaust-debunking activism useful and intriguing - what does that 
say about the Lobby's power to make you fear their slurs? 

During one of Ernst's trials, one reporter commented that "Zundel won 
the war of images by sheer contrast of behavior."   His enemies would 
hiss, howl, shriek, fling plastic bags and bottles of feces and 
urine, spit in his face, call him all kinds of nasty names, steal and 
destroy his mail, unleash tsunamis of slimy invectives, send him a 
mouse trap laced with AIDS and then a deadly parcel bomb, and in the 
end burn down his house  - I could go on and on!

Ernst and his supporters did none of those things. They knew their 
inner worth. They marched to their own inner drummer.

Therefore, my plea this time, as before, is for appropriate conduct. 
As a writer in love with the power of language, I hate pornography in 
language as much as I hate it in pictures.  I ruthlessly purge all 
such human vermin who snarl at me with dirty tongues from my own 
private orbit.  Contrast of images will help us win our war.  Since 
we are verbal activists who use the Internet, let us refrain from 
spewing filthy words. Let's leave that to our enemies.  That is their 
moniker.  It helps us to recognize them. 

And let us treat each other, no matter what the skin shade, with 
courtesy, appreciation, and respect.  I am a stout believer in 
chivalry not only between sexes but also between races. If decent men 
and women from other races do not endanger us, if they conduct 
themselves with dignity, honor, and fairness - I say that they are 
welcome to our struggle, as I would like to be welcome to theirs.

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