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The '''Committee on Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH)''' has been called a | The '''Committee on Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH)''' has been called a Holocaust denial organization, although it states that "It is not the purpose of CODOH to prove "the Holocaust never happened," or that European Jews did not suffer a catastrophe during the Hitlerian regime. Those who try to convince you it is want to muddy the waters. CODOH is not a membership organization and was founded by Bradley Smith, who says "I no longer believe the German State pursued a plan to kill all Jews or used homicidal "gassing chambers" for mass murder."<ref name=CODOH-Purpose>{{citation | ||
| url = http://www.codoh.com/purpose.html | | url = http://www.codoh.com/purpose.html | ||
| title = Statement of Purpose | | title = Statement of Purpose | ||
| publisher = Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust}}</ref> | | publisher = Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust}}</ref> | ||
Smith presents the site as a place for "intellectual freedom", accepting "I understand perfectly well that the Hitlerian regime was anti-Semitic and persecuted Jews and others. I understand many peoples, European Jews among them, experienced unfathomable tragedies in Europe during World War II." His position that there were no gas chambers challenges a great deal of widely accepted physical evidence and testimony, and, in like manner, substantial evidence that there was a formal plan for a | Smith presents the site as a place for "intellectual freedom", accepting "I understand perfectly well that the Hitlerian regime was anti-Semitic and persecuted Jews and others. I understand many peoples, European Jews among them, experienced unfathomable tragedies in Europe during World War II." His position that there were no gas chambers challenges a great deal of widely accepted physical evidence and testimony, and, in like manner, substantial evidence that there was a formal plan for a Final Solution to the Jewish Problem, adopted at the Wannsee Conference, that called for the destruction of European Jewry. | ||
It is the position of the | It is the position of the Anti-Defamation League that CODOH and Smith are antisemitism under the guise of historical discussion.<ref name=ADL>{{citation | ||
| url = http://www.adl.org/holocaust/bradley_smith.asp | | url = http://www.adl.org/holocaust/bradley_smith.asp | ||
| title = Bradley Smith, Holocaust Denial | | title = Bradley Smith, Holocaust Denial | ||
| journal = | | journal = Anti-Defamation League}}</ref> | ||
In 2009, Smith attracted attention when he ran a paid advertisement in the ''Harvard Crimson'' and other campus newspapers, which, in the Harvard case, was not caught as objectionable content.<ref>{{citation | In 2009, Smith attracted attention when he ran a paid advertisement in the ''Harvard Crimson'' and other campus newspapers, which, in the Harvard case, was not caught as objectionable content.<ref>{{citation | ||
| date = 11 September 2009 | | date = 11 September 2009 | ||
| title = Harvard: Holocaust denial ad was 'a mix-up' | | title = Harvard: Holocaust denial ad was 'a mix-up' | ||
| publisher = | | publisher = Associated Press and Jerusalem Post | ||
| url = http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804545277&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull}}</ref> | | url = http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804545277&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull}}</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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 The Committee on Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) has been called a Holocaust denial organization, although it states that "It is not the purpose of CODOH to prove "the Holocaust never happened," or that European Jews did not suffer a catastrophe during the Hitlerian regime. Those who try to convince you it is want to muddy the waters. CODOH is not a membership organization and was founded by Bradley Smith, who says "I no longer believe the German State pursued a plan to kill all Jews or used homicidal "gassing chambers" for mass murder."[1] Smith presents the site as a place for "intellectual freedom", accepting "I understand perfectly well that the Hitlerian regime was anti-Semitic and persecuted Jews and others. I understand many peoples, European Jews among them, experienced unfathomable tragedies in Europe during World War II." His position that there were no gas chambers challenges a great deal of widely accepted physical evidence and testimony, and, in like manner, substantial evidence that there was a formal plan for a Final Solution to the Jewish Problem, adopted at the Wannsee Conference, that called for the destruction of European Jewry. It is the position of the Anti-Defamation League that CODOH and Smith are antisemitism under the guise of historical discussion.[2] In 2009, Smith attracted attention when he ran a paid advertisement in the Harvard Crimson and other campus newspapers, which, in the Harvard case, was not caught as objectionable content.[3] References
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