Pacifica Forum to host holocaust denier
On Nov. 2 the Pacifica Forum will host a lecture in 129 Mackenzie entitled “Free Speech vs. Zionist Power” by Mark Weber, “America’s most prominent revisionist historian.”
Weber is the director of the Institute for Historical Review, one of the larger anti-Zionist “institutes” around. This isn’t unusual for the Pacifica Forum, however; they routinely invite tinfoil hats, holocaust deniers and other mixed nuts to speak at their forum. For instance, a while ago they had a lecture on the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a proven hoax that dumbasses still use as evidence of the Zionists’ plans for world domination.
On a completely unrelated note, the lecture is listed in the events section of the forum of stormfront.org, whose motto is “white pride world wide.” Finally, something the hippies and white nationalists can agree on: a mutual hate of Israel.
October 16th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Exactly. Don’t these people come to the University every year? And isn’t there a general lack of outrage (compare to other, less significant events) on campus when they come? It sort of boggles the mind.
I think you guys should cover this event, even if it makes you feel dirty afterwards.
October 16th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
I’ve noticed the posters for this event around. I was struck by the similarities with straight-up Nazi propaganda from 1942 (scroll down to the picture of the book “Kräfte hinter Roosevelt” (The Forces behind Roosevelt) and note the flag).
The idea that an avowed Holocaust-denier promoting himself with blatant and obvious anti-Semitic imagery would be welcome on campus (especially one as self-righteously “progressive” as this one) should be shocking. Unfortunately, it’s anything but.
I’ll be interested in seeing if the ODE covers it and, if they do, what they have to say about the event and Weber’s background.
October 17th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Might just be me, but it seems to me that just because you have the freedom of speech doesn’t always mean you should use it if it completely insane. I mean honestly, “free speech v. zionist power?!” Sounds like something out of a gov’t ran Iranian newspaper.
I just hope this group and the speaker receive the proper condemnation deserved from such an absurd topic.