Beirut Conference 2001

Revisionist conferences always attract a lot of attention, but the upcoming conference on "Revisionism and Zionism" in Beirut, Lebanon, is fast becoming a focal point for interested parties around the world.

Press Release: March 7, 2001

Preparations for Beirut Meeting Continue on Schedule

Zionist Groups Seek To Ban 'Revisionism And Zionism' Conference

Three major Jewish organizations -- the World Jewish Congress, the Anti-Defamation League, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center -- are demanding that Lebanese authorities ban the forthcoming "Revisionism and Zionism" conference in Beirut, March 31 to April 3, which the Institute for Historical Review is helping to organize. Responding to these demands, the American government and some members of Congress have asked Lebanon to prohibit the four-day meeting, according to the Washington correspondent of the Lebanese daily paper As-Safir (March 3).

Conference organizers report that preparations for the landmark meeting are continuing according to plan, and that Jewish efforts to ban it have little chance of success. Journalists from the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, Lebanon, Egypt and Iran have already registered with the IHR to cover the event.

"In demanding that Lebanon ban this peaceful, privately-organized meeting, these Zionist groups betray an arrogant double standard," says IHR Director Mark Weber, who points out that similar meetings hosted by the IHR have been held peacefully in the United States for more than 20 years. "That these Jewish groups, ardent supporters of Israel's oppressive and criminal policies, should demand anything of Lebanon, a country that has repeatedly been a victim of Zionist aggression, is an expression of brazen arrogance," adds Weber.

"These Zionist organizations seek to deprive Lebanon of a right that is entirely normal in most of the civilized world, including the USA. It is hypocritical and bullying for American officials to try to prohibit a meeting in Lebanon that would be perfectly legal if held in the United States," says Weber.

"This outrageous effort to suppress freedom of speech and expression further points up the need for just such a conference. We trust that Lebanese authorities will treat this Zionist demand with the contempt that it deserves," says Weber.

Scholars, researchers and activists from a range of countries are scheduled to address the Beirut conference, which will both reflect and further strengthen the growing cooperation between independent scholars in Europe, the United States and Middle East countries. Conference addresses will be given in Arabic, French and English.

Among the speakers will be:

Roger Garaudy, prominent French scholar, author of The Founding Myths of Modern Israel (published in the US by the IHR), for which he was fined $40,000 by a Paris court in 1998.
Robert Faurisson, Europe's leading revisionist scholar, repeatedly persecuted by French authorities for his views
Horst Mahler, well-known German attorney and author.
Fredrick Toben, doctor of philosophy, director of the Adelaide Institute in Australia.
Henri Roques, French scholar and author of a doctoral dissertation on the Gerstein "confessions."
Oleg Platonov, Russian historian.
Mark Weber, IHR Director.

Around the world, and notably in Arab and Muslim countries, awareness has been steadily growing of the way that Israel and Zionist groups exploit "the Holocaust" to blackmail European countries and corporations for billions of dollars for Israel, and to excuse otherwise inexcusable policies of the Jewish state.

The four-day event is being organized by the Swiss revisionist organization Verité et Justice, in cooperation with the IHR. Verité et Justice director Jürgen Graf, who was sentenced by a Swiss court in July 1998 to 15 months imprisonment for "Holocaust denial," has fled his homeland to live in political exile rather than serve the politically-motivated sentence. The 49-year-old educator has recently been in Tehran as a guest of Iranian scholars.

The Institute for Historical Review, founded in 1978 and based in southern California, is a leading independent history research center, well known for publishing serious scholarship disputing "Holocaust" claims. The IHR has tax-exempt, not-for-profit status with the US Internal Revenue Service.

Further information about the Beirut conference, including details about registration, are posted on the "Beirut 2001" section of the IHR web site: http://ihr.org

Institute for Historical Review
P.O. Box 2739
Newport Beach, CA 92659
USA
weber@ihr.org
Tel. 949 - 631 1490

Conference information

Conference news from the Journal of Historical Review
Registration information (January 2001)
First announcement (December 2000)
Conference background

Media attention

IHR letter to USA Today in response to their op-ed piece by Rabbi Cooper (March 9, 2001)
A South African Jewish Report article tells of strong objections from the SA Jewish Board of Deputies -- March 9, 2001
Rabbi Abraham Cooper gets hysterical in USA Today -- March 8, 2001
IHR Press Release on Zionist efforts to ban the Conference (March 7, 2001)
The Tehran Times reports that the U.S. State Department is trying to stop the conference -- March 4, 2001
As-Safir reports that the U.S. State Department is trying to stop the conference -- March 3, 2001
The Simon Wiesenthal Center calls on the Prime Minister of Lebanon to end free speech -- March 1, 2001
News item from Reuters -- February 22, 2001
Article in the Canadian Jewish News -- February 22, 2001
Press release from the Simon Wiesenthal Center -- February 12, 2001
Press release from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) -- February 11, 2001

REVISIONISM

Zionism & Israeli Apartheid
Israeli/Zionism's racism & discrimination --- Sabra & Shatila massacre
WWII Zionists' indifference to Jewish suffering --- Politicizing the Holocaust
Israeli Terrorism & aggression --- Home demolitions & torture
Israeli Ethnic cleansing, expansionism & settlements
Zionist-Nazi & Zionist-Fascist alliance --- Israeli human right violations & massacres

Israel Allowed Argentinian Jews to Die (Return 12/1990)
Zionism's Attitude to Anti-Semitism by Tony Greenstein, (Return 03/1989)
The Jewish Question and the Zionist Movement by Udi Adiv, (Return 12/1990)
Zionism's Failure to Support Resistance. (Excerpted from Nazi-Zionist Collaboration, pamphlet published in 1981 by BAZO-PS - British Anti-Zionist Organization/Palestine Solidarity, London.)
The Kastner Case. Kastner, a Jew, helped Nazis (Eichmann) locate and send a Million Hungarian Jews to concentration camps. (Excerpted from Nazi-Zionist Collaboration, pamphlet published in 1981 by BAZO-PS - British Anti-Zionist Organization/Palestine Solidarity, London.)
Zionism and the Holocaust by Haim Bresheeth (Return 03/1989).
Closed Door Policy Excerpts from the Nazi-Zionist Collaboration, pamphlet issued by BAZO-PS - British Anti-Zionist Organization/Palestine Solidarity, London, 1981)
Hannah Arendt Author of the famous book Eichmann in Jerusalem
Zionism and Anti-Semitism: A Strange Alliance Through History by Allan C. Brownfeld (Washington Report 07/1998)
The Role of Zionism in the Holocaust (from Jews Not Zionists)
Pleas to Rescue Jews in the Holocaust Ignored by Zionist Leaders (from Jews Not Zionists). The Zionists here ignored the pleas of Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel.
The Millions That Could Have Been Saved by I. Domb (from Jews Not Zionists)
Sharon Faults 'Left' for Jews' Holocaust Pligh t by Yossi Verter (Ha'aretz 03/16/2000)