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In mid-December, Brandeis University students were up in arms, furious at the school's student newspaper. The source of their rage? An advertisement from a Holocaust revisionist that the paper had published days earlier. The ad was titled "A Revisionist's View of the Holocaust Memorial Museum," and it...
The Brandeis incident was impressively timed, what with the recent opening of the groundbreaking memorial museum in Washington D.C., and the release of Steven Spielberg's powerful film, Schindler's List. Germany's World War II horrors have reached the forefront of the national consciousness with unusual intensity; last week...
David Turner was under siege last week. A junior at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and editor in chief of the weekly Justice, the student newspaper, he had become a pariah on campus. His phone rang around the clock with irate calls from students and alumni denouncing him as a...
The turmoil was prompted by an advertisement in Justice that attacked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington as a "false and manipulative" representation; as well, it questioned whether the Nazi gas chambers ever existed and whether the genocide of European Jews ever really occurred. The outcry on the largely...
Brandeis was not alone. Although campus newspapers at such schools as Harvard, Yale, Berkeley and Wisconsin have rejected Holocaust-denial ads and commentaries, they appeared this fall in student publications at Northwestern, the University of Michigan, Notre Dame and Georgetown, among others. Everywhere, they provoked angry letters to the editors...