Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYForeword by Daniel McGowanI am Not a Holocaust DenierI have never voiced or written an opinion on the veracity of the sacredtenets of the predominant contemporary Holocaust narrative.Those who support that narrative 1 and those who would revise it bothagree that these tenets can be reduced to three simple beliefs, namely1) that six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis,2) that Hitler had plans to exterminate, not just expel Jews, and3) that homicidal gas chambers constituted the most diabolical Naziinstrument of mass execution.Since I still enjoy traveling to several of the fourteen countries thathave made it illegal to question these beliefs and since at age 66 I haveno desire to fight lengthy legal battles or be imprisoned for expressingcontrary points of view, I keep these opinions to myself.I am Also Not an Anti-SemiteAt least I do not think I am according to the classical definitionmeaning one who bears prejudice against or hostility toward Jews oftenrooted in hatred of their ethnic background. But I may be anti-Semiticby the more contemporary and silly use of the term as an epithet againstanyone whose discourse and interests are regarded by many Jews withhostility, prejudice, and hatred. Hence my work to speak truth to Zionism,my involvement in the struggle for Palestinian human rights, mymemorialization of the massacre of Arabs at Deir Yassin, my persistentcriticism of Elie Wiesel, my friendship with known Jewish anti-Zionists(e.g., Paul Eisen, Gilad Atzmon, Rich Siegel, and Henry Herskovitz),and my meeting of “known” revisionists all cause some detractors tosmear me and to pressure Hobart and William Smith Colleges to rescindmy status as faculty emeritus.The anti-Semitic line is not easy to define. To hard-core Zionistssaying anything positive about Palestinians will warrant smearing youas an anti-Semite, or as Paul Eisen put it: 2“Although the crimes against the Palestinian people are beingcommitted by a Jewish state with Jewish soldiers using weapons12www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/insights/video/holocaust_denial.aspPaul Eisen, “Jewish Power,” 2004, see: http://righteousjews.org/article10.html9