Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYpolitely answering everybody who writes me, this “social” worker takesthat as a sign that I cannot be reintegrated into society. What is expectedof me to get reintegrated? That I “disintegrate” myself completely, thatis to say, that I isolate myself, that I turn almost autistic?Then there are various statements of solidarity by prominent individuals,such as the row of university professors from several countriesand disciplines who wrote affidavits on occasion of my application forpolitical asylum in the U.S., explaining that I am a victim of illegal politicalpersecution in Germany and therefore ought to obtain asylum inthe U.S. We will get back to these letters later on. 136 There is moreoverthe censure of prominent opponents of revisionists against this politicalpersecution of dissidents, foremost the German historian Götz Aly, thelate doyen of Holocaust research Raul Hilberg, and the U.S. professorof Jewish studies Deborah Lipstadt, who all, on occasion of the sentencingof British historian David Irving for his revisionist statements inAustria in early 2006, spoke out against the prosecution of revisionists,as did the famous critic of Zionism Prof. Dr. Norman Finkelstein. 137Solidarity can also be heard from the media, in particular fromabroad. First of all the Muslim world is to be mentioned here, whichcannot surprise. They lay their fingers into the West’s wound, whichclaims to fight for democracy and civil rights in the Middle East, butwho at the same time locks up its own dissidents in its prisons. Thisway the West loses all its credibility in the Muslim world.On occasion of the verdict against David Irving one could once morehear critical voices from England, as so often during the past ten years.First there was the internationally highly renowned magazine Index onCensorship, which opposes censorship on a worldwide basis, yet alsothe dailies spoke out, such as the left-wing Manchester Guardian,which described in a pointed way the absurd attempts of continentalEuropean countries to prescribe historiography by means of the penallaw. It is apparent that the media particularly in such countries which donot prosecute revisionists are considerably more critical about this persecutionthan the media in prosecuting countries, which is no surpriseeither, as the journalists and editors in prosecuting countries have toreckon with legal prosecution and social persecution as well, if theyexpose themselves too much.136 See Appendix 5, starting on p. 313; see also www.germarrudolf.com/persecute/asylum.html.137 Cf. Irving’s documentation at fpp.co.uk/Austria/arrest_2005/index.html.114