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by **proldic** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 6:27 pm

OttawaCitizen Sunday, August 21, 2005 U of O professor accused of hosting anti-Semitic website Group files complaint over 'wild theories' that blame Jews for 9/11 by Pauline Tam University of Ottawa professor Michel Chossudovsky says research on his website is 'anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic.' A Jewish group has filed a complaint to the University of Ottawa against one of its professors after the discovery of content on his website that blames Jews for the terrorist attacks on the United States, and claims the numbers who died at Auschwitz are exaggerated. The website, www.globalresearch.ca, also reprints articles from other writers that accuse Jews of controlling the U.S. media and masterminding the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Other postings suggest Israel, the U.S. and Britain are the real perpetrators of the recent attacks on London. The site, which is not hosted by the university, is run by Michel Chossudovsky, a controversial left-leaning economist, and came to the attention of B'nai Brith Canada after public complaints to the advocacy group and the Citizen. "The material on the site is full of wild conspiracy theories that go so far as to accuse Israel, America and Britain of being behind the recent terrorist bombings in London," said Frank Dimant, executive vice-president of B'nai Brith Canada. "They echo the age-old anti-Semitic expressions that abound in the Arab world, which blame the Jews for everything from 9/11 to the more recent tsunami disaster." The organization singles out a discussion forum, moderated by Mr. Chossudovsky, that features a subject heading called "Some Articles On The Truth of the Holocaust." The messages have titles such as "Jewish Lies of Omission (about the 'Holocaust')," "Jewish Hate Responsible For Largest Mass Killing at Dachau," and "Did Jews Frame the Arabs for 9/11?" Another posting suggests the number of Jews who died at Auschwitz during the Second World War is inflated. None of the postings is written by Mr. Chossudovsky himself. Under Canadian law, website owners can be liable for material they knowingly post, even if they haven't produced it themselves. "I know this isn't his own writing, but he's certainly got a responsibility for the website, which, I checked, is registered in his name," said Anita Bromberg, B'nai Brith's legal counsel and human rights co-ordinator... The site identifies Mr. Chossudovsky as the director of the Centre for Research on Globalization and editor of globalresearch.ca. His wife, Micheline Ladouceur, is listed as associate editor. They manages the site out of Montreal. The site does not mention Mr. Chossudovsky's position at the university, nor does his website at the U of O refer to globalresearch.ca. However, an Internet search of Mr. Chossudovsky's name shows he is listed as an adviser for a Swedish-based group called the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research. Its website contains a biography of Mr. Chossudovsky, his contact information at the U of O and a link to globalresearch.ca. When reached in South Korea, where he is on a research trip, Mr. Chossudovsky said the offending messages were removed from the forum after he was made aware of them by the Citizen. But as of late yesterday, some of the postings remain on the site. A discussion thread about 9/11, contained a message that casts doubt on the Auschwitz death count. Other postings under a forum on globalization have titles such as "The Hilarious Auschwitz Story" and "The HolyCo$t Lie is Finished." Mr. Chossudovsky indicated that despite monitoring the forum "periodically," he did not know about the inflammatory messages, even though they had been posted since March. He added that while he has received complaints before about offensive content on the site, the volume of messages on the forum makes it difficult for him to control what is posted. "We don't choose the articles that go up, and when we see that there are texts which are racist or hateful, we do, to the best of our abilities, try to remove them." Mr. Chossudovsky described himself as being of Jewish descent, and said he has relatives who were Holocaust victims. "I'm the first person to withdraw any kind of hate material directed against the Jewish people." He went on to defend the reprinted articles that have also sparked complaints, saying they are legitimate commentary representing views that are "anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic." "It's an analysis of Israeli policy which we don't support," said Mr. Chossudovsky, an antiwar commentator and an outspoken critic of U.S. and Israeli policies. He also noted the site contains a disclaimer saying the articles posted don't necessarily reflect his views as editor... A specialist in globalization and the economics of developing countries, Mr. Chossudovsky, 59, has a reputation for producing radical critiques often out of step with the views of his colleagues. Since 1968, when he left his native Switzerland to take a position at the U of O, Mr. Chossudovsky has produced research that keeps him on the margins of mainstream academia, but wins praise from anti-establishment intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky. While he is rarely quoted in mainstream academic journals, Mr. Chossudovsky is a popular figure among anti-globalization activists, and is widely quoted in newspapers. He writes regularly for the French-language monthly Le Monde diplomatique, and his books, published by a small printing house in Britain, have been translated into 11 languages. Students who take his courses rave about his unorthodox views, going so far as to dub him "Canada's Chomsky."... ...even sympathetic colleagues familiar with his work admit they are uncomfortable with many of his ideas. "Among people who work on terrorism, there certainly is not much that resembles his work," said Michael Dartnell, a political scientist at York University. "The thing that disturbs me about what he's doing is there is a conspiratorial element to it. And I can't prove or disprove it." Nonetheless, added Mr. Dartnell, Mr. Chossudovsky's ideas reflect a public sentiment that is suspicious of the motives of government. "He wants, probably for very sincere reasons, to formulate a substantive critique of what the U.S. government is doing. I'm just not really clear that he's successful in doing that." <a href="http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=daad3a9e-c2a0-48ea-9680-713f341e0d7a&page=3">www.canada.com/ottawa/ott...d7a&page=3</a>

by **robertdreed** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:07 pm

Another posting suggests the number of Jews who died at Auschwitz during the Second World War is inflated. I can't speak on the contested figures for the death toll at Auschwitz, but in terms of the more general figure of total Jews lost due to Nazi mass murder, even scholarly authorities like Raul Hilberg agree that the most popularly used number, "six million", is too high. Most authorities these days place the number at between 2.5 million and 4 million dead, simply as a historical readjustment- or "revisionism", as it were. Incidentally, I'm all for "historical revisionism", when it's warranted by a wider and more accurate knowledge base. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p097.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 8/21/05 7:42 pm

by **wintler** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:52 am

I trust Chossudovsky, he's been casting well researched light for four years that i'm aware of, and isn't stuffy about republ/reuse or afraid of criticism. I wish i was surprised at the censorship efforts of B'nai Brith - how much further will 'anti-semitism' be stretched to silence dissent?

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