The Case of Dr. Nicholas Kollerstrom

London's cowardly academic establishment

http://www.tellingfilms.co.uk/kollerstrom.htm

Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom and Lady Michèle Renouf on set at Press TV after recording each of their interviews. Lady Renouf is holding a copy of The Rudolf Report

Holocaust, the mother of all hoaxes

If the arguments of the Holocaust revisionists were as false as claimed, there wouldn’t be a ne-cessity for systematically destroying and even imprisoning anyone who engages in 'denial'. And since when do the sensitivities of a tiny minority outweigh the freedom of expression of the rest? The motivation for the invention of the Holocaust, apart from humiliating a beaten enemy, was to destroy all resistance against the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine and the genocidal treatment of the Palestinian people. What interest did the ruling elite have in the Jewish state? Apart from the fact that many - if not most - members of the ruling elite have a Jewish background, the Zionist project was always about controlling the Middle-Eastern oil reserves.

(Andrew Winkler) Andrew Winkler is the editor/publisher of Sydney based dissident blog ZioPedia.org

By Lady Michèle Renouf

Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom, a respected astronomer and author, is the latest scientist to discover the limits of academic freedom in the Western world.

Until recently Dr Kollerstrom was an honorary fellow of University College London. His views as a science historian were sought by scientific journals and media organisations, such as the BBC in its report on new research concerning the planet Neptune (1).

Yet on 22nd April 2008 University College abruptly terminated his fellowship, without any consultation or right of appeal. Dr Kollerstrom's offence was to have published sceptical views about scientific aspects of the Holocaust on the CODOH website (2), based in America. At no time had he promoted these views within University College, or done anything to bring the college into disrepute.

The London based Jewish Chronicle (3) duly boasted about Dr Kollerstrom's dismissal on the front page of its 25th April 2008 edition.

On 7th May 2008 Dr Kollerstrom first became acquainted with Lady Renouf to seek advice on whether he could expect to travel safely to Germany where he hoped to present his paper The Walls of Auschwitz - a review of the chemical studies to the Berlin Conference on 15th-18th May 2008.

This conference (Extermination in Gas Chambers in National Socialist Concentration and Extermination Camps) was designed to refute the revisionists' case on the alleged mass murder weapon - the gas chamber.

Lady Renouf advised in her observation that:

a) it was unlikely that the organisers would include a revisionist paper in their unchallengeable conference (as opposed to the entirely open to allcomers Tehran Conference in 2006 on The Holocaust - A Global Review). And to prove the case she asked the Berlin Conference organisers whether she could be included as press, but received no response;

b) if Dr Kollerstrom were to open his scientific mouth in Germany, or in any of the ten countries where it is illegal to bring forensic science in to question the Holocaust legend "in full or in part", he would risk certain prosecution and a long term of imprisonment.

About to appear herself on a Press TV live panel discussion Lady Renouf suggested to the channel, which at last offers UK viewers a democratic choice of information sources, that they interview Dr Kollerstrom, who had been persecuted by the mainstream media, thus to provide him with some redress for the vilification and libel he has recently suffered following his scientific article published on a U.S. website.

On 14th May 2008 the channel duly filmed an interview with the science historian Dr Kollerstrom and a second interview with Lady Renouf, who provided the background regarding the stark contrast between the open democratic approach she had experienced at the Tehran conference, as compared to the tyrannical and closed programme of this year's government sponsored Berlin conference, where no revisionist was invited - though the conference was supposed to be all about revisionists and their (source) criticism.

The substance of Dr Kollerstrom's interview is his hope that a scientific journal will sponsor his own on site chemical analysis of the walls of Auschwitz, in the tradition of the Leuchter Report and the Rudolf Report. These authors, like Dr Kollerstrom himself, came to this work out of scientific curiosity and with no political interest.

After recording his interview Dr Kollerstrom appeared live on Press TV's Between the Headlines 14th May 2008 edition - click here for the relevant excerpt (4) from the programme featuring presenter Jan Fossgard and fellow guest Kate Bevan.

Despite Ms Bevan's earlier hypocritical stance in favour of scepticism (during a discussion of Le Monde's recent admission (5)  that it had misidentified photos supposedly of Hiroshima after the 1945 atomic bombing) in her subsequent unthinking mandatory denunciation of revisionism one recognises at once the archetypical parroting response of the mainstream journalist, confronted by a taboo source-critical attitude towards what Jewish historians term the "holy of holies".

Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom has no political links with the so-called far right - no obvious axe to grind. He merely seeks a sceptical scientific approach to the issue of Auschwitz gas chambers, but it appears that British academia will not tolerate scepticism in this area.

The alleged Holocaust of European Jewry is a uniquely privileged area of history - not only in the ten countries where "Holocaust denial" is criminalised, but even here in Britain where more subtle methods of censorship (denial of debate) and intimidation (baseless smears and guilt by association) are deployed.

Fortunately there is now a media outlet which is prepared to defy the prevailing mood of surrender to this censorship and intimidation, so Dr Kollerstrom's article can be found on the website of Press TV (http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=56287&sectionid=3510303).

1) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2936663.stm

2) http://www.codoh.com/newrevoices/nrillusion.html

3) http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11&SecId=11&AId=59657&ATypeId=1

4) http://www.tellingfilms.co.uk/video/0514_Between%20The%20Headlines.mov

5) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3934516.ece