Leonard Zeskind—a journalist and author of the book Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream—reports that the Holocaust Denial industry in the United States has fallen on hard times:
Mark Weber, who has been the Institute for Historical Review’s (IHR) leading personality for almost fifteen years, has admitted that, “there has been little success in convincing people that the familiar Holocaust story is defective.” By “people” Weber obviously means people in addition to those who believe as a matter of ideological predisposition that the Holocaust was a hoax. Among the reasons Weber cited for this failure films like Valkyrie and Defiance, which reminded audiences that the horror of the Nazi death machine was unquestionable. Weber even admitted that at the war’s end, “most of the Jews of Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and other countries were gone.”Predictably, Weber has been lambasted by many of his former comrades…They have accused him of being lazy, failing to publish anything new or use the IHR website for anything more than news clippings. They have cited his failure to travel to Iran for a Holocaust denial conference at which Ahmadinejad spoke, and of ignoring growing market opportunities for Arab-language publications. Several men, including the Frenchman Robert Faurisson and the American Friedrich “Fritz” Berg, challenged Weber’s commitment to the belief that there were no gas chambers. And a few intrepid souls, writing under pseudonyms on the web, ventured the guess that Mark Weber had been all along a spy or an agent for the Jews or somebody else considered unsavory.
If Weber is indeed a “spy,” then he is covering it up quite nicely in a renewed focus on anti-Semitism, plain and simple. And it is here that we come to understand that for Mark Weber and his ilk, so-called historical revisionism has never been about the history of the Holocaust, but has always been about finding a way to undermine and stigmatize Jews.
Weber writes that, “Some revisionists insist that … exposing the Holocaust as a hoax will deliver a shattering blow to Israel and Jewish-Zionist power.” Alas, he says, this is not true, “debunking the Holocaust will not shatter that power.” Further, “In the real world struggle against Jewish-Zionist power, Holocaust revisionism has proved to be as much as a hindrance as a help.” Thus, Weber concludes, his Institute for Historical Review will focus on a more frankly anti-Semitic agenda.
