Institute for Historical Review
The Institute for Historical Review (IHR) is an organization founded in the 1970s dedicated to historical revisionism. Although the IHR describes itself as a "non-ideological, non-political, and non-sectarian" organization, critics have accused it of Anti-Semitism and having links to Neo-Nazi organizations.The IHR publishes the Journal of Historical Review, which its critics accuse of being pseudo-scientific. When Noam Chomsky published in the journal it led to great controversy, though Chomsky insists he was defending Dr. Robert Faurisson's right to free speech rather than any specific claim.
For a period of time, the IHR publicly offered a reward of $50,000 for verifiable "proof that gas chambers for the purpose of killing human beings existed at or in Auschwitz." This reward was subsequently paid to an Auschwitz survivor, Mel Mermelstein, who took the IHR to court.
The Institute for Historical Review was originally founded by Willis Carto, the head of the now-defunct Liberty Lobby, who eventually lost control of the IHR in an internal takeover struggle. Liberty Lobby was best known for publishing a newspaper, The SPOTLIGHT, now reorganized as the American Free Press.
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