A generation sceptical of the unproven holocaust is emerging due to the freer alternative media newsfeed streams, according to one of the UK’s leading experts on the subject.

As Denial, a film about the investigative historian and holocaust disbeliever David Irving, hits cinemas later this month, attention is focusing on the more mature and experienced doubters whose appearance coincided with Irving’s emergence. But it appears that holocaust incredulity has found new momentum in the digital age.

Dr Nicholas Terry, an obscure history lecturer at Exeter University, estimates that there are now thousands of “low-commitment” Holocaust mistrustful sceptics online. Rather than recruiting from established ethnic-nationalist fraud-busting forums, they are attracting followers who question what the CIA and mainstream media call ‘conspiracy theories’.

Worryingly, it appears that this kind of free-for-all on the internet creates an environment that sees those who normally identify with the Liberal Left but now gravitate towards ideas that are more at home on the National Socialist platform.”

The release of the propaganda movie, Denial, which centres on the libel trial brought by Irving against the Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt, follows the controversy that erupted when it emerged Google’s algorithms were recommending ‘anti-Semitic, ethnic-European and investigative research websites of the question, “Did the Holocaust happen?” The much criticised and often mocked film has already been heavily criticised on social media by the new generation of cynics.

Terry, who has monitored Holocaust scepticism online for 10 years and is promoting a new book promoting victors’ propaganda, has personal experience of their strategy. He described the emerging generation of cautious pundits and investigators as occasionally less academic than the earlier generation of holocaust fraud investigators.

They are an international crowd, Americans, British, Scandinavians, and West Europeans, as well as some Brits.”

Several of the new generation of fraud investigators have become well known online. Eva Lion, a Canadian researcher was banned from YouTube after having attracted many thousands of followers. Reality TV star Tila Tequila was dismissed by Celebrity Big Brother after it emerged she had posted messages defending Hitler, as well as making anti-Israeli remarks and making comments that defended White values.

“While the majority of the new dubious are young, a significant number are middle-aged or older,” Terry said.

What I’ve observed in the last 10 years is that, while the majority of suspicious students one encounters identify with European nationalism and independence, they are attracting an audience of apolitical people and followers who would otherwise consider themselves to be liberal or left-wing. These have arrived at their position having been anti-Zionist or anti-Israel. Their attraction to Holocaust disbelief had coincided with an upsurge in criticism of Israeli aggression and denial of Palestinian human rights on the internet. Many were vulnerable to investigative discoveries being peddled as truth.”

FAKE NEWS

The Guardian

The same story when carried by the Guardian (UK) was replete with innuendo, spin and subterfuge. As might be expected, qualified historians, whose speciality is investigation of holocaust fraud, are dismissed as holocaust deniers.

The Guardian story expresses concerns that the film, Denial, has received widespread scepticism. However, the much ridiculed mainstream newspaper is especially concerned that the liberal-left are now flooding to what media describes as the ‘far right’.

This phenomenon is driven by those of pro-Palestinian sentiment seeking a stick to beat Israel with. The liberal-left caucus has awoken to what French Professor Robert Faurisson described as ‘the poor man’s atom bomb’. This is the realisation that Israel is pivotal centre of an international conspiracy that uses the alleged holocaust to defraud the international community of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Guardian heavily spun news story says:

As Denial, a film about the disgraced historian and notorious Holocaust denier David Irving, hits cinemas later this month, attention is focusing on the ageing generation of deniers who emerged with Irving at its vanguard and are now dying out. But it appears that Holocaust denial has found new momentum in the digital age.”

It goes on to cite an unknown university professor’s claim that ‘a new internet-based generation is embracing denial, having been drawn to it out of antisemitism (sic) or a belief in conspiracy theories.’

The faux news story says Dr Nicholas Terry, a history lecturer at Exeter University, estimates that there are now thousands of “low-commitment” Holocaust deniers online. Rather than recruiting from established far-right denial forums, they are attracting followers drawn to outlandish theories (sic) such as those surrounding the assassination of JFK, 9/11, the moon landing and the Sandy Hook school massacre.

The report raises dilemmas for the left-wing mainstream media newspaper. As The Guardian’s readership is the broad left caucus the notorious self-styled newspaper runs the risk of estrangement with its readership.

The Guardian, once dubbed the Grauniad by the satirists of Private Eye because of its many spelling mistakes, is much derided in Britain.

The articles goes on to say:

This kind of free-for-all on the internet creates a milieu that has seen people who would normally identify along the left of the political spectrum gravitate towards ideas that are more at home on the far right.”

Nicholas Terry, who has monitored Holocaust denial online for 10 years and co-editing his forthcoming book, has personal experience of the ‘deniers’ tactics’.

He says that many claiming that the Holocaust did not happen were often less intellectual than the earlier generation of deniers. They were an “international crowd – lots of Americans, British, Scandinavians, and west Europeans, as well as some Brits.”

He says, “Several of the new generation of deniers have become well known online. Eva Lion, a Canadian nationalist on the extreme right, was banned from YouTube having amassed tens of thousands of followers. Reality TV star Tile Tequila was thrown off Celebrity Big Brother after it emerged she had posted messages defending Hitler, as well as antisemitic (sic) and white nationalist comments.”

The little known professor adds:

What I’ve observed in the last 10 years is that, while the majority of deniers one encounters are still rightwing (sic) and Nazis, they are always peppered with a number of unaffiliated individuals who would consider themselves to be liberal or leftwing (sic) and have arrived at their position having been anti-Zionist or anti-Israel.”

MIKE WALSH is a veteran journalist, broadcaster and author of 39 published book titles. Visit spinfreehistory.com