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Holocaust debunker Robert
Faurisson with Fred
Leuchter

Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
New York, December 26, 2001:

Against
Faurisson in the Quid
Encyclopedia

PARIS, Dec. 26 (JTA):
French Jews have won an important victory in their struggle against Holocaust deniers.

On Dec. 20, a coalition of five Jewish organizations including the Union of
French Jewish Students, or UEJF; the
League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism, known as LICRA; and
Memory 2000 reached an agreement with
France’s most popular encyclopedia about its use of the work of Robert
Faurisson, the father of French
Holocaust denial.

The Jewish groups had filed a motion in a Paris court to force the editors of
Quid to remove its reference to
Faurisson from future editions. The two parties managed to arrive at a settlement before the court could decide the issue.

According to the arrangement,
Quid will remove Faurisson’s account of the number of Jewish deaths at
Auschwitz from all future print editions and from its Internet site.

A former
professor at the University of Lyon 2,
Faurisson was condemned in a French
court and removed from his post for
disseminating scholarship radically
minimizing the death count at Auschwitz
and arguing that Jews there died of
typhus and malnutrition, not at the
hands of the Nazis.

According to the arrangement,
Quid will drop its mention of these ideas in its historical section on the
Holocaust, but will continue to present
Faurisson’s work in a more general description of Holocaust revisionism.
However, the encyclopedia will include a reminder of Faurisson’s condemnation as an addendum.

In addition to these revisions,
Quid also must publicize the agreement by posting announcements in its
100 most important points of sale and in advertisements in the daily Le
Figaro and in Le Monde de l’Education, a publication aimed at teachers and educational administrators.

The campaign against Quid is part of an ongoing battle waged by
UEJF, LICRA, the anti-racist group I Accuse and a host of other organizations against Holocaust revisionism and neo-Nazism on the Internet and in French schools.

Last year, a number of these groups pressured Yahoo France to bar the sale of
Nazi memorabilia from its auction site.

More recently, an alliance of seven
Jewish organizations sought to legally force French Internet providers to prevent users from accessing the American neo-Nazi
Web portal front 14 org, which supplies links to over three hundred neo-Nazi and xenophobic Web sites.

Following proceedings involving technicians, legal scholars and philosophers, the court decided that blocking the site would violate the
Internet providers’ “obligation of neutrality.”

Quid represented a particularly important target of the groups’ efforts, because the single volume encyclopedia is a fixture of French households.

“It’s where French students go to find answers,” commented Philip Aim, president of the Lyon section of the
UEJF.

Aim and the rest of his group were especially pleased about removing Faurisson’s theories. The Lyon chapter of the organization has led the charge over the last year to investigate the influence of extremist scholars at the University of
Lyon, where Faurisson served as professor.

Several weeks ago, the Ministry of
Education yielded to their pressure by assigning an outside scholar to render a judgment on the situation.

Related items on this website:

Robert
Faurisson index

Dec
19, 2001: Le “Quid” attaqué pour
avoir cité la thèse
négationniste de M.
Faurisson

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