Butz's book among his less controversial electrical engineering course materials | by Gabi P. Remz
I was surprised by the volume of emails I received in response to last week’s article by Gabi P. Remz about Arthur R. Butz. Butz is a professor of electrical engineering at Northwestern University in Chicago. Tenured decades ago, he’s now more well known for his work as a Holocaust denier than his academic areas of expertise, which, according to our article, include “digital signal processing” and “median and related filtering.”
These missives, all of them from Butz’s fellow members of the Holocaust denial community, are simply too good not to share. So I’ll share them.
This first one, from Mr. Zan Overall, is my favorite. It came with its own preamble, which reads, in part:
Dear Mr. Wilensky,
I would like to submit an article for New Voices but I don’t imagine I qualify since I am not Jewish, immature
and a student at some college or university.
Well, immaturity isn’t exactly a requirement around here, but I won’t count that against him. More of the preamble to the letter itself:
…let me introduce myself. The simplest way to get to know me is to go to youtube.com
and search for “Introducing the Wise Old Man.” You will find all six of the videos I posted there under
that soi-disant moniker. One called “The Wise Old Man at the Stephen S. Wise Temple” is
action-packed. I hope you might get some laughs out of my sketch “God Is a Goy? Oy!”
I will snail mail some Holocaust revisionist literature. No, no, don’t thank me!
Indeed, I think I won’t. Anyway, his letter:
I read “He Still Teaches, Students Still Squirm,” your attack piece on Professor Arthur Butz of Northwestern University.
He is the author of the book The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, which disputes the conventional story of the “Holocaust.”
Two things jumped out at me when I read the article.
#1: “Many campus groups tried to engage Butz in public debate or discussion, which (Rabbi) Balinsky opposed. (Belinsky is a former Hillel director at Northwestern.)
“ ‘To give him a platform is to give him everything he wants,’ said Balinsky. ‘We thought it would be a terrible mistake.’ “
That is the only opinion I found to agree with in the piece.
Yes, Rabbi, it would have been a catastrophic mistake to debate Arthur Butz! Jews insult and try to injure people who speak out against their lies. They have learned not to debate them! Jewish Holocaust “authorities” like Raul Hilberg were shown up and embarrassed at the Zundel trial in Canada, when the issue was joined openly in a court of law.
#2: “(Northwestern student) Toizer, talking about what comes to mind when he thinks of Butz, said, ‘How can someone so educated be so ignorant about something?’ “
I would stake my life on the proposition that Arthur Butz knows a great deal more about the so-called “Holocaust” than young Toizer. To call a man of Dr. Butz’s stature and accomplishments “ignorant” makes you open to the same charge, Master Toizer.
I have a suggestion for Mr. Toizer, Mr. Remz, David Wilensky and everyone at New Voices. Read The Hoax of the 20th Century and compose apologies to Dr, Butz.
– Zan Overall, the Wise Old Man at youtube.com.
This one was forwarded to me by Zan “The Wise Old Man of youtube.com” Overall, the author of the previous letter. (The forwarded email included this proclamation from Overall: “My credentials? The Anti-Defamation League called me a ‘Holocaust Denier.’ I must have done something right.”) The forwarded message was actually
a brief blog post titled “Defamation of a genius” by a Robert Faurisson:
I am in the habit of calling Arthur Robert Butz “Doctor Genius”. For me, he is the Number One scientific revisionist of ”the Holocaust”.
I have just read the article about him in the American online publication New Voices (“National Jewish Student Magazine”), dated November 30, 2011 and entitled “He still teaches, students still squirm”. Nothing in the piece suggests that the author, one Gabi P. Remz, a first-year student at Northwestern University where Butz is Professor of electrical engineering, has really read The Hoax of the Twentieth Century or any other of Butz’s studies that have since accompanied that masterful work of his. In 35 years (1976-2011) not a single historian, academic or researcher has been able to make a rebuttal to it or refute it.
Before condemning Butz for the results of his research one should at least take the trouble to read him!
Next, the letter with the most exclamation points:
Why do you people persist on smearing the likes of Dr Arthur Butz and millions of others who stand for the truth?
What is your problem here anyway?
Get a life for God’s sake and grow up!!!!
–Eric Yankovich
I’ve chosen to end with this one because of it’s rather uplifting message. According to this email, we can all rest assured that last week’s article did nothing to shake Butz’s confidence. On the contrary, our article was simply further proof of the professor’s excellence:
It is true that Art Butz’s research has yet to be rebutted, but our friends in the Holocaust Industry have been slandering him for 35 years and I doubt if he is overly concerned about new attacks in a Zionist student magazine.
Our Zionist friends are not exactly famous on account of their regard for empirical evidence, are they?
If anything, this latest attack is another feather in Art’s much-decorated cap.
It is more evidence that he is still actuel, as our French cousins say.
–James Damon
