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Date Posted: 05:50:49 06/11/06 Sun
Robert Faurisson (born January 25, 1929) is a French holocaust-denier who generated controversy over various articles he published in the Journal of Historical Review and elsewhere, as well as various letters he has sent in to French newspapers (especially Le Monde) over the years which denied the existence of homicidal gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps and questioned whether there was actually a systematic killing of European Jews using gas during World War II.
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He was born in Shepperton, Surrey, England to a French father and Scottish mother.
Faurisson, like most Frenchmen of that era, has said that he had anti-German sentiments during and immediately following World War II, but after reading the works of fellow Frenchmen Paul Rassinier and Maurice Bardčche, he began to question the Holocaust. Over the years Faurisson claims to have studied the Holocaust extensively, and in the late 1970s he says that he came to the conclusion that it was a hoax. Since then he has written numerous letters to newspapers, published many books, and written many articles for revisionist journals questioning the occurrence of the Holocaust.
Faurisson counts among his acquaintances and friends the German-Canadian revisionist Ernst Zündel, Swedish revisionist Ditlieb Felderer and Moroccan expatriate revisionist Ahmed Rami. Many have called Faurisson (and his aforementioned acquaintances) anti-Semites, but Faurisson denies that he is anti-Semitic.
Christopher Hitchens has described Faurisson's goal as "the rehabilitation, in pseudo scholarly form, of the Third Reich". But Faurisson claims that he is only in pursuit of the truth, and he claims he has no political goals of any kind. He is a self-declared atheist and is apolitical.
In the early to mid 1980s, the American intellectual Noam Chomsky drew a lot of criticism for defending Faurisson's right to publish his findings on the grounds of freedom of speech. See Faurisson Affair.
In 1991, Faurisson was removed from his university chair on the basis of his views under the Gayssot Act, a French statute passed in 1990 that prohibited holocaust-denial. He challenged the statute as a violation of international law at the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Human Rights Committee. Finding that the statute was enacted to achieve the legitimate aim of preventing anti-Semitism, the Committee upheld the Gayssot Act, as a valid restriction on free speech.
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