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Friday, May 25, 2007
Professor Faurisson attacked by Zionist thugs in Italy

By Daniele Scalea

Claudio Moffa, the professor of Afro-Asian history at the Università degli Studi of Teramo (Italy) organized a master's degree program named after former ENI's manager Enrico Mattei and dedicated to the Middle East. This year the master's degree course encompassed a taboo theme in Europe: mythologization of the "Holocaust" and its exploitation by US and Israeli ruling classes for political and financial purposes.

The level of the master's program lecturers and participants is high and their cultural background quite varied: among others, we could cite Moffa himself, Franco Cardini (distinguished historian), Massimo Fini (well-known journalist and philosopher), Tiberio Graziani (of the University of Perugia), Maurizio Blondet (journalist and essayist), Fabio Alberti (director of a humanitarian NGO working in Iraq and Palestine), Vittorio Dan Segre (professor and former Israeli diplomat), Domenico Losurdo (philosophy professor), Israel Shamir (reporter and essayist), Giulio Andreotti (former Italian premier), Samir al-Kassir (Syrian ambassador) and Abolfazl Zohrevand (Iranian ambassador).

On the wave of master's program's great successes --considering students' interest-- was the decision by Claudio Moffa to invite Robert Faurisson, a controversial French professor who denied that Nazi persecution of Jews during the Second World War reached the quantitative and qualitative levels described by mainstream historiography. According to Faruisson, German leaders never ordered genocide, homicidal gas chambers didn't exist and the number of Jewish victims is very much lower than six million.

Because of his theories, Faurisson was removed from his university, deprived of his pension, criminally prosecuted and subjected to some physical beatings. Nevertheless, the 78 year-old professor is still fighting for freedom of inquiry in Europe. It's important to note that neither Faurisson nor Moffa have neo-Nazi affections: on the contrary, Claudio Moffa during his youth was active in a far left organization and on racial issues, Prof. Faurisson is a liberal.

The invitation to Faurisson generated a wave of complains by Zionist movements and individuals, which viewed the Enrico Mattei master's program as "unfriendly" towards Israel. A number of Jewish personalities have signed a petition against freedom of speech, writing that no one who researches the "Holocaust" could go beyond certain "unquestionable facts," and demanding that academic and political authorities ban the master's program. Professor Moffa defended his initiative, promoting a petition in favor of freedom of speech, which was signed by hundreds of academicians, students, journalists and working people. Moffa publicly invited some of the critics to a cross-examination of Prof. Faurisson, but they all refused.

The Italian mainstream media, especially two Italian newspapers ("L'Unità" and "la Repubblica", the latter owned by a Jewish billionaire), began an aggressive campaign against Professors Moffa and Faurisson; moreover, some Zionist organizations, such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center, publicly asked the University of Teramo to ban Faurisson's lecture. Just a few days before the event, in the face of Moffa's refusal to cancel the lecture, the university's Chancellor decided to close all buildings and rooms connected to the Political Science Department. The Italian minister of university research, Fabio Mussi, took the side of the Zionists and against freedom of speech and Faurisson's lecture. Claudio Moffa refused to bow to these inquisitors and moved the master's degree program's events into a hotel in Teramo.

On May 18th, Professor Faurisson arrived at Teramo and, before the lecture gave a press conference in front of the hotel. Just a few minutes after the conclusion of the press conference, a small gang of Zionist thugs tried to attack the elderly French professor. He was saved from serious harm by the prompt action of Professor Moffa and some of the onlookers. Frustrated in their attempt to physically assault Faurisson, the Zionist gang engaged in a brawl with onlookers and the police, injuring Vice-Chief Constable Gennaro Capasso, who suffered a fractured clavicle. Capasso's commander, Teramo's Chief Constable, rather than defend the researchers from some 50 Zionist hoodlums, obliged Moffa and Faurisson to cancel the lecture and leave the city under police escort.

Who were the attackers? They are some middle-aged Jews from Rome, members of the LED, (Lega Ebraica di Difesa), Italian branch of the J.D.L. ("Jewish Defense League") founded by the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. That organization supplies paramilitary training to its members (some of whom volunteer for the Israeli army) and "guard" Jewish areas in Rome. The LED often physically attack persons whose only "fault" is to have criticized Israeli policies. For example, in 1992 LED paramilitaries, armed with iron bars and revolvers, assaulted the office of a small conservative political party, the Movimento Politico, destroying both their offices and the organization. Since 2002, the LED has been responsible for a number of attacks against Palestinian sympathizers.

All of these crimes remain unpunished. LED is not isolated among Italian Jews: Riccardo Pacifici, alleged leader of LED, is vice-president of Rome's Jewish community. The day after the attempt against Faurisson, Pacifici was interviewed by an Italian newspaper. He not only refused to condemn the violence but also demanded the removal of Professor Moffa from his chair at the university. In response, Claudio Moffa has started to organize the next year master's program. Moreover, he has constituted a "Committee Against Repression of Freedom of Speech and Thinking" which is promoting a new appeal (see below).

Postscript:

In a letter quoted by "La Repubblica," Fabio Mussi, Italy's Minister of Higher Education -- using the rabbinic term for the "Holocaust" ("Shoah") -- was reported to have stated as follows: Mussi said "inviting to an Italian campus a figure ... who denies the gravity of the Shoah has no academic merit, but merely bears witness to a mediocre provocation."

http://revisionistreview.blogspot.co...y-zionist.html