Journal of Historical Review

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HistoryEdit

The journal was founded in 1978 by the far-right political activist Willis Carto.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Its subject was primarily Holocaust denial.<ref name=Blee> Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=Morris> Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="rb2015">Template:Cite journal</ref> In 1985, Mark Weber joined the institute's editorial advisory committee and, between 1992 and 2000, he was editor of the Journal.

The journal became a platform for neo-Nazis around the world, with the editorial board composed of Holocaust deniers, including Germans Udo Walendy, Wilhelm Stäglich, and Georg Franz-Willing); French Robert Faurisson and Henri Roques; Argentinian W. Beweraggi-Allende, Australian John Tuson Bennett; Spanish Enrique Aynat); Italian Carlo Mattogno; and American M. A. R. Barker.<ref name=ABSM>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The journal commenced publication in the spring of 1980 as a quarterly periodical. No issues were published between April 1996 and May 1997; it thereafter continued until 2002.<ref name="SPLCIHR" /> After publication of the journal ceased, the IHR publishes its Bulletin only in an online format,<ref name=ABSM /> although back issues are still made available on the Institute website.<ref name=biss>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

ReceptionEdit

The Journal's critics have included the Anti-Defamation League, the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and scholars including Robert Hanyok, a National Security Agency historian,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and many others who have described the journal as pseudo-scientific.<ref> Template:Cite book</ref>

Jonathan Petropoulos wrote in The History Teacher that the "[journal] is shockingly racist and antisemitic: articles on 'America's Failed Racial Policy' and anti-Israel pieces accompany those about gas chambers... They clearly have no business claiming to be a continuation of the revisionist tradition, and should be referred to as 'Holocaust Deniers'."<ref> Template:Cite journal</ref>

Russian historians Igor Ryzhov and Maria Borodina commented that the fact that the Institute for Historical Review published its own historical journal "helped not only to unite the deniers into a single movement, but also to give their activities a form of pseudo-scientificness."<ref name="rb2015" />

The Organization of American Historians commissioned a study of the journal in which a panel had found that it was "nothing but a masquerade of scholarship".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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External linksEdit

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