Where We Stand All kinds of readers protested because denying the Holocaust offends all right-thinking people. The Review editors make several bad editorial decisions when they published a ridiculous article and advertisement, both questioning the authenticity of the Holocaust. As fellow journalists, we know how difficult it is to publish a newspaper. Given thousands of words and hundreds of pictures, there are many points at which mistakes can occur. And they do, more often than any of us in the news business like to think about.
Most mistakes are simple and harmless.
A few are complicated and potentially offensive or harmful to readers. The views of propagandist Bradley Smith, who operates the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust from his home in San Diego, are know to many. His article questioning the Holocaust, which The Review printed, was clearly offensive to Jewish readers whose lives are touched by the horror of the death camps. But all decent society is offended by such sophistry as well. The integrity of historical memory is important to us all.