Nizkor Project

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The '''Nizkor Project''' (with ''Nizkor'' meaning "We will remember" in [[Hebrew]]) is a website founded in May 1995<ref name="personal">[https://web.archive.org/web/19990128083200/http://www.vex.net/%7Ekmcvay/ According to McVay's personal webpage]</ref> by Kenneth McVay and gifted to B'nai Brith Canada in 2010<ref>{{wpa|Nizkor Project}}</ref> to combat [[Holocaust denial]].

McVay's idea for the website came to him when he read Holocaust-denying material online posted by a Dan Gannon from Portland, Oregon, and he started his Holocaust research by borrowing books about the genocide and posting that research online. As requests for more information appeared, and he amassed 3500 pages of Holocaust information, he opened up ''Nizkor'' online.<ref name="personal"/>

==McVay's approach to Holocaust denial==
On a committee of the Canadian Parliament that was assembled in 1996, McVay stated that the solution to Holocaust denial online was not to criminalize it but to provide education on the Holocaust and to directly debate Holocaust deniers' points.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150412225912/http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/HOC/Archives/Committee/352/huso/evidence/05_96-04-30/huso05_blk-e.html Evidence - Standing Committee on Human Rights and the Status of People with Disabilities, Tuesday, April 30, 1996]</ref>

Simon Wiesenthal Center's Sol Littman does not care for this approach to Holocaust denial and, as proven by what ''Nizkor'' calls "The Littman Letter", is not really sure which side ''Nizkor'' and McVay take on the Holocaust.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19990429162556/http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/l/littman-sol/littman-letter.html The Littman Letter]</ref> Yeah, it really sounds as bad as it looks...

==Libels, threats, and other crap against ''Nizkor''==
Due to the anti-Holocaust-denial nature of ''Nizkor'', the website and McVay have been the targets of a lot of crap thrown against them.

McVay has been accused of being, amongst other stuff, a "confessed child-molestor"<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19970721021106/http://www.nizkor.org/encouragements/bootboy.html The Bart Alsbrook "BootBoy" Libel]</ref> and of operating a website and being a homosexual... by a man ''who was himself a homosexual''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000531050601/http://www.nizkor.org/encouragements/ellis.html Don Ellis & 'hatewatch.com']</ref>

[[Tom Metzger]] has urged violence against something called "Zinkor"... about which he genuinely knows nothing because it simply does not exist.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19991129035018/http://www.nizkor.org/fast-track.shtml W.A.R. Targets Nizkor]</ref>

There are people who think ''Nizkor'' is written by a Ukrainian-born "Wladislaw Fedorjevic Nizkor", who "lives some 80 km west of
Toronto in a dumped freight container", "was suspected for having sent a letter bomb to [[Ernst Zundel]]<!--sic-->, the revisionist historian", "[[irony|receives his web site funding]] [[#McVay's approach to Holocaust denial|from the Wiesenthal Center near Hollywood, USA]]", "is funded in part by Bonn-Germany" (aka [[West Germany]]) and got "a donation of 200,000 Deutschmarks was submitted by German ex-Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl, also dubbed Al Kohlpone", who was at the time "under party fraud investigation".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000817002108/http://nizkor.org/encouragements/Wladislaw-Nizkor-fraud.html The "Wladislaw Nizkor" Fraud]</ref>

Just so you can see how ''Nizkor'' faces this crap, you can see more on their "Encouragements" page (that's right, ''encouragements'').<ref>[http://www.nizkor.org/encouragements/ Nizkor Encouragements]</ref>

Nizkor is now the victim of false malware reporting. Seriously, just click the link to their website. It's been blacklisted by Google.

==Other stuff==
''Nizkor'' has a list of fallacies on his website, based on Dr. Michael C. Labossiere's Fallacy Tutorial Pro 3.0 Macintosh program.<ref>[http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ Fallacies]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Fallacy Files]]
*[[SeekFind.net]]
*[[Your Logical Fallacy Is]]

==External sites==
*[http://www.nizkor.org/ Nizkor Project website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/19990128083200/http://www.vex.net/%7Ekmcvay/ Ken McVay's personal website] (page unavailable as of 2023)

==References==
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[[Category:Fallacy collections]]
[[Category:Holocaust denial]]
[[Category:Skeptical organizations]]
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