Ecrits révisionnistes (1974-1998) BY ROBERT FAURISSON Chapter 20: HISTORICAL SCIENCES NATURAL RESISTANCE TO THIS CREED

I could have followed the example set by some other revisionists and proffered my surrender, shown repentance, retracted certain statements; another means of escape: I might have sought contentment in discreetly devising clever and convoluted manoeuvres. Not only did I decide, in the late 1970s, to resist openly and in the public forum but I also pledged to myself not to play the adversarys game. I resolved to change nothing in my own behaviour and to let the hotheads get hotter by the day, if they so chose. Among the Jews, I would listen only to those who, especially brave, dared to take up my defence, if only for the space of a season(60).

Jewish organisations as a whole call those who do not adopt their own conception of second world war history antisemites. This is understandable, for the act of going so far as to say, as I do here and now, that they are among those most to blame for the peddling of a gigantic myth may well have the air of being inspired by antisemitism. But, in reality, I only draw the obvious conclusions of a historical inquiry which seems to have been quite a serious one since, despite plaintiffs and prosecutors feverish research, no court has ever found in it a trace of shallowness, negligence, deliberate ignorance, or falsehood.

Moreover, I fail to see why I, for my part, ought to show respect towards groups of persons who have never shown the least respect for my research work, my publications, or my personal, family, or professional life. I do not attack these bodies for their religious convictions or for their attachment to the state of Israel. All human groups revel in phantasmagoria. Consequently, each of them is free to offer itself a more or less real, more or less imaginary picture of its history. But that conception is not to be forced on others. Yet, the Jewish organisations force theirs on us, a practice in itself unacceptable, all the more so when the portrayal is manifestly wrong. And I know of no other group in France which has succeeded in making, of an article of its own religious faith (that of the Shoah), an article of the law of the Republic; which, with the assent of the interior ministry, enjoys the exorbitant privilege of operating its own armed militias; and, finally, which can decree that university teachers who displease it shall no longer have the right to work, either in France or abroad (see especially the case of Bernard Notin).