{"id":1670384,"date":"2022-10-03T15:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T19:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670384"},"modified":"2022-10-03T15:38:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T19:38:58","slug":"theres-a-democrat-on-the-ballot-this-november-who-once-referred-to-holocaust-as-a-supposedly-accepted-historical-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-a-democrat-on-the-ballot-this-november-who-once-referred-to-holocaust-as-a-supposedly-accepted-historical-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a Democrat on the Ballot This November Who Once Referred to Holocaust as a \u2018Supposedly Accepted Historical Fact\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftheres-a-democrat-on-the-ballot-this-november-who-once-referred-to-holocaust-as-a-supposedly-accepted-historical-fact%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670384&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>&#8220;Supposedly accepted historical fact.&#8221; That is how Pennsylvania state legislative candidate Mark Moffa (D.) referred to the Holocaust in a 1999 editorial in his college newspaper defending his decision to publish an ad from one of the country\u2019s leading purveyors of Holocaust denial propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>Moffa, who is now running for Pennsylvania\u2019s 142nd district House seat, published <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1LbKtDXSMWOODN4hv-HjlpTBYE7tMa1Ef\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an ad<\/a> from the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust in the March 15, 1999, edition of Franklin &#038; Marshall College\u2019s newspaper. In the ad, committee founder Bradley Smith offered the Anti-Defamation League $250,000 to debate whether Nazis used gas chambers during the Holocaust and murdered millions of Jews, and whether Anne Frank\u2019s diary was authentic. The ad drew an angry response on campus, with one group of students launching an alternative campus newspaper in protest. Moffa doubled down on his decision in <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1DgX8eMIoeGgmY6vO3YKpn30UQlHA-rmX\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an editorial<\/a> entitled &#8220;Damned If I Do,&#8221; claiming that rejecting the ad would be &#8220;censorship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Moffa campaign did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Moffa\u2019s campus controversy could hinder Democrats\u2019 efforts to flip Pennsylvania\u2019s state legislature in November. Democrats believe they can gain control of the legislature for the first time since 2011 following a favorable round of redistricting. Moffa, who runs a small media publishing company, has received endorsements from national groups including Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign as he runs largely on the abortion issue against Republican Joe Hogan.<\/p>\n<p>The Franklin &#038; Marshall ad was part of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust\u2019s aggressive campaign in the 1990s to plant anti-Semitic propaganda in campus newspapers across the country. The Anti-Defamation League <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Fighting-Holocaust-Denial-on-Campus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Smith used the ad campaign to disseminate Holocaust denialism and to &#8220;garner the free publicity&#8221; from the controversy that often followed campus debates on whether to publish the ads. Smith also sought to &#8220;entice young people onto his website&#8221; for the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust. The site\u2019s address was featured prominently in the Franklin &#038; Marshall ad Moffa published.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s ad was particularly controversial at Franklin &#038; Marshall because it appeared just days after anti-Semitic graffiti was found<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Supposedly accepted historical fact.&#8221; That is how Pennsylvania state legislative candidate Mark Moffa (D.) referred to the Holocaust in a 1999 editorial in his college newspaper defending his decision to publish an ad from one of the country\u2019s leading purveyors of Holocaust denial propaganda.<br \/>\nThe post There\u2019s a Democrat on the Ballot This November Who Once Referred to Holocaust as a \u2018Supposedly Accepted Historical Fact\u2019 appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}