Editing Institute for Historical Review (section)

==Holocaust denial==
Although the IHR comments on a variety of subjects, it is most criticized for its [[Holocaust denial]].<ref name=Denial /> IHR is widely regarded as [[antisemitism|antisemitic]] and as having links to [[Neo-Nazism|neo-Nazi]] organizations. Multiple writers have stated that its primary focus is denying key facts of [[Nazism]] and the genocide of [[Jews]].<ref name=ADL /><ref name=Danish /><ref name=VQR />

When the IHR devoted itself to publishing Holocaust-denial material, it insisted that its work in this regard was "revisionism" rather than denial:

<blockquote>The Institute does not "deny the Holocaust." Every responsible scholar of twentieth century history acknowledges the great catastrophe that befell European Jewry during World War II. All the same, the IHR has over the years published detailed books and numerous probing essays that call into question aspects of the orthodox, Holocaust-extermination story, and highlight specific Holocaust exaggerations and falsehoods.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ihr.org/main/about.shtml|title=ABOUT THE IHR|access-date=October 5, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051129005903/http://www.ihr.org/main/about.shtml|archive-date=November 29, 2005|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref></blockquote>

On the IHR website, [[Barbara Kulaszka]] defends the distinction between "denial" and "revisionism" by arguing that considerable revisions to history have been made over the years by historians and concludes:

<blockquote>For purposes of their own, powerful, [[special interest group|special-interest groups]] desperately seek to keep substantive discussion of the Holocaust story taboo. One of the ways they do this is by purposely mischaracterizing revisionist scholars as "deniers."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/denial.shtml|title=What is 'Holocaust Denial'?|access-date=November 14, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209041329/http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/denial.shtml|archive-date=February 9, 2010|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref></blockquote>

American environmentalist [[Paul Rauber]] wrote:

<blockquote>The question [of whether the IHR denies the Holocaust] appears to turn on IHR's [[Humpty-Dumpty]] word game with the word Holocaust. According to Mark Weber, associate editor of the IHR's Journal of Historical Review [now Director of the IHR], "If by the 'Holocaust' you mean the political persecution of Jews, some scattered killings, if you mean a cruel thing that happened, no one denies that. But if one says that the 'Holocaust' means the systematic extermination of six to eight million Jews in concentration camps, that's what we think there's not evidence for." That is, IHR doesn't deny that the Holocaust happened; they just deny that the word 'Holocaust' means what people customarily use it for.<ref>[[Paul Rauber]], ''[[East Bay Express]]'', January 17, 1992, page 4.</ref></blockquote>

According to British historian of Germany [[Richard J. Evans]]:

<blockquote>Like many individual Holocaust deniers, the Institute as a body denied that it was involved in Holocaust denial. It called this a 'smear' which was 'completely at variance with the facts' because 'revisionist scholars' such as Faurisson, Butz 'and bestselling British historian David Irving acknowledge that hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed and otherwise perished during the Second World War as a direct and indirect result of the harsh anti-Jewish policies of Germany and its allies'. But the concession that a relatively small number of Jews were killed [has been] routinely used by Holocaust deniers to distract attention from the far more important fact of their refusal to admit that the figure ran into the millions, and that a large proportion of these victims were systematically murdered by gassing as well as by shooting.<ref>[[Richard J. Evans|Evans, Richard J.]] ''Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial'', Verso, 2002, {{ISBN|1-85984-417-0}}, p. 151.</ref></blockquote>

In 2007, the [[United Kingdom]]'s [[Channel 4]] described the IHR as a "pseudo-academic body based in the United States which is dedicated to denying that the Holocaust happened,"<ref name=C4 /> while the ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'' called the IHR a "blatantly anti-Semitic assortment of pseudo-scholars".<ref name=Roddy>[[Dennis Roddy]]. "The woman who defended history", ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'' p. J-1, May 29, 2005.</ref>

The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] lists the IHR as a [[hate group]].<ref name="SPLCIHR">{{cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/institute-historical-review|title=Institute for Historical Review|work=Southern Poverty Law Center|access-date=May 10, 2020}}</ref> In an article for ''[[The Jewish Chronicle]]'', British writer [[Oliver Kamm]], described the IHR as being "a pseudo-scholarly body". The British Holocaust denier [[David Irving]] delivered a speech to the organisation's congress in 1983.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kamm|first=Oliver|url=http://www.thejc.com/articles/analysis-listen-him-remember-he-a-liar|title=Analysis: Listen to him, but remember that he is a liar|work=The Jewish Chronicle|date=December 11, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603071817/http://www.thejc.com/articles/analysis-listen-him-remember-he-a-liar|archive-date=June 3, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> Irving returned to speak at IHR conferences on at least four more occasions, in 1989, 1990, 1992, and 1994.<ref name="SPLCIHR" />