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Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project: "Forget You Not"™
~ iSurvived.org ~
is now Nr. 1 in Dr. Feinstein's Blacklist
(Dated: June 6, 2006, or in short the wacky 6/6/06)
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Updated: January 19, 2008]

Stephen Feinstein
Dr. Stephen Feinstein, Director
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN. 55455
USA

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A
fter we have blasted Dr. Feinstein's preposterous Holocaust course History of the Holocaust (JWST 3521) in our critical study entitled
A Critical Assessment
On the Current Mainstream Definitions and Usage of the Word 'Holocaust'

Dr. Feinstein has placed in his 'Curriculum Modeles' webpage at <chgs.umn.edu/educational/curriculum.html> the entire <iSurvived.org> Holocaust remembrance website on his blacklist, being first in his ranking [sic!], surpassing even the No. 1 Holocaust Denier site !!!

In Dr. Feinstein's world, questioning, criticizing and/or scrutinizing the merits of his academic courses and standards is a no-no proposition as the tranquillity and the comfort of his academic settings created is being disturbed and that cannot be tolerated --not by a long shot, for sure-- by Dr. Feinstein.

The <iSurvived.org> website is being characterized by Dr. Feinstein as, and we quote, "Very combattive [aka 'combative'] and arrogant site." And that, in Dr. Feinstein's mind, is considered to be more dangerous even than the most notorious Holocaust Denier sites !!! All this, of course, reveals --first-hand, perhaps-- Dr. Feinstein's current sorrow state of mind and his criteria of evaluating Holocaust websites, or for that matter anything else.
(God forbid for a student of Dr. Feinstein to question and challenge him on anything related to his teaching --as that student is through, for sure!)

What is most troublesome for us is that Dr. Feinstein, in the same 'Educational' webpage, lists all of the most notorious Holocaust Denier websites that need not pop up and be publicized under any pretext whatsoever. This, in our considerate view, is a grave error of judgment on Dr. Feinstein's part, as we refuse to believe that it represents a premeditated, deliberate act of publicizing Holocaust denial websites.

Below, without additional comment, we post Dr. Feinstein's blacklist where we have substituted, as needed, certain referenced words with the word 'BLIP'.

  

UNRELIABLE WORLD WIDE WEB SITES WHICH WE DO NOT RECOMMEND BECAUSE OF THE FOLLOWING. WARNINGS SHOULD BE GIVEN TO STUDENTS WRITING PAPERS NOT TO USE SITES BECAUSE OF DENIAL, UNKNOWN ORGANIZATION THAT SUPPORTS THE SITE, OR THE SITE BEING SIMPLY A STRANGE MIX OF FACT AND OPINION. SITES THAT HAVE EXTENSIVE ADVERTISEMENTS ARE NOT ADVISED EITHER.

* http://isurvived.org/(Very combattive and arrogant site)

* http://www.BLIP.uk/ (Number one Holocaust Denier)

* http://www.BLIP.org/ (BLIP for BLIP Review. BLIP based denier organization.)

* http://BLIP.edu/~abutz/ (BLIP BLIP denial site

* http://www.BLIP.org/ (BLIP BLIP denier site, Canada

* http://history.BLIP/holocaust/blholocaust.htm (This site is overly immersed in advertising and causes computer malfunctions.

* http://library.BLIP.org/12663/ (Maybe interesting but only backed and run by students. No indication of academic supervision.)

* http://www.BLIP.org/tr/2001/1/tr05comp.html (Revisionist web site)

* http://BLIP.BLIP.org/news/2005/12/12654_comment.php (Revisionist site appears to be derived from BLIP Church of the BLIP, a racist organization.)

  

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Updated Note of January 19, 2008:

In Dr. Feinstein's current revised "Unreliable Websites" section, our Holocaust survivors and remembrance website has slipped to the 2nd place (after Wikipedia). But our website still gets the most attention from Dr. Feinstein, as now this text is being posted:
"Very combative and arrogant site that can be classified as a denial site, with little original material, whose alleged author has been exposed as supporting a hoax organization under the guise of being survivor-oriented. It has no sense of scholarship or historiography. For outside documentation on this, see: Report on Kalman K. Brattman and the Holocaust Survivors Network or its Appendix. The U of M's CHGS has also been attacked by this site for disagreement."

Dr. Stephen Feinstein

  

Dr. Feinstein
To put Dr. Feinstein's mind at ease, we are absolutely independent and do not support or being supported by any organization. Dr. Feinstein is indeed most welcome to reveal to us his discovered "hoax organization under the guise of being survivor-oriented" as we have no clue of the existence of such an organization. We have no problem whatsoever to publish in here, in full, that revelation or, for that matter, any material that we may receive from Dr. Feinstein with respect to this or any other related matter regarding his ludicrous posting that is being paid not by Dr. Feinstein but by the University of Minnesota.

Holocaust definitionContinuing in responding to Dr. Feinstein's posting (as silence for us is not an option), we indeed have "little original material" as aside from our detailed definition of the Holocaust (that is by far the most visited single page of the entire website) and is designed to give the "tone" of our website, we have no other significant "original material." The reason for this is quite simple as the scope and purpose of this website of ours is to publicize the available Holocaust online material that we can find to be reflective to the "tone" that was specified in our stated Holocaust definition. For more information on this, please visit our 'About' page.

We indeed are merciless, and offer no apology, when we encounter Jewish people like Dr. Feinstein, Eric Saul, or Solly Ganor that make a mockery of the Holocaust, its teachings and representations, and its tragic legacy. We recognize that this odd triangle wants us to go away reverting to all sorts of pathetic things and tactics, but we are here to stay for the foreseeable future.

The "outside documentation" that Dr. Feinstein is referring to is the one of the disgruntled Eric Saul, exposed by us in full in here. Dr. Feinstein should know better that, in an academic setting, the integrity of a particular documentation is of paramount importance, being critical indeed, for the advancement of a particular point. Anything to be added here is superfluous on that "documentation."

Finally, it is difficult to find a single person, in his/her normal state of mind, to consider or to view our website as a Holocaust "denial site" and, as such, we cannot help but feel sorry for Dr. Feinstein's current state of mind. It is indeed a tragedy of monumental proportion in one's life when one is being robbed by the most precious evolutionary commodity that we have: the Mind.

All the best wishes for Dr. Feinstein.

Respectfully added,

K. K. Brattman
Managing Editor

Dated: January 19, 2008

 

On March 4, 2008, Dr. Stephen Feinstein, 65, died unexpectedly of
a brain aortic aneurysm (that resulted in a heart attack) while speaking
at The Sabes Foundation Minneapolis Jewish Film Festival.
May he rest in peace.
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