Michael A. Hoffman II
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| Michael Anthony Hoffman II | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1954 New York |
| Occupation | novelist, revisionist historian |
| Genres | History |
| Official website | |
Michael Anthony Hoffman II, (born 1954, New York), is an American historian and writer. Hoffman has been characterised [1]as a conspiracy theorist. Hoffman is the managing editor of the newsletter Revisionist History, and describes himself as a "heretical writer." He has produced many books and articles.
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[edit] Education and employment
He was educated at the State University of New York at Oswego. He is a former reporter for the New York bureau of the Associated Press and is the author of several books and articles (including for the UK-based magazine Fortean Times). Hoffman moved from New York to Idaho in 1996. Hoffman now writes mainly on World War II revisionism, current affairs, the occult roots of Freemasonry and Talmudic Judaism.
[edit] Views on cryptocracy
Hoffman's self-described vocation is "researching the occult cryptocracy's orchestration of American history." He believes that this cryptocracy runs American history, controlling culture and thought via ritualistic psychodramas and killing sprees. A detailed explanation of this hypothesis is found in Hoffman's Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare. Examples of such "psychodramas," in Hoffman's view, include Route 66 (which connects various centers of Satanic importance), and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, in which Hoffman sees ritualistic elements.[2].
Hoffman also argues that the gnosis of this ruling cabal are slowly being revealed through movies such as They Live and The Matrix and other forms of symbolic and subliminal communication which Hoffman terms twilight language.[3]
[edit] Views on Jews and Judaism
In his books Judaism's Strange Gods (2000) and Judaism Discovered: A Study of the Anti-Biblical Religion of Racism, Self-Worship, Superstition and Deceit (2008), Hoffman argues that modern-day Jewish Orthodoxy has little to no relation to the Old Testament, but is instead based on the oral tradition as represented by the Mishnah, the Gemara and derivative rabbinic halacha. Hoffman cites[4] the Karaites, a Jewish sect who reject the Talmud, as "a group which, historically, has been most hated and severely persecuted by orthodox Jewish rabbinate."
Hoffman also contends that the British Empire might have achieved its power via a pact John Dee made with Kabbalistic Judaism [5]. He has characterized Jews as "Khazars" and "Edomite parasites" and Ashkenazi (Central and Eastern European Jews) as "Ash-ken-nazi". [6]
[edit] Censorship
On August 10, 2008, Hoffman released Judaism Discovered (2008). Judaism Discovered (1102 pages) is an expanded version of Judaism's Strange Gods (144 pages). Amazon.com had initially ordered eleven copies of Judaism Discovered for sale on their site. The order was abruptly canceled due to what Amazon.com referred to as a complaint of the misuse of "intellectual property rights" involving Hoffman's publication of e-mail correspondence from Rabbi Shaul Praver. Hoffman used Praver's name as an endorsee of his Talmudic scholarship, without Praver's permission. Praver protested the use of his name as an endorsee but not Hoffman's right to express his views under the first amendment. Praver made his concerns known to Hoffman directly[citation needed] as well as to the legal department at Amazon. Hoffman subsequently wrote in his publisher’s blog that he did not know the identity of "The Rabbi" who had blocked him at Amazon and went on to allege that an unknown Rabbi had the power to unilaterally deny him his first amendment rights[citation needed]. Hoffman cited this as an example of how Jews control the media[citation needed]. The Amazon Law department agreed with Praver that Hoffman's first amendment rights were not being denied. Hoffman had the option to remove from his book the unauthorized use of Rabbi Praver's name as an endorsee of Hoffman's alleged Talmudic expertise and Amazon would have continued distributing his book as originally agreed. Instead Hoffman chose to cite the incident as an example of how Jews have the power to censor the Media[citation needed]. Google Inc. had also threatened to shut Hoffman's Blog down after accusations of running a "spam blog." Google subsequently withdrew the charge and reinstated Hoffman's Blog.
[edit] Views on the Holocaust
Hoffman doubts that execution gas chambers existed in the Nazi camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, and claims that the term "Holocaust" is Orwellian Newspeak [7] imposed beginning circa 1978 in order to confuse and distract from debates about the numbers of Jewish deaths that can be attributed to Nazism. Hoffman doubts that six million Jews were killed by the Nazis and asserts that most of the Jewish deaths in WWII were from typhus, malnutrition and shootings perpetrated by some units of the SS on the Eastern front.
Hoffman believes that Hitler did indeed have as a goal, at least philosophically, the extermination (Ausrottung) of the Jewish people, but Hoffman also argues that the primary means of extermination -- the execution gas chambers of Auschwitz -- have not been scientifically proved to have existed or been operable, and that "eyewitness" testimony failed under cross-examination at the 1985 "Great Holocaust Trial" of Ernst Zündel in Toronto.
Hoffman points to German eyewitnesses such as Thies Christophersen who maintained there were no execution gas chambers in Auschwitz. Hoffman has been influenced by the research of Charles D. Provan, Carlo Mattogno, Germar Rudolf and Brian Renk.
Hoffman rejects the label "Holocaust denier," and argues[8] that the label is applied unfairly, and with an emotional rather than empirical basis, to those who research controversial issues related to WWII and Judaism -- according to Hoffman, applying the same partisan logic, those who doubt the Roman Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception would be stigmatized by journalists and academics as "Immaculate Conception deniers."
[edit] Views of Slavery
Another of Hoffman's subjects of study is indentured servitude and slavery in America; he claims that a widespread history of white slavery has been overlooked by most historians. In his book They Were White and They Were Slaves, Hoffman describes a social structure situating poor whites as holding the lowest post in colonial and post-colonial America, citing a quote from Eugene D. Genovese in "Toward a New View of America" (pp. 79, 81-82, 84, 90-91), in which a former black slave in South Carolina, Ella Kelly, refers to the poor whites as the bottom rung, black slaves occupying the middle, and the white planters as the ruling stratum. {cf. Hoffman, pp. 43-44}
Hoffman has summarized his thesis as follows: "The de facto enslavement of whites began with the enclosure acts (privatization of formerly public grazing lands known as commons), which made paupers of much of the English yeomanry and created an army of homeless and unemployed citizens demonized by official history as England's fabled 'criminal underclass' (the criminal overclass escapes this withering scrutiny). The history of white slavery in Britain is found in the practice of 'kid-nabbing' (kidnapping) and the laws and customs that permitted enslavement aboard ship of abducted farmers and laborers taken from such notorious "crimping" ports as Glasgow. Malthusian scarcity paradigms were later invented out of fear of the insurrectionist potential of whites dubbed 'surplus poor,' who, in the seventeenth century, were shipped to British America and the West Indies as slaves, to toil unto death (not seven years) on sugar and tobacco plantations as soon as colonies were established (Georgia was envisioned as a white slave dumping ground and Virginia initially had more white slaves than black ones)." ("Movie 'Amazing Grace' Makes a Hero out of an Oppressor of White Slaves").
Hoffman's book "They Were White and They Were Slaves" was cited heavily in Jim Goad's "Redneck Manifesto" as part of a larger discussion of race and the white underclass in America.
[edit] Criticism
Political scientist Michael Barkun has characterized Hoffman as a "Holocaust denier and proponent of multiple conspiracy theories"[9], while Mattias Gardell contends that Hoffman is "one of the counterculture's more original conspiracy researchers"[10] Robert Jan van Pelt calls Hoffman a Holocaust "negationist."[11]
[edit] References
- ^ Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, University of California Press:2003
- ^ Hoffman, Michael A. and James Shelby Downard, King Kill 33 URL accessed February 14, 2007
- ^ Gardell, 99
- ^ Hoffman, Michael A. "The Truth About the Talmud" excerpted from Judaism's Strange Gods URL accessed February 14, 2007
- ^ Shofar FTP Archive File: people/h/hoffman.michael/british-pact-with-devil; URL accessed February 14, 2007
- ^ [http://ftp.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hoffman-michael/in-his-words-9410.html In His Words The Mouth and Mind of Michael Hoffman II, October 1994] URL accessed February 14, 2007
- ^ Hoffman, Michael A. "The Psychology and Epistemology of 'Holocaust' Newspeak" URL accessed February 14, 2007
- ^ Hoffman, Michael A. "The Psychology and Epistemology of 'Holocaust' Newspeak" URL accessed February 14, 2007
- ^ Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, University of California Press:2003
- ^ Mattias Gardell, Gods of the Blood, Duke University Press:2003, p. 98
- ^ Robert Jan Van Pelt,The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial, Indiana University Press:2002, p. xi
