Michael A. Hoffman II

Michael Anthony Hoffman II
Born	1954 (age 56–57) New York
Occupation	journalist, revisionist historian
Genres	History movement =
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Michael Anthony Hoffman II, (born 1954, New York), is an American journalist, conspiracy theorist and Holocaust denier who describes himself as a "heretical writer." Hoffman is the managing editor of the newsletter Revisionist History.

Education and employment

Of German and Italian descent, in his book Judaism Discovered he claims ties to the 16th-century Anabaptist leader Melchior Hoffman.

Hoffman was educated at the State University of New York at Oswego. He 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 alleged occult roots of Freemasonry and "Talmudic Judaism."

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Views on Jews and Judaism

See also: Criticism of the Talmud#Michael Hoffman

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 supports 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."^[3] According to the back cover of Judaism Discovered, Hoffman contends that Orthodox Judaism has more in common with Babylonian paganism than Israelite Biblicism.

Views on the Holocaust

Hoffman's views on the Holocaust include many elements of Holocaust denial. Hoffman doubts that execution gas chambers existed in the Nazi camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, and claims that the term "Holocaust" is Orwellian Newspeak imposed beginning circa 1978 in order to confuse and distract from debates about the numbers of Jewish deaths that can be attributed to Nazism.^[4] 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 has been influenced by the research of Holocaust deniers Charles D. Provan, Carlo Mattogno, Germar Rudolf and Brian Renk.

Hoffman rejects the label "Holocaust denier," and argues^[4] 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."

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.

Criticism

Political scientist Michael Barkun has characterized Hoffman as a "Holocaust denier and proponent of multiple conspiracy theories",^[5] while Mattias Gardell writes, "Antisemitism is prominent also in the worldview of Michael Hoffman II, one of the counterculture's more original conspiracy researchers".^[6] Robert Jan van Pelt calls Hoffman a Holocaust "negationist."^[7]

See also

• Criticism of the Talmud#Michael Hoffman

References

1. ^ Hoffman, Michael A. and James Shelby Downard, King Kill 33 URL accessed February 14, 2007
2. ^ Gardell, 99
3. ^ Hoffman, Michael A. "The Truth About the Talmud" excerpted from Judaism's Strange Gods URL accessed February 14, 2007
4. ^ ^{a b} Hoffman, Michael A. "The Psychology and Epistemology of 'Holocaust' Newspeak" URL accessed February 14, 2007
5. ^ Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, University of California Press:2003
6. ^ Mattias Gardell, Gods of the Blood, Duke University Press:2003, p. 98
7. ^ Robert Jan Van Pelt,The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial, Indiana University Press:2002, p. xi

External links

• The Campaign for Radical Truth in History - Hoffman's website
• Nizkor's references on Michael Hoffman
• Hoffman's essay claiming "the white race" is now subservient to "the rabbis"

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Name	Hoffman, Michael A. Ii
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Date of birth	1954
Place of birth	New York
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