The ''Journal of Historical Review'' was a non-

peer reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer revie ...

, pseudoacademic periodical focused on advancing

Holocaust denial Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that falsely asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a myth, fabrication, or exaggeration. Holocaust deniers make one or more of the following false statements: ...

. It was published by the

Institute for Historical Review The Institute for Historical Review (IHR) is a United States-based nonprofit organization which promotes Holocaust denial. It is considered by many scholars to be central to the international Holocaust denial movement. Self-described as a " his ...

(IHR), based in

Torrance, California Torrance is a city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city is part of what is known as the South Bay region of the metropolitan area. Torrance has of beachfront on the Pacific O ...

. It ran quarterly from 1980 until 1992, and then bimonthly from 1993 until publication ceased in 2002. A supplement, ''IHR Newsletter'' (), was published alongside the journal.

History

The journal was founded in 1978 by the far-right political activist

Willis Carto Willis Allison Carto (July 17, 1926 – October 26, 2015) was an American far-right political activist. He described himself as a Jeffersonian and a populist, but was primarily known for his promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories and ...

. Its subject is primarily

. In 1985, Mark Weber joined the IHR's editorial advisory committee and between 1992 and 2000 he was editor of the JHR. The JHR became a tribunal for neo-Nazis around the world, with the editorial board composed of Holocaust deniers, including Germany (

Udo Walendy Udo Walendy (21 January 1927 – 17 November 2022) was a German author, soldier, and Holocaust denier. Like Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof, he disputed Germany's guilt for the Second World War. Life Walendy was born in Berlin on 21 January 1927. . Tow ...

, Wilhelm Stäglich, and Georg Franz Willing), France ( Robert Faurisson and Henri Roques), Argentina (W. Beweraggi-Allende), Australia ( John Bennett), Spain (Enrique Aynat), Italy (

Carlo Mattogno Carlo Mattogno (born 1951) is an Italian writer and Holocaust denier. He served on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Historical Review and as an editor of its publication '' Journal of Historical Review''. As of 2016, Mattogno is editorial ...

). The JHR commenced publication in the spring of 1980 as a quarterly periodical. No issues were published between April 1996 and May 1997, and thereafter continued until 2002. After publication of the journal ceased, the IHR published its Bulletin only in an online format. Back issues are published on the Institute website.

Criticism

Its critics include the Anti-Defamation League, the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide studies, and scholars including Robert Hanyok, a

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historian, who have accused the journal of being

pseudo-scientific Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method. Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable claim ...

. ''

The History Teacher ''The History Teacher'' is a quarterly academic journal concerned with the teaching of history in schools, colleges, and universities. It began in 1940 at the History Department at the University of Notre Dame as the ''Quarterly Bulletin of the Tea ...

'' wrote that the " ournalis shockingly racist and antisemitic: articles on 'America's Failed Racial Policy' and anti-Israel pieces accompany those about gas chambers... They clearly have no business claiming to be a continuation of the revisionist tradition, and should be referred to as 'Holocaust Deniers'." Russian historians Igor Ryzhov and Maria Borodina commented that the fact that the Institute for Historical Review published its own historical journal "helped not only to unite the deniers into a single movement, but also to give their activities a form of pseudo-scientificness." The Organization of American Historians commissioned a study of the journal in which a panel had found that it was "nothing but a masquerade of scholarship".

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