Alain Guionnet

Alain Guionnet (April 22, 1954) is a French Holocaust denier[1] and founding editor of the revisionist magazine Revision, which publishes articles on such topics as conspiracy theories about Jews and freemasons and "virulent anti-Zionism".[2]

He received a bachelor's degree in general studies[3] and a master's degree in history. During his youth, he led a far-left group called Oser lutter ("Dare to struggle"), based in Issy-les-Moulineaux.[4] Together with Pierre Guillaume, he also contributed to the leftist newspaper La Guerre sociale.[3] He wrote a "Letter to Guy Debord" that has been archived by the latter in his "Lettres reçues" (received letters).[5]

After having collaborated on a revisionist magazine, in 1989 he founded his own, titled Revision,[6] which publishes antisemitic articles and texts[7] including The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and some articles by Robert Faurisson. The ninth volume reprinted Élie Reclus's article against circumcision. Michel Erlich, a psychiatrist, categorized Revision as "[a vehicle of] delirious antiSemitism";[8] Guionnet has hawked his magazine at Front National conventions.[9]

Alain Guionnet has been sentenced to jail several times by way of the Gayssot Act, for denying the Holocaust.[10]

Publications

Guionnet has written several books published under various pseudonyms:

References

  1. Shelly Shapiro, Truth prevails: demolishing holocaust denial: The end of "The Leuchter Report", The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation and Holocaust Survivors & Friends in Pursuit of Justice, 1990, p. 35 ; Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Holocaust denial in France: analysis of a unique phenomenon, Tel Aviv Univ., 1995, p. 55, 69, 70 ; Valérie Igounet, Histoire du négationnisme en France, Paris, 2000, p. 401, 548-560.
  2. Laqueur, Walter; Baumel, Judith Tydor (2001). "Holocaust Denial". The Holocaust Encyclopedia. Yale University Press. p. 298. ISBN 9780300138115.
  3. 1 2 Ratier, Emmanuel: Encyclopédie politique française, 1992 (see « REVISION »)
  4. Bourseiller, Christophe: Histoire générale de l'ultra-gauche, Denoël, 2003, p.434
  5. http://data.bnf.fr/documents-by-rdt/12091230/110/page1
  6. Igounet, Valérie (2000). Histoire du négationnisme en France. Editions du Seuil. pp. 554–56. ISBN 9782020354929.
  7. https://www.academia.edu/8559740/Catalogue_de_Revision
  8. Erlich, Michel (1991). "Circoncision, excision et racisme". Nouvelle revue d'ethnopsychiatrie (in French) 18: 12540.
  9. d'Appollonia, Ariane Chebel (1998). L' Extreme Droite en France. Editions Complexe. p. 377. ISBN 9782870277645.
  10. Hennebel, Ludovic; Hochmann, Thomas (2011). Genocide Denials and the Law. Oxford University Press. p. 254. ISBN 9780199876396.
  11. Akribeia: histoire, rumeurs, légendes. Akribeia. 1999. pp. 22 n.4.

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