Stephen Goodson


Stephen Goodson is a South African banker and politician who is leader of the South Africa's Abolition of Income Tax and Usury Party. He is best known for statements praising Adolf Hitler and his promotion of Holocaust denial. He stood as a candidate for the Ubuntu Party in the 2014 General Elections.[1][2]

Banking

He is a former director of the South African Reserve Bank (2003–12) and was previously a financial consultant in Pringle Bay.[3][4]

Holocaust denial

Goodson had stated that that the Holocaust was “a huge lie” as "the principle is to extract enormous sums of money from the Germans as compensation", blaming international bankers. Goodson authored a book titled Bonaparte & Hitler Versus the International Bankers where he maintained World War II was provoked by the economic success of Germany, and he has also criticized the political actions of Jewish bankers, posting his views on anti-Semitic websites.[5] As a result, The South African Israel Public Affairs Committee called for the Reserve Bank to fire him for his pro-Nazi statements.[6][7][8][9]

He has been a contributing editor of the Barnes Review, a magazine dedicated to historical revisionism, since 2010.

In a 2010 radio interview, Goodson stated:

they’ve [Jews] been expelled from over 70 countries, some of them several times. But unfortunately they have such a tight control of the media. Well, there is a small window of hope in that the Internet can provide alternative views, but even there they are trying to exercise supervision.[10]

The National Chairman of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, Mary Kluk, subsequently condemned Goodson’s opinions:

The views purportedly disseminated by Stephen Goodson are hurtful and offensive, not only in the way they give credence to the pernicious theory that Jews fabricated the Holocaust in order to extort money from Germany but in how they serve to glorify the legacy of the hateful Nazi regime. Such views serve only to distort the historical record, falsely denying a time when ideologies of racial hatred caused untold suffering to millions and insulting the memory of the innocent victims of those times.

In April 2012, the South African Reserve Bank stated that Goodson’s tenure for his position would not be renewed after it expired in July, as he would have served the maximum period of three terms of three years each.[10] On May 3, 2012, Goodson resigned from SA Reserve Bank after he had received compensation for the balance of his term of office.[11][12][13]

World War II Revisionism

In Veterans Today, holocaust denier Ingrid Rimland Zundel quoted from Goodson when she wrote that Japan "had peacefully occupied Indochina, with the permission of Vichy France", but eventually was "forced into attacking America in order to maintain her prosperity and secure her existence as a sovereign state."[14] Rimland Zundel also reposted a piece by Goodson who admired how Hitler had defeated the "banksters".[15][16]

Books

Notes

  1. ↑ http://www.elections.org.za/content/Elections/Candidate-lists/Parties-contesting-the-2014-National-and-Provincial-Elections/
  2. ↑ http://www.sabc.co.za/news/f1/d14a5a00434fb53f9281ff0bfd5d3b76/Ubuntu-Party-%28UBUNTU%29-20140318
  3. ↑ The private life of Stephen Goodson by Geraldine Bennett, Moneyweb.co.za, August 31, 2003.
  4. ↑ HILARY JOFFE: Real independence more than Bank's structure by Hilary Joffe, Business Day, May 4, 2010.
  5. ↑ Calls to Oust Nazi Supporter from S. African Reserve Bank by Rachel Hirshfeld, Israel National News, April 4, 2012.
  6. ↑ South African Jews Call for Dismissal of Pro-Nazi Banker by Boruch Shubert, Jewish Voice, May 2, 2012.
  7. ↑ Reserve Bank director’s comments draw fire by Zara Nicholson, IOLnews, April 23, 2012.
  8. ↑ South African Bank Director Expresses Support for Nazis by Elad Benari, Israel National News, April 20, 2012.
  9. ↑ SA Jews call for firing of pro-Nazi banker By Rina Bassist, Jerusalem Post, April 24, 2012.
  10. 1 2 Stephen Goodson – banker, admirer of Nazi economy by Rina Bassist, Jerusalem Post, April 18, 2012.
  11. ↑ SARB director quits after Hitler claims, The Times, May 4, 2012.
  12. ↑ Goodson quits after article by Lisa Steyn, Mail & Guardian, May 17, 2012.
  13. ↑ Reserve Bank on resignation of Board Member, Mr Stephen Goodson (English), South African Government Information, May 3, 2012.
  14. ↑ Japan in WWII: A Casualty of Usury? by Dr. Ingrid R. Zundel, Veterans Today, June 26, 2011.
  15. ↑ Reserve Bank's Holocaust denier by Lisa Steyn, Mail & Guardian, April 13, 2012.
  16. ↑ Hitler and the Banksters: The Abolition of Interest-Servitude by Dr. Ingrid R. Zundel, Veterans Today, September 13, 2011.
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