Professor David Cole has spent his career defending free speech. Today, he called out House Republicans' McCarthy-style attacks on dissent, especially against pro-Palestine voices and non-citizens. | Rep. Ilhan Omar

David Cole, a Jewish-American revisionist, gained notoriety in the early 1990s for his controversial work questioning aspects of the Holocaust narrative, particularly the use of gas chambers at Nazi death camps. His documentary David Cole Interviews Dr. Franciszek Piper focused on Auschwitz, where he interviewed the head curator of the Auschwitz State Museum. Cole’s angle wasn’t to frame the Holocaust as a hoax per se, but rather to question specific elements of its portrayal—especially the reco