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Item from Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.):

Virginia: Holocaust Denier Likely to be Elected to Board of Reston — Running Unopposed in Reston Citizens Association, Sparks Write-In Campaign

— Ken Meyercord running unopposed for at-large seat on the board to “Reston Citizens Association, a quasi-governmental body that sets the agenda for the community of 60,000″

— Ken Meyercord has a “a long history of writing about what he says are ‘myths’ of the Holocaust, including a piece called ‘(Holo-) History is Bunk.’”

— Ken Meyercord “dismisses as Allied propaganda the assertion that Nazi Germany embarked on a mission to annihilate European Jews, a plan known as the Final Solution.”

— “He also denies that Nazis used gas chambers to murder Jews, saying gas chambers did not exist, and expresses skepticism that the number of Holocaust victims reached 6 million”

— “Meyercord said his views of history changed after living in the Middle East. After attending Dartmouth, he obtained a master’s degree at American University in Beirut, where he also met his wife, who is Palestinian, and became more sympathetic the Arab view of the conflict with Israel.”

— “His other writings include a piece comparing Israel’s treatment of Gaza to the Nazis’ handling of the Warsaw Ghetto; an apocalyptic fantasy in which an invasion of the United States is an allusion to the war in Iraq”

If candidates such as this one are out and about here in Northern Virginia, there are likely out and about where you are, too.