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Lethbridge retracts congratulatory note
Graduate works at magazine that denies holocaust, 9/11
Robert Wood, the University of Lethbridge’s Dean of Graduate Studies, told the National Post that he “unequivocally retract[s]” the note that congratulated 9/11 “truther” Joshua Blakeney for his writing job at Veterans Today, a magazine that also denies the holocaust. “The anti-Semitic content that is periodically published in Veterans Today is morally repugnant, and it deeply offends the core principles of tolerance, respect, and citizenship upon which the University of Lethbridge is founded,” Wood told the newspaper, adding that it was an “administrative oversight.”
Blakeney asserts in his writing for Veterans Today that the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were a conspiracy between Israel and the United States, rather than a terrorist plot by Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. His master’s thesis exploring the conspiracy theories around 9/11 caused controversy because it was funded partially by an $8,000 Alberta government scholarship.
Lethbridge congratulates “truther”
9/11 skeptic now works for magazine that denies holocaust
“Josh Blakely was appointed as a staff writer at Veterans Today which is a quite popular media venue based in the US. He has also appeared on several media outlets in the U.S. and Canada discussing his research area. Congratulations Josh!,” the University of Lethbridge wrote on their website last week.
We think they mean Josh Blakeney, the 9/11 conspiracy theorist who was hired as a columnist for Veterans Affairs. The National Post came to the same conclusion, questioning why Lethbridge would want to congratulate someone who goes to work for a magazine that suggests “the main purpose of keeping alive the Holocaust is to protect Jewish banking practices.”
This isn’t the first time Blakeney was in the news. His master’s thesis The Origins of the Global War on Terror: Intellectual Debates and Interpretive Controversies, generated an outcry because it was subsidized by an $8,000 Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship from the province of Alberta.
In a recent column for Veterans Affairs about the Sept. 11 “truther” conference in Toronto, Blakeney argues that 9/11 was a plot by anti-Islamic Israelis and that Islamic jihadists were not involved. He writes “documents going back to the 1980s, emanating from Tel Aviv rather than Washington… suggest that the “war on terrorism” was an Israeli inspired initiative.”
