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

Candidate’s ‘Holocaust Revisionist’ Views Spark Reston Write-In Campaign
Washington Post: “The vote will be held today and tomorrow during the Reston Festival at Reston Town Center”
— 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”

—- NOTE: We are told that “The name of the write-in candidate running against the Holocaust denier is incumbent Board Member Colin Mills