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Hollywood conservative unmasked as notorious Holocaust revisionist 

An additional reason for trying to contain the story, said the artist, was to deprive Cole of further limelight. “No one wants to give him the satisfaction of making him feel grander than he really was.”

Cole, who insists he is a genuine conservative, said his betrayal would sting all the more because conservatives in Hollywood are a “persecuted minority” who must hide their political convictions from the intolerant liberals who dominate the industry:

I don’t blame them for jettisoning me. Everyone is scared to death. They don’t want this to range beyond Facebook.

Cole agreed to meet the Guardian in order to give his side of the story. He was rueful at being outed and wry about his future. “I don’t expect many people at my birthday party this year,” he said.

Born in 1968 in Los Angeles to liberal, secular-minded Jewish parents, Cole’s father, Leon, was a doctor who became controversial for introducing Elvis Presley to Demerol. “He was accused of hooking Elvis on drugs, of killing Elvis.” Cole did not go to university – “I wanted to begin working” – but by the 1980s he had become fascinated by political ideology, especially the work of fringe scholars known then as Holocaust revisionists, subsequently renamed denialists.

He became convinced that on some points they were right and that as a Jew, he would undertake a quixotic quest to “correct” the historical record, arguing that Auschwitz was not an extermination camp in the manner of Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzac and Chelmno – which he acknowledged were part of a genocidal programme against Polish Jews; that the Holocaust ended in 1943, when the Nazis realised they needed Jewish slave labour for factories; and that there was no overarching, genocidal plan, but an evolving, morphing policy which claimed perhaps 4 million, rather than 6 million, Jewish lives.

The young Cole became a notorious celebrity, the turncoat Jew, ferried from studio to studio, gleefully clashing with historians and Jewish representatives. However he grew uneasy when white supremacists and Islamic radicals appropriated his “work”, he said, and he halted public appearances after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.

Another factor was a death threat from the Jewish Defense League, a militant, violent group. In January 1998, wanting to start anew, Cole wrote a letter to the JDL, recanting his views.

‘I haven’t changed my views’

The recanting was fake, he said. Cole today still challenges established Holocaust scholarship, including the certainty about Nazi gas chambers. “The best guess is yes, there were gas chambers” he says. “But there is still a lot of murkiness about the camps. I haven’t changed my views. But I regret I didn’t have the facility with language that I have now. I was just a kid,” he said this week.

When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, Cole sensed opportunity. Inspired by the writer PJ O’Rourke’s brand of rollicking, liquor-fuelled conservativism, he said he launched Republican Party Animals, a networking circle for libertarians and social conservatives which promised spice – “scantily-clad women, drink, fun, loud music” – but not too much. There would be no cocaine or illegality.

“Do you like your conservative politics mixed with a healthy dose of whiskey, fine cigars and kickass rock n’ roll?” its website asked. “Do you live in a city filled with morons wearing Che T-shirts as they mindlessly cling to tattered, faded 2008 ‘Hope and Change’ posters? Then WELCOME, friend – this is the group for you!” Blog posts assailed Obama, Occupy protestors and alleged anti-semites.

It was a hit. Congressmen such as Thaddeus McCotter and Mike Kelly attended events, as did neo-con luminaries such as Frank Gaffney.

A 2011 summer bash off Hollywood Boulevard included Larry Elder, a syndicated radio host; Bill Whittle, a commentator and screenwriter; Stephen Kruiser, a comedian; Lloyd Lee Barnett, a visual effects artist for Avatar; Nick Searcy, an actor; and William Sachs, a director. Other Hollywood guests kept their attendance at such events discreet, to avoid the conservative label.

Cole’s mistake, he said, was to confide his secret to a friend with whom he fell out. The friend went “nuclear” and outed him to their conservative circle.

Besieged by followers demanding answers, Cole last week shut down much of his online presence and retreated from view. A farewell note on his blog announced the end of his involvement with Republican Party Animals, saying he had been “assassinated” by “an exceptionally vindictive young lady”. The note did not elaborate or confess his deception.

Former friends and acquaintances, most speaking on condition of anonymity, challenged elements of Cole’s account to the Guardian and called him pathologically duplicitous, alleging he padded his film resume on the IMDb database with fictitious entries. His purported production company, Nistarim, is Hebrew for The Concealed.

Scott Edwards, an Oregon-based businessman, said he founded Republican Party Animals in 2009 and that Cole, claiming to be a Hollywood bigshot, took over the website and was involved in organising just a few events. “He never ran the group. Things started happening behind the scenes so I kicked him out in February 2012.” Cole, however, continued controlling the website, networking and organising events under the Republican Party Animals banner until last month.

Holocaust experts and Jewish groups who remembered Cole from the 1990s expressed astonishment that he had resurfaced and still professed Holocaust revisionism.

Michael Shermer, a historian who publishes Skeptic magazine, said Cole’s views on the the Holocaust were simplistic and appeared designed to stir controversy.

Shermer debated and interviewed Cole several times in his youth. “I found him to be very smart and on some level likeable, though a little irritating.

But he was too smart for his own good. He had no training as a historian. I had the impression he liked to stir things up just for the hell of it, to be a contrarian for contrarian’s sake.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, said Cole’s views on the Holocaust could no longer be attributed to youthful naivete. “I’m very disappointed that someone who abused his Jewishness to get his five minutes of notoriety still stands by his lies. It’s disgusting and puts him in the camp of bigotry.”


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