David Cole (journalist)

Cole was raised in West Los Angeles as a secular Jew. His birth father, Leon Cole, was a USC medical research scientist who had a private practice that would prescribe lethal narcotics to celebrities, including Elvis Presley.{{cite news |last1=Carroll |first1=Rory |title=VIP syndrome: why do the doctors to the stars make fatal mistakes? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/17/vip-syndrome-doctors-prince-michael-jackson-elvis |work=The Guardian |date=June 17, 2016}} Leon Cole died from a methamphetamine overdose when Cole was an infant. His mother remarried, and Cole's legal name is David Harvey.{{cite web |last1=Sheli |first1=Teitelbaum |title=Interview jerusalem report, Cole David |url=https://www.nizkor.org/interview-jerusalem-report-cole-david/ |publisher=The Nizkor Project |date=May 6, 1995}} In his late teens, Cole embarked on a study of American political ideology. This led author Michael Shermer to coin the term "meta-ideologue" to describe Cole. In a 1994 article in Shermer's Skeptic magazine, Shermer wrote, "Where the other revisionists are political and/or racial ideologues, Cole's interests run at a deeper level. He is a meta-ideologue – an existentialist on a quest to understand how ideologues invent their realities."{{Cite web|url=http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/american/skeptic-magazine/skeptic-4.html|title=Who Are The Holocaust Revisionists?|website=www.nizkor.org|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918192700/http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/american/skeptic-magazine/skeptic-4.html|archive-date=September 18, 2018|url-status=dead}}

In the 1990s, Cole appeared on the Montel Williams Show, the Phil Donahue Show, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, and The Morton Downey Jr. Show. Ernest Hollander, the Auschwitz survivor who debated Cole on the Montel Williams Show, discovered after the show aired that the brother he thought was murdered after the two were separated upon arrival in Auschwitz was actually alive and well.{{Cite news|url=https://www.jweekly.com/2002/07/26/holocaust-survivor-lecturer-ernie-hollander-dies-at-77/|title=Holocaust survivor-lecturer Ernie Hollander dies at 77 – J.|date=July 26, 2002|work=J.|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715011018/https://www.jweekly.com/2002/07/26/holocaust-survivor-lecturer-ernie-hollander-dies-at-77/|archive-date=July 15, 2018|url-status=live}} The brother's neighbor had seen the Montel episode, and recognized the resemblance between the two Hollanders. Both brothers had thought the other was dead (Williams hosted the reunion on his show).{{Citation|last=Talia Hollander|title=Ernest Hollander reunited with his brother|date=March 6, 2013|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBGCNWcrM2E|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127222205/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBGCNWcrM2E&gl=US&hl=en|archive-date=January 27, 2019|url-status=live}} In his autobiography, Cole claimed that this supported his theory that many of the Jews deported to Auschwitz in 1944 were falsely believed to be dead.

In 1993, Cole was interviewed by Timothy Ryback for The New Yorker.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/11/15/evidence-of-evil|title=Evidence of Evil|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618175241/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/11/15/evidence-of-evil|archive-date=June 18, 2018|url-status=live}} Other interviews from that time include the Jerusalem Report (which referred to Cole as "an unlikely media sensation" and "something of a media star"),{{Cite news|title=Who Needs Enemies?|date=October 21, 1993|work=The Jerusalem Report}} the Detroit Jewish News,{{Cite news|title=Rebel Without a Cause|date=January 21, 1994|work=The Detroit Jewish News}} and Hustler.{{Cite web|url=https://wonderclub.com/magazines/HUSTmagHUST199308.htm|title=Hustler August 1993 Magazine Back Issue Hustler WonderClub|last=magazine|first=WonderClub Hustler|website=wonderclub.com|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714221928/https://wonderclub.com/magazines/HUSTmagHUST199308.htm|archive-date=July 14, 2018|url-status=live}} He also penned op-eds for the Los Angeles Times under his own name,{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-18-ca-15273-story.html|title=It's Not the Networks That Shy Away From Religion|last=COLE|first=DAVID|date=December 18, 1995|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151102011025/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-12-18/entertainment/ca-15273_1_angel-tv-show|archive-date=November 2, 2015|url-status=live}} and under the name Christopher Cole.{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-12-et-cole12-story.html|title=Media Aren't Racially Biased; They're Just Busy|last=Cole|first=Christopher|date=August 12, 2002|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-12-ca-31686-story.html|title=1st Amendment Means 'Pfeiffer' Too|last=Cole|first=Christopher|date=October 12, 1998|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210071701/http://articles.latimes.com/1998/oct/12/entertainment/ca-31686|archive-date=December 10, 2015|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-19-op-urine19-story.html|title=Religion and Art in the Toilet|last=Cole|first=Christopher|date=June 19, 2005|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017125146/http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jun/19/opinion/op-urine19|archive-date=October 17, 2015|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-feb-19-ca-27251-story.html|title=Using Epithet Isn't Bold, Fighting Censorship Is|last=Cole|first=Christopher|date=February 19, 2001|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805215722/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/feb/19/entertainment/ca-27251|archive-date=August 5, 2016|url-status=live}} In the early 1990s, Cole lectured on college campuses throughout the U.S. During a lecture at UCLA, he was assaulted on-stage, resulting in security rushing him off campus for his own safety.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/ucladailybruin139losa|title=UCLA daily Bruin|date=1912|publisher=Los Angeles|others=UCLA Library|access-date=January 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120130618/http://www.archive.org/details/ucladailybruin139losa|archive-date=January 20, 2012|url-status=live}}

According to The Guardian, Cole's main thesis is that "Auschwitz was not an extermination camp in the manner of Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec and Chelmno – which he (Cole) 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." In 1994, Professor Deborah Lipstadt, told the Detroit Jewish News that there was a lot of "joy and rejoicing" in "revisionist" camps because of Cole, Detroit Jewish News editor Phil Jacobs listed Cole as a threat to the Jewish people alongside "Hitler, Hussein, and Arafat",{{Cite news|title=Why David Cole Was On Page 1|date=January 28, 1994|work=The Detroit Jewish News}} and Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Jerusalem Report "I can't think of any other Jew who has gone so far in aiding and abetting the enemies of the Jewish people".

In October of the same year, Cole worked with Auschwitz specialist Jean-Claude Pressac, who showed Cole the documentation regarding the gassing of Jews at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in Alsace. Cole found it fully convincing. Cole got approval from the French government to explore the Struthof chamber (with a government-provided escort) and saw it was an authentic gas chamber.[https://bestservedcole.substack.com/p/the-david-cole-holocaust-chronology The David Cole Holocaust Chronology], by David Cole, 16 Augustus 2024. Cole wanted to publish his findings, affirming that gas chambers are a historical fact. However, the "revisionist" camp was not interested. Cole then wrote a piece that argued that claims made by revisionists like Robert Faurisson were dishonest,[https://www.nizkor.org/cole-vs-faurisson-struthof-cole-david/ Cole vs faurisson struthof, Cole David]; Nizkor; published June 11, 1995 adding: "I'm truly perplexed by the SURPRISE that some of you [Holocaust-deniers] are showing about my Struthof statements. Stop acting like you've been hustled, guys. From day one I made it clear that I'm a leftist, race-mixing, atheistic Jew who has no allegiance to any dogma and who'd gladly agree that there were gas chambers if only the proof could be found. It's not my fault if some of you thought that I was only saying those things to fool the public and that privately I was "one of you."" In 1995, Cole broke with the movement.

In January 1998, Irv Rubin, chairman of the Jewish Defense League, offered a monetary reward for information regarding Cole's whereabouts. The Anti-Defamation League stated that the JDL's reward offer implied that "it was prepared to take immediate, possibly violent, action" in order to "get rid" of Cole.{{Cite web|url=http://archive.adl.org/poisoning_web/cole.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150405144808/http://archive.adl.org/poisoning_web/cole.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 5, 2015|title=Holocaust Denial: David Cole and Roger Garaudy}} In response to the threat, Cole entered into a deal with Rubin whereby he renounced his views and the JDL removed the "reward offer." The over-the-top "recantation" was met with widespread skepticism, with Michael Shermer writing in his 2000 book Denying History that Cole's retraction demanded "a healthy dose of skepticism" because it was "so unlike his earlier positions."{{Cite book |last1=Shermer |first1=Michael |author-link1=Michael Shermer |title=Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? |last2=Grobman |first2=Alex |author-link2=Alex Grobman |date=April 1, 2009 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-94409-1 |pages=69–74 |language=en}} On the JDL website, Rubin bragged that Cole's recantation is "evidence of the power of the Jewish Defense League.{{Cite news|url=http://www.jdl.org/action/action/cole_letter.shtml|archive-url=https://archive.today/20020705163532/http://www.jdl.org/action/action/cole_letter.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 5, 2002|title=JDL: Action: Jewish Holocaust Denier Asks for Forgiveness|date=July 5, 2002|work=archive.is|access-date=July 14, 2018}}

Following the recantation, Cole changed his last name to Stein and began making mainstream Holocaust documentaries for a company he ran called the Tinbergen Archives.{{Cite journal|last=Moss|first=Laurence S.|date=November 2001|title=Why the Preaching Must Never Stop: Henry George's and Paul Krugman's Respective Contributions to the Free Trade Debate|journal=American Journal of Economics and Sociology|language=en|volume=60|issue=5|pages=137–164|doi=10.1111/1536-7150.00141|issn=0002-9246|doi-access=free}} His 2007 film Nuremberg: The 60th Anniversary Director's Cut{{Citation|last1=Stone|first1=Sean|title=Nuremberg: The 60th Anniversary Director's Cut|date=November 1, 2007|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993776/|others=Francis Biddle, Whoopi Goldberg, Robert Jackson|access-date=July 14, 2018|last2=Lorentz|first2=Pare|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407054641/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993776/|archive-date=April 7, 2017|url-status=live}} won the best feature-length documentary award and best score in a feature documentary at the 2008 Garden State Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gsff.org/archive/winners08.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404093454/http://www.gsff.org/archive/winners08.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 4, 2012|title=7th Annual Garden State Film Festival|date=April 4, 2012|access-date=July 14, 2018}} His films Liberation Day: Dachau,{{Citation|last=Tinbergen|first=Caleb|title=Liberation Day: Dachau|date=April 15, 1999|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441878/|others=Bernard Marks, George Stevens, Jack Terry|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209172406/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441878/|archive-date=February 9, 2017|url-status=live}} Auschwitz: Silent Witness,{{Citation|last=Roel|first=Francisco|title=Auschwitz: Silent Witness|date=April 1, 1999|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441841/|others=Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Jan Karski|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209121819/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441841/|archive-date=February 9, 2017|url-status=live}} The Lost Gas Chamber, and War Crimes and Trials{{Citation|last=Tinbergen|first=Caleb|title=War Crimes and Trials|date=October 15, 2001|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0933217/|others=Omar N. Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Hermann Göring|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208214732/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0933217/|archive-date=February 8, 2017|url-status=live}} are preserved in the Rosenblatt Holocaust Collection at Fordham University.

In 2004, Cole made an extensive on-camera interview with Hutton Gibson, the traditionalist Catholic father of filmmaker Mel Gibson, who was coming under criticism for perceived anti-semitism in the popular film The Passion of the Christ. Although Cole had the rights to the interview, Gibson asked Cole to withhold the interview until after Hutton Gibson's death. After Hutton Gibson's death in May 2020, Cole began to fundraise to complete a documentary about Gibson, but as of 2023, no footage has been released.{{cite web |last1=Stark |first1=Robert |title=Robert Stark and David Cole about their upcoming Documentary on Hutton Gibson |date=July 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4niga6BfUo&ab_channel=StarkTruthTV |publisher=YouTube}}

In 2008, Cole (as Stein) became active in mainstream conservative politics. As a blogger, his work appeared in or was cited by The Washington Times,{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/11/the-pentagons-war-on-the-american-dream/|title=EDITORIAL: The Pentagon's war on the American dream|newspaper=The Washington Times|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714221922/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/11/the-pentagons-war-on-the-american-dream/|archive-date=July 14, 2018|url-status=live}} Commentary,{{Cite news|url=https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/conservatives-republicans/perry-pro-sharia-curriculum/|title=Perry's "Pro-Sharia" Curriculum Debunked |first=Alana|last=Goodman|date=August 26, 2011|work=Commentary Magazine|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715010946/https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/conservatives-republicans/perry-pro-sharia-curriculum/|archive-date=July 15, 2018|url-status=live}} The Wall Street Journal,{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/07/02/assailed-by-right-white-house-down-admits-military-for-free/|title=Assailed by Right, 'White House Down' Admits Military For Free|last=Cheney|first=Alexandra|work=WSJ|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714223504/https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/07/02/assailed-by-right-white-house-down-admits-military-for-free/|archive-date=July 14, 2018|url-status=live}} the New York Daily News,{{Cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/white-house-seige-conservative-critics-article-1.1389431|title='White House Down' under siege by conservative critics who call film 'unrelenting liberal propaganda,' '100% Obama porn' – NY Daily News|last=Sacks|first=Ethan|work=nydailynews.com|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714222006/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/white-house-seige-conservative-critics-article-1.1389431|archive-date=July 14, 2018|url-status=live}} the L.A. Jewish Journal,{{Cite news|url=http://jewishjournal.com/opinion/99241/|title=A rebuttal to Mitch Paradise — Jewish Journal|last=Animals|first=David Stein, Co-Chair, The Republican Party|date=December 15, 2011|work=Jewish Journal|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715010948/http://jewishjournal.com/opinion/99241/|archive-date=July 15, 2018|url-status=live}} WorldNetDaily,{{Cite news|url=https://www.wonkette.com/holocaust-denying-dude-has-great-idea-nuremberg-trials-for-climate-scientists|title=Holocaust-Denying Dude Has GREAT Idea: 'Nuremberg Trials' for Climate Scientists!|newspaper=Wonkette |date=May 6, 2015}} History News Network,{{Cite web|url=https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/136465|title=Chomsky's Secret Letters to a Holocaust Denier|website=historynewsnetwork.org|date=February 9, 2011 |language=en|access-date=July 14, 2018}} Gawker,{{Cite news|url=http://gawker.com/5835460/anti-islam-nut-sees-an-enemy-in-rick-perry|title=Anti-Islam Nut Sees an Enemy in Rick Perry|last=Newell|first=Jim|work=Gawker|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305203648/http://gawker.com/5835460%2Fanti-islam-nut-sees-an-enemy-in-rick-perry|archive-date=March 5, 2018|url-status=live}} The New Republic,{{Cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/94276/rick-perry-secret-islamist|title=Is Rick Perry A Secret Islamist?|first=Jonathan|last=Chait|author-link=Jonathan Chait|magazine=The New Republic|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715010931/https://newrepublic.com/article/94276/rick-perry-secret-islamist|archive-date=July 15, 2018|url-status=live}} and The Hollywood Reporter.{{Cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/conservatives-cheer-dismal-box-office-578170|title=Conservatives Cheer Dismal Box Office Showing of 'White House Down'|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714222052/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/conservatives-cheer-dismal-box-office-578170|archive-date=July 14, 2018|url-status=live}} Cole (as Stein) appeared as a frequent guest on the Larry Elder Show on KABC Radio.{{Citation|last=David Cole|title=Larry Elder and the RPA's David Stein Expose DoD Scandal|date=March 22, 2013|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZB4aYZn7lA|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130325093031/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZB4aYZn7lA&gl=US&hl=en|archive-date=March 25, 2013|url-status=live}}{{Citation|last=David Cole|title=L.A. Teachers Union Endorses Racist, Anti-Semitic Candidate|date=February 20, 2013|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jD7nLjEE3U|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130223232801/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jD7nLjEE3U&gl=US&hl=en|archive-date=February 23, 2013|url-status=live}} He also became a member and co-organizer of the "secret" organization of Hollywood Republicans, Friends of Abe, founded by actor Gary Sinise. Stein also ran an organization called the Republican Party Animals,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xpL_m8EYnzkC&q=%22Republican+Party+Animals%22+-Cole&pg=PA110|title=Ideological Idiocy: A Politically Conservative and Morally Liberal Hebrew Alpha Male Stumbles Upon Jihadists, Peace Activists, and Other Ridiculous Leftists and Trips over Their Heads Located up Their (Redacted).|last=Express|first=Tygrrrr|date=April 8, 2010|publisher=iUniverse|isbn=978-1-4502-1173-4|language=en}} one of the largest Republican Party organizing operations on the West Coast.{{Citation|last=David Cole|title=Larry Elder Raves About the RPA!|date=August 3, 2011|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGGBVCG6-sY|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130306063742/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGGBVCG6-sY|archive-date=March 6, 2013|url-status=live}} It held regular events in and around Los Angeles from a libertarian, non-socially conservative perspective aimed at attracting young people to the GOP. In the words of The Guardian, "David Stein brought right-wing congressmen, celebrities, writers and entertainment industry figures together for shindigs, closed to outsiders, where they could scorn liberals and proclaim their true beliefs. Over the past five years Stein's organization, Republican Party Animals, drew hundreds to regular events in and around Los Angeles, making him a darling of conservative blogs and talkshows. That he made respected documentaries on the Holocaust added intellectual cachet and Jewish support to Stein's cocktail of politics, irreverence and rock and roll."

In April 2013, Stein was outed as Cole by an ex-girlfriend.{{Cite news|url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/7/17/1314791/-The-GOP-the-Holocaust-Denier-and-the-Fashion-Model|title=The GOP, the Holocaust Denier, and the Fashion Model|work=Daily Kos|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715011022/https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/7/17/1314791/-The-GOP-the-Holocaust-Denier-and-the-Fashion-Model|archive-date=July 15, 2018|url-status=live}} The L.A. County Republican Party sent out an email warning members about his history.Email to members titled "The HOLOCAUST DENIER you've met," Thursday, May 16, 2013

In 2014, Cole's autobiography, Republican Party Animal, was published by Feral House. Starting in 2015, he became a regular source in The Guardian for matters relating to Hollywood conservatives{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/13/hollywood-republicans-friends-of-abe-club-trump|title=Club for Hollywood Republicans locked in dispute – caused in part by Trump|last=Carroll|first=Rory|date=June 13, 2017|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715040317/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/13/hollywood-republicans-friends-of-abe-club-trump|archive-date=July 15, 2018|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/27/alt-right-donald-trump-white-supremacy-backlash|title='Alt-right' groups will 'revolt' if Trump shuns white supremacy, leaders say|last=Carroll|first=Rory|date=December 27, 2016|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715040453/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/27/alt-right-donald-trump-white-supremacy-backlash|archive-date=July 15, 2018|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/01/trump-hollywood-celebrity-supporters-friends-of-abe|title='It's a civil war in slow-mo': how Trump's rise is cracking Hollywood conservatives|last=Carroll|first=Rory|date=April 1, 2016|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715040315/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/01/trump-hollywood-celebrity-supporters-friends-of-abe|archive-date=July 15, 2018|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/11/donald-trump-friends-abe-immigration-los-angeles|title=Donald Trump and the Friends of Abe: tycoon brings immigration fight to LA|last=Carroll|first=Rory|date=July 11, 2015|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715040248/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/11/donald-trump-friends-abe-immigration-los-angeles|archive-date=July 15, 2018|url-status=live}} (in that capacity he has also been interviewed by Variety,{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2017/biz/features/hollywood-aclu-civil-liberties-trump-1202492378/|title=Hollywood Heavyweights Help ACLU Fight for Civil Liberties in Trump Era|last=Lopez|first=Ricardo|date=July 12, 2017|work=Variety|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715011549/https://variety.com/2017/biz/features/hollywood-aclu-civil-liberties-trump-1202492378/|archive-date=July 15, 2018|url-status=live}} and Truthdig).{{Cite news|url=https://www.truthdig.com/articles/friends-of-abe-hollywood-conservatives-secret-society-is-calling-it-quits-exclusive-2/|title=Friends of Abe, Hollywood Conservatives' Secret Society, Is Calling It Quits (Exclusive)|work=Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713200430/https://www.truthdig.com/articles/friends-of-abe-hollywood-conservatives-secret-society-is-calling-it-quits-exclusive-2/|archive-date=July 13, 2018|url-status=live}} He was briefly employed as a writer for The Times of Israel, until protests over his past led to his dismissal.{{Cite web|url=http://www.countercontempt.com/archives/5587|title=Times of Israel Scrubs Revisionist David Cole's Work! : Big Infidel|website=www.countercontempt.com|language=en-US|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616053831/http://www.countercontempt.com/archives/5587|archive-date=June 16, 2018|url-status=live}} Since January 2015, he has been a staff writer and weekly columnist for Taki's Magazine.

In October 2015, a taxi driver in Ennis, Ireland, was jailed for five months after going on a vandalism spree that he claimed was inspired by Cole's videos.{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/man-who-smashed-tv-with-axe-believed-holocaust-was-a-hoax-1.2409322|title=Man who smashed TV with axe believed Holocaust was a hoax|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=July 14, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611064035/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/man-who-smashed-tv-with-axe-believed-holocaust-was-a-hoax-1.2409322|archive-date=June 11, 2017|url-status=live}}

Documents released as part of an ongoing lawsuit showed that Tucker Carlson was aware of Cole's work and was sharing his articles with others.{{cite web|url= https://www.mediamatters.org/foxdominion-lawsuit/internal-text-reveals-tucker-carlson-reads-work-holocaust-denier-white|title=Internal text reveals Tucker Carlson reads the work of a Holocaust denier at a white nationalist hub|website=Media Matters for America |date=March 9, 2023 }}

• {{cite book|title=Republican Party Animal: The "Bad Boy of Holocaust History" Blows the Lid Off Hollywood's Secret Right-Wing Underground|author=David Cole|publisher=Feral House|date=June 10, 2014|isbn=978-1-936239-91-7}}

{{reflist|group=Note|refs=According to The Guardian, Cole believes that "Auschwitz was not an extermination camp in the manner of Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec 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"

• {{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/03/david-stein-cole-holocaust-revisionist|title=Hollywood conservative unmasked as notorious Holocaust revisionist|last=Carroll|first=Rory|date=May 3, 2013|work=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=July 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612163127/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/03/david-stein-cole-holocaust-revisionist|archive-date=June 12, 2018|url-status=live}}

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