Noontide Press
{{Short description|American antisemitic publisher}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2018}}
{{Use American English|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox publisher
| founded = 1960s
| website = {{URL|noontidepress.com}}
|founder=Willis Carto|country=United States|image=Noontide Press logo.jpg|image caption=Logo|parent=Institute for Historical Review}}
Noontide Press is an American publisher founded by far-right activist Willis Carto and his wife Elisabeth Carto in the 1960s. It was founded as the publishing arm of the Liberty Lobby, before becoming one for the Institute for Historical Review. Many of its books deny the holocaust; it describes itself as a publisher of "hard-to-find books and recordings from a dissident, 'politically incorrect' perspective." The group has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center due to its Holocaust denial and white-separatist activities.
History
Noontide Press was founded by far-right activist Willis Carto and his wife Elisabeth Carto in the early 1960s.{{sfn|Hupp|1996|p=86}} Initially founded as a subsidiary of the Liberty Lobby, then the largest antisemitic group in North America.{{sfn|Hupp|1996|p=86}} it later became the publishing arm of the Institute for Historical Review.{{Cite website |title=Institute for Historical Review |url=http://www.adl.org/Learn/ext_us/historical_review.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCa |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525135717/http://www.adl.org/Learn/ext_us/historical_review.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCa |archive-date=2011-05-25 |website=Anti-Defamation League |series=Extremism in America |language=en-US}}
The group has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center due to its Holocaust denial and white-separatist activities.{{Cite web |date=2015-03-03 |title=Active Holocaust Denial Groups |url=https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/active-holocaust-denial-groups/ |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en-US}} The perpetrator of the 2009 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting James von Brunn was a former employee of the group.{{Cite web |last=Keller |first=Larry |date=2009-06-11 |title=Alleged Holocaust Museum Shooter Planned Other Attacks |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2009/06/11/alleged-holocaust-museum-shooter-planned-other-attacks |access-date=2020-08-30 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en}}
Works published
It describes itself as a publisher of "hard-to-find books and recordings from a dissident, 'politically incorrect' perspective."{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=http://noontidepress.com//index.php?main_page=about_us |work=Noontide Press}} The publisher offered a means for holocaust deniers to sell and publish their writings, and many of its books deny the holocaust, it and World War II revisionism being its two leading categories.{{Cite book |last=Shermer |first=Michael |author-link=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 |publisher=University of California Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-520-21612-9 |location=Berkeley |pages=43, 80–81, 293 |language=en}}{{sfn|Hupp|1996|p=93}}
Another source said that as of 2005 they were "the major publisher of antisemitic, revisionist, and racist texts in the United States".{{Cite book |title=Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-85109-439-4 |editor-last=Levy |editor-first=Richard S. |location=Santa Barbara |pages=107–108 |language=en |chapter=Carto, Willis (1926– )}} Noontide Press is also the distributor of the remaining backstock of books published by Ralph Myles, a company set up by libertarian revisionist historian James J. Martin, who sold the remaining stock of Ralph Myles books to the IHR before his death."[http://www.antiwar.com/orig/riggenbach.php?articleid=2593 James J. Martin, 1916–2004]". Jeff Riggenbach. Antiwar.com. Retrieved January 31, 2010.
- Imperium by Francis Parker Yockey (1963){{Cite book |last=Simonelli |first=Frederick J. |title=American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-252-02285-2 |location=Urbana |pages=108, 110, 171, 198 |language=en-US}}
- White America by Earnest Sevier Cox (1966){{cite book |last1=Cox |first1=E. S |editor1-last=Anderson |editor1-first=E. L. |title=White America |date=1966 |publisher=Noontide Press |location=Los Angeles, California}}
- The Myth of the Six Million by David L. Hoggan (1969)
- The International Jew{{Cite web |title=The International Jew |url=http://www.noontidepress.com/catalog/0201.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040804224016/http://www.noontidepress.com/catalog/0201.html |archivedate=August 4, 2004 |work=Noontide Press}}
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion{{Cite web |title=Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion |url=http://noontidepress.com//index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_7&products_id=142 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028125233/http://noontidepress.com//index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_7&products_id=142 |archivedate=October 28, 2014 |work=Noontide Press}}
- Debunking the Genocide Myth by Paul Rassinier (1978)
- Impeachment of Man by Savitri Devi (1991){{Cite book |last=Goodrick-Clarke |first=Nicholas |author-link=Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke |title=Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism |title-link=Hitler's Priestess |publisher=New York University Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-8147-3111-6 |pages=4, 229, 252 |language=en}}
See also
References
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= Works cited =
- {{Cite journal |last=Hupp |first=Stephen L. |date=1996-07-15 |title=Racism for Sale: An Examination of Materials Sold by American Racist Organizations |journal=Collection Management |language=en |volume=20 |issue=3-4 |pages=85–95 |doi=10.1300/j105v20n03_09 |issn=0146-2679}}