After just two days, the Yale Daily News website removed a banner display ad of the Institute for Historical Review. Although it was scheduled to run for a week, the site of the student newspaper of Yale University dropped the public service advertisement without notice or explanation on Friday, Sept. 20.

The banner ad featured the IHR motto, “For a More Just, Sane and Peaceful World.” A viewer who clicked on it was taken to the home page of the IHR website.

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Last year an IHR public service billboard at two San Francisco transit stations prompted wide media attention.

The Institute for Historical Review is an independent educational center and publisher that works to promote peace, understanding and justice through greater public awareness of the past, and especially socially-politically relevant aspects of modern history. It is recognized by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) public interest, educational, not-for-profit enterprise. Its offices are located in Orange County, southern California.

An inaccurate and hostile Washington Free Beacon report about the Yale ad is typical of mainstream media treatment of the Institute. To justify its labeling of the IHR as a “hate group,” the article approvingly quotes two highly partisan organizations. The first is the Southern Poverty Law Center, itself a controversial group that has lost much of its former stature following revelations of reckless name-calling, corruption, and racial and sexual discrimination. The article also quotes the Anti-Defamation League, an influential Jewish-Zionist organization that routinely defends Israeli policies of oppression and discrimination based on religion and ancestry.

Contrary to the claims of its critics, the IHR steadfastly opposes bigotry of all kinds. It has been a target of authentic hate groups. For example, it has come under repeated assault from the Jewish Defense League – identified as a terrorist group by the FBI. In 1984, the JDL destroyed the Institute’s office and warehouse in a major arson attack.