Daniel A. McGowan is head of the Deir Yassin Remembered, an organization that commemorates the Deir Yassin massacre. Deir Yassin (دير ياسين was an Arab village lying 1400 meters to the north of what is now Yad Vashem, which had declared its neutrality during the He is professor at the Hobart and William Smith Colleges where the institute is based. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, located in Geneva, New York, are together a liberal arts college offering Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor McGowan is a columnist for Counterpunch. CounterPunch is a biweekly Newsletter published in the United States that covers politics in a manner its editors describe as "muckraking with a radical
In recent years, McGowan has controversially written in defense of the viewpoint of the Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, author of "Did Six Million Really Die" and "The Hitler We loved and Why". Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel (born April 24 1939 in Bad Wildbad) is a German Neo-Nazi, Holocaust denier and Pamphleteer who was jailed several Zundel has been prosecuted in Canada and Germany for his pro-Nazi incitement and involvement with fascist groups. [1]