[12][13] In 1988, the Institute for Historical Review, an organization which propagated Holocaust denial, published Robert John's Behind the Balfour Declaration, including a single acknowledgment to Freedman.

John wrote that Freedman "gave me copies of materials on the Balfour Declaration, which I might never have found on my own and (he) encouraged my own research.

"[14] He was a financial backer of the author Conde McGinley, publisher of the antisemitic periodical Common Sense.

[5] Freedman, an apostate Jew, was well known to the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee as an active supporter of the Arab cause in the Middle East.

(fn 33) In the course of his erratic and often contradictory testimony before the Senate committee, Freedman revealed the roles played by anti-Semitic agitators and right-wing anticommunists — including Gerald L. K. Smith, Conde McGinley, the "Reverend" Wesley Swift, Congressman John Rankin, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and J. B.