Ralph Schoenman

Ralph Schoenman is a longtime Leftist activist. He first became prominent in the Vietnam antiwar movement as the general secretary of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. He participated in various causes supported by Russell, the famed mathematician and philosopher, including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and a mock war crimes tribunal against the government of the United States for its actions in Vietnam.

Russell publicly broke with Schoenman in 1969.

When, sometime after the Cuban debacle, he finally took the bit in his teeth and later careered away unrestrained as Secretary General of the War Crimes Tribunal, I became increasingly doubtful of his usefulness to the work and remonstrated with him both frequently and severely. Since his methods, however, have become importunately open to question and, consequently, intolerable, during the last two years, and during the last year can only be termed dishonest, I have felt it necessary to make a definitive break with him.

I did this in my letter to him of July, 1969, to which I received no reply. Towards the end of November, 1969, I was obliged to write again in an endeavour to extract an understanding that he would cease using either my name or my wife’s as he has been doing to support his own work. And in the past few days, I have found it necessary to prepare a public statement of repudiation, since I must, if possible, dissociate myself and my wife from all Ralph’s actions in the minds of all men who will listen.

Russell also describes his impression of Schoenman:

I had said in the first draft that I found him “surprisingly unlicked”. I found him not only impetuous but “aggressive and entirely undisciplined and I realised that these characteristics might well make him seem a ‘dangerous young man’”, as I had been warned that he was, “to anyone of whom he did not approve.” I early recognized his lively instinct for self-dramatization, his swash-buckling assumption of the importance of his own role in the centre of the stage. His conviction of his unshakable belief in the penetration and breadth of his understanding were obvious. I did not for some time, however, grasp the closely related characteristic of his utter incapability of imparting reliable information. His reports of people’s reactions and his observations were—and unfortunately, I fear, still are—very often excessively and misleadingly incorrect and his quotations must always be verified. I was impressed by his courage, both moral and physical, although it too often flouted necessary caution and resulted in unnecessary provocation. And I was impressed by his generosity in helping anyone of whom he thought well or thought to be suffering injustice, although it often led to useless waste of effort and money, both of which might have been far more advantageously spent.

Schoenman does a weekly one-hour show called Taking Aim on WBAI, the (Leftist) Pacifica Radio Network outlet in New York City. He was a featured speaker in the demonstrations by the Deniers in New York City around the fifth anniversary of 9-11. Here's a discussion of a more recent speech by Schoenman:

Ralph Schoenman, the militant left-wing co-host of WBAI radio’s “Taking Aim” program, was the draw for the varied crowd of aging beatniks, East Village couples and singletons and assorted punk anarchists and antiwar activists in black T-shirts. They paid $8 apiece to be told that the tragic events of that day represented an “inside job” and “terror at the top” of the U.S. government.

Schoenman, who once worked for the late Lord Bertrand Russell and with him founded a “Who killed Kennedy?” committee in 1963 after J.F.K.’s assassination, also suggested there had been advance planning before the “steel structures” melted and “pancaked down in seconds.” In addition, he claimed the B.B.C. reported on the collapse of the 7 World Trade Center building before the event transpired. An elderly woman attending the event with her husband kept nodding and murmuring “That’s right!” during much of Schoenman’s remarks, which were interrupted at times with applause.

The event was sponsored by the New York Truth in 9/11 movement, which meets regularly at St. Mark’s. Schoenman received a standing ovation before he took the mic to contend that a “criminal oligarchy” was behind 9/11 and subsequent terror attacks in London and Madrid. The purpose of the attacks, he said, was to create a “culture of terror” to justify suppression of civil liberties and the rise of “security entrepreneurs” and others seeking enrichment in the Middle East.

“Brothers and sisters, this is class warfare,” said the Brooklyn-born radical, who graduated from London’s School of Economics with a master’s degree and became a globe-trotting leader for the Bertrand Russell Peace Commission.

Schoenman wrote a book in the late 1980s called "The Hidden History of Zionism". Among other things, the book claims:

The fourth myth is that of Zionism as the moral legatee of the victims of the Holocaust. This is at once the most pervasive and insidious of the myths about Zionism. Ideologues for the Zionist movement have wrapped themselves in the collective shroud of the six million Jews who fell victim to Nazi mass murder. The bitter and cruel irony of this false claim is that the Zionist movement itself actively colluded with Nazism from its inception.

To most people it appears anomalous that the Zionist movement, which forever invokes the horror of the Holocaust, should have collaborated actively with the most vicious enemy ever faced by the Jews. The record, however, reveals not merely common interests but a deep ideological affinity rooted in the extreme chauvinism which they share.

In terms of his 9-11 CT, here's a video of a speech done by Schoenman. He seems to take much the same approach as Tarpley and Hopsicker, claiming that Atta and others were patsies, that this was a false-flag operation. Surprisingly, there is no mention of "Zionists" although he does bring up the Mossad on several occasions.