- Everyone conscious of the importance of the free exchange of views is hesitant about banning people’s views. But Holocaust denial is different
David Irving
More jail, more often, for Holocaust revisionists
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Continue readingNation-states gone wild: The persecution of David Irving
Will the European governments that ban any talk about the Nazis not having murdered 6 million Jews start rounding up the newspaper editors who published the Muhammad cartoons and start putting them on trial for crimes against Islam? European governments and their media mouthpieces appear to use the mantle of free speech to justify publishing supposed insults against Muslims. But what about the free speech rights of people who dare to go against conventional thinking of Nazi atrocities committed against Europe’s Jews?
Continue readingAbusing the Holocaust
Lucy Dawidowicz, the late Holocaust historian, recalled that one day she received a phone call from a young man affiliated with Larry King’s American national talk-radio program. She was asked if she would be prepared to debate Robert Faurisson, a well-known anti-Semite who denies that Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Dawidowicz replied that Faurisson should not be provided a platform for his virulent anti-Semitism.
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