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July 15, 2002, p. 4
ONLY ANTI-ZIONIST HAS GUTS TO PUBLISH BOOK ON HOLOCAUST-DENIER IRVING By Eric Silver
Evans, professor of modern history at Cambridge University, was the chief expert witness for the defense when Irving unsuccessfully sued American author Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books in London two years ago for allegedly libeling him in her book "Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory." His testimony convinced Justice Charles Gray to rule that Irving was an anti-Semite and Holocaust-denier who "treated the historical evidence in a manner which fell far short of the standard to be expected of a conscientious historian." Irving was declared bankrupt this spring [May 21] after failing to pay about $4 million in costs, and in mid-June [May 23] the bailiffs confiscated his Mayfair apartment, estimated to be worth $1.2 million. To add insult to injury, "Telling Lies" was launched at a party in Winston Churchill's war room under The Mall. Irving has frequently denounced Britain's World War II leader as a war criminal for ordering the bombing of German civilians.
In the end, "Telling Lies" was brought out by Verso, run by Pakistani-born Tariq Ali (above), an outspoken Marxist and anti-Zionist who made his name as a radical student leader at Oxford in the late 60s.
December 2001
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The
Jerusalem Report
ONLY
after a lengthy search for a publisher -- and 15 months
after it came out in the U.S. -- has a devastating analysis
of David Irving's record of Holocaust denial finally been
published in Britain. Six publishers had turned down
"Telling Lies about Hitler" by Richard J. Evans,
because Irving threatened to sue, and it has been brought
out by a small leftist publishing house run by a Marxist and
anti-Zionist.
The
six mainstream British publishers who turned down the book
feared Irving's threats to sue all over again, despite the
fact that most of the material in its 326 pages was on the
court record and that Irving no longer had a professional
reputation left to damage. Their reluctance, Evans told
The Report, "doesn't say much for the moral courage
of British publishing or its commitment to freedom of
speech."
Gavin
Everall, Verso's marketing director, says the book is
the first that "substantially demolishes Irving's reputation
as a historian. His vile propaganda is still available on
the history shelves of mainstream bookshops." As for the
threat of litigation, Everall says,
"We'll be happy if he does sue.
He wouldn't win and we'd get a lot of free
publicity."
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