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DAVID IRVING
comments on the Emory University Holocaust on Trial
Website
My views about Emory remain unchanged.
IF A university can tolerate the standards of scholarship displayed by Lipstadt, then it is not fit to be placed on the same level as other bodies of that name. Her previous university dispensed with her services, and she found a safe haven at an uncritical Emory. Her collaborators in Los Angeles are trying to get Professor Kevin Macdonald (an acknowledged expert of real scholarship, who freely testified under oath in the trial on the roots of antisemitism), kicked out of his southern California university in revenge, arguing that a university is judged by the calibre of its staff. That cuts both ways in Emory's case.
Emory University is promoting a Website 
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smearing me and purporting to portray the Lipstadt Trial.
By their own standards of objectivity they too will be
judged.
Judge Gray himself commented on our trial Website in a private letter to a US legal expert, praising the standard of objectivity and even-handedness maintained.
Compare
these things: From the moment the case of
DJC Irving vs Penguin and Lipstadt began, we
posted on our Website all
relevant legal documents of both sides. In the spirit
of the Internet, we posted links to all the relevant
opposition Websites known to us. We posted all
the relevant press clippings, although they were
overwhelmingly hostile to us. From the day the trial
began, we posted the
daily transcripts of the trial, for which we paid a
fee of many thousands of pounds (Lipstadt's Website has
only just posted the transcripts). We posted all the
witness statements provided by her defence and the
supporting documents (they eventually asked us to remove
many of them, in our judgment because they reflected
poorly on her). We posted all the expert reports of both
sides, in the face of threatened
proceedings by her defence lawyers for contempt of
Court.
The Lipstadt Website posts only her defence witness statements and expert reports. Like the Website for the recent Nova television presentation in North America, The Holocaust on Trial, her Website includes links only to "friendly" Websites. (The Nova Website did not even give the link to the daily transcripts on which it was partly based, which were at that time posted only on our Website). Her Website includes the statements of three witnesses (none of whom gave evidence on oath at the trial); among them is the statement of the Canadian Jewish agitator Bernie Farber, whose evidence was disallowed by the Court in a similar trial in Canada specifically because of his obvious rabid prejudice. The Farber statement was withdrawn by the defence in the Lipstadt trial in London -- yet it is on her Website as though it was before the Court. It was not. Lipstadt's own statement is also on her Website: yet she refused to take the twenty-foot walk into the witness stand, to confirm that everything she wrote in it was true, so help her God.
A FINAL comment on the objectivity of this AJC-financed
Website
* of "scholar" Deborah Lipstadt. Try clicking on
the changing images upper left. There are two images
showing my likeness. The one is secretly named
"foolbooks" showing me carrying books into the court. The
other is named "fooleggy", showing me being attacked by
the mob hired by Lipstadt's supporters to throw eggs,
while entering the High Court building on April 12,
2000.
Incidentally, to economise on effort and free up space
for more important amunitions, we shall shortly remove
all the Lipstadt defence files and statements from our
Website and replace them with hyperlinks to the
corresponding documents on the Lipstadt Website, even
though in some cases the version there (e.g. the Browning
report) is not the "cleansed" version that was actually
before the Court. We shall however continue to post the
complete file
of daily transcripts, as we can not be certain that
they have not been tampered with in the version on the
Lipstadt Website.
* Website safety note: 
as the webmaster of the Lipstadt website has installed
HTML to prevent anybody from returning to our website
once they are trapped in hers, we have made this a magic
link: just point to it, to open her website in a
different window.
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