David Irving v Penguin & Lipstadt — Jan 2005 (01 Jan 2005 #6367)

The Lipstadt Case David Irving explains the fight so far David Irving has provided to some of his contributors an inside account of the whole battle to date, the reasons why he is fighting it, and what the future holds: “It was a deep sense of personal rage that caused me to start this fight. I launched the fighting fund in Nov. 1992 in Ontario, when the Canadian Government, acting at the dictate of the Canadian Jewish Congress , ordered me deported.

I had visited Canada for 25 years, ever since appearing on the TV show Front Page Challenge in 1967. Through the efforts of Canadian lawyer Barbara Kulaszka I established that the CJC had planted libellous reports on me in the Ottawa files. These had been compiled for the CJC by Michael Whinge, director of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

It turns out that, just like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in New York, the British BoD is compiling dossiers on people they regard as “dangerous” to their interests. (I complained to the Data Protection Agency about this infringement of the laws, but they escaped prosecution). The Canadian ban was a serious blow, but I have always fought back. When confronting these secretive organisations a new factor comes in: they do not spare with money when it comes to destroying people.

The ADL has an annual budget of over $50 million, the other bodies not much less — particularly since the global success of their “Holocaust” shakedown operations (Abe Foxman, the ADL chief, wrote laughingly of having ” bludgeoned ” the Swiss banks out of their money).

In my action against their leading guru, Deborah Lipstadt, such organisations gave Six Million dollars to help her, believing that a British Court is impressed by money. “British justice,” my father warned me in 1966, “Is the best that money can buy.” Over the two years following the Canadian ban, the world-wide bans proliferated. Australia , which I had visited in 1986 and 1987, promoting my books on the 1956 Hungarian uprising and on Winston Churchill , suddenly refused me a new visa.

Armed now with a Fighting Fund built up by hundreds of well-wishers in Australia, I was able to fight the Australian Government and I defeated them in the Federal Court of West Australia. The Judge declared the ban on me to be illegal. Coming under fresh pressure from the Australian Jewish Congress, in the person of multi-millionaire Mr. Isidor Leibler (as the New Zealand Herald established at that time), Canberra now secretly changed the law in order to legitimise a continued ban on me.

I have subsequently fought them twice in the Law Courts of Australia, but without success. The Australian press is notably supporting me in this dramatic fight for free speech. THE attempts at silencing me elsewhere grew more insidious. Always, it turned out that local Jewish organisations, networking with their international “umbrella” bodies, had provided the impetus.

They don’t like the phrase “international conspiracy,” so I have coined for them the new phrase, the “traditional enemies of free speech.” In South Africa, after I conducted three or four highly successful lecture tours, speaking in city halls and universities right across the country, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies persuaded Pretoria to ban any further lecture tours by me. That ban has now been rescinded.

I now recognised what the initial letters SAJBOD, which I had first noticed heading a fax sent to the Immigration Court in Vancouver, which ordered my deportation, stood for. Simultaneously, in 1992-3, a far uglier campaign began in Germany. I had visited and worked there quite lawfully since 1959, and my books there were bestsellers, published by the leading German publishers.

After I happened to declare at a Munich public meeting in April 1990 that the alleged gas chamber at Auschwitz I, the Stammlager, which the Poles like to show to world-wide tourists, is a post-war fake, I was arrested and heavily fined. The fine increased from a summary 3,000 deutschmarks penalty in 1990 to 7,000 in 1992, and then to 30,000 in 1993, around $20,000, as I refused to recant !

In November 1993 I was intercepted in Munich as I was about to speak to university students, and handed a police order banning me from Germany in perpetuity . Outlawed, but right The Polish Government has subsequently admitted that what I said was true — they had actually built the Auschwitz I gas chamber on display in 1948 (see the Paris news magazine L’Express, Jan. 19, 1995 ). I initiated a lengthy lawsuit in Germany, aimed at overturning the ban; it failed, inevitably.

Having expelled me, ironically the German government tried for ten years to extradite me from England, to jail me for having repeated this “libel on the memory of the dead” at a speech in Weinheim

on Sept. 2, 1990. Mr. Günter Deckert , a teacher who chaired that particular meeting, was arrested and imprisoned for a total of seven years. The Germans tried once more to extradite me on the day my historic action against Lipstadt opened in London. That is how closely the “traditional enemies” work with foreign governments. In a public press release on Sept. 3, 2000, Germany had to admit failure, as the ten-year statute of limitations on my “crime” had run out.

It was the very severity of these fines and prison sentences that convinced me that somebody must be hiding something. As the late Auberon Waugh once wrote , real history does not need such sanctions to survive. I commented in a letter printed in The Sunday Times that if President Clinton started imprisoning people for saying that Franklin D. Roosevelt knew in advance of Pearl Harbor, then people would surely start asking questions about the real history of that event too.

Italy joins in In June 1992 — after I returned from Moscow with the exclusive Diaries of Dr. Joseph Goebbels , the Nazi Propaganda Minister — I was invited to address students in Rome. I flew into Rome International Airport; there I was intercepted by police refused entry, and sent