Real History and Heroes of the Libel Court Alphabetical index (text) Lipstadt is an academic whiz-kid who does not know her Arsch from her Ellenbogen . She refers to the Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller, head of Himmler’s Amt IV, as Hermann Müller — David Irving May 28, 2002 (Tuesday) Salt Lake City (Utah) — Key West (Florida) THE speaking tour is over.

In one month I have driven around thirteen thousand miles up and down this great and beautiful continent — from Key West to Harvard, from Los Angeles to Seattle and Salt Lake City. Plus ten thousand miles of flying, that makes some circuit. But the odious Lipstadt seems to get around quite a bit as well, though I doubt she pays for much of it out of her own pocket. That is Professor Deborah Lipstadt : well, an American professor, that is; at a university, at Emory University, that is.

A friend in South Africa tells me that yesterday evening (Monday) they interviewed the ubiquitous professor live on Radio 702 in Johannesburg. She “spent half the interview telling John Robbie not to interview you which definitely irritated the interviewer.”

The interviewer was an Irishman, John Robbie , who although a liberal has enough of the rebel in him to give the other side a chance. “He once slammed the phone down on the Minister for Health when she wouldnt give him a straight answer about the government AIDS policy.” I wonder if he bothered to bone up on my list of twelve suggested questions to Lipstadt — to which a thirteenth one now comes to mind: Why did the University of California refuse to grant you tenure?

Why did you leave, and gravitate downward to Emory? Was it because of the quality of your research, or did allegations that you plagiarised a student’s work, in the grand tradition of Alex Haley ( “Roots” ) and Stephen Ambrose , have anything to do with it? Those were two of the questions we had lined up for her cross examination at the London libel action — Lipstadt however pleaded the Fifth, and never took the witness stand.

On Radio 702 yesterday, this poet and scholar spent five minutes slagging me off from a satisfactorily safe distance, arguing that Robbie should not give time to “fascists” like me. If people write to him a polite letter explaining which of us two, Lipstadt or myself, is the fascist, and why Judge Gray said what he did, maybe he would give me some of his radio prime-time. (His email address is [email protected] ). But I doubt it.

The usual and traditional enemies of free speech, who cocoon the ignorant Lipstadts of this world, are there to gag me. When I was in Johannesburg in February 1992, Radio 702 invited me for a live interview. Ten minutes before I left the hotel they phoned to say “don’t bother”. They had come under pressure from SAJBOD , the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (“What, us? An international conspiracy?”)

Other Johannesburg and Pretoria functions were also cancelled under Jewish threats of violence, but an overflowing audience in the university of Pretoria heard me speak. My audiences there (right) are always vast. AT fifteen minutes past midnight I set out from Miami airport in a rented Grand Marquis and cruise down the 160-mile Overseas Highway

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