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New York SunNew York, March 23, 2005 David Irving comments:I AM puzzled by Professor Lipstadt’s scholarly obsession with dog-poo in her home streets. This is the third time she has used this analogy in the space of seven days. It does have an ugly ring about it — rather like the Nazis’ equating of the Jews with rats, in Goebbels’ notorious film Der ewige Jude.
She discussed dog-poo in depth with her (no doubt, equally perplexed) attorney Anthony Julius, as she revealed in an earlier article in this series. Did she have an unfortunate childhood experience with dog-poo? Perhaps a psychiatrist should explain. I AM puzzled by Professor Lipstadt’s scholarly obsession with dog-poo in her home streets. This is the third time she has used this analogy in the space of seven days.
It does have an ugly ring about it — rather like the Nazis’ equating of the Jews with rats, in Goebbels’ notorious film Der ewige Jude. She discussed dog-poo in depth with her (no doubt, equally perplexed) attorney Anthony Julius, as she revealed in an earlier article in this series. Did she have an unfortunate childhood experience with dog-poo? Perhaps a psychiatrist should explain.
Holocaust deniers and, for that matter, most prejudiced people are wretched types who are no more important than the dirt we step in on the street. We must, however, clean it off our feet before we drag it into our homes.
This time, however, my “adversary” was a network that many people look to as a source of calm, clear and, generally, insightful discussion.Four years after my trial in a London court, I find myself far more disturbed by C-span’s moral blindness than by pathetic characters such as Holocaust deniers.Professor Lipstadt teaches Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University and the author of “History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving” (Ecco, 2005).
Index to the media scandal surrounding Prof Lipstadt’s attempt to silence C-Span and the history debate Prof Barry Steiner chides thes the LA Jewish Journal on Lipstadt: “I believe the writing of Irving that I know and have consulted in my work is not fraudulent. It … shows not a shred of any linkage to Nazi sympathies or any kind of political agenda.”
Four years after my trial in a London court, I find myself far more disturbed by C-span’s moral blindness than by pathetic characters such as Holocaust deniers. Professor Lipstadt teaches Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University and the author of “History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving” (Ecco, 2005).