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Real History and the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech The Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech Alphabetical index (text) origins of anti-semitism [Images added by this website] Hate speech? How about these two emails I received a few days ago from a lady in Israel.
London, David Irving comments: IT is unusual to find Isi Leibler , one of the richest men on earth who made his fortune at the expense of the Australians and now lives, where else, in Israel, seeming to support free speech. He and his brother Mark [below] were the billionaires who bankrolled prime minister after prime minister in Australia and persuaded them to ban my entry after my two peaceful and brilliantly successful tours of their continent in 1986 and 1987.
Hate speech? How about these two emails I received a few days ago from a lady, Jennie P . , with an email address in Israel : “I pray every night that all your daughters will end up in the same place as Josephine as soon as possible,” and, addressed to my late daughter Josephine’s youngest sister Jessica, ” BURN BABY BURN!!!!!!!!!! ” I was always taught not to use more than one exclamati
on mark, but Jennie P., like the Leibler brothers, evidently went to a different school from me. Incidentally, please humour these two men: they do not want their German name properly pronounced as libeller , but as Leebler. But then, Eli Wiesel always stresses the second syllable, in his weasel way. THANKS to the Leebler brothers, I am not even allowed to visit my next of kin in Australia, including my daughter and her children, all now Australian citizens.
Told that the law now gives me an automatic right to visit Australia John Howard , the then prime minister and handmaiden of George W Bush , informed his parliament: “Then we are just going to have to change the law a second time to keep Mr Irving out.” (They had previously changed the Immigration Act for that very purpose, according to legal expert Prof Lewis Maher ). Maybe Howard’s successor will prove different.
Meanwhile, Isi, have your say: I cannot prevent it, nor would I seek to do so, not being one of the traditional enemnies of free speech. Rethinking prosecution of Holocaust denial by Isi Leibler , THE JERUSALEM POST IT may now be timely to rethink the merits of criminalizing Holocaust denial .
The issue recently made headlines when German-born Australian Frederic Toben was arrested in transit at Heathrow airport and detained until the British courts decide whether he is to be extradited to Germany to face prosecution as a Holocaust denier. Toben is a veteran in this field, having participated in Ahmadinejad ‘s Holocaust “conference” and having already served seven months in a German prison as a denier.
Although Australia has no statutes outlawing Holocaust denial , the courts there have ordered Toben to stop publishing anti-Semitic material on his website such as the description of the Holocaust as “the world’s filthiest blood libel” because it breaches the Racial Discrimination Act. Toben has refused to adhere to the court order, and if found in contempt is likely to face severe penalties on his