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Real History and Censorship by its Traditional Enemies The index to this Lipstadtscandal your Deborah Lipstadt index your Lipstadt Trial index [images and captions added by this website] Saturday, March 19, 2005 Photo: Prof Deborah Lipstadt exultant outside the Brtish High Court in April 2000, surrounded by her lawyers (far right, the Zionist zealot James Libson): they spent $10m raised by her backers to defeat Mr Irving’s claim — most of it on paying “experts” to give opinions

on his works. C-SPAN Hit for Plan to Air Holocaust Revisionist’s Views By Alina Tugend Special to The Times C-SPAN executives said Friday that they had been reconsidering how to cover a new book about a libel trial over the Holocaust since author Deborah Lipstadt refused to appear on the air with a British writer who has claimed that Hitler did not order or approve the mass execution of 6 million Jews.

David Irving writes to the O’Reilly Show I DON’T like your show, but you’re said to be fair and balanced (by yourselves, that is). If you promote Deborah Lipstadt and her book attacking me, as the LA Times reports today, I presume that you will also allow me to defend myself? After all she spent $10 million defending herself against my lawsuit five years ago, when the dollar was still big money. My contact details are below: […]

LA Times quote: “Lipstadt is scheduled to be interviewed by Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly on Monday night, and she said she would still be “thrilled” to appear on C-SPAN’s “Book TV,” without Irving.” C-SPAN was hit with a barrage of criticism this week when it became public that the producers of the weekend program “Book TV” wanted to air a lecture by David Irving along with one by Lipstadt, a professor of Holocaust studies at Emory University in Atlanta.

More than 200 [ website: mostly Jewish ] historians nationwide signed a petition opposing the cable network’s decision to put Irving on the program. “He personifies Holocaust denial,” said Harvard legal expert Alan M. Dershowitz , ( below ) who introduced Lipstadt when she spoke to a packed room Wednesday at Harvard Hillel, a Jewish organization associated with Harvard University. “This is not about free speech.

He can stand on a street corner and rant and rave, but C-SPAN ought to let him sell his poison elsewhere. They shouldn’t create a debate where one doesn’t exist.” C-SPAN initially asked Lipstadt, who is promoting her new book, “History on Trial: My Day in Court With David Irving,” to debate Irving , which she flatly rejected. The producers then planned to show her speech at Harvard Hillel,