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(text) [ H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine ] When Lipstadt said the F-word Reply-To: H-NET H-Antisemitism Sender: H-NET H-Antisemitism Author: Robert Michael June 7, 2000 My brother recently sent me a long interview of Deborah Lipstadt , most of it centering around the Irving case.

I had met her briefly years ago at a conference in Boston and, as a new teacher of Holocaust, I asked her during our conversation, “What do I do if a student makes antisemitic remarks in class?” She replied tersely, “F— ’em.” It was like Alexander cutting the Gordian Knot with his sword. Congrats, Deborah, you did good! One statement in her interview caught my attention. She said of Irving: “But he’s not a normal person — he’s an antisemite.”

It always seemed to me that a normal person certainly could be an antisemite. Thoughts? Robert Michael [H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine] Send comments and questions to H-Net Webstaff

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Original Publication: 2005-01-01
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