NOTE OF course the underlying implication of all this: Deborah Lipstadt did not have the evidence she needed at the time she wrote her lies, despite having canvassed all her pals, the ADL , the Board of Deputies of British Jews , the Institute of Jewish Affairs (who had secretly told newspapers that Mr Irving was behind the Oklahoma City bombing ) etc. True historians research first, then write afterwards.

Lipstadt penned her lies first, and peddled them, and only afterwards looked frantically for the evidence that would fit her lies. Some scholar.