April
25, 2000 (Tuesday)
London WHILE
we have learned that the defence "experts" in the
Lipstadt case received (perfectly
lawful) inducements of up to
£109,000
($200,000) each, to testify as they did, we
wondered how the unfortunate defendant,
Professor Lipstadt would be rewarded -- I
mean, apart from having her entire British legal
costs paid by the Dreamworks team of Stephen
Spielberg et al. ("What, us a global
network?") It turns out that things were already in
the works -- not the dreamworks this time -- even
as Mr Justice Gray was still contemplating
his verdict. In the respected New York Jewish
weekly  --
the issue dated April 21 -- we find a full page
advertisement (and these things don't come cheap)
on page 4 "to honor Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt for her
victory on behalf of the Jewish people".
 The
advertisement reproduces a congratulatory letter to
her from the President of Yeshiva University, dated
9 March -- written two days before closing
statements were delivered in the London trial --
informing her that at the commencement exercises of
the University, 25 May, she will receive an
honorary doctorate and deliver the commencement
address. It says further
"At a time when the Holocaust is taking
center stage, the libel action in London is a drama
of landmark proportion. Your academic career and
scholarship have been distinguished and you now
represent all our people in your confrontation with
the anti-semitic Holocaust deniers."
We
wonder why there was such a long delay in
publishing it. | 
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