Lipstadt’s odd brother (brother Marc Kalmann)

Daniel
Kalmann about Marc Kalmann, Deborah
Lipstadt’s other brother: He liked the title professor and has used it since. He tends to believe his own fantasies.

Friday,
February 22, 2008

Lipstadt:
Am I my brother’s keeper?

AN American,
Professor Marc Kalmann, told the world’s media that he had been thrown out of a Bruges, Belgium, restaurant because he was a Jew wearing a yarmulke.

That was bad. The mayor has apologized already. The city council apologized already. The media pundits did not bother to check, but apologized already. The story echoed around the world. Now the sequel echoes too, but only around the
Internet.

In the numerous press articles it is reported that Kalmann was born in
Auschwitz in
1945, that he was sexually molested as an infant in an institution, that he was thrown out of the bar for being Jewish (in fact he had refused to pay for his high-priced coffee – on which we sympathise with him, but the news item leaves open the question whether he had drunk the costly beverage or not), that the police refused to write down his enquiry in English, that he is a professor, and much of the same.

Twelve questions to put to Prof.
Lipstadt the next time you see her…

Now comes the interesting bit. Kalmann is
the brother of Atlanta Professor
Deborah Lipstadt, and she has gone
straight into brother-denial. (Don’t ask
us how they come to use different family
names: I remember once interviewing
Julius Streicher‘s son, also a
Streicher, for Hard Copy (US
television), and him retorting, “We
are not the sort of people who change our
names.”)

Changing names is the kind of things that the
Lipstadt’s of this world do more often than others.

Next interesting bit — a comparison of
Dichtung und Wahrheit, fiction and fact: Lipstadt frère was not born in Auschwitz but in Amsterdam; nor in wartime 1945 but in 1948 — tough, he misses out on the gravy train then; he was not sexually molested as a child; he was not thrown out of the bar; and as for the language, Flemish police are required to communicate in their own — in which
Kalmann is anyway fluent –, not English, unless an interpreter is present; he is not a

professor; and much of the same.

It now emerges that he had once or more acted similarly earlier in The Netherlands (for Americans: that’s the country next to
Belgium), where he alleged that he had been “terrorized by antisemitic Moroccon immigrants.” Two months after that enquiry police officials outed him as a liar and hoaxer.

And now the same situation in Flanders,
Belgium.

AGHAST, and fearing no doubt that this episode might come to my ears, Deborah
Lipstadt has rushed to her damage-control panel, groped in the darkness of her own delirium for the button marked
” DENIAL!” but pushed the one marked
” PANIC” by mistake.
The Internet is awash with fun at her expense.

We report faithfully the painful denial
from
Lipstadt’s blog:

“Let
me quickly shed some light on Marc
Kalmann, my brother. He was born in
1948 in Amsterdam and not in Auschwitz
in 1945. He lives in the Netherlands
and is fluent in Dutch. He lived in the
USA for 22 years and was sometimes
employed as a teacher of languages at
community colleges. He liked the title
professor and has used it since. He
tends to believe his own fantasies. I
love him but I am concerned that his
fantasies take over his world.

And
through the magic of the Internet it is
taking the world by storm. I wanted to
set some part of the record straight. I
have no knowledge of what did or did
not happen at the restaurant in
Bruges”.

My thanks to my many friends around the world who have sent me this item for our website. Please send more. (Does
Professor Richard J “Skunky” Evans
have embarrassing siblings, I wonder?)

Dossier
on Deborah Lipstadt

Her brother’s lies are first exposed
(in Dutch): [1]
[2]

Article
in the Jewish weekly, ‘Joods Actueel’,
with TV report attached

Islam
in Europe did not realise who his
famous

sister
was

Ha’aretz: U.S.
Jew says kicked out of Belgian cafe for
wearing kippah

Scott
Smith asks who paid Lipstadt’s Libel
trial costs, and gets a very full
answer

Lipstadt
trial index

Trial
transcripts

Lipstadt’s
praise for

Binjamin Wilkomirski, the
(ASSHOL) fraudster and
liar:
“Deborah
Lipstadt has assigned Fragments
in her Emory University class on
Holocaust memoirs. When confronted with
evidence that it is a fraud, she
commented that the new revelations
‘might complicate matters somewhat, but
[the work] is still
powerful.'”

Twelve
questions to put to Prof.

Lipstadt the
next time you see
her…

Controversy
April 2001 over Emory’s choice of
Deborah Lipstadt as graduation speaker;
won’t get honorary
degree

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