Real History and Lipstadt’s Dog-and-Pony Show

In his recent book “The Lost Territories
of the Republic,” Georges
Bensoussan describes the current
situation in many French schools attended
by large numbers of Muslims. These
students frequently dismiss their
teachers’ attempts to teach about the
Holocaust with the declaration: “This is
an invention.” In response, some French
teachers have reportedly backed off from
teaching about the Holocaust.

There has been a tendency to dismiss this phenomenon as a matter of lesser concern because it comes from
“disaffected” Muslim and Arab youth. Most of these students, however, are the
French-born children or grandchildren of immigrants.

Holocaust denial is not the only form of false history that is gaining ground in the Arab and Muslim world. Increasingly, the myths of the blood libel and of world
Jewish domination have spread.

In 2003, the manuscript museum at the famed Alexandria Library briefly exhibited
“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” (it withdrew them in response to world protests). The Egyptian weekly
Al-Usbu interviewed Dr. Yousef
Ziedan, the director of manuscripts at the library, in conjunction with the exhibition.

Sample
‘analysis’ cited

Regarding the Holocaust, the weekly quoted the museum official as saying, “An analysis of samples from the purported gas chambers has proven that these were sterilization chambers, without a sufficient quantity of cyanide to kill.”

He also declared that “Had
Hitler wanted to annihilate the
Jews of Europe, he would have.”
Strikingly, fundamentalist Muslims have adopted the traditional anti-Semitic imagery of the Christian world.

While there are those Arab intellectuals who have decried Holocaust denial by their fellow Arabs, their views do not seem to be in the ascendancy.

The phenomenon of Arab and Muslim
Holocaust denial cannot be ignored or dismissed as “simply” an expression of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
These attacks are not found only at the extreme ends of the political spectrum.
Moreover, it is hard to erase these notions once they have taken root, particularly in a generation of young people.

The prevalence of Arab Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism are a stark indication that despite the fact that a myriad of heads of state and their delegations gathered at
Birkenau, history — particularly inconvenient history — remains a battleground.

Note: the above article was also published in The Jerusalem Post and no doubt other newspapers around the world by the profligate scholar. The AJC appended this note on her:

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR

Deborah
Lipstadt, the Emory University professor and Holocaust scholar, won a decisive victory in a London court in
2000 over a British historian who had sued her for libel.

Lipstadt this week publishes “History on Trial: My
Day in Court With David Irving” (Ecco,
$25.95, 368p). Irving at the time was a respected historian with several books on World War II to his credit. He claimed Lipstadt libeled him in a 1993
book by calling him a
Holocaust denier.

[Hot dogs stands]Lipstadt’s defense team put up eminent historians and investigators and showed conclusively that the Holocaust did, indeed, happen. And it exposed Irving as an extremist with ties to neo-Nazis.

“History on
Trial” recounts the three-month libel trial, in which Lipstadt never testified and in which she was forced to listen as Irving asserted that more people died in Ted Kennedy’s car at
Chappaquiddick than in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

Last week she was part of the official U.S. delegation to the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Illustration:
Hotdogs are served outside the great tourist attraction, the Holocaust Museum in Washinton DC

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items on this website:

Dossier
on Deborah Lipstadt

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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