Omry
Kaplan writes from Israel,
Support from an Israeli for the reporting by ” FAZ”, and criticisms of this site’s policy
You apparently much dislike Mrs.
[Eva] Menasse‘s reports in the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung. You perceive them as being untruthful and vicious. You invite readers to send their protests to
Mrs. Menasse and to her editor.
A journalist who does not report as he should is not a serious journalist, and as such he shouldn’t continue writing in serious newspapers, should he? If some Jewish group had uttered “suggestions” to similar actions against you, you would have termed it an international campaign of the traditional enemies of free speech to silence you.
Your suggestion’s goal is to intimidate Mrs. Menasse; it says to Mrs. Menasse: “You either write what Mr. Irving perceives as being the truth or your reputation will be challenged in your own redaction”.
I don’t say you are not entitled to protest against what you think to be untrue and damaging to you, and I don’t say you are not entitled to choose any ways of doing this which you deem appropriate. But I do say that to combat one thing when it is directed against you and to do this very thing when it suits your interests may be termed as
„Verlogenheit”. I think you should add your name to the list of „the traditional enemies of free speech”.
Oron
Kaplan, Herzliya, Israel.
David
Irving replies:
You will notice that I have asked readers to compare what Menasse writes with the Wortlautprotokoll.
And IF they disagree, to send a comment to her editor. That seems fair. I would be happy if people gave me the same kind of hearing.