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Excerpt from http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4055270,00.html
Whose Europe is it anyway?
A new Europe is taking shape. More united, yes, but is it also increasingly xenophobic? Travelling from country to country, Linda Grant finds that the danger is less the resurgence of old-style fascism than the rise of 'modern', democratically elected, far-right parties, on the model of Jörg Haider's Freedom Party in Austria, whose aim is to turn the continent into a largely white fortress.
Linda Grant
Guardian
Excerpt: [...] Despite the endurance of a few skinheads, vandalism in Jewish cemeteries and an admiration for the racist and anti-Semite (formerly known as a historian) David Irving, there is no real taste for fascism in Europe these days. If there is anything to fear, we will find it rooted in democratically elected parties that want all the economic benefits of EU membership without the political consequences. [...]
Website Note on "Operation Backfire": Guardian Newspapers Ltd are trying to destroy David Irving before his High Court libel action against them reaches the courtroom. The writ was served on them in 1996. Our psychiatric friends report: Publishing continued slime-attacks on Mr Irving while the action is still to be heaard indicates a pathological deathwish by the newspaper company.
Incidentally this journalist Linda Grant wrote a whole page article two years ago describing a visit to the Auschwitz area; but when she learned that most of the tourist site is a fake, built after the war, including the gas chamber shown to tourists, she refused to visit it (and bravely said so in her article). we wonder what has brought about this conversion.
