Month: March 2013

After the Irving-Lipstadt Trial: New Dangers and Challenges

David Irving: 'Defeated But Unbowed' A verdict has finally been reached in the much publicized Irving-Lipstadt libel trial in London. Judge Charles Gray, in a lengthy ruling made public on April 11, 2000, called David Irving an anti-Semitic and racist “Holocaust denier” who has “deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence.” The judgment could hardly have…

David Irving’s Final Address in the London Libel Trial

On March 15, 2000, British historian David Irving rose before the High Court of Justice in London to deliver his Closing Statement in a dramatic legal battle that had generated enormous media attention. At the center of the case is a 278-page book by Jewish- American scholar Deborah Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault…

An American Professor Responds to a ‘Jewish Activist’

On Monday, January 31, 2000, American professor Kevin MacDonald took the stand at an expert witness in the London libel case of David Irving vs. Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books. (Irving, a prominent British historian, had sued Lipstadt, and her British publisher, for hostile statements made about him in her book, Denying the Holocaust. For…

From the Trial Proceedings

IHR Journal Provides ‘Wake Up Call’ January 25, p. 23 Judge Gray: What puzzles me about this is that one of the documents Mr. Irving just handed in says that this further Polish or Auschwitz investigation has been published in the summer 1991 Journal of Historical Review. [“An Official Polish Report on the Auschwitz ‘Gas…

Letters

Old the 'Wrong Side' Win? In his recent Opening Statement to the London Court, David Irving said: “I shall not argue, and have never argued, that the wrong side won the [Second World] war, for example, or that the history of the war needs to be grossly rewritten.” I cannot go along with that. As…

Labels And Libels: David Irving and “Holocaust Denial'

Joseph Sobran is a nationally-syndicated columnist, lecturer, author, and editor of the monthly newsletter Sobran's. This essay is reprinted from the March 2000 issue of Sobran's ([…address defunct, since the author is deceased; ed.]) An important libel suit is under way in London. David Irving, the controversial British historian of World War II, is suing…

IHR Internet Web Site Offers Worldwide Access to Revisionism

On its own Internet web site, www.ihr.org, the Institute for Historical Review makes available an impressive selection of IHR material, including dozens of IHR Journal articles and reviews. It also includes a listing of every item that has ever appeared in this Journal, as well as the complete texts of The Zionist Terror Network, “The…

Media Coverage of the Irving-Lipstadt Trial

Even before it began on January 11, 2000, the libel trial in London’s High Court of Justice brought by historian David Irving against Jewish activist Deborah Lipstadt and her British publisher had attracted a good bit of attention. And since then it has generated considerable media coverage and commentary, not only in Britain, but around…

Revisionist Historians and Activists To Meet in Southern California

California's Orange County will once again be the site of the 13th Conference of the Institute for Historical Review. From around the United States and across the seas, scholars, activists and friends ofthe IHR will meet over Memorial Day weekendSaturday afternoon, May 27, through Monday afternoon, May 29, 2000. Leading revisionists will report on the…

Foiling Espionage in Berlin Radio’s Arabic Service

This account is a translation of a portion of the memoir of Yûnus Bahrî (1902?-1979), Hunâ Berlin! Hayiya al'Arab!, volume five, pages 79-93, published in Beirut in 1956 by Matb'at al-Jihâd. Itis translated from the Arabic by E.G. Müller, an Arab studies specialist with a Master's degree in political science who is currently working on…

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