Holocaust Denial on Trial: Using History to Confront Distortions
The Holocaust: Denial & History
The Nazi Holocaust claimed the lives of between 5 and 6 million Jews between 1939 and 1945. Since then, a small group of Holocaust deniers have lied about and minimized this history by deliberately manipulating historical evidence as part of an ideological and racist agenda.
Learning Tools: Myths & Facts
Holocaust deniers freely distort the historical record in order to justify anti-Semitism, racism and fascism. These tools help the novice and expert alike analyze denier claims and refute them with historical evidence including primary-source documents and both Nazi and survivor testimony.
Irving v. Lipstadt: Denial on Trial
In 1996 British Holocaust denier David Irving sued professor Deborah Lipstadt for alleged libel. Three courts found for Lipstadt concluding that Irving was a Holocaust denier, an anti-Semite and a racist. The unedited trial documents found below document this important victory for truth and history.
Continuing Effort: News & Updates
Holocaust denial suffered a sharp blow as a result of the Irving v. Lipstadt trial, however deniers and so-called "revisionists" continue to publicize their ideologically skewed version of history. We provide up-to-date news, links and resources on denial and its continued impact on culture.
Holocaust Denial in the News
 Phoenix New Times | David Irving's Book Tour Hits Phoenix Diner, Anarchists Protest ... Phoenix New Times But when scholar Deborah Lipstadt called him on his shoah-shirking ways in her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust, Irving sued her in England, where the libel ... |
Holocaust denier finds few fans here Kansas City Jewish Chronicle But that came before the devastating judgment in 2000 against Irving in his libel suit against “Denying the Holocaust” author Deborah Lipstadt. ... |
Dark Dreams: Waikato's and the van Leeuwen thesis Scoop.co.nz (press release) It earned praise from Holocaust deniers, including British “revisionist historian” David Irving, who served time in Austrian prison for “glorifying and ... and more » |
Highlights
Dr. Deborah Lipstadt responds to the murder of Guard Stephen Tyrone Johns at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Deborah's blog: lipstadt.blogspot.com
Controversy at Harvard: Muslim Chaplain Suggests Death of Muslim Apostates?, May 2, 2009
For the past two weeks a controversy has been brewing at Harvard as reported by the Harvard Crimson. Recently it has also been covered in the Forward.
In short, the Muslim chaplain, Abdul-Basser wrote the following to a Muslim student:
great wisdom (hikma) associated with the established and preserved position (capital punishment [for apostates]) and so, even if it makes some uncomfortable in the face of the hegemonic modern human rights discourse, one should not dismiss it out of hand.”In the Crimson article a number of Muslim students were quoted as being quite critical of his stand. He claims that he has been misinterpreted and was not saying that he supports death for converts from Islam. It's hard how to see otherwise, particular in light of his comment about "hegemonic modern human rights discourse."
He, of course, is free to have any religious view he wishes. It is just disturbing to think that this is the point of view being imparted to students.
