- Elie Wiesel
[1.11/A]'No-one's ever going to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize or Prize for literature for writing a book saying Auschwitz wasn't. You get it for saying "Auschwitz was and I was there". And witness the case of Elie Wiesel. A man called Elie Wiesel gets the Nobel Prize because he stands up and repeatedly pontificates about having been in Auschwitz. I feel it's a wretched enough situation, it's bad luck to be called "Weasel" for the rest of your life but I don't think that's reason to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize either. I would say probably, the maximum I would allow him is some suitable humane society award, but I think the Nobel Peace Prize goes too far.' [P's speech in Toronto, August 1988: K3, Tab. 4, p. 21]
[1.11/B]'And poor Mr Wiesel, I mean, it's terribly bad luck to be called 'Weasel' but that's no excuse [Laughter] I mean, these people do have a bad time, they had a very, very hard time and I do want to speak a few words of sympathy for them, like, I mean, like on Halloween's Night, for example, or say Saint Wiesenthal's Night, as we call it in London.' [P's speech at the Latvian Hall, Toronto, 8 November 1990: K3, Tab. 8, pp. 17-18]
[1.11/C]'You know we have heard repeatedly how the eyewitnesses come forward like Elie Wiesel and say, Eli Weasel I don't know where they get these names from - every time they come up against you, these traditional enemies of the truth, they have a name like "Weasel" or in England the Director of the Board of Directors of British Jews, his name is Mark Whine, W H I N E or in New York it is something called "Weaselt Keir" which means a nasty animal and I don't know... I think if my name was "Weasel Keir" I think I would change it two or three times, in case anybody asked me what my previous name was before I changed it.[Laughter].' [P's speech in Tampa Florida, 6 October 1995: K3, Tab. 20, p. 11]
- Edgar Bronfman
[1.11/D][Irving wrote about an appeal letter by Edgar Bronfman the President of the World Jewish Congress - in Irving's words 'president of the World ("What? Us - an international conspiracy?") Jewish Congress' - to combat the spread of Holocaust denial] '...isn't there something obscene about the spectacle of billionaire Bronfman pleading ("Your money is tax deductable to the full extent of the law") for funds? Like his bootlegger father, Bronfman makes his millions from distilling alcohol - a poisonous drug which accounts for the one hundred thousand needless deaths each year in the United States alone. Now isn't that a true Holocaust?
It's a wonder incidentally that Brofman hasn't gone into the lucrative abortion business yet. As of January 1995 one of the biggest abortion businesses, Planned Parenthood Inc., was said by the Miami Herald to be grossing $500 million annually in the United States."[ 'Opinion', Action Report, number 9, May 1995, p. 2; K4, Tab. 10, p. 46 (at 2)]
[1.11/E]'I was allowed free speech [in Canada], until I injured one of the most cherished shibboleths of its traditional enemy, the history of the Holocaust: the last ten years have seen a new and uglier breed of Untouchables created, ironically by Edgar Bronfman Jr., whose father made his billions as a bootlegger - the criminal enemies of the first "untouchables" in the FBI.' ['A Radical's Diary', Action Report, number 12, 15 August 1997 [on title page, on pages 'July 1997'], p. 21; K4, Tab. 10, p. 59]
- Rabbi Cooper
[1.11/F][A press conference when a Japanese company publicly apologised for a Denialist article was described by Irving as] 'overshadowed by the gloating, vulpine figure of Rabbi [Abraham] Cooper [of the Simon Wiesenthal Center] himself....' ['Wiesenthalers Zap Jap "Crap"', Action Report, number 9, May 1995, p. 11, K4, Tab. 10, p. 51 (at 3)]
- the Klarsfelds
[1.11/G][Irving heard that Jean Claude Pressac] 'has been taking payments and other favours from the Serge and Beate Klarsfeld couple, the Grand Dragons of the Holocaust klan, since 1982. If this is true, it sheds a shameful light on the morality of the opponents of revisionism.' ['A Radical's Diary', Action Report, number 9, May 1995, p. 5; K4, Tab. 10, p. 48]
- Simon Wiesenthal
[1.11/H] 'I've had a lot of trouble with Simon Wiesenthal recently and I remember that 3 or 4 years ago I had the unnerving experience of sitting in my rental car after I had been speaking in London, not London England but London Ontario, which is about 200 miles west of Toronto and I had driven back to Toronto that night, the speaking was very exhausting and I got back in Toronto at half past two on this November morning, and as I drove up [uninintelligible] Street in Toronto, which is the main artery of Toronto, I pulled up at the traffic lights and glaring at me from the car next to me in the traffic lights was Simon Wiesenthal himself, his face hideously contorted by rage. I got a real shock because he looked into me through my driver's window and there was Mr Wiesenthal, this hideous, leering, evil face glaring at me, then I realised it wasn't Simon Wiesenthal, it was a Halloween mask. [Applause]. Now those of you who have seen Mr Wiesenthal will know what I'm talking about. Mrs Wiesenthal who has seen Mr Wiesenthal many times of course, and she says to him at Halloween "Simon please keep the mask on, you look so much nicer with it on".' [P's Clarendon Club speech at Bow Town Hall, 29 May 1992: K4, Tab. 4, p. 17]