England – Holocaust denier David Irving has threatened to sue the Jewish Chronicle after it called him a Holocaust Denier.
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Irving was released from prison in Austria in December of last year after serving almost a year of a three-year sentence imposed in February of that year for having denied the Holocaust.
Now Irving has written to the Jewish Chronicle saying: "This letter puts your publication on notice that if you should print or otherwise publish anywhere including on your internet website any statement carrying the defamatory and now demonstrably untrue meaning, whether implicit or explicit, that I am 'an active Holocaust denier', or any variations on that phrase carrying the same purport, then I shall without further notice issue a Claim in Defamation against yourselves and the author or authors of the libel, and I shall produce this letter at the hearing of the action as evidence that you published the said libel in the face of such a written warning in support of a possible claim for aggravated damages."
The newspaper responded with a front page lead story about his threat – and a panel headlined: "Oh, Mr Irving, here are our lawyers' details" which gives the name and address of solicitors Reynolds Porter Chamberlain.
Jewish Chronicle editor David Rowan said: "Irving is a discredited propagandist and manipulator of history who clearly sees publicity stunts such as this as his best means of rehabilitating his reputation among his supporters.
"Even though we are aware that he will delight in gaining further coverage from these threats, we believe it is vital to expose his agenda at every turn.
"As the last generation of Holocaust survivors passes on, it becomes ever more important that newspapers such as this challenge and demolish his assertions." [pressgazette]
David Irving denies that he is a Holocaust denier. He doesn’t deny the Holocaust he says it just never happened.
On the same note, the Holocaust deniers in this country (probably) are so hilariously absurd in their “Learned” statements. They have, for example established “Scientifically” that the Governor of California Arnold Schwarzeneger, is a SEPHARDIC JEW. Boris Yeltsin and Winston Churchill, of course were Jewish, too. So was Josef Stalin and FDR, who [according to those great sages] was Jewish on his father’s and his mother’s side. meanwhile they can’t spell common English words and confuse [singular & plural] terms. What’s amazing, is that the Hebrew Quotations they do write correctly . Apparently, some “tzidrayte Yidelech” of the N.K. type must be helping them.