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Article: False witness: The Irving-Lipstadt trial and the New Yorker.(analysis of article by Ian Buruma on lawsuit brought by David Irving against author Deborah Lipstadt)
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- September 22, 2001
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DURING THE PAST YEAR AND A HALFJUDAISM HAS DEVOTED thousands of words to critical (and not so critical) evaluations of numerous books alleging that Jews "exploit" the Holocaust for their own nefarious ends. Whatever one may think of these books-their shrewdest critic is Alvin Rosenfeld in the 2001 American Jewish Year Book-there is little doubt that they are now invoked as authoritative pronouncements by malicious journalists writing for a mass audience even less equipped than they themselves to judge these tangled questions critically.
A particularly egregious example is Ian Buruma's account in the New Yorker (April 16, 2001) of Hitler-admirer David Irving's ...