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"Yesterdays heinous, barbaric terrorism against Israeli civilians is the most lethal assault against Jews since the Holocaust. There is no justification whatsoever for this mass murder. None."
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Deborah Lipstadt
Deborah Esther Lipstadt is an American historian and diplomat. She is the author of Denying the Holocaust (1993), History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (2005), The Eichmann Trial (2011), and Antisemitism: Here and Now (2019). She served as the United States special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-semitism from 2022 to 2025. Since 1993 she has been the Dorot Professor of
"Yesterdays heinous, barbaric terrorism against Israeli civilians is the most lethal assault against Jews since the Holocaust. There is no justification whatsoever for this mass murder. None."
"Lots of people told me not to fight, including leaders of the Jewish community, who were fearful that I was giving him a platform. [...] Many of them told me to settle. Dont fight, ignore it. But if I lost, it would become illegal to call the worlds leading Holocaust denier a denier. And what he would then say is, "Ok, Im not a denier, but the court ruled in my favour, ipso facto, the David Irving version of the Holocaust is the genuine version."
"Youre allowed to stand up at Hyde Park Corner and say the Holocaust didnt happen. But do I have to invite you Cambridge or Yale to give you a platform to say so? No. There are not two sides to every story. You can argue [about] why the Holocaust happened, but not that it happened."