Douglas Davis

Just the Facts

Published on April 13, 2000

Bartov added that it was important to expose people like Irving, "who has been published by respectable publishers and been cited by scholars like me. But in recent years, he'd become more extreme and associated himself with neo-Nazi circles."

Truth Prevails

Published on April 13, 2000

Justice Charles Gray, the quintessence of British correctness, courtesy and understatement, did not mince words when he declared that David Irving was indeed, as Lipstadt had charged, an anti-Semite, a racist, a distorter of history, a partisan of Hitler and a Holocaust denier.

Will Truth Prevail?

Published on March 23, 2000

Emerging from the Royal Courts of Justice here on the evening of March 15 was like leaving a musty 17th-century ecclesiastical battle for the fresh air of the 21st century.

Trial’s End

Published on March 16, 2000

David Irving told the High Court in London this week that some of the world's largest Jewish organizations are involved in an international conspiracy against him.

Hostile Action

Published on March 9, 2000

Holocaust revisionist David Irving mocked victims of the Holocaust by "feeding and encouraging the most cynical anti-Semitism" in his speeches, it was alleged last week at a trial for a defamation suit that Irving has filed against a U.S. scholar.

Hezbollah: Israel fight continues with or without Syria peace deal

Published on February 24, 2000

Hezbollah will turn its attention to resisting normal relations with Israel if Syria and Lebanon reach a peace settlement with the Jewish state, according to the Shi'ite group's leader.

Scholarly Pursuit

Published on February 17, 2000

David Irving, who denies that Jews were systematically exterminated in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, is claiming that Lipstadt ruined his reputation and career by labeling him a Holocaust denier -- and asserting that he twisted historical data to suit his own bias.

Irving Vs. the Truth

Published on February 10, 2000

A racist poem read to a young child has provided the toughest test for a Holocaust revisionist who is suing a U.S. Holocaust scholar and her publisher for libel.

Flawed Logic

Published on February 3, 2000

A Holocaust revisionist who is suing a U.S. historian for libel has dismissed eyewitness accounts, drawings and photographs of Auschwitz gas chambers that showed vents in the roof through which lethal gases were introduced.

Nation/World/Mideast Briefs

Published on January 27, 2000

Nation/World/Mideast Briefs

Undeniable Truth

Published on January 27, 2000

Irving is suing Lipstadt and her British publisher, Penguin Books, over passages in her book, "Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory."

Holocaust Revisionist Says His Name is ‘Blackened’

Published on January 20, 2000

The latest twist came when David Irving announced to the court late last week, just settling in for a protracted three-month trial, that he was anticipating his arrest by British police because a German court is seeking his extradition.

A Landmark Trial

Published on January 13, 2000

"To put it bluntly," Richard Rampton, who is defending Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt against David Irving, told the judge Tuesday, "he is a liar."

Finally, the Solution?

Published on November 4, 1999

"We have just completed a very good meeting. I feel we have revitalized the peace process," Clinton said after Tuesday's meeting, which took place amid commemorations in the Norwegian capital of the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Mideast Briefs

Published on September 16, 1999

Jewish relief agencies and the government of Israel are mobilizing to send rescue missions and humanitarian aid to Turkey, in the wake of a devastating earthquake that, at press time, may have claimed more than 4,000 lives.

Mideast Briefs

Published on September 9, 1999

Mideast Briefs

The Road to Peace Only Gets Bumpier

Published on September 9, 1999

Glittering ceremonies and lofty rhetoric are the essential byproducts of every milestone in Middle East peacemaking.

Mideast

Published on July 9, 1998

For Arafat, it was an admission of unmitigated weakness, a move that was clearly borne out of dire necessity.

Up in Arms

Published on January 4, 1998

You get thesense that Israel at 50 is like a bar mitzvah boy who doesn't want aparty -- not until he gets taller and his acne clears up. Not untilhe feels normal.