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A Holocaust Scholar Denounces Pols Who Pander to Jewish Voters

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/a_holocaust_scholar_denounces_pols_who_pander_to_jewish_voters_39111216

If there were a Congressional Medal of Honor for historians, I would bestow it upon Deborah Lipstadt. What other historian, living or dead, has stood up in open court and defended the truth of her scholarship, as Lipstadt did when she was sued for libel by Holocaust-denier David Irving? Now Lipstadt has spoken truth to power in a frank interview with Israeli journalist Chemi Shalev in Haaretz. She denounced the rhetorical excesses of certain American politicians — including Newt Gingrich — who exploit the Holocaust and the conflicts of the modern Middle East to pander to Jewish voters in America.

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