In today's JP there is an article about the pending deportation of John Demjanjuk from the US. I have never understood why Israel acquitted him in 1993, even if it was proved that he was not Ivan the Terrible, surely it was obvious that he was involved in the holocaust and at least guilty of being an SS officer. If not, on what grounds would the US deport him?
A quick search on the internet for information leads to several links about the injustice heaped on Demjanjuk... One thing I cannot fail to notice with more than half the links to information on Demjanjuk is how often these pages link to other information about holocaust denial.
One such article is actually listed on David Irving's website, the AR report. For those that do not know, David Irving is one of the most well-known Holocaust deniers. He has a reputation for suing people who question his credentials and who publicly criticize his denial. This article, is written by Alfred de Zayas, who is reported to be a visiting professor of international law at DePaul University School of Law in Chicago. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the New York bar, he also holds a doctorate in history. Surely if I was the author of such an article questioning the mistreatment of Demjanjuk's civil liberty rights and my article started appearing on sites linked to known holocaust deniers I would be kicking up a huge fuss. This man claims a doctorate in history, but it cannot possibly be the same history we are talking about.
Another such site puts the man who saved Demjanjuk in the same "revisionist" category as David Irving. This site claims to "Celebrate the new era of truth in history!"
I cannot understand how we let this man go! You are the friends you keep and this man's friends seem to all be deniers of the holocaust...
BTW - David Irving has been denied entry into many countries. I remember many years ago standing outside an old nightclub waiting to find out where the David Irving movie about the lies of the holocaust would be shown. I was not personally interested in seeing this movie, rather a whole group of people from different youth movements and Jewish organizations had decided to attend the movie and hold a silent protest outside.
