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Like Lipstadt’s win, EHRC was a defining response to Jew-hate

One of the lawyers who represented JLM in the EHRC investigation and Lipstadt against David Irving compares the two cases

By James Libson

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM: US academic Deborah Lipstadt (C) exults 11 April 2000 the High Court in London after winning a libel case brought against her and Penguin publications by British revisionist historian David Irving. Lipstadt had described Irving in her 1994 book as a "Holocaust denier" for his claims that Jews were not systematically exterminated by the Nazis during World War II. (Photo credit should read MARTYN HAYHOW/AFP/Getty Images)
I thought we’d beaten hate — I was wrong

I thought we’d beaten hate — I was wrong

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