Spurred by last week’s Iran-sponsored conference questioning the Holocaust, Emory University has announced plans to translate a Holocaust Web site it maintains into Farsi, the main language of Iran, as well as Arabic, Russian, and the languages of other countries where Holocaust denial is widespread. The Web site, Holocaust Denial on Trial, contains voluminous material from a notorious libel trial against Deborah E. Lipstadt, a Holocaust scholar at the university. She and her British publisher were sued by David Irving, a Holocaust denier who claimed she had slandered him in her 1993 book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. In 2000 a British court ruled for Ms. Lipstadt, finding that Mr. Irving had “significantly misrepresented” the evidence in denying Nazi Germany’s mass killing of European Jews. Mr. Irving recently drew a three-year jail term for Holocaust denial in Austria, despite appearing to recant his views.
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