Wednesday, July 21, 2004 Jewish
community wants 'pro-Nazi' banned from
NZ
By ANNE BESTON NEW Zealand's Jewish community
wants a notorious historian, labelled pro-Nazi and
a Holocaust denier, banned from entering the
country. British author David Irving plans to
visit in September but the Jewish community calls
the timing "unfortunate", with New Zealand's
relationship with Israel at an all-time low. 
David
Irving comments:
I WONDER what the New
Zealander academics are frightened of? The
university discipline should promote free
discussion on all aspects of history.
Here is a
challenge for Dov Bing:, issued in the
real spirit of learning: I will be willing
to stand up to any academic or other
historian he selects in open debate -- and
let's see whose views prevail. I repeat:
what are he and his ilk frightened
of?
They squeal and
whine when Prime Minister Helen Clark
proclaims sanctions against their other
homeland after it commits a series of
illegal acts against New Zealand -- yet
they have no compunctions about demanding
that the same government proclaim
sanctions against me, although I have
never broken any of their country's laws,
and do not intend to.
A rum bunch, the lot of
them. |
"I have no doubt the Government will turn his
request down," said Waikato Jewish Association
president Professor Dov Bing (below
left)"I think it's an added concern that his visit
could create more mayhem and anti-semitic attacks
on Jewish communities." Prime Minister Helen Clark imposed diplomatic
sanctions against Israel after two alleged
Israeli spies were found guilty of trying to
illegally obtain a New Zealand passport. Mr Irving described the Prime Minister as having
"balls" and said there was "huge interest" from
ordinary New Zealanders wanting to hear him
speak. "At least I will not be
travelling on a quadriplegic's stolen passport
and wearing a balaclava and dark glasses," he
said,
in reference to the jailed Israelis. Mr Irving would not reveal his plans
for the two-week visit for "security reasons" but
said he would be speaking at Wellington's National
Press Club. Mr Irving planned a New Zealand visit in the
early 1990s but didn't come because he couldn't get
into Australia. He said he visited here in 1986 and
1987. He plans to research letters between World War
II British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
and New Zealand's Prime Minister at the time,
Peter Fraser, during this visit. "I will be coming there to research and I've
also got a lot of friends in New Zealand, a lot of
supporters," he said from his home in Florida. He
also has a home in Britain. [Write to the NZ Herald's
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Dossier:
attempts by New Zealand Jews to stop David Irving's
2004 visit
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 Recall:
Dov
Bing also played an unseemly role in the Joel
Hayward affair, demanding the recall of his PhD
thesis from a Canterbury Library. In short: a
bigot, an enemy of free speech-
New
Zealand Herald article by Dov Bing attacking
Joel Hayward, 2003
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