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Hitler Apologist and Neo-Nazi Sympathizer David Irving To Visit Bay Area

by Portland Anti-Racist (anti_nazi_pdx [at] ureach.com)
David Irving, the notorious Holocaust denier and racist hatemonger -- recently kicked out of the venue for his lecture in the Portland suburb of Vancouver, WA -- is on a West Coast tour and headed for San Francisco for a May 22 talk. Portland antiracists call on Bay Area comrades to take action now.
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According to his website (see URL below), the internationally notorious British Holocaust denier and Hitler apologist David Irving will attempt to speak at an engagement on Wed. evening, May 22, somewhere in the Bay Area. He is an icon of the international neo-Nazi moveent, and a dangerous racist extremist who has incited nazi skinheads in Germany to carry out violents acts against immigrant workers.

On Saturday evening, Irving and his band of neo-Nazi followers were kicked out of the brewpub in Vancouver, WA, a Portland suburb, after a spirited and militant picket outside by 30 antiracist protesters. The owner of the small brewery, who had been duped into renting a banquet room to the racists, gave the gathering the boot in the middle of their meeting after she learned its real agenda. It turned out that the owner's mother had been interned in one of Hitler's concentration camps during her youth.

The time and location of Irving's hate rallies are generally kept secret by their cowardly racist organizers, but in Portland an Emergency Anti-Nazi Mobilization Committee worked diligently and uncovered its whereabouts and start time, and coordinated the response to Irving’s appearance. Like you, we had two days' notice. We got the word out through our local Indymedia, where we alerted local antiracists and advertised a Mobilization Hotline number we had set up. We asked Portland antiracists to monitor the hotline number and to hurry to an assembly point when we announced it there. For security reasons, we did not announce the actual location and start time of the neo-Nazi shindig, but rather asked people to gather in a nearby park about 45 minutes prior to its beginning. It's important to take this step in order to keep the people on our side safe -- we don't want our people to be hurt because they wander in in small groups.

One of our organizers found out the details on the Irving event by "pre-registering" for admission to the lecture. This was done by emailing Irving's crew (there is a link from his website to do this, URL below) and expressing interest in attending his talk. Irving then emailed this comrade back, asking for personal details. The comrade took security precautions and emailed Irving back with an address and a friend's cell phone number, and then Irving called the friend and gave him the information.

Another group of local antiracists actually infiltrated the gathering in the same way, in order to gather information about the local neo-Nazi organizers for future use.

Irving, a so-called “revisionist historian” has written books that glorify German dictator and Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler and other war criminals like Josef Goebbels. His pseudo-scholarly works contend -- among other things -- that the Nazis didn’t really murder 6 million European Jews, and that no gas chambers existed in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. His writings seek to vindicate Hitler personally of the mass slaughter of Jews and others during the Holocaust, asserting that the Fuerer had no knowledge of the death camps until at least 1943, if at all.

Irving is banned from entering Germany, Canada and Australia. He has lectured to violent racist and rightwing groups around the world, including William Pierce’s National Alliance in the U.S., the neo-Nazi Heritage Front in Canada, and groups like the German People’s Union (DVU) and the National Democratic Party (NPD) in Germany and Austria.

Irving has long assisted and associated with antisemites, racists and neo-Nazis around the world. In 1988 he testified in Toronto on behalf of Ernst Zundel, a Canadian publisher who illegally smuggles neo-Nazi propaganda into Germany through Denmark, on trial for denying the Holocaust occurred. In 1992, German authorities fined Irving for claiming British intelligence had spread the ''propaganda'' that the Germans were using gas chambers to kill millions of Jews and other so-called undesirables.

Although Irving rhapsodizes about “historical truth”, “free speech” and “freedom of inquiry and scholarship”, his real goal is not to tell the truth. The objective of the Holocaust denial movement is to promote a hateful political agenda. Most deniers are the Nazis’ philosophical and political heirs. Their concern is not with the past as much as with shaping the future. As Harold Covington of the National Socialist White People's Party admitted, "The real purpose of Holocaust revisionism is to make National Socialism an acceptable political alternative again."

In 2000, Irving sued the publishing house Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, an American professor and author of "Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory", for libel in a British Court. The court found that he had intentionally falsified history to exonerate Hitler, driven by antisemitism and his own pro-Nazi views, and ordered him to pay legal fees amounting to 150,000 British pounds to cover part of the defendants’ legal fees. He has since declared bankruptcy.

Irving’s website, announcing the Portland appearance:
http://www.fpp.co.uk/

Websites that expose Irving as a racist liar:
http://www.holocaustdenialontrial.org
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/i/irving-david/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/irving/
§Hitler Apologist & Holocaust Denier David Irving
by Portland Anti-Racist (anti_nazi_pdx [at] ureach.com)
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by Portland Anti-Racist
Just FYI: Irving's lecture itinerary website at http://www.focal.org/speaks/index.html reveals that he is planning an appearance in the Sacramento area on Thursday evening, May 23rd.
by Checking
Irving is a celebrated author in most of the Middle East. His anti-semitic writings finding a welcome ear in the anti-Israel press in most Arab States. Syria continues to harbor ex-Nazis. The Grand Mufti Of Jerusalem (one of the most powerful Muslim figures) sided with Hitler during WWII and enlisted Bosnian Muslim soldiers to fight for Der Furher. Lebanon was supposed to host a conference on holocaust denial (they support the denial of the holocaust) but canceled it due to international pressure (wasn't good for the Palestinian PR machine). The question is -- will the Arab students living in the Bay Area denounce Irving or will they publicly or privately celebrate this goon.

Stay tuned.
by Holocaust Family Member
The Zionists have a long history of collaboration with the Nazis as they were not interested in resisting fascism but rather wanted to work with the imperialists to colonize Palestine, at the expense of the lives of the Arab population that had resided there for many generations. The Zionists signed a Transfer Agreement with the Nazis to save their own skins by breaking the boycott of Nazi goods. For more on the reactionary, racist ideology called Zionism and its history of colloboration with the Nazis in particular and imperialism in general, see:
(1) Zionism in the Age of Dictators by Lenni Brenner at:
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/brenner/index.htm
and
(2) The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman at:
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/

The San Francisco Bay Area has been visited many times by David Irving and his ilk, and it is always the socialists who protest his appearances, not the Zionists. This writer is not only from a Holocaust family, but also a socialist from a socialist family.

Zionism is racism; it is an ideology of a bankrupt social order called capitalism. The anti-Arab racism exhibited by all of the Zionists on this website is despicable. The fact that it is on this website means that it is in writing and thus a legal document, verifying to the world that Zionism is racism.
by Portland Anti-Racist (anti_nazi_pdx [at] ureach.com)
Thanks for the history lesson. It's important stuff for people to know. But the question now is whether or not the Bay Area left can outwit Irving and his crew and figure out the location of the lecture and shut it down.

In my original article warning you of Irving's event, I explained how we did it here. I wish you all the best. I hope you can chase him away from SF and Sacto. Also, let any comrades you might know in Salt Lake City about his scheduled event there on either Saturday or Sunday.

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