Reply #109: I dislike Finkelstein and consider him mean-spirited, essentially RW and at least bordering on

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antisemitic for his statement that 'the Holocaust Industry is one of the main causes of antisemitism'.

However, I do not think there is any real evidence that he has 'praised Irving's scholarship'. He has defended Irving's right to speak, but he has not said that it was good scholarship. Apparently he described *someone else* (Gordon Craig) as praising Irving's scholarship; and this has been garbled as that Finkelstein himself praised Irving.

I don't consider Zundel's wife's opinion as particularly valid one way or another!

Once again, I do NOT like Finkelstein, and I don't think he is an appropriate authority to quote on a liberal board, any more than Robin Shepherd is; but we have to be careful to avoid guilt-by-association.