• No surprises here American Jewish Committee outraged at British Academic Group’s Boycott of Israeli Universities 
• Attack on torture-apologist Norman Finkelstein’s New Book Outrages Dershowitz 
• Ed Fagan’s back in the Shakedown Business German Bond Owners Want Money 
• Where would Real History be without Ha’aretz? Israeli consul to The Hague arrested for selling passports 
• Shakedown latest Bay Area Holocaust lawsuit targets Vatican Bank and CIA | Ninth Circuit OKs Suit against Vatican over Holocaust 
• Nice work if you can get it Days before AIG ex-CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg was forced out of office due to regulatory scrutiny, he gave his wife 41 million shares worth $2.2 billion 
• Bad character in Australia Disgraced HIH director Rodney Adler jailed for “an appalling lack of commercial morality”
• New York’s are the courts to sue in For Betrayal by Swiss Bank and Nazis, $21 Million Award to two Jewish families — Swiss bank “collaborated” with the Nazis 
• Another story you may have missed Searching for missing millions, an (optimistic) Ontario judge demands that fugitive Canadian mega- fraudster Boaz Manor return from Israel to answer questions
• Outrage, and another joins ranks of The Undead New Zealand Labour Member of Parliament John Tamihere says he is “sick and tired of hearing how many Jews got gassed” 
• Send everybody like him to the Gulag Archipelago Israeli media, Simon Wiesenthal Center, say “sick” Tamihere needs psychiatric help 

Israel

• Yad Vashem, national Holocaust museum, under attack — charges steep fee for memorials to those who perished
• Bloating the list Yad Vashem’s 3 million list has thousands of duplicate names and dates of birth, sometimes ten at a time
• On Hitler’s 116th Birthday Yad Vashem issues “urgent” call for more Holocaust Victims | Great Shakedown Latest: Israel sets Jewish Holocaust damages at $240 billion 
• Are we powerful or what? Putin visits Israel, but will not be discussing the criminal Russian oligarchs sheltering there although Khodorkovsky (right) and his accomplices stole billions from the Russian people before fleeing
• Where would Real History be without Ha’aretz? Israeli consul to The Hague arrested for selling passports 
• Kissinger’s secret deal US freezes Israel out of jet fighter development as punishment for cooperation with China 

Mossad

• Where would Real History be without Ha’aretz? Israeli consul to The Hague arrested for selling passports 

Oligarchs

• Nice work if you can get it Days before AIG ex-CEO Maurice “Hank” Greenberg was forced out of office due to regulatory scrutiny, he gave his wife 41 million shares worth $2.2 billion 
• Oligarch Leonid Nevzlin (present abode: Israel) says: ‘We will fight for our people’.  It is not entirely clear who ‘our people’ are. In sum, it seems that Nevzlin & Co are aghast that Putin has mastered the rules of their game, and is thrashing them at it
• Another story you may have missed Searching for missing millions, an (optimistic) Ontario judge demands that fugitive Canadian mega- fraudster Boaz Manor return from Israel to answer questions
• Bad character in Australia Disgraced HIH director Rodney Adler jailed for “an appalling lack of commercial morality”

Bush war against Iraq

• It ain’t necessarily so Airman aboard the AC-130 airborne gunship tells us that leaked video of Afghans being shot in cold blood by his plane in 2002 does not reveal a war crime
• The Spectator on Churchill for dummies Winston S. Churchill is the hero of Bush and the neocons. If they knew more about him, they’d be horrified 

Hitler

Old news, once again Last female survivor of Hitler’s bunker found  — The Guardian drools, but David Irving already found her secret interrogation record years ago [transcript]

Lipstadt Trial and Auschwitz

• Sigh. Yawn. Sigh New York Sun unmasks yet another ASSHOL. Paul Maliszewski considers the case of yet another “Holocaust survivor” (who wasn’t), Michael Chabon 
• Falsifiers of history How BBC producer Laurence Rees faked what a German ‘eye-witness of gas chambers’ actually said

[Index to items on Germany’s ostracism of Rolf Hochhuth over his 40-year friendship with Mr Irving: see February 2005]

Free Speech

• Thought-crimes Jerusalem Post reports 200 Hungarian far-right supporters hold rally outside German embassy in Budapest in support of those jailed in Germany for refuting the Holocaust 
• New Zealand’s latest academic achievment Holocaust stir haunts Thomas Fudge: NZ Academic who resigned over a “book-burning” scandal says US universities will not employ him 
• Attack on torture-apologist Norman Finkelstein’s New Book Outrages Dershowitz 
• More not-trying-to-silence-Mr-Irving news Traditional enemy piles pressure on Atlanta’s Landmark Diner to ban future Irving events there after their C-SPAN fiasco

World War II History

• In Die Welt, Berlin, Historian Götz Aly deals a blow to the reputation of Albert Speer (right), and admits Mr Irving’s role in exposing him: Warum es heute nichts mehr kostet, die Lügen über Hitlers liebsten Architekten auffliegen zu lassen  | Flashback: David Irving: Table Talk with Albert Speer, October 10, 1979
• BBC News Sixty years since liberation of Nazis’ Bergen Belsen concentration camp Mr Irving seems somehow to blame, and comments

Miscellaneous

• Was he Government agent provocateur? Wolfgang Droege, “white supremacist leader”, shot dead in the east end of Toronto 

 AR-Dossier: casebook on the origins of modern antisemitism

• A reader asks for information on Bob Pilkington and the execution of Joseph Kramer | A New Zealand reader shows photos of Kramer’s belt, medals, and other memorabilia | The belt of “The Beast”
• Mariano Mora, a composer, wants a sound recording of the 1945 bombing of Dresden
• Henry Southwell of Cornwall visited the burial pits at KZ Bergen-Belsen in 1952 | V P Danagher, a British army veteran, describes a visit in 1948 to Belsen
• Christopher M Palmer of Aldershot, England, says that nobody knew the Jewish cemetery there even existed
• Simon Gunson writes on the fate of SS General Hans Kammler | Alan Heath has information on the killing of German SS officers in Czechoslovakia: Kammler may have been one
• A S Marques of Portugal has spotted how BBC producer Laurence Rees faked what a German ‘eye-witness of gas chambers’ actually said
• Andrew Ullman shares Deborah Lipstadt’s obsession with human excrement, and incites others to violence against Mr Irving
• Galen Jokipii is amused that it has taken six hundred ‘scholars’ to silence one David Irving
• Frank Lowe Jr, is not impressed by the book which Günsche and Linge allegedly wrote for Stalin
• Bob investigates who are the 500 academics who signed the petition to C-Span television