From The New Zealand Bill of Rights
Section 13      Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief, including the right to adopt and hold opinions without interference. Section 14      Everyone has the right to freedom of expression, including the freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and opinions of any kind in any form.

DAVID IRVING is travelling to New Zealand in mid-September 2004 to speak to his friends. [click flag to ask for details]

Index to items covering David Irving’s September 2004 New Zealand tour
[see too FAQ: Blunt Answers to some Frequently Asked Questions]

• Flashback to April 3, 1993: Immigration Minister Maurice McTigue says he is unlikely to prevent controversial British historian David Irving visiting New Zealand
  • Summary of the 2004 ban on David Irving: In February 2004 David Irving began planning a visit to the USA and (for the third time) to New Zealand. On May 22 he purchased the air ticket, with Qantas flying the segment from Los Angeles to Auckland. On May 23 already the New Zealand government placed his name on a banned list circulated to airlines. On July 21 the NZ Herald reported that the Jewish community was demanding a ban on his entry. On July 22 Immigration stated that a final decision on his September visit had not been made. On July 31 Prime Minister Helen Clark said that Mr Irving’s views should not bar him from the country. On September 15 the NZ Labour Ministry warned all airlines to comply strictly with immigration law regarding carrying banned passengers. On September 16 Mr Irving was denied boarding of the Qantas flight at Los Angeles, on direct instructions from the Immigration Service. On October 18 he began the process of applying for a special permit, the first step in a major legal battle against the Government.

   

• Mr Irving again makes application to NZ High Commission re the “special permit” Nov 3, 2004
• New Zealand prime minister reveals that her country will not allow Mr Irving in anyway
• Mr Irving makes application to NZ High Commission re the “special permit,” prior to initiating legal action, Oct 18, 2004
• Richard Santana and Tainui Stephens urge that Mr Irving should not be allowed to visit New Zealand
• Irving banned from boarding NZ flight | Under pressure from Traditional Enemy, New Zealand bans Mr Irving from boarding Qantas flight Sept 16, 2004: Legal Fight Begins | NZ Govt gloats | “We shouldn’t be scared of this man” | NZ Herald report: “All dressed up and nowhere to go”  |
• NZ Government anti-free-speech hysteria: British historian heads for New Zealand  | Warns of Mother of all Legal Battles if Stopped | Irving “may try to enter NZ next week”  Deputy Prime Minister Michael Cullen says: “If he tries to force his way on to a plane, Irving will be stopped by the biggest stewardess they can find”
• Aug 30, 2004, Scoop: When Black Shirts Frighten Us by Jim Peron
• [Aug 30, 2004: Jew held over Paris fire: Crude slogans at the scene suggested an anti-Semitic motive]
• Another Member of Parliament says New Zealand should let Mr Irving in
• Aug 15, 2004: David Irving ups reward offer to $5,000
• Sunday Star-Times attacks New Zealand’s shameful attempts to silence British author David Irving, wonders who made the PM change her mind | NZ Civil libertarians say David Irving should be allowed in
• All’s well that ends well NZ Parliament’s stance on Irving, anti-Semitism eases strains with Israel 
• Just like New Zealand British journalist denied entry to Israel as ‘not objective’ 
• The Press, Christchurch, NZ, article: David Irving (right) responds to critics: “Fuss about visit ‘distraction'”
• Simon Pound’s radio interview of Mr Irving in New Zealand  “The carrying sentiment of listener response was that free speech was of paramount importance. . . an intriguing and somewhat unsettling conversation.” 25 minutes audio  (MP3)
• Michael Laws interviews Mr Irving on Radio Pacific: 5 minutes audio  | higher quality  (MP3) | NZ Jewish leader David Zwartz explains why his community are opposed to free speech 
• Aug 12, 2004: Reward offer still stands Accused New Zealand rightwinger denies Jewish cemetery desecration, says “abhorrent” – “Echoing David Irving … Miller suggested Jews may have vandalised the cemeteries”
• Just like New Zealand British journalist denied entry to Israel as ‘not objective’ 
• Simon Pound’s radio interview of Mr Irving in New Zealand  “The carrying sentiment of listener response was that free speech was of paramount importance. . . an intriguing and somewhat unsettling conversation.” 25 minutes audio  (MP3)
• Michael Laws interviews Mr Irving on Radio Pacific: 5 minutes audio  | higher quality  (MP3) | NZ Jewish leader David Zwartz explains why his community are opposed to free speech 
• Manufactured outrage: Irving views described as ‘vomit-inducing’ by NZ Acting Prime Minister Michael Cullen (right)
• Meddlesome Simon Wiesenthal Center libels David Irving in smear letter to New Zealand ambassador
• NZ Jews rubbish David Irving’s $1000 reward offer on graveyard desecration as ‘grandstanding’ (but despite their wealth still have not put up any reward of their own)
• Aug 10, 2004: New Zealand Herald: [despite his poverty], “Irving offers $1550 reward for [information on] Jewish cemetery desecration”
• Aug 11, 2004: The Press, Christchurch, NZ, article: David Irving responds to critics: Irving: Fuss about visit “distraction”
• The Press, Christchurch, NZ, article: David Irving responds to critics: “Fuss about visit ‘distraction'”
• Quick, trash another cemetery New Zealand introduces tough new visa restrictions on visiting Israeli officials 
• Jailed gang leaders defer to Israeli agents jailed by NZ, says paper. Mossad autopsy on bungled NZ operation: graves desecration was unplanned
• Banning of historian David Irving is Government olive branch, peace offer, to Israelis
• Holocaust Author not Welcome: NZ Jewish Council pleaded with Govt not to allow him in
• NZ Herald Editorial argues to allow visit to go ahead: “This is a free country. Provided people do not threaten others’ lives, or damage an individual’s reputation untruthfully, or excite hatred or ill-will against a racial group, they are free to speak here.”
• Aug 8, 2004: Sunday Star-Times attacks New Zealand’s shameful attempts to silence British author David Irvinq, wonders who made the PM change her mind
• Aug 8, 2004: NZ Civil libertarians say David Irving should be allowed in
• Aug 8, 2004: What Best-selling Jewish humorist Ephraim Kishon said of David Irving in interview with German mass circulation tabloid Bild am Sonntag, Berlin
• Aug 6, 2004: Gets ugly Jewish chapel burned down, 90 headstones damaged in dawn attack in New Zealand capital | Mr Irving’s commentary | Fortunately cemetery was insured
• Police find caretaker – unusually – left gate unlocked | David Zwartz blames Mr Irving! | Fortunately cemetery was insured | Mr Irving offers $1000 reward | Police say search is on for early morning driver | Mr Irving’s NZ Radio Interview | Irving has sacrificed his credentials and fortune on a dubious altar, says NZ Daily News | our commentary
• Aug 4, 2004: Immigration approved 34 visits last year by people “automatically banned” under law being used to exclude historian David Irving | Hundreds want me to come, says Irving | Helen Clark backtracking »»»»»
• Aug 3, 2004 Jerusalem Post: Israel Govt applauds Irving ban 
• Aug 2, 2004: David Irving appears set to test ban on entry | Irving decision is a blow for free speech, says Green MP Keith Locke
• July 31, 2004: New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said Mr Irving’s views should not bar him from the country
• Overruling foreign minister, NZ Immigration Service plans to bar Mr Irving
• July 28, 2004: NZ Rabbi calls for ban on Mr Irving
• July 26, 2004: NZ Herald Reader’s letters for and against David Irving’s visit to New Zealand
• July 25, 2004: Ceremony expresses outrage at desecration of Wellington NZ graves: Jewish chieftain David Zwartz uses Nazi language against Irving: “It does not go too far to keep out an organism — even a two-legged one — that attacks our people”
• Jul 23, 2004: Christian Science Monitor: “Irving has dismissed those … as “the traditional enemies of the truth” | NZ Herald: Prof Dov Bing’s reader’s letter and another | and Mr Irving’s response | A Steven Sedley publishes an insulting letter
• Jul 22, 2004: NZ Herald’s editorial and Mr Irving’s response
• Prof Dov Bing demands ban | Pressure mounts on NZ Immigration Service
• New Zealand Jews want to ban David Irving. “At least I wouldn’t be travelling on a quadraplegic’s stolen passport wearing a balaclava and sunglasses.” | FAQ: David Irving’s visit to New Zealand
• Attempts to stop David Irving speaking in New Zealand intensify

• The Global Vendetta against David Irving
• Australia’s twelve-year battle to keep David Irving from returning to speak to ordinary Australians
• Canada’s battle: David Irving banned in 1992 after campaign by League of Human Rights of the B’nai Brith Canada [dossier]
• Germany: David Irving banned from Germany after letters from Board of Deputies of British Jews to German Government appealing for his arrest [dossier]
• What else the High Court (Mr Justice Gray) said about Mr Irving — e.g., “His knowledge of World War Two is unsurpassed”
• Flashback: How Canadian Jewish organisations first got Mr Irving expelled from Canada in 1992
• New Zealand Herald, Feb 25, 1993, analyses origins of Jewish influence on successive Australian governments in the light of Canberra’s ban on Mr Irving

• Our dossier on the Anti-Defamation League (New York)
• World Jewish Congress – Edgar Bronfman, Elan Steinberg, Isi Leibler, call each other names: “One Jewish leader familiar with the work of the WJC suspects that . . . lawyers have done a lot of investigating into [its] finances.”
• Fierce Feud Erupts At American Jewish Congress – Bronfman, Leibler exchange bitter words  Bronfman: “Mr. Leibler is an arrogant twit, who has decided that G*d is dead and he is taking his place.”