New Zealand, Mossad spies (Sept 2004 – Feb 2005)

• Apology still required from Israel 
• New Zealand Freedom in sight for jailed Israeli spies  | “Alleged” Mossad agents to be released early | Jewish spies leave NZ after serving half their prison term; but their $100,000 donation to Cerebral Palsy Society (ordered by court) has not yet been paid |
• Yet another fake-passport factory found in NZ: who is behind it?
• NZ Herald: NZ Foreign Minister Phil Goff likely to face Israel at UN debate | Israel – a stormy relationship: Passport to a world of trouble (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3: How Israeli security tries to win friends and influence people )  (David Irving and NZ items: on p.2)
• New Zealand judges allow businessman accused of a 3-year campaign of racial hatred against Muslims to keep his name secret: “Detective Inspector Harry Quinn today said the man [was] of European ethnicity… but he refused to say if he followed any particular religion. ” [second story]  »»»
• In from the cold: Mossad spy Eli Cara (jailed for passport fraud in New Zealand) becomes top Israeli credit-card (Visa) executive
• Archives show Israeli spy’s passport sparked 1974 secret British row: The use of forged British passports by Mossad assassination squads
• Nice folks Israeli air traveler who “forgot” the secret plastic gun carried in his hand luggage 
  “The largely plastic pistol failed to show up on X-ray scanners at Ben Gurion Airport. The court heard that Lehman, who holds dual British and Israeli nationality . . . had been on his way to a niece’s wedding in America” (and a funeral?)
• Fake New Zealand passports sequel Australia secretly expels Israeli diplomat — neither country will say why 
• New Zealand passports affair Israel refuses apology for Mossad op, offers just “regrets” — tough NZ PM says Not Good Enough  | Curiouser and curiouser Did Philip Ruddock, Australia’s Man of Character, expel Israeli diplomat Amir Laty for fooling around Down Under with his Daughter? | Ruddock now admits he met suspected Israeli spy once, briefly

David Irving’s New Zealand visit planned to begin Sept 18, 2004

• NZ Dominion Post: David Irving will begin legal action against the Government in a month | David Irving will apply to enter New Zealand  | Mr Irving applies to NZ High Commission for “special permit” prior to initiating legal battle for free speech in NZ | Oops! NZ prime minister blurts out to Johannesburg Star that she already decided to refuse
• When Black Shirts Frighten Us, by Jim Peron | California man backs David Irving’s NZ reward offer up to $10,000
• British historian heads for New Zealand  | Warns of Mother of all Legal Battles if Stopped | Irving “may try to enter NZ next week”  | Top lawyer Colin Amery fights to get historian into New Zealand | The gang’s all here: David Irving, a homosexual perspective | Kiwi Tim Darlington attacks this from Kuwait | Are we powerful or what? Irving is refused boarding of NZ flight | Israel gloats: New Zealand blocks Holocaust denier’s visit | Caving in to Traditional Enemy, New Zealand Thursday stopped him boarding Qantas flight to NZ: Legal Fight Begins | NZ Govt gloats | NZ Herald report: “All dressed up and nowhere to go”  | “We shouldn’t be scared of this man” | New Zealand Herald profiles lawyer acting for Mr Irving 

Jews and anti-Semitism

Israel

Bush war against Iraq

Hitler

Lipstadt Trial and Auschwitz

Free Speech

World War II History

Miscellaneous

 AR-Dossier: casebook on the origins of modern antisemitism

 An oddly abusive Yannis Natsinas asks what led to the death of Gauleiter Gustav Simon

 Britt and Keri Singleton comment on a gun-camera video from the attack on Afghanistan

 Swedish student Henrik asks for sources on Hitler’s ideology

 Gene Mangrum disagrees that the 9/11 hijackers were “intrepid”

 Tom Stoneburner doubts that there are many real anomalies about 9/11

 Frank Lowe writes about Rudolf Höss’s testimony on the gassings at Auschwitz