Deborah Lipstadt’s Blog

A movie on the leader of the 1944 failed plot to assassinate Hitler is about to start filming in Germany. Tom Cruise is going to play the r...

A few months ago I posted a comment about how Hamas children's television was using a Mickey Mouse look-alike names Farfour to preach I...

Shiraz Dossa, a professor at St. Francis Xavier University in Canada, attended the Holocaust denial conference in Iran. He has now publish...

The Wall St. Journal has a very positive review of Advocate for the Doomed , the first volume of the diaries of James G. McDonald, an Amer...

[compliments of ADL]

Two nights ago, when I was tired and sweltering in New York, I mistakingly posted a link to a review of A Mighty Heart . I correctly descri...

According to a dispatch released by MEMRI , in Tehran in a sermon on this past Friday, Ahmad Khatami of the Iranian Assembly of Experts decr...

I don't believe in these online votes run by media outlets. They mean little except how active the two sides of the debate in question ...

Saul Friedlander's new book gets an extemely positive review in yesterday's New York Times from Richard Evans.

I saw A Mighty Heart two nights ago. Angelina Jolie was outstanding. Having said that, there was a theme that disturbed me greatly. Mariann...

Deborah Lipstadt’s Blog began when my book History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving was published. While I intended this blog t...

A Boycott Built on Bias By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN The New York Times June 17, 2007 Two weeks ago I took part in commencement for this year’s doc...

According to a report in Die Weltwoche, a Swiss weekly, Switzerland's foreign minister proposed in December that her government host a ...

Ken Stern, of the American Jewish Committee, has written a thoughtful piece on the proposed boycott of Israeli universities by British acad...

Columbia President Lee Bolinger has issued a scathing critique of the proposed British academic boycott of Israeli universities. I hope ot...

I have, much to my chagrin, failed to say enough about this. It is unequivocally outrageous and antisemitic.* It is pernicious and it is st...

In a previous post I quoted the statement made at the Bali conference on the Holocaust by Abdurrahman Wahid, the former president of Indone...

The two previous posts made reference to the conference in Bali and the condemnation of Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial by the former pr...

From the Wall Street Journal As the authors say,"Those who tell big lies about the Holocaust are bound to tell smaller lies about nearl...

According to the JTA a former leader of Indonesia has criticized Ahmadinejad's denial. Abdurrahman Wahid told an interfaith conference ...