Last week the president of the Oxford Union debating society told The Guardian that he had approached the British historian David Irving to participate in a forthcoming Free Speech Forum. But Irving, who is widely regarded as a Holocaust denier, says that he has yet to receive a formal invitation.
Deborah Lipstadt, a professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory University and author of History on Trial: My Day in Court With David Irving, writes on her blog that while she wishes the Oxford Union had never invited Irving, "a strong campaign against the invitation should NOT be mounted. All it will do is make Irving look like a martyr rather than the reviled character has become."
