Editing David Irving (section)

==Racism and antisemitism==
Although Irving denies being a racist,<ref>{{cite web|title=Irving taught his nine-month-old daughter racist ditty, libel trial told|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/03/irving|website=The Guardian|date=3 February 2000|access-date=19 July 2020|archive-date=28 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228232150/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/03/irving|url-status=live}}</ref> he has expressed [[racism|racist]] and antisemitic sentiments, both publicly and privately.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hdot.org/judge/|title=Trial Judgement: Mr Justice Gray|access-date=11 July 2020|archive-date=12 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712095053/https://www.hdot.org/judge/|url-status=live}}</ref> Irving has often expressed his belief in the conspiracy theory of [[Zionist Occupation Government conspiracy theory|Jews secretly ruling the world]], and that the belief in the reality of the Holocaust was manufactured as part of the same alleged conspiracy.<ref>{{Harvnb|Guttenplan|2001|p=51}}</ref> Irving used the label "traditional enemies of the truth" to describe Jews, and in a 1963 article about a speech by Sir [[Oswald Mosley]] wrote that the "Yellow Star did not make a showing".{{Harvnb|Guttenplan|2001|p=51}} In 1992, Irving stated that "the Jews are very foolish not to abandon the gas chamber theory while they still have time" and claimed he "foresees a new wave of antisemitism" the world over due to Jewish "exploitation of the Holocaust myth".<ref name="Lipstadt 1993 180" /> During an interview with the American writer [[Ron Rosenbaum]], Irving restated his belief that Jews were his "traditional enemy".<ref>{{Harvnb|Rosenbaum|1999|p=234}}.</ref> In one interview cited in the libel lawsuit, Irving also stated that he would be "willing to put [his] signature" to the "fact" that "a great deal of control over the world is exercised by Jews".<ref name="vs">Interview for ''This Week'', 28 November 1991. pp. 7–8. Cited by [[s:David Irving v Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt/IX|''David Irving v. Penguin Books and Sarah Lipstadt''. IX: Justification: The Allegation That Irving Is an Anti-Semite and a Racist]].</ref>

After Irving was sacked by ''The Sunday Times'' to help them with their serialisation of the Goebbels diaries, he described a group of protesters outside his flat as, "All the scum of humanity stand outside. The homosexuals, the [[gypsies]], the lesbians, the Jews, the criminals, the Communists..."<ref>{{cite web|title=So what turned David Irving into an apologist for racism and genocide?|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-so-what-turned-david-irving-into-an-apologist-for-racism-and-genocide-6108385.html|website=[[The Independent]]|first=Dominic|last=Lawson|author-link=Dominic Lawson|date=24 February 2004|access-date=18 July 2020|archive-date=19 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719004220/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-so-what-turned-david-irving-into-an-apologist-for-racism-and-genocide-6108385.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=David Irving: A Political Self-Portrait |url=https://www.hdot.org/david-irving-a-political-self-portrait/ |website=Holocaust Denial on Trial |date=3 May 2016 |quote=Der ganze Pöbel, der ganze Abschaum der Menschheit steht draußen. Die Homosexuellen, die Zigeuner, die Lesben, die Juden, die Verbrecher, die Kommunisten, die Linksradikalen, die Chaoten, die ganze Kommune steht da und mußte hinter Stahlbarrikaden zurückgehalten werden zwei Tage lang.'] [Videocassette 210, 'David Irving: "Ich komme wieder", ca. 1994', 26m 56s–26m 81s.] |access-date=18 July 2020 |archive-date=19 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719111503/https://www.hdot.org/david-irving-a-political-self-portrait/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Several of these statements were cited by the judge's decision in Irving's lawsuit against [[Irving v Penguin Books Ltd|Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt]],<ref name="vs" /> leading the judge to conclude that Irving "had on many occasions spoken in terms which are plainly racist."<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/709517.stm "Judge: Why Irving had to lose"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090520085230/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/709517.stm |date=20 May 2009 }}, [[BBC News]], 11 April 2000.</ref> One example brought was his diary entry for 17 September 1994, in which Irving wrote about a ditty he composed for his young daughter "when [[half-breed]] children are wheeled past":

{{poemquote|
I am a Baby [[Aryan]]
Not Jewish or [[Sectarian]]
I have no plans to marry an
[[List of ethnic slurs|Ape]] or [[Rastafari movement|Rastafarian]].}}

[[Christopher Hitchens]] wrote that Irving sang the rhyme to Hitchens's wife, Carol Blue, and daughter, Antonia, in a lift following drinks in the family's flat in Washington, D.C.<ref>[[Christopher Hitchens|Hitchens, Christopher]]. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-may-20-bk-144-story.html "The Strange Case of David Irving"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502123104/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-may-20-bk-144-story.html |date=2 May 2019 }}, ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', 20 May 2001. Reprinted in Hitchens, Christopher. ''Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays'', [[Nation Books]], 2004, p. 261. {{ISBN|978-1-56025-580-2}}</ref>