[Daniel]
This is what I had to say when Nazi apologist David Irving was jailed in Austria for denying the truth about the Holocaust:
It is difficult, even for me now, born in safety, free to bring up my sons as Jews, sitting at a desk typing my article in civilised Britain, it is difficult not to feel anger, rage at Irving. It is difficult not to wish him behind bars.
And I do feel rage. But I do not wish him behind bars, not for giving his opinion, not for delivering a lecture, however warped and horrible his opinion is. I still believe in the power of truth. And my belief in truth is what separates me from Irving.
And it is how I feel on his release. It should not be a criminal offence to deny the Holocaust.
Read the whole of my argument, here.
The Dish 