The Spanish newspaper El Mundo has included David Irving in a list of experts to be interviewed in connection with the anniversary of the Second World War; Irving is to follow Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem. Challenged over this by the Israeli Ambassador to Spain, what does El Mundo say?
The paper's response... was not to endorse Irving's ideas, but rather to cite press freedom and the right for everyone to decide on their own.
The same plea as in the Aftonbladet case and just as pathetic. Freedom of the press obliges no newspaper to give space in its pages to a Holocaust-denier. Everybody knows this. Saying the contrary is a sign either of stupidity or of not caring about the propagation of untruths on this particular question. (Thanks: JA.)