{"id":1572,"date":"2016-08-27T23:40:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T23:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2016-08-27T23:40:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T23:40:23","slug":"professor-deborah-lipstadt-in-the-atlanta-journal-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2016\/08\/27\/professor-deborah-lipstadt-in-the-atlanta-journal-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Deborah Lipstadt in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/lipstadt-deborah.html\">Deborah Lipstadt<\/a>, associated faculty of the History Department and\u00a0Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, was recently featured in an op-ed in <em>The\u00a0Atlanta Journal-Constitution <\/em>by\u00a0Bert Roughton. Roughton discusses a\u00a0recent libel trial in England involving Lipstadt, who\u00a0was charged to prove herself innocent of libel against David Irving. Irving has authored works that deny the Holocaust.\u00a0View an excerpt below or check out the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myajc.com\/news\/news\/opinion\/fighting-for-power-of-truth\/nsJQt\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Lipstadt recalls the trial as a test of the place facts hold in understanding our history. &#8216;The trial was about the difference between fact and opinion \u2014 truth and lies,&#8217; she said in an email. &#8216;Our objective was to demonstrate to the court not what happened in the Holocaust \u2014 though we did end up doing that as a byproduct \u2014 but prove that what deniers such as Irving say is based on lies and distortions of evidence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Of course, another important element was that the \u2018opinions\u2019 held by deniers such as Irving are laced with anti-semitism, racism, and love of Nazism,&#8217; she wrote. &#8216;More than laced with, they are built on the foundation stone of those hatreds.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah Lipstadt, associated faculty of the History Department and\u00a0Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, was recently featured in an op-ed in The\u00a0Atlanta Journal-Constitution by\u00a0Bert Roughton. Roughton discusses a\u00a0recent libel trial in England involving Lipstadt, who\u00a0was charged to prove herself innocent of libel against David Irving. Irving has authored works that deny the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}