Labour is responsible for rise of ‘softcore Holocaust denial’, Dr Deborah Lipstadt says

The Labour Party is responsible for the rise of “softcore Holocaust denial”, Dr Deborah Lipstadt has said.

• Camilla Turner
• The Telegraph

The American academic won a high-profile legal battle against the British historian David Irving in 2000 after he sued her for libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier.

She said that anti-Semitism that has become “embedded” in the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, adding that it has become more socially acceptable to “make a crack” at a dinner party about Jews.

As a result of her high-profile legal battle against Irving, she…

• Labour is responsible…