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April 30, 2018

How Holocaust Denial Became an Obsession on Both the Extreme Right and the Extreme Left

Robert Faurisson’s anti-Zionism.

Earlier this month, the French Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson lost a defamation suit against Le Monde, which had published an article calling him a “professional liar” and a “falsifier of history.” Paul Berman traces Faurisson’s intellectual development—which began when he was exposed to the ideas of the “sad-sack left-wing pacifist” Paul Rassinier—and the bizarre quarters that have been receptive to his work:

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