Australia Bans Nazi Apologist
© Copyright 1993 Kitchener-Waterloo Record
(Ontario, Canada)
Saturday, February 13, 1993
page A4
CANBERRA (CP) - The Australian government has banned
a visit by a British historian who was
kicked out of Canada
last November.
The Immigration Department said Friday it has refused a
visitor's visa to
David Irving, a revisionist historian and
Nazi apologist who has links with far-rightist political groups.
Irving's Australian publisher said the author planned to tour
Australia in March and April.
"We are not very happy about the decision," said Murray Pope,
manager of Veritas Publishing.
"Freedom of speech is being pushed under the carpet."
He said an Immigration Department letter said the visa application
was refused because
Irving would be "likely to become involved
in activities disruptive to, or violence threatening harm to,
the Australian community."
Pope said
Irving is appealing a
Canadian government decision to
ban him from entering Canada, as well as a similar one by the
German government.
The ban was applauded by Australian Jewish groups.
"It is a very right decision, we should not be showing tolerance
to intolerance," Council of Australian Jewry executive vice-president
Jeremy Jones said.
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