Historians piqued at C-Span’s plans to air a speech by a British historian who has challenged the extent of the Holocaust have petitioned the network to cancel the project. The petition, sent to Connie Doebele, the executive producer of C-Span who slated the coverage, disputed the notion that showing David Irving’s speech would add “balance” to a program that featured a lecture by Deborah Lipstadt, professor of Holocaust Studies at Emory University.
“Falsifiers of history cannot ‘balance’ historians,” said the petition signed by more than 200 historians in the United States and other countries and sent to C-Span this week. “Falsehoods cannot ‘balance’ the truth.”
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