http://www.rense.com/general43/hand.htm"The behaviour of the so-called Jewish lobby over the Ashrawi issue is not only appalling but extraordinarily stupid. Once again, in its efforts to suppress and censor, the lobby challenges the efforts of its worst enemies to become its own worst enemy.
Take the case of the diabolical David Irving. Australian Jewry succeeded in banning him from entering Australia - the classic Pyrrhic victory. It did not hurt Irving's cause. Rather, it made him a martyr to his deranged supporters while providing the oxygen of publicity for his books, videos and website.
Far better to have let him into the country and to confront him. The demolition job done on Irving in the London libel trial shows his vulnerability to scholarly attack. Whereas shutting him out in an attempt to shut him up gives the ill-informed and uninformed the impression that his opponents have something to hide."