Holocaust Denier Should Not Be Jailed
23rd Feb 2006, 01:18 GMT
Last winter, on a cold and black night, I went to hear the Holocaust denier David Irving speak at the University of Colorado. I arrived early to get a good seat and soon after me came five huge young men, all of them looking like skinheads. I glared at them and they glared at me and for a moment I feared there and then I was going to meet my maker, but it turned out that when Irving himself started to speak, the skinheads of my fertile imagination rose as one, unfurled an Israeli flag and announced themselves as Jewish protesters -- a near case of me being a casualty of friendly fire.