American Express Drops Holocaust Denier After Complaint From Brooklyn Pol
American Express says Holocaust denier David Irving's no 'merchant,' thanks to Assemblyman Hikind
BY Corky Siemaszko • NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Brooklyn assemblyman Dov Hikind has hit Holocaust denier David Irving where it really hurts - in the wallet.
When Hikind discovered that Irving was accepting American Express payments for tickets to his ongoing book tour, the lawmaker drafted a letter urging the company to "rescind Mr. Irving's merchant agreement." A dozen elected officials signed it.
American Express complied.
"David Irving is no longer a merchant on the American Express network," company spokeswoman Christine Elliott said Tuesday.
Hikind, whose parents survived Nazi concentration camps, applauded American Express for "doing the right thing."
Irving, who is bringing his hate fest to a still-secret spot in Manhattan on Nov. 14, was angry.
"I think somebody has been lying to American Express," he said.
A British professor who recently served 10 months in an Austrian jail for violating that country's Holocaust denial laws, Irving says the number of Jews who went to the gas chambers is overblown
"Please do not refer to me as a Holocaust denier," an indignant Irving told the Daily News. "I make it clear the Nazis killed at least 3 million Jews."
Most historians peg the number of murdered Jews at 6 million.
in a related story, Lev-Leviev is building Araber-rein housing on Mohammed Othman's confiscated farmland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/20/israel-palestine-mohammad-othman?showCommentBox=true
Posted by: levi | October 21, 2009 at 06:20 AM
The Lev-Leviev piece actually makes me happy.
The David Irving.
Eh. You know - I think we need to get over these types. Hilbert pegged the numbre closer to 5.4 million and most "historians" NEVER flat out say 6 million, they generally say "from 5 to 6 million".
Taking away a guy's credit card sucks. You're basically condoning discrimination, based on thought.
Posted by: Aram Aramburuzabal | October 21, 2009 at 08:14 AM
Good work Dov!
Posted by: harold | October 21, 2009 at 08:21 AM
So because it might have been 5.5 million or 6 or 6.5 million and you're not exactly sure which number is exactly correct, that makes it ok for a guy to say the whole thing never happened?
Posted by: nobody | October 21, 2009 at 06:46 PM
he doesn't say that, read the f%$^ing story
and Aram: that says a lot about you
Posted by: levi | October 21, 2009 at 11:29 PM
Aram -
They didn't take away his credit card, just rescinded his right to process other peoples credit cards in exchange fot tickets to his "hate-fest"
Posted by: Dr. Dave | October 22, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Today American Express
and with hope, tomorrow it will be:...
VISA and Master Card ha ha ha
Posted by: Isa | October 22, 2009 at 11:48 AM
american express is the most expensive of the credit card merchant's services. you didn't hurt him you saved him about 4 1/2%!
Posted by: helen bowdine | October 22, 2009 at 12:33 PM
His listeners will clip their AMEX cards. Dov screwed AMEX good.
Posted by: Guillermo DaGoy | October 25, 2009 at 08:40 AM