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view he gave in November 1998 in
which he also suggested that Jews'
money and greed trigger antisemitism.
"The question which would con-
cern me if I was a Jew is not 'Who
pulled the trigger?' but 'Why are we
disliked? Is it something we are doing?'
"You people," he told his interview-
er, "are disliked on a global scale. You
have been disliked for 3,000 years, and
yet you never seem to ask what is at
the root of this dislike," adding that
no sooner do you arrive as a people in
a new country than, within 50 years,
you are already being disliked all over
again."
He added, "I would say that they're
a clever race. I would say that as a race
they are better at making money than
I am. That's a racist remark, of course.
But they appear to be better at making
money than I am. If I was going to be
crude, I would say not only are they
better at making money, but they are
greedy."
Invited to explain his remarks to
the court, Irving said, "In my own
clumsy way, I am trying to find out
why we don't like them. It's a very
coherent expression of the antisemitic
tragedy. I am putting myself in the
skin of a person asking questions
about a clever people."
Rampton also referred to a
September 1992 speech in which
Irving suggested that leading British
television news presenter Sir Trevor
McDonald, who is of African
Caribbean origin, should be restricted
to "giving us all the latest news about
but only
muggings and drug busts"
after a "dinner-jacketed gentleman

reads the important news to us, fol-
lowed by a lady reading all the less-
important news."
"Are you not appalled by that?"
Rampton asked.
"Not in the least," replied Irving.
Irving was reprimanded by the
judge after telling Rampton that while
he employed "colored people and eth-
nic minorities," I "haven't seen a single
colored person on your team behind
you."
At one point, the court was shown
a video of Irving addressing a right-
wing American organization, the
National Alliance, in Tampa, Fla., in
October 1995, when he discussed the
"legend of the Holocaust."
Irving denied any association with
the National Alliance, but Rampton
pointed out that he had spoken at
their events eight times between 1990
and 1998.
Asked why he had said in his
Tampa speech that he found the
Holocaust story "boring," Irving
replied, "I think 95 percent of the
thinking public find the Holocaust
boring by now, but don't say it because
it's politically incorrect.
"What other explanation is there
for the fact that it's all the Jews go on
about now? There have been the most
incredible episodes in Jewish history
but all you hear of in films and so on
is the Holocaust."
Irving, who has suggested that an
Auschwitz survivor may have faked her
tattooed number, said his comments
were not intended to be antisemitic,
but critical of Jewish survivors who
turned "their suffering into profit." El

largest in the school's history.
The gift from Carl and Ruth
Shapiro will build a student center at
the Waltham, Mass., campus.

rate the 80th birthday of New York's
Cardinal John O'Connor by planti-
ng trees in his honor in a new
"Papal Forest" in Jerusalem.
The forest will be inaugurated
during the pope's visit to Israel in
March.

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Jack Granatstein, the museum's
director, says the car might fetch as
much as $20 million if sold at auction.

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Cardinal O'Connor

New York (JTA) — The Jewish
National Fund plans to commemo-

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