I get an email from David Irving

In Wednesday's Times I wrote of my concern about the growth of a sort of mob justice in Britain and the way everybody thinks everybody else is on the take.

In my last two paragraphs I mentioned a poll in the US indicating that a quarter of all Americans blame the Jews for the financial crisis either moderately or a great deal. I concluded by saying that I don't like it when people mob up.

Yesterday I recieved an email from David Irving commenting on my article.

I am going to publish it in full because Mr Irving tries so hard to be taken seriously as an historian, rather than a crackpot racist. I think this reveals the sort of person he is.

Here it is:

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From: Focalp@aol.com [mailto:Focalp@aol.com]
Sent: 28 May 2009 20:51
To: Finkelstein, Daniel
Subject: fan-mail from David Irving

Dear Daniel Finkelstein

Read your article about scapegoats on the way back from Oslo yesterday, a real feel-good article, which had my friends and me guffawing to the end. It was like watching somebody constipated with hatred seated on the crapper - you did not manage to get out the real stuff until the very end, the last two paragraphs, what you had so obviously been saving up for throughout.

And even then you missed the point: you folks - you know whom I mean - never, ever, ask the real money-question "Why us?"

If I was a Jew, and I don't think I am, I'd be asking the killers with their fingers on the trigger, as I lay at the bottom of the pit, not "Who are you?" (pace Daniel Goldhagen); but the rather more pertinent "Why us?"

Might save y'all a lot of trouble in the future, if you ever get round to that question. Or is it "anti-semitic" even to ask?

David Irving
Lake End House,
Dorney,
Windsor SL4 6QS