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@ Andrew Finkel, 14:12

You say the following in response to my argument at 13:31

"In almost all cases of Holocaust denial, the purpose of the denial is to enable the denier to expound and promote an anti-Semitic agenda, not to clarify our understanding of the received wisdom of history."

This misses the point. The motive of the individual denying the Holocaust is irrelevant to my argument.

I am saying we need the freedom to be able to hear such people. Because only then can we actually know that these are nothing more than the ramblings of deluded anti-semitic twits.

I ask you again. Imagine we lived in a world where no-one could deny the Holocaust: where even publishing an academic article arguing that it did not happen was a criminal offence.

In such a world, how could we know that there wasn't compelling evidence out there comprehensively disproving the Holocaust, but suppressed by the law? We obviously couldn't, could we.