
Yanky Fachler explores three post-WW2 libel trials that were inspired by the Holocaust: The State of Israel vs Malchiel Gruenwald – the Kastner Affair – in Jerusalem in 1954; Dr Wladislaw Dering sued American Jewish novelist Leon Uris in 1964 in London for defaming him in Exodus; and in 2001, in London, David Irving sue American Jewish historian Deborah Lipstadt for claiming in Denying the Holocaust, that Irving was a Holocaust denier.