The French writer
Roger
Garaudy continues to
attack with the truth and publishes new book on the
"Holocaust"
- World Jewry reacts
with outrage!
PARIS (November 4, 1998, 1998 Reuters News Service)
A French writer, sentenced for questioning traditional accounts of the Holocaust has published a new book about Jews, Israel and World War II persecution even as a court reviews his appeal against the earlier sentence.
The new work by Roger Garaudy, 85, entitled "The Trial of Israeli Zionism," was distributed to journalists on Tuesday.
His first book, "The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics" sparked a storm of protest in the West but made him a hero in some Middle Eastern states.
It also led a Paris court last February to fine him $20,000 under a French law that prohibits the questioning of World War II crimes against humanity.
The appeals court, which met on Wednesday and was to give its verdict within a month, heard Garaudy's lawyers ask for the overturning of the lower court sentence.
A public prosecutor requested earlier this week that the penalty be stiffened and Garaudy sentenced to a prison term of unspecified length as well as a lesser fine.
The legal case triggered a wave of sympathy for Garaudy in parts of the Arab world and in Iran, where he met and received support from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in April.
A university professor, Garaudy was born a Protestant and converted to Catholicism before becoming a leader of France's Communist party following World War II.
He was forced out of the party during one of its periodic "witch hunts" and converted to Islam in the 1970s.
Garaudy's latest book, whose cover is an Islamic green, was published by an unknown firm which printed no address.
The Jewish lawyer Michel Zaoui, vice
president of CRIF, an umbrella group for French Jewry, said
concentration camp survivors were reading the new book to see if they
would seek legal action against that work as well.
(Reuters News Service)
- The
Founding Myths of Israeli Politics
By Roger Garaudy
- The
Israeli-Zionist Lobby in the United States
By Roger Garaudy
- The
Israeli-Zionist Lobby in France
By Roger Garaudy
- Jewish
fascists spread terror in Paris
- The Garaudy
explosion
- Roger Garaudy publishes new book on
Zionism
- A battle against all Jewish myths at once!
By Mohamed Hasanein Heikal. Foreword to the Arabic Edition of Garaudy's The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics
- The Paris
"Catholic" Archbishop forbids attacks against Israeli
policies
