Following media reports that infamous British Holocaust denier David Irving is planning to lead tours of the Nazi death camps in Poland later this year, Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Naftali Bennet, called on the Polish Government to deny his entry to the country.

In a letter to Poland’s Ambassador to Israel, Bennet wrote, “Given Irving’s record of abhorrent statements and outright lies about the history of Holocaust, it is quite clear that he intends to use this opportunity to spread further falsehoods and vitriolic narrative. In so doing, he will cause deep offence to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and to all the Jewish people, as well as stoke the already raging fire of hatred and antisemitism we are witnessing around the world today.”

He added, “I therefore respectfully request that the Government of Poland make it quite clear that Irving and his party will not be granted access to your country, and certainly not to the camps and other sites of memorial to the millions of my people who were murdered in that dark period of history.”

According to media reports, Irving is planning to lead a trip to death camps in Poland. He is charging $3650 per person for a nine-day tour which will include the Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec and Majdanek concentration camps. He also promises participants that they will visit the headquarters of Adolf Hitler and SS Chief Heinrich Himmler.

According to report appearing in the Times of Israel, in the promotional material for a store, Irving describes himself as a “Hitler expert”.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)