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Dr Deborah Lipstadt has spent her life studying hate - specifically, the hatred of Jews. The Atlanta-based historian and author wrote about antisemitism in her 1993 book 'Denying the Holocaust' and found herself sued by British author and Holocaust denier David Irving for libel.
She won the case in part by providing evidence at the lengthy judge-only trial that the Holocaust happened, with a focus on the existence and use of gas chambers and a coordinated Nazi plan directed by Hitler. Her trial was made into a movie in 2016 called 'Denial'. Dr Lipstadt has published a new book this year called 'Antisemitism Here and Now' arguing that acts and expressions of antisemitism are on the rise again.
