(JTA) — The Australasian Union of Jewish Students has scheduled a meeting at Monash University, whose internal security department is investigating the distribution of leaflets denying the Holocaust there and at the University of Melbourne.
The leaflets began appearing at the same time as the opening in Melbourne of the movie “Denial,” which portrays the court battle between Jewish historian Deborah Lipstadt and Holocaust-denier David Irving. The leaflets tell readers that that the “official version” of the Holocaust, which is also portrayed that way in Hollywood, is “demonstrably false.”
The National Chairperson of The Australasian Union of Jewish Students Isabella Polger said, “These leaflets are the result of a nationally organized campaign to spread poisonous anti-Semitic conspiracies at our nation’s top universities. They represent an atrocious assault on the dignity of Jewish students.”