Pierre Vidal-Naquet wrote of this action that "One revives the dead in order the better to strike at the living" while attacking a man supported by Serge Thion. Ernst Zundel was charged with this action after publishing some of Richard Harwood's work, but his conviction was overturned by the Canadian Supreme Court in a trial which saw testimony given by David Irving, a leading proponent of this action. The Gayssot Act was used to convict French professor Robert Faurisson of it, in response to which Noam Chomsky argued that, though he opposed this action, it should be allowed as free speech. For ten points, identify th
Pierre Vidal-Naquet wrote of this action that "One revives the dead in order the better to strike at the living" while attacking a man supported by Serge Thion. Ernst Zundel was charged with this action after publishing some of Richard Harwood's work, but his conviction was overturned by the Canadian Supreme Court in a trial which saw testimony given by David Irving, a leading proponent of this action. The Gayssot Act was used to convict French professor Robert Faurisson of it, in response to which Noam Chomsky argued that, though he opposed this action, it should be allowed as free speech. For ten points, identify this act of historical revisionism, which questions the existence of gas chambers and orders from Hitler to perpetrate a certain genocide.
Pierre Vidal-Naquet wrote of this action that "One revives the dead in order the better to strike at the living" while attacking a man supported by Serge Thion.
{Holocaust denial} (accept equivalents, prompt on “genocide denial” or “anti-Semitism”)