A libel trial in London over a controversial book on the Holocaust has Europe buzzing. But what is at stake is not the truth about the Holocaust, which has been well-documented, but that alarms about the trial “may give the verdict more weight than it deserves, so that if the plaintiff wins, the alarmists will have created the very sort of damage they are trying to prevent: doubt among the ill-informed about whether the Holocaust happened. And because of trial technicalities or the nature of British libel law, the plaintiff could conceivably win.” – New York Times