{"id":598,"date":"2007-08-01T10:57:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2007-12-08T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:57:33","slug":"attention-authors-be-afraid-very-afraid-especially-if-you-write-about-the-saudis-and-their-support-of-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"Attention Authors: Be afraid, very afraid…. especially if you write about the Saudis and their support of terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deborah E. Lipstadt blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Whenever David Irving’s libel case against me comes up someone inevitably asks: How could he sue you in the UK? I explain that my book was bought and published by Penguin UK and therefore he could drag me into a UK court.<\/p>\n

Turns out that now the reach of UK libel laws has been greatly extended. It’s a frightening development. In an earlier post<\/a> I wrote about Rachel Ehrenfeld and how she was sued for libel<\/a> by the Saudi Khalid bin Mafouz for writing that he had supported terrorism. <\/p>\n

But here’s what makes Ehrenfeld’s story quite different from mine: her book was NOT published in the UK. Some people in the UK [I wonder if it was the Saudis or their lawyers???] bought a copy over the Internet.<\/p>\n

Bin Mafouz pounced and Ehrenfeld was ordered to pay him damages. Now the American courts have come to her defense. [Scroll down at this link<\/a> to find the New York Law Journal report on the Ehrenfeld case.]<\/p>\n

Now the Saudis have silenced another book<\/span>. This one is by J. Millard Burr, a former relief coordinator for Operation Lifeline Sudan, U.S. Agency for International Development, and Robert O. Collins, professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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