Spanish newspaper to run interview with Holocaust denier David Irving

The convicted British Holocaust denier and revisionist David Irving figures on a list of experts by the leading Spanish newspaper ‘El Mundo’. An interview with Irving is to be published on Saturday as part of a series of features on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II. The Irving interview would be published a day after one with Yad Vashem director Avner Shalev. Yad Vashem spokeswoman Estee Yaari, said that it was "shocking" that a paper like ‘El Mundo’ would include an interview with Irving as an "expert." Shalev, she said, "would never have agreed to be interviewed had he known."

Israel’s ambassador to Spain, Raphael Schutz, protested in a letter to the newspaper, saying it was obscene to include Irving in the list of experts and give him a platform. Such exposure, Schutz wrote, lent Irving credibility. Schutz's letter was published in the paper’s Wednesday edition. ‘El Mundo’ is considered a center-right newspaper and the main rival of the left-leaning ‘El País’.