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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/27/noxford227.xml
Oxford Union debate disrupted by protestors
By Ben Farmer in OxfordLast Updated: 2:11am GMTﾊ28/11/2007
Protesters broke through a security cordon and forced their way into the Oxford Union where Nick Griffin, leader of the far-Right BNP party, and David Irving, the controversial historian, were due to debate the limits of free speech.
Invitations to Mr Irving and Mr Griffin have prompted outrage since they were announced last month
After pushing and shoving their way through the doors into the hall, around 20 demonstrators staged a sit down protest and began chanting at the debating table.
The debate eventually began one-and-a-half hours late, with Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris and journalist Anne Atkins speaking against Mr Irving in one room whilst two Oxford University post-graduate students took on Mr Griffin in another.
The two controversial speakers had arrived early, accompanied by bodyguards, in a bid to avoid confrontation with the protesters.
As he arrived, Mr Irving, who had been invited seven times before and each time the invitation had been withdrawn, said: "I'm very glad to be here."
Fearing bloody clashes between the protesters and far-right groups Thames Valley Police had drafted in large numbers of officers to control the demonstration.
Invitations to Mr Irving and Mr Griffin prompted outrage since they were announced last month.
On Sunday Tory MP Julian Lewis, shadow defence minister resigned his lifetime membership of the society saying he was ashamed of the students decision.
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Mr Irving has been jailed in Austria for denying the holocaust but pleading guilty, he told the court: "I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz."
In his speech last night the historian insisted his account of events is based on the evidence available.
"I still refuse to be bowed I am not going to write what they want me to write I'm going to write what I find in the archives," he said.
Mr Griffin has been convicted for incitement to racial hatred but has repeatedly claimed his party is not racist.
He compared protestors objecting to his appearance in Oxford with Adolf Hitler's supporters: "This a mob which would kill. I have seen them beat old men and women and try to kill them. Had they grown up in Nazi Germany they would have made splendid Nazis."
But the president of the Union, Luke Tryl, claimed that the event had acheived the result he hoped for.
"I think David Irving came out of that looking pathetic," he said. " I said in my introduction that I found his view repugnant and abhorrent because I wanted that on record.
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