From the AJN:

Toben court hearing this week
PETER KOHN

THE Federal Court is due to re-hear an application by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) against Adelaide Holocaust denier Dr Fredrick Toben, with a date to be set on Wednesday.

Dr Toben has failed to comply with a December 5 deadline set by the court in Sydney last month for him to remove all Holocaust denial material from the website of his Adelaide Institute.

He was given that deadline by Justice Michael Moore of the Federal Court at a November 27 hearing.

At that hearing, Dr Toben made an apology for ignoring the court’s 2002 ruling to remove Holocaust denial material from his website and to not replace it with new material.

But some days later he retracted his apology and also announced on his website that he would halt the removal of material.

Lawyer Steven Lewis of legal firm Slater & Gordon, representing the ECAJ, told The AJN: “He has masked certain parts of it. The orders required him to take down all the material and he hasn’t.”

Dr Toben has made comments on his website about an AJN story reporting his apology to the court. In an article titled Bending To Jewish Pressure, he accused the newspaper of “gloating about the settlement”.

The Adelaide revisionist, who addressed Iran’s notorious Holocaust denial conference in December last year, was to take part in this week’s directions court hearing by video link.