book reviews are. 'You review books for The Jewish Chronicle , don't you?' replies Irving, triumphant. The same beast lurches out in Irving's private diaries. In an aside , he writes, 'God is using Aids as a Final Solution to wipe out all the blacks in Africa.'.[ 2 ] Irving protests that these are tiny extracts from millions of words of diaries that he was forced to disclose. Irving asks Evans for his definition of antisemitism. Evans says that it's hatred of the Jewish people, leading to a concerted effort to exterminate them. And out of nowhere, Irving tells Evans that the Hungarian government that was overthrown in 1956 had a disproportionate number of Jews in it, and asking him whether drawing attention to this fact would be an antisemitic statement. Then he flourishes a bunch of antisemitic quotes he has selected from the private papers of Lord Halifax , Churchill and Anthony Eden . When the judge, Mr Justice Gray , objects this has nothing to with the case, Irving says he simply wanted to measure the degree of antisemitism of which he is accused; 'a league table by which I could be judged, my lord.' On the second day of cross-examination, Irving launches an attack on the integrity of Evans's quotations from his work. A skirmish builds up around an ellipsis. By inserting three dots in a quoted passage to indicate that something has been omitted, claims Irving, Evans distorts it. 'You have left out four sentences, two