When I first set out to research how the Holocaust was being depicted in textbooks in New Jersey's public schools, my hope was to see what students were being taught about the systematic state-sponsored killingof 6 million Jewish men, women and and children.
I never imagined that my work would lead me to serve as a witness against a history teacher who encouraged his students to question whether the Holocaust had ever taken place at all.
The case – known as Jason Mostafa Ali v. Woodbridge Township School District – represents a rare look inside the mind of what I see as a modern day Holocaust denier. In some ways, the case is reminiscent of Irving v. Penguin and Lipstadt – a Holocaust denial case famously portrayed in the 2016 movie "Denial" and written about in a book of the same name.
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