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David Gibbs

Gibbs seems determined to blame anyone but the Serbian aggressors for the Kosovo Albanian plight. In the conclusion of an excerpt from his book, published in Tikkun, Gibbs claims that the NATO intervention "served mainly to increase the scale of atrocities." But he neglects to notice that it also rescued a population of two million from Serbia's intended expulsion or annihilation.
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by Roger Lippman, August 28, 2009
Review by Josip Glaurdic, International Affairs, March 2010: Gibbs supports dubious claims with spurious, distorted, or already discredited evidence -- or with no evidence at all. He repeatedly claims to be setting the historical record straight, but does so only in order to create a smokescreen for his distortions. Surely it is possible to write a book with a leftist critique of the West's policies in the Balkans without such glaring omissions and distortions. Unfortunately, such a book still has to be written.

Gibbs is ably scrutinized by Marko Hoare in a series of essays:
The bizarre world of genocide denial December 6, 2010
First Check Their Sources: On David N. Gibbs and ‘shoddy scholarship’ December 24, 2010
First Check Their Sources 2: The myth that ‘most of Bosnia was owned by the Serbs before the war’ January 5, 2011
First Check Their Sources 3: The myth that ‘Germany encouraged Croatia to secede from Yugoslavia’ January 24, 2011
David Gibbs's Bogus Complaint April 12, 2014

See also Debating Genocide Deniers Part 1 and Part 2, by Daniel Toljaga, December 28, 2010 and January 9, 2011

 


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