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.
Response
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