John Tuson Bennett

John Tuson Bennett (12 November 1937, Horsham, Victoria – 22 July 2013[1]) was a solicitor in Victoria, Australia. He was one of Australia's longest and most active Holocaust deniers, active in the Holocaust denial movement from the late 1970s. He formed the Australian Civil Liberties Union (not to be confused with the Australian Council for Civil Liberties) and was its president from 1980 to 2018.

Bennett graduated with honors from the University of Melbourne in both law (1958) and arts (1966) and subsequently worked for over 20 years from 1974 to 1996 in the Legal Aid Commission of Victoria. He also helped establish the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties (now Liberty Victoria) in 1966 and serviced as its secretary until 1980. After his expulsion from the group in 1980, he formed the Australian Civil Liberties Union and was its president from 1980 to 2004. ACLU has been characterised as "one of Victoria's foremost racist and Holocaust denying organisations."[2]

Bennett was closely associated with the Adelaide Institute as well as the United States-based Institute for Historical Review, two groups known for Holocaust denial.[3] He was on the board of The Journal of Historical Review, and was the author of a handbook called Your Rights, known for criticising "multiculturalism and Asian immigration" in addition to criticism against the Jewish community and traditional beliefs about the Holocaust.[4]

References
  1. "Bennett, John Tuson". Herald Sun.
  2. "ADC Online: John Pasquarelli Joins Holocaust Deniers". The Nizkor Project. B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission Inc. August 2008. Retrieved 16 July 2008.
  3. Jones, Jeremy (May 2003). "Wrong rights". The Review. Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council. Archived from the original on 8 September 2007. Retrieved 16 July 2008.
  4. "Australia 2001-2". Antisemitism and Racism. The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of the Contemporary. Archived from the original on 4 April 2008. Retrieved 16 July 2008.
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