John Tucson Bennett is a solicitor and president of the Australian Civil Liberties Union, who is most notable for being a leader in the Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews in World War II, usually referred to as the Holocaust. The key claims of Holocaust denial are: the German Nazi government had no official policy or intention of exterminating Jews, Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas...

 movement in Australia

Australia

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Bennett graduated with honors from the University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

 in both law

Law

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 (1958) and arts

ARts

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 (1966) and subsequently worked for over 20 years from 1974 to 1996 in the Victorian Legal Aid Commission. He also helped establish the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties (now Liberty Victoria) 1966 and serviced as its secretary until 1980. After his expulsion from the group, he went on to start an organization called the Australian Civil Liberties Union, which has been characterized as "one of Victoria's foremost racist and Holocaust denying organizations."

Bennett is closely associated with the Adelaide Institute

Adelaide Institute

Established in 1994, the Adelaide Institute was formed from the former Truth Mission that was established in 1994 by Dr. Gerald Fredrick Töben. The Adelaide Institute is a Holocaust denial group in Australia and is considered to be anti-Semitic by the Australian government's human rights...

as well as the United States based Institute for Historical Review

Institute for Historical Review

The Institute for Historical Review , founded in 1978, is an American organization that describes itself as a "public-interest educational, research and publishing center dedicated to promoting greater public awareness of history." Critics have accused it of being an antisemitic "pseudo-scholarly...

, two groups known for being actively involved in Holocaust denial. He was on the board of The Journal for Historical Review, and is the author of a handbook called Your Rights, known for criticizing "multiculturalism and Asian immigration" in addition to attacks against the Jewish community and traditional beliefs about the Holocaust.

External links

• Australian Civil Liberties Union website for organization started by Bennett