A condemnation by parliament of vandals that attacked a Jewish cemetery has become part of a row about whether to let controversial author David Irving into New Zealand.
The desecration of the Makara Jewish cemetery made world news and on Tuesday parliament unanimously condemned the vandalism.
But David Irving, who questions whether the holocaust happened as history has detailed it and believes Hitler had little to do with what went on, has put his own spin on the act.
"I think it is highly likely that Mossad were behind this," Irving says.
Irving claims on his website that 80% of all attacks such as the one in Wellington last week have in recent years turned out to be perpetrated by disordered members of the Jewish community.
The author is offering a $US1000 reward to anyone who provides information leading to an arrest and conviction.
Irving also says that he will be coming to New Zealand despite a warning he will not be given a visa.
Canada have already deported him, meaning he no longer has automatic entry to New Zealand.
But Acting Prime Minister Michael Cullen says the law as it stands says Irving cannot enter the country.
"We would have to make an exception to the law to allow him to come. I don't think he has made a strong case."
Irving also says the Jewish Council's request to the government to keep him out of New Zealand is part of a global vendetta against him.
Cullen says Irving's notion that there is some sort of Jewish conspiracy to run European civilisation is "vomit-inducing" stuff.
"That is
the stuff that was the background to what happened in the 1930s and
1940s," Cullen said.
