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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/14807/full/14807/new-zealand-school-regrets-thesis-denying-the-shoah/ <br /><br /> <b>New Zealand school regrets thesis denying the Shoah</b> <br /> Friday, January 5, 2001 | by <p>SYDNEY (JTA)—A New Zealand university has apologized to the Jewish community for awarding a master’s degree to a student who </p> <br /><br /><p>In 1998, Fredrick Toben, whose advocacy of Holocaust denial has been found to be unlawful by both the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and the Federal Court of Justice in Germany, tried to submit Hayward's thesis as his defense against charges that Holocaust denial was not a legitimate academic subject.<br /><br /> Canterbury University awarded a degree to the author of the thesis, "The Fate of Jews in German Hands," but after a study has concluded that it had a "perverse and unjustified conclusion."<br /><br /> The university's vice chancellor, Daryl Le Grew, apologized to the Jewish community but said the university had no power to revoke the granting of the degree.</p> <p> </p>

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