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| Renouf claims she had no interest in the issues of World War II and the Holocaust until a piece in a newspaper about Irving's 2000 libel trial caught her eye.{{Fact|date=October 2007}} She has stated, "I do not doubt they were victims. Or that the term as chosen by international Zionism for these victims is a Holocaust (a religious term meaning a sacrificial burnt offering in a Covenantal bargain to gain a literal Zionist state of Israel)." The European Jewish Congress has described her as an "anti-Semitic demagogue."<ref> ], December 12, 2006.</ref> She has described ] as a "dangerous and hateful belief."{{Fact|date=October 2007}}. | Renouf claims she had no interest in the issues of World War II and the Holocaust until a piece in a newspaper about Irving's 2000 libel trial caught her eye.{{Fact|date=October 2007}} She has stated, "I do not doubt they were victims. Or that the term as chosen by international Zionism for these victims is a Holocaust (a religious term meaning a sacrificial burnt offering in a Covenantal bargain to gain a literal Zionist state of Israel)." The European Jewish Congress has described her as an "anti-Semitic demagogue."<ref> ], December 12, 2006.</ref> She has described ] as a "dangerous and hateful belief."{{Fact|date=October 2007}}. | ||
| She attended the ] in Iran in December, ].<ref> ], December 7, 2006.</ref> In her address to the Conference, she described Judaism as possessing a ''"dangerously misanthropic tendency"'' and ''"fundamentally anti-Gentile narcissism."''<ref></ref> Earlier that year she produced the DVD ], an analysis of the recent wave of Holocaust denial prosecutions in Europe, including the cases of David Irving, Ernst Zündel and Robert Faurisson. | She attended the ] in Iran in December, ].<ref> ], December 7, 2006.</ref> In her address to the Conference, she described Judaism as possessing a ''"dangerously misanthropic tendency"'' and ''"fundamentally anti-Gentile narcissism."''<ref></ref> Earlier that year she produced the DVD ], an analysis of the recent wave of Holocaust denial prosecutions in Europe, including the cases of David Irving, Ernst Zündel and Robert Faurisson. | ||
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Michele Renouf (born 1946) is an Australian-born, British-based socialite, who came to the wider attention of the public when she sat at the side of David Irving during his failed legal action against the historian Deborah Lipstadt in 2000.
Born Michele Mainwaring, she became a model, dancer and beauty contestant, winning the title of Miss Newcastle 1968. Having studied Fine Art at the National Art School, she also obtained diplomas in Art and Education and became a lecturer in Fine Art and Media Studies at Queensland University of Technology. In 1970, she took residence in London where she became Countess Griaznoff by marriage.
She and Griaznoff were divorced in 1990, and in 1991, she married Sir Francis Renouf, an international financier who had helped reconstruct Germany’s post war banking system, and assumed the title Lady Renouf. That marriage ended in divorce shortly before his death in 1996.
Renouf continued her careers and her studies. In 1992, she gained a diploma in Landscape Design and designed an Elizabethan Knot and Maze Garden for the reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre; and sponsored the building of its Wardrobe of Robes Room in 1997. From 1999 to 2001, she read for a post-graduate degree in Psychology of Religion at the University of London.
Renouf has become increasingly known in recent years for her support of prominent Holocaust deniers. In 2000 she was a daily presence at David Irving's court case and more recently she attended the trials and other court hearings across Europe involving Ernst Zündel, Robert Faurisson and Germar Rudolf. In 2003, she was expelled from London's Reform Club after using the club's name in a letter to a newspaper in support of Irving.
Renouf claims she had no interest in the issues of World War II and the Holocaust until a piece in a newspaper about Irving's 2000 libel trial caught her eye. She has stated, "I do not doubt they were victims. Or that the term as chosen by international Zionism for these victims is a Holocaust (a religious term meaning a sacrificial burnt offering in a Covenantal bargain to gain a literal Zionist state of Israel)." The European Jewish Congress has described her as an "anti-Semitic demagogue." She has described Zionism as a "dangerous and hateful belief.".
She attended the Holocaust conference in Iran in December, 2006. In her address to the Conference, she described Judaism as possessing a "dangerously misanthropic tendency" and "fundamentally anti-Gentile narcissism." Earlier that year she produced the DVD Jailing Opinions, an analysis of the recent wave of Holocaust denial prosecutions in Europe, including the cases of David Irving, Ernst Zündel and Robert Faurisson.
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- ^ This beauty's a right one. Sydney Morning Herald, February 24, 2006.
- European Participants in the Tehran Holocaust Denial Conference. European Jewish Congress, December 12, 2006.
- Iranian Holocaust Conference Will Showcase Deniers and Anti-Semites From Around the World; ADL Urges European Leaders to Speak Out. Anti-Defamation League, December 7, 2006.
- Jailing Opinions