Bobthebuddha, have you read Brenner's book
I haven't, although I am aware of it, and I would be astounded if you have read it. If you have, feel free to tell us why it is a work of such rare precision that it was self-published? Or is that just more evidence of the Jews controlling the media?
However, so we are all on the same page, here is the text Livingstone is going to rely on:
vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres/LBzad.pdf
I would be instantly sceptical of any book about the holocaust which cites almost all of its sources in English (ie, is effectively a tertiary source), which was taken apart at the time of its publication, by people who had a deep understanding of the literature.
There is one such demolition here, from 1984:
www.paulbogdanor.com/antisemitism/brenner/harap.pdf
written by Louis Harap, whose left-wing credentials are underlined by his trip to HUAC:
collections.americanjewisharchives.org/ms/ms0683/ms0683.html
Brenner is not an academic, any more than (to cite someone whose work is similarly far outside any possible definition of academia) David Irving is, and the tour that Livingstone organised at the time was a disaster with only a handful of people attending and some stops cancelled owing to student unions, in those far off times, being less tolerant of obvious anti-Semites than they perhaps might be today.
It is the mark of the uncritical anti-didact, lacking the research skills to test sources for accuracy, to be taken in by charlatans. If Livingstone seriously thinks that a review process is going to go "oh my God! You've got a poorly referenced self-published crank book by a notorious charlatan: however could we have doubted you?" then he is even more deluded than he at first sight appears. This would be akin to someone claiming that they know things about how the pyramids are built because they've read books by von Daniken or, more pertinently, that they know things about the holocaust from their extensive collection of David Irving books.