Lady Renouf explains her anti-Zionism

Lady Renouf, the London socialite and supporter of Richard Williamson, the Roman Catholic bishop who sparked a worldwide controversy after claiming that no Jews died in Nazi gas chambers during World War Two, has revealed how she came to be a champion of those who question the Holocaust.
 
Renouf, 62, who met Williamson at Heathrow airport last week after he was deported from Argentina, told the Sunday Telegraph that her own alliance with the revisionist cause began after a female Jewish guest at a fund-raising event which she had organised on behalf of the Globe Theatre back in 1997 objected to the fact she had put suckling pig on the dinner menu.
 
"The woman accused me of being a tyrant for giving people a choice of what to eat," she said of the encounter. "She told me that Jews cannot expect to sit next to people who opt to eat pork. She was the tyrant."
 
While Renouf claims she is not a Holocaust-denier herself, she says that "people should have the freedom to question the accepted view of what happened". However, in an interview with the Sunday Times, she made no bones about her anti-Zionism, saying that the Jewish people were responsible for most of society’s ills, which included "vanity", "lack of empathy" and "greed". 
 
Renouf, 62, a former beauty queen who came by her title after a short-lived marriage to the financier Sir Frank Renouf, is helping Bishop Williamson put together a legal case to counter a mounting campaign to have him extradited to Germany to stand trial for his controversial remarks. While these were broadcast on Swedish television, the interview took place in Germany, where it is illegal to make such claims.
 
Bishop Williamson attempted to dampen down the furore last week by apologising for his views on the website of the Rome Catholic news agency Zenit. However, the Pope as well as a number of Jewish groups did not think he went far enough. Not surprising, some might think, given that he is being advised on how to talk to the media by David Irving, the right-wing historian who served a prison sentence in Austria for "glorifying and identifying with the German Nazi Party". ·