did not contain the "right or wrong" wording present in the transcript. According to Hertsgaard, McCloskey "told the delegates, 'I may not agree with you about everything I’ve heard today,' before he reiterated a core point of his speech–that the right for anyone to question what is said about the past is basic to freedom of thought in America." Hertsgaard also denied Rafael Medoff's claim that McCloskey praised the " 'courage' of Holocaust deniers in Europe." Outside Congress On Israel-Palestinian issues In 1984, McCloskey was invited to return to Stanford University as a visiting lecturer. The director of Hillel at Stanford characterized McCloskey's appointment as "a slap in the face of the Jewish community". Members of the student government also tried to pressure McCloskey to remove an article by former US diplomat George Ball from his course syllabus and "add materials reflecting pro-AIPAC views." Following a "faculty review" McCloskey's student opponents were censured for " 'serious abridgments' of academic freedom" and Stanford's Provost offered McCloskey a formal apology. In 1986, McCloskey engaged in a debate about Israel-Palestinian issues with Jewish Defense League founder, Rabbi Meir Kahane. According to a disputed transcript of an event fourteen years later, McCloskey stated that two thousand people attended the 1986 debate which took place in San Francisco. The event was eventually turned into a short film titled, "Why Terrorism?" produced by Mark Green. McCloskey and former Rep. Paul Findley (R-III.) helped arrange a June 8, 1991, White House ceremony during which forty-two surviving crew members of the USS Liberty, an intelligence ship attacked by Israeli forces in 1967, were belatedly presented the Presidential Unit Citation awarded, but never presented, to the ship's crew by President Johnson in 1968. The ceremony took place on the 24th anniversary of the incident, which killed thirty-four Americans, and was attended by White House Chief of Staff John Sununu and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed concerns about whether the event was an held "to give a stamp of approval to those seeking to malign Israel”. The ADL singled out the participation of McCloskey and Findley as "staunch critics of Israel" and "expressed concern with their involvement 'and the sanction given by the White House of such rhetoric.' " Pat Robertson presidential campaign controversy McCloskey contradicted Pat Robertson's statements about Korean War service and so put an end to Robertson's 1988 Presidential run. Robertson first