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Real History and the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech The Posted Wednesday, January 2, 2008 Index to the Traditional Enemies of Free Speech Alphabetical index (text) origins of anti-semitism Irving’s case. It is like so many terrorists released early from Israel’s prisons who return immediately to their heinous careers.

European Jewish Press Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Spanish Jewish leader urges jail terms for Holocaust denial by: AFP MADRID (AFP)– The leader of Spain’s Federation of Jewish Communities on Monday urged lawmakers to make denial of the Holocaust once again punishable by imprisonment. Spanish law had mandated a sentence of up to two years in prison for Holocaust denial but in November Spain’s Constitutional Court ruled it falls within freedom of speech and would no longer be punishable with jail.

The court however ruled that imprisonment is a constitutional punishment for any individual convicted of justifying the Holocaust or any other genocide. In an address to parliament, the federation leader Jacobo Israel Garzon asked lawmakers to “think about how to once again introduce prison terms for Holocaust denial in the penal code”. Holocaust denial is “the threshold of hate speech” and its “depenalisation” could lead to the rise in the distribution of Nazi propoganda, he added.

Holocaust denial is specifically targeted by laws in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland and Romania. In April 2007 the European Union made inciting racism and xenophobia crimes throughout its 27 member states in a landmark decision tempered by caveats to appease free speech concerns. David Irving’s Books The Deborah Lipstadt Libel action Wyman Institute finds: Holocaust-denial activity increased worldwide in 2007.

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