Europe– The EU Initiates Legislature Defining Denying the Holocaust as a Criminal Offense

The European Commissioner for Legal, Domestic and Human Rights Affairs, Franco Frattini, is leading a proposal designed to promote legislation against Holocaust deniers in all the EU countries. Frattini told Isaac Herzog, the Israeli Minister for Diaspora Ties and Combating Antisemitism that the draft law proposes that denying the Holocaust be declared a criminal offense carrying stiff sentences.

The Commissioner up-dated Minister Herzog on the contents of a recently held survey which showed an increase in the number of antisemitic incidents in the past year. The activities of radical Muslim elements are blamed for this increase.

Source: http://www.haaretz.co.il/

Date: October 18, 2007

By: Barak Ravid

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