Be careful what you say about the Holocaust, lest you be renditioned to Israel for trial as a Holocaust denier.
I was not aware that Israel’s laws apply to everyone in the world. I learned about this just today when I read the article on this page on the Inconvenient History website:
http://inconvenienthistory.com/archive/2014/volume_6/number_4/quo_vadis_revisionism.php
This quote is from the article, written by the late Joseph P. Bellinger:
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International Thought Crime
Israel may have assumed the lead in enacting Holocaust denial legislation when the nation enacted a “Global Holocaust Deniers” bill in the Knesset on July 20, 2004. This unprecedented law outlawed “Holocaust denial” even if committed overseas or outside of Israeli territory and was passed by unanimous vote. In theory, the law would enable the state of Israel to demand the extradition of any individual overseas for “Holocaust denial.”
The bill was drafted by Knesset member Aryeh Eldad of the National Union party as a counterthrust against former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas for a doctoral dissertation he had authored twenty years prior in which he estimated that less than one million Jews had perished at the hands of the Nazis.10
In effect, the bill provides for any Holocaust denier to be prosecuted in Israel. Eldad has reasoned, “What I want is that if a Holocaust denier publishes a book in England, he will be considered a criminal in Israel.” Apparently there will be no amnesty for such deniers even if they should change their opinions. “Once a denier, always a denier.”11
Justice Minister Tommy Lapid seconded that denying the Holocaust “is a neo-Nazi crime. Anyone involved in this belongs to the group of criminals whom our arm must reach anywhere in the world…We will not hunt them, but they should know that they are on our list of criminals. I am very satisfied and happy that this will be entering our law books.”12
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Is there some International law, that I don’t know about, which gives the country of Israel the right to decide what is truth and what is fiction?
Is there anything else in the entire history of the world, except the Holocaust, that citizens in any country in the world are forbidden, by Israel, to dispute?
You can read about Auschwitz and the Holocaust on my website at
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/AuschwitzScrapbook/History/Articles/Birkenau01.html
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