Public Chamber members propose to ban The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Interfax Religion ^ | 27 January 2006, 18:07

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27 January 2006, 18:07 Public Chamber members propose to ban The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Russia

Moscow, January 27, Interfax - Members of Russia's Public Chamber and human rights activists have proposed that a list be compiled of extremist literature whose dissemination should be formally banned.

According to the report of an Interfax correspondent, together with Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov, they considered the proposed amendments enhancing the criminal and administrative responsibility for extremist activity at a round-table conference in Moscow.

‘The most productive result of today's discussion was the unity of opinion on the need for a list of extremist literature,’ Genry Reznik, a well-known Russian lawyer and member of the Public Chamber, told Interfax.

‘The nucleus’ of literature aimed at fanning up ethnic hatred has been around for decades and the dissemination of such books is banned in many countries, he said. Among such books he cited Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a nineteenth century anti-Semitic Russian book.

Reznik said such books should not be destroyed but kept in special depositories where access to them should be limited. ‘Such books should not have wide circulation because these works are clearly nationalistic and aimed at fanning up racism and anti-semitism’.

Krasheninnikov agreed to the need for such a list, and a similar attitude was expressed by Alexander Brod, director of the Moscow Human Rights Office.

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I did not say Russia had no anti semitic people I said it wasn't epidemic, and it wasn't endorsed by the majority parties. It is a fact that it is in Ukraine.

[Tailgunner Joe]

No it's not. You actually support Timoshenko who is connected to neo-nazis against Yushhchenko.

[101st-Eagle]

Interesting. And I know I may sound alarmist, but the ACLU, given its ultimate ends, would affect the system here enough to see it happen right here on our own land.