Revisionismus

A Jewish advocacy group is calling for stiffer punishment for the mother who placed a “vile” Nazi flag in her child’s room. While it is not illegal to own a Nazi symbol, the Campaign Against Antisemitism has advocated for stricter action against Amy Newport, whose “vile” banner was visible from the street. A Jewish community organization in the United Kingdom has urged the police to take stronger action against a lady who was photographed with a Nazi flag in her bedroom. After Amy Newport, 39, posted the enormous flag on the wall of her room, which could be seen easily from the street, her neighbors alerted counter-terrorism police. Due to the fact that it could be seen from outside her Swindon home, police told the mother of two that she could be committing a criminal offense. The former warehouse worker decided to take it down after authorities gave him “tough words of caution,” according to The Sun. “You couldn’t ignore the flag,” a local resident claimed. It’s terrible, and the fact that it’s in such a pleasant neighborhood further adds to the shock. We’re all enraged. “Hate and evil are the only words that come to me when I see that sign.” Why would anyone want it hanging in the window for everyone to see?” If it happens again, though, a representative for the Campaign Against Antisemitism told the Brinkwire exclusively that “the police must give more than just warnings.”

via brinkwire: A Jewish advocacy group is calling for stiffer punishment for the mother who placed a “vile” Nazi flag in her child’s room

Im vergangenen März sympathisierte Jessica Tami in einem Fernsehinterview offen mit dem Faschismus. Die damalige SVP-Kandidatin stellte die Zahl von sechs Millionen im Zweiten Weltkrieg ermordeten Juden als übertrieben dar. Jetzt hat sie von der Tessiner Staatsanwaltschaft einen Strafbefehl erhalten. «Hitler ist die Judenfrage sehr am Herzen gelegen», sagte Jessica Tami am 3. März 2021 in einem Liveinterview mit Teleticino. Der millionenfache Mord an den europäischen Juden durch die Nazis sei eine Folge kriegerischer Ereignisse. Die Zahl von sechs Millionen im Holocaust ermordeter Juden sei grundsätzlich überhöht und lediglich eine «symbolische Zahl». Schliesslich sei der Geschichtsunterricht zum Zweiten Weltkrieg in den Schulen «durchdrungen von antinationalsozialistischen und antifaschistischen Idealen», weswegen «wir zwangsläufig nur die Siegerstimme hören». Der Schweizerische Israelitische Gemeindebund (SIG), der Dachverband der jüdischen Gemeinden der Schweiz, reichte in der Folge Strafanzeige gegen Tami ein wegen Leugnung und gröblicher Verharmlosung des Holocausts gemäss Rassismusstrafnorm. Der SIG zeigte sich schockiert von den «äusserst fragwürdigen und verstörenden Aussagen» Tamis.
«Ein unmissverständliches Verdikt». Gut neun Monate später hat die Tessiner Staatsanwaltschaft nun einen Strafbefehl gegen die ehemalige SVP-Kandidatin erlassen. Das Dokument liegt CH Media vor. In den Augen der Staatsanwaltschaft hat Tami gegen Artikel 261 des Strafgesetzbuchs (Diskriminierung und Aufruf zu Hass) verstossen. Dieser verbietet auch die Leugnung, gröbliche Verharmlosung oder Rechtfertigung von Völ­kermord oder anderer Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit. Tami wird per Strafbefehl zu einer bedingten Geldstrafe von 50 Tagessätzen zu je 30 Franken, also insgesamt 1500 Franken, verurteilt. Die Bewährungsfrist beträgt zwei Jahre. Ausserdem werden ihr Bussen und Verfahrenskosten von 600 Franken in Rechnung gestellt.

via tagblatt: HOLOCAUST VERHARMLOST. Faschistengruss und «Sieg Heil!»-Rufe: Tessiner Ex-SVP-Politikerin wegen Rassendiskriminierung verurteilt

A parliamentary committee proposal to establish a new memorial graveyard in Zagreb for soldiers of the Nazi-allied World War II-era Independent State of Croatia has been strongly criticised by anti-fascists. The Croatian parliamentary committee for war veterans’ affairs endorsed a proposal on Tuesday to establish a military graveyard in the central Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb for soldiers who fought for the 1941-45 Independent State of Croatia, NDH, a Nazi-backed puppet state. The soldiers of the World War II fascist Ustasa and Home Guard forces should be described in the new memorial graveyard as members of “the Croatian army”, the committee suggested. The committee said that “every man is entitled to a civilised and dignified burial and a marked grave”, adding that both the War Veterans’ Ministry and the former mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandic, had agreed to the graveyard. Around 550 soldiers who were part of Ustasa forces are buried at the Mirogoj cemetery. But the proposal to describe the soldiers as Croatian army troops was described as “completely unacceptable” by Katarina Peovic of the Workers’ Front party, who is also a member of the parliamentary committee for war veterans’ affairs. Peovic’s own proposal to condemn this was rejected by the committee, however.
The Alliance of Anti-Fascist Fighters and Anti-Fascists of Croatia, SABA said it strongly opposed plans to established the memorial graveyard. “One must not under any terms accept that the Ustasa were ‘a Croatian army’,” SABA’s president Franjo Habulin told a news conference on Tuesday. Habulin argued that describing the Ustasa and Home Guard fighters as ‘Croatian army’ troops “dignifies” the NDH puppet state’s institutions. The Alliance of Anti-Fascist Fighters and Anti-Fascists of Dalmatia and the Association of the Homeland War Veterans and Anti-Fascists also opposed the plans for the memorial graveyard, writing in a Facebook post that “the Croatian Army in World War II was the National Liberation Army of Croatia [Croatian Partisans], which put Croatia on the side of the victorious anti-Hitler coalition”. Croatian news agency HINA reported that other members of the committee insisted that issue was not ideological. “This is about the victims, regardless of which army they belonged to,” said Ante Deur, an MP from the governing Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ party. The proposal for the memorial graveyard was endorsed by the committee on the same day as an expert report for Austria’s Interior Ministry called for a permanent ban on a controversial annual commemoration at Bleiburg in Austria for tens of thousands of Ustasa troops and civilians who were killed by the Yugoslav Partisans in 1945.

via balkaninsight: Croatian Anti-Fascists Criticise Memorial Graveyard for Nazi-Allied Troops