Antisemitism Report 2009 - World Jewish Congress

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The far-right engage in seemingly endless power struggles, some ideological and tactical but more often personal. The fighting became particularly intense after One Nation enjoyed a brief period of electoral success and individuals, some of whom had decades of involvement in a variety of anti-immigration and/or neo-Nazi groups jockeyed for positions close to the levers of power. This was particularly evident in the machinations of the various Australia First movements, factions and individuals, during the period in review. The Australia First Party, deregistered for failing to meet its obligations as a political party since 2004, distributed racist leaflets in Adelaide in June, attacking foreign students enrolled in Australian education institutions. Australia First endorsed as a candidate in the 2009 Queensland state election Perry Jewell (a founder of the defunct Confederate Action Party). When the Party announced it had become re-registered federally and would contest the 2011 Federal election, the ALP in NSW immediately announced it would be placed last on voting tickets. In February, the Australian Nationalism Information Database, re-labelled Ironbake Resources, came into the sphere of the Australian Protectionist Party, a rival of Australia First.The Australian Protectionist Party, led by Darrin Hodges, invited Nick Griffin, of the BNP, to visit Australia to speak on ―the demographic genocide … caused by large scale immigration of people from the Third World‖. In December, the BNP announced the visit was ―postponed. In November, the political-gossip blog Vex News obtained, and published, a complete list (16 people) of Australian residents who were members of the BNP. Extreme right wing activist Paul Innes invited other racists to join him in the ―Pioneer Little Europe‖ project, to establish a Whites-only enclave in the Perth Hills (The West Australian 7/2/09). Innes, the moderator of Stormfront Downunder, also actively promoted Blood and Honour and Southern Cross Hammerskins. After two major Australian corporations requested their logos be removed from the website ―Global Web Builders‖, it was revealed that the site, maintained by former One Nation webmaster Scott Balson, kept archived the Australian National News of the Day (1995-99) which included a number of antisemitic items. (April 2009). 6.5 Adelaide Institute The Adelaide Institute, a loose conglomeration of individuals around self-styled "Holocaust Revisionist" Fredrick Toben which has its primary activity the publishing of material on the internet, has in recent year disseminated arguably the most vicious and malicious anti- Jewish propaganda of any Australian group. Even David Irving, in his Action Report, wrote that Fredrick Toben‘s ―(blatantly) ‗anti-Semitic Website‖ was a liability to Holocaust revisionists. In 1996 the Executive Council of Australian Jewry lodged a complaint with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission concerning the content of the Adelaide Institute's internet site. In November 1998 the matter went to a public hearing. Frederick Toben appeared at the hearing, then walked out, which meant he did not face cross-examination. 93
In February 1999, Frederick Toben commenced an overseas trip, which he described to a regional newspaper's journalist as a mission during which he would challenge the German laws on denial of the Holocaust. While travelling, Toben continued to distribute antisemitic material through his web-site and also to write a number of letters to public officials which contained his advocacy of Holocaust Denial. In Germany, Toben was arrested and jailed under the laws which he had announced he was planning on challenging. Although he received verbal support from his closest allies at the Adelaide Institute and from the English writer David Irving, his arrest did not receive a great deal of media attention and most of the reporting on the case included the perspective that he had announced before leaving that he knew of the German law. While in jail and on his release he was active in promoting Holocaust Denial through his web-site. He and/or his supporters also mailed his material to a number of recipients, including Holocaust survivors. During the period of his incarceration, Geoff Muirden, David Brockschmidt and Jack Selzer used the Adelaide Institute name to promote Holocaust Denial and other elements of antisemitism. The Hearing Commissioner released her findings in October 2000. The Hearing Commissioner found, amongst other facts, that: "The material contained on the Internet site is material which consistently presents Jews as a group of people who are engaged in a manipulation of the truth or an attempt to conceal or pervert the truth in order to obtain political, economic and other power. It consistently presents Jewish people as at the heart of "Stalinist crimes", and "Bolshevism". It suggests that sensitivity about matters relating to what is known as the Holocaust is an attempt to impose guilt on non-Jews, in particular Christians. It presents the circumstances known as the Holocaust as allegations or assertions, made and held by persons acting maliciously, dishonestly and manipulatively. Those persons so acting are unmistakably identified on the website as Jews, and further they are represented as so acting because they are Jews. The material has at its heart the proposition that the events of "the Holocaust" have been constructed, distorted and manipulated to create a myth for the promotion of the social, political and economic interests of the Jewish people, and suggests there is no evidence to support the existence of this interpretation of events"; "Material on the website also contains insulting and offensive expressions in relation to Jewish people and "the Holocaust" which are intended to be offensive and intimidating, and indeed have caused offense and anxiety:" "There are many aspects of that material which are quite explicit in their denigration of Jewish people, and many other aspects of the material which make this clear by imputation. The central theme of the website is the assertion that the Holocaust is, in the terms in which it is generally understood, "a myth"." and that: "None of the material contained on Dr Toben's Adelaide Institute website is of an historical intellectual or scientific standard which is persuasive on these issues, and is largely expressed in highly tendentious and often offensive and insulting language about Jewish people which makes it difficult to give serious consideration to the propositions contained in 94
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1.1 The Year in Review In Australia
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