Aktion Kinder des Holocaust
Aktion Kinder des Holocaust('Action 'Children of the Holocaust'', AKdH) is a Swissvoluntary associationfounded in 1991. Its principal aim is the documentation of and opposition toantisemitism in Switzerland.It is associated with theUniversity of Baselresearch projects "VIOLENCE youth" and "Right-wing youths in Switzerland".
Its modus operandi is to contact "insecure adolescents who might be turned from their extremist views" on web forums and chatrooms and to engage them personally, a practice they describe as "Internet Streetworking".[1]It also maintains extensive documentation of antisemitic statements made in Switzerland or on Swiss websites and puts pressure on Internet hosting service providers to terminate offending websites.[2]
Among its activities, in 2002 it criticized the work of Brazilian political cartoonistCarlos Latuffin 2002 for a cartoon depicting a Jewish boy in theWarsaw Ghettosaying "I am Palestinian". In the same year, it sued theIndependent Media Center(IMC, also known as Indymedia) of Switzerland on a charge of antisemitism for publishing Latuff's cartoon.[3]The criminal proceedings were suspended by a Swiss court later that year.[4]
Notable supporters listed as members of its patronage committee include Israeli writerUri Avnery,Swiss writersPeter BichselandMariella Mehr,formerchief rabbiof DenmarkBent Melchior,Swissanti-racistactivistSigi Feigel(d. 2004), and Holocaust survivorSimon Wiesenthal(d. 2005).[5]
References
[edit]- ^Samuel Althof,Internet Streetworking, an Instrument for Psychosocial Short-Term Intervention,presentation at the "OSCE Meeting on the Relationship Between Racist, Xenophobic and antiSemitic Propaganda on the Internet and Hate Crimes", Paris, 16 – 17 June 2004.
- ^Perera, Rick (7 February 2001)."Yahoo! said to delete dozens of neo-Nazi sites".CNN.Retrieved24 June2008.
- ^Alex Schärer:Linke und Antisemitismus: Der Indymedia-Streit - Aufpassen, was im Kübel landet,WOZ Die Wochenzeitung,4 April 2002.Junge Welt:Ärger im Internet: Wegen antisemitischer Beiträge hat Indymedia Schweiz den Betrieb gestoppt,25 February 2002. Aktion Kinder des Holocaust:Is this cartoon by Latuff, published at indymedia-switzerland, anti-Semitic? An analysisArchived1 May 2011 at theWayback Machine
- ^Hamadeh, Anis (28 August 2002)."Jewish peace activists and Israeli violence".Archived fromthe originalon 16 August 2007.Retrieved21 September2007.
- ^"Das Patronatskomitee".Aktion Kinder des Holocause.Retrieved2023-04-18.
External links
[edit]- Official website(in German)
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