Aktion Kinder des Holocaust

Aktion Kinder des Holocaust ('Action 'Children of the Holocaust'', AKdH) is a Swiss

antisemitism in Switzerland. It is associated with the University of Basel

research 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 cartoonist

Independent 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 writer Uri Avnery, Swiss writers Peter Bichsel and Mariella Mehr, former chief rabbi of Denmark Bent Melchior, Swiss anti-racist activist Sigi Feigel (d. 2004), and Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal (d. 2005).^[5]

References

^ 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.com. Retrieved 24 June 2008.
^ 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 analysis Archived 1 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^ Hamadeh, Anis (28 August 2002). "Jewish peace activists and Israeli violence". Archived from the original on 16 August 2007. Retrieved 21 September 2007.
^ "Das Patronatskomitee". Aktion Kinder des Holocause. Retrieved 2023-04-18.

External links

Official website (in German)

[Althof2004-1] 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.

[2] Perera, Rick (7 February 2001). "Yahoo! said to delete dozens of neo-Nazi sites". CNN.com. Retrieved 24 June 2008.

[3] 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 analysis Archived 1 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine

[Redress-4] Hamadeh, Anis (28 August 2002). "Jewish peace activists and Israeli violence". Archived from the original on 16 August 2007. Retrieved 21 September 2007.

[5] "Das Patronatskomitee". Aktion Kinder des Holocause. Retrieved 2023-04-18.

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