Important Expose
Important Expose
ANTI-SEMITIC MATERIAL FEATURED IN THE IRAN PAVILION OF THIS YEAR'S FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR
A Zombietone News exclusive report
FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN, GERMANY (Zombietone News) -- The official Iranian pavilion at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair prominently featured virulently anti-Semitic literature, in violation of German law.
The display was noticed by Hamburg-based author Matthias Küntzel, whose first-hand account appeared Sunday on both the euroneuzeit blog and on the German Jewish site Die Jüdische.
With 280,000 attendees this year, the Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's most important (and by far the largest) publishing industry event, with exhibitors, publishers, buyers, agents and authors from over 100 countries arriving every year to make the business deals that keep the book industry humming.
At the time of this writing (Monday, October 24), the media has not yet discovered the story: the only evidence of it is in a blog entry from UK blogger Colin Meade, who provides rough translations of portions of Küntzel's German text, and a press release from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
For reasons that are unclear, no action was taken against the Iranian pavilion by the German authorities or the Fair organizers, even though the illegal material was in plain view.
And it's not as though the company that puts on the Fair ignored the controversy because it tries to steer clear of politics: quite the opposite, in fact. On Sunday, Fair director Juergen Boos told AP, "For 70 years now, the Frankfurt Book Fair has considered itself a platform for political discourse and has been intensively used as such," as he awarded the Fair's 2005 Peace Prize to a Muslim author.
This is not the first time anti-Semitic material has been discovered at the Frankfurt Book Fair. A similar incident happened at the 2004 fair when publishers from several Middle Eastern countries were found to be selling intensely anti-Semitic material. [...]
Posted by Ted Belman at October 24, 2005 12:13 PM
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Chen
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Absolutely horrible! But then this is the price one pays for being made into a Pariah.
Since the 2nd Intifada every anti-Semite on the planet came back out of the woodwork. Of course when you have an entire world which transforms the perpetrators into the victims and the victims into the perpetrators we can not escape the inevitable outcome. When a people are ganged upon from all directions what can we expect in the end?
Posted by: Chen on October 24, 2005 12:31 PM
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Marc Schulman
said:
I've posted on this, too:
http://americanfuture.net/?p=757
Posted by: Marc Schulman on October 24, 2005 09:30 PM
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Gudrun
said:
For those who read German, you may read the article here. There you will find the links for the photos of the antisemitic books and three articles about the Islamists, guests of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2004, p.e. Sheikh Mohamed Ramadan al-Bouti:
Die "Protokolle der Weisen von Zion" auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2005, von Matthias Küntzel (October 22, 2005)
http://www.eussner.net/artikel_2005-10-23_10-44-02.html
Scheich Mohamed Said Ramadan al-Bouti - Ehrengast der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2004, von Gudrun Eussner, 5./11.Oktober 2004
http://www.eussner.net/artikel_2004-10-05_21-26-57.html
Posted by: Gudrun on October 25, 2005 04:40 AM
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georg von mecklenburg
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No one really took the Iranian book stall as being for real. The Frankfurt book fair is open to all ideas even the crazy ones. I wouldn't lose too much sleep over this minor issue.
Posted by: georg von mecklenburg on October 25, 2005 09:15 AM
Important Expose
ANTI-SEMITIC MATERIAL FEATURED IN THE IRAN PAVILION OF THIS YEAR'S FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR
A Zombietone News exclusive report
FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN, GERMANY (Zombietone News) -- The official Iranian pavilion at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair prominently featured virulently anti-Semitic literature, in violation of German law.
The display was noticed by Hamburg-based author Matthias Küntzel, whose first-hand account appeared Sunday on both the euroneuzeit blog and on the German Jewish site Die Jüdische.
With 280,000 attendees this year, the Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's most important (and by far the largest) publishing industry event, with exhibitors, publishers, buyers, agents and authors from over 100 countries arriving every year to make the business deals that keep the book industry humming.
At the time of this writing (Monday, October 24), the media has not yet discovered the story: the only evidence of it is in a blog entry from UK blogger Colin Meade, who provides rough translations of portions of Küntzel's German text, and a press release from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
For reasons that are unclear, no action was taken against the Iranian pavilion by the German authorities or the Fair organizers, even though the illegal material was in plain view.
And it's not as though the company that puts on the Fair ignored the controversy because it tries to steer clear of politics: quite the opposite, in fact. On Sunday, Fair director Juergen Boos told AP, "For 70 years now, the Frankfurt Book Fair has considered itself a platform for political discourse and has been intensively used as such," as he awarded the Fair's 2005 Peace Prize to a Muslim author.
This is not the first time anti-Semitic material has been discovered at the Frankfurt Book Fair. A similar incident happened at the 2004 fair when publishers from several Middle Eastern countries were found to be selling intensely anti-Semitic material. [...]
Posted by Ted Belman at October 24, 2005 12:13 PM