Anti-Semitic blogger faces jail
A BLOGGER who broadcast anti-Semitic songs mocking Jews and denying the Holocaust ever happened is facing jail.
Alison Chabloz, 53, posted “grossly offensive” material YouTube.
In three songs, she sneered at Anne Frank, denied the Holocaust and called Auschwitz concentration camp a “proven hoax”.
A line in one song reads: “Did the Holocaust ever happen? Was it just a bunch of lies?”
She described her prosecution at London’s Westminster magistrates court as an attack on free speech and freedom of expression.
But Karen Robinson, prosecuting, said: “That right is not an the on unqualified right. The defendant goes way beyond the mere expression of an unfashionable opinion about serious matters.”
Chabloz, of Glossop, Derbyshire, was found guilty of three charges of sending by a public communications network an offensive, indecent or menacing message or material in 2016.
District Judge John Zani said: “This court is entirely satisfied that the material in each of the songs complained of is grossly offensive, as judged by the standards of an open and multi-racial society – as opposed to any of them being merely offensive.”
He added: “These are serious matters and my view is that the custody threshold may well have been passed.”
Gideon Falter, of the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, said: “Alison Chabloz has dedicated herself over the course of years to inciting others to hate Jews, principally by claiming that the Holocaust was a hoax perpetrated by Jews to defraud the world.
“She is now a convicted criminal. This verdict sends a strong message that, in Britain, Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories will not be tolerated.”
Chabloz will be sentenced next month.