Hate blogger who likened Auschwitz to theme park loses appeal
► AN ANTISEMITIC blogger who once compared Auschwitz to a “theme park” has seen her jail sentence increased to 32 weeks after she lost an appeal.
Alison Chabloz-Tyler, 57, had been convicted of using “grossly offensive terminology” on two far-right podcasts at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in April.
She was sentenced to 18 weeks in jail but appealed against her conviction at Southwark Crown Court.
The blogger said on the podcasts that the Holocaust was used as an “eternal cash cow” and that Hitler wanted the Jews out of Europe for behaving “in a certain fashion as we’re seeing again today”.
She also said that the gas chambers were not “homicidal” but used “to save lives from typhus epidemics”.
Chabloz-Tyler added that Jews who “don’t conform” should be deported.
Giving evidence, Chabloz-Tyler refused to accept that her comments were grossly offensive and said: “I would like English people, of my family, of my race, of my ethnicity, to remain the majority in my country.”
Benn Maguire, prosecuting, asked: “Are Jews English? Are Jewish people English?”
Ms Chabloz-Tyler said: “They may be half-English or a quarter English.”
On one of the far-right podcasts, the Graham Hart Show – hosted by Graham Hart, who was recently sentenced to 32 months’ imprisonment for using antisemitic language and racial slurs — she asserted that the Holocaust was a “central pillar” of Judaism and that Jewish children were brought up to be “psychopathic maniacs”.
Chabloz-Tyler, a music teacher, was convicted of three charges for posting offensive songs about the Holocaust and handed a suspended jail sentence in May 2018.
In the songs, Chabloz-Tyler sings: “Did the Holocaust ever happen? Was it just a bunch of lies? Seems that some intend to pull the wool over our eyes.”
She also said Auschwitz was “a theme park just for fools” and “the gassing zone, a proven hoax, indoctrination rules”.
The Holocaust denier appealed against the convictions, but a judge upheld them at Southwark Crown Court in February 2019.
Chabloz-Tyler breached her suspended sentence by going on antisemitic rants during phone-ins to the The Graham Hart Show.
The musician also claimed in the podcasts that Jewish parents are “indoctrinating their children that their grandparents were gassed because they were Jews”, and claimed the Auschwitz gas chambers were fake.
Chabloz-Tyler, of Boundary Road, St Johns Wood, lost her appeal against a conviction of three counts of sending by a public communications network an offensive, indecent or menacing message or material.
As well as upholding the conviction, Judge Beddoe reimposed part of the suspended sentence she breached, making the total 32 weeks.
He dismissed Chabloz-Tyler’s earlier comments that hate crimes do not inspire violence, adding that the court’s experience was this was “that they very much do.
“In your case there is no material mitigation that can be found.
“That you lost your job in 2014 and have since become the subject of internet trolling seems to be very clearly the consequences of your actions.”
Chabloz-Tyler frequently sought to interrupt the judge during the proceedings, and was warned at one point that she would be removed from court if she continued with the outbursts.
Dressed in a navy suit, a defiant Chabloz-Tyler told the judge “I hope to have a jury trial next time” as she was led down to the cells.
Stephen Silverman, Director of Investigations and Enforcement at Campaign Against Antisemitism, said: “Alison Chabloz’s repulsive opinions can be traced back to the beer halls of 1930s Germany. The dismissal of her appeal affirms the just decision of the magistrates’ court and its decision to incarcerate her, signalling that the judiciary is united in its disgust of people who make a vocation out of denying the Holocaust and baiting Jews.”