Saturday, 3 November 2007

Jews Seek Book Censorship in Belgrade

It's gotten to the point where the words Jews and censorship are essentially synonomous.

Jews Seek Book Censorship in Belgrade

A Serbian Jewish organization has protested at the presentation of books which it claims are “anti-Semitic” at the Belgrade Book Fair, the Tanjug news agency reported. At issue were two books by Serbian author Ratibor Djurdjevic, which the local Federation of Jewish Communities urged organizers to immediately withdraw from stalls at the fair.

"We demand the removal of all anti-Semitic books from stands at the fair and that mistakes like this don’t happen again in the future," the jews demanded. The letter was sent to the book fair’s organizers, the Serbian Council for National Minorities, as well as the religion and culture ministries and local publishers, said the report.

Ratibor Djurdjevic, founder and owner of the Christian publisher IHTUS, returned in the early 1990s from the US where he had immigrated. He wrote, translated and published books such as: "The Elders of Zion," "3000 Years in the Service of the Satan," The Myth about the Holocaust," "Judeo-Bankers and the Rise of Hitler" and "The Human Victim in Judaism."
These books can be purchased in Belgrade. Although the local Jewish community brought legal charges against Djurdjevic was unable to appear in court, allegedly due to ill-health.

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