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theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 09:39 PM Feb 2014

Anne Frank's Diary vandalised in Japan libraries

Will the insanity and hatred ever end?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26284614
BBC News
21 February 2014
Anne Frank's Diary vandalised in Japan libraries

More than 100 copies of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl have been vandalised in public libraries in Japan's capital Tokyo, officials say.

Pages have been ripped from at least 265 copies of the diary and other related books, they added...

...For many Japanese the book forms the basis of their knowledge about the Jewish holocaust, the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo reports...

...Toshihiro Obayashi, a library official in West Tokyo's Suginami area, said: "Each and every book which comes up under the index of Anne Frank has been damaged at our library." MORE

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Anne Frank's Diary vandalised in Japan libraries (Original Post) theHandpuppet Feb 2014 OP
what the fuck? SummerSnow Feb 2014 #1
"Will the insanity and hatred ever end? " Behind the Aegis Feb 2014 #2
What kind of asshole would do something like that?!?! nt AverageJoe90 Feb 2014 #3
Probably a holocaust denier theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #4
Though there are few Jews, there is a disproportionate amount of anti-Semitism. Behind the Aegis Feb 2014 #5

Behind the Aegis

(53,939 posts)
5. Though there are few Jews, there is a disproportionate amount of anti-Semitism.
Mon Feb 24, 2014, 01:15 AM
Feb 2014

There has been a resurgence worldwide of Holocaust denial and blaming Jews (Zionists) for the Holocaust. You can even find examples here.

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