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Estonian Security Police Won’t Press Incitement Charges Against Antisemitic Web Posters


(August 21, 2003)

“Antisemitic and anti-Israeli comments have literally flooded Estonian Internet portals over the past two years,” but the Estonian Security Police have refused to bring incitement charges against the authors, viewing it as a free speech issue, according to an August 15, 2003 report by the RUJEN news agency. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Jerusalem bureau of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which specializes in hunting Nazi war criminals around the world, has been the subject of most of the verbal antisemitic attacks posted on popular Estonian web portals like Delfin, where at least one poster called for a second Holocaust and another denied it ever happened in the first place.


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