AR-News: (Netherlands) German Jews to sue over Holocaust ads

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

17 March 2004
BERLIN - The Central Council of Jews in Germany intends to fight an 
American-based animal-rights group over a controversial campaign likening animals to 
victims of the Holocaust, according to a published report Wednesday. 

Council Chairman Paul President has vowed to use Germany’s stringent laws 
against public display of Nazi emblems or slogans to stop the "Holocaust On Your 
Plate" campaign being launched in coming days throughout Europe by People for 
the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), according to the report in Berliner 
Zeitung newspaper. 

After making waves throughout the U.S. last year, PETA’s controversial 
"Holocaust on Your Plate" exhibit opens in Stuttgart Thursday, coinciding with a 
national advertising campaign. 

The display, which consists of eight freestanding 2.5-metre panels, each 
showing photos of factory-farm and slaughterhouse scenes side-by-side with photos 
from Nazi death camps, graphically depicts the point made by Yiddish writer 
and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, who wrote, "In relation to [animals], 
all people are Nazis." 



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http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=52&story_id=5704
 
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