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Alison Chabloz branded 'manifestly antisemitic' Holocaust denier as she loses appeal against conviction

Judge calls her 'obsessed with what she perceives to be the wrongdoing of the Jews' as he upholds convictions and sentence

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A judge has branded a singer a "manifestly antisemitic" Holocaust denier as she lost her appeal against a conviction for sharing "grossly offensive" songs.

A judge ruled to uphold the convictions of Alison Chabloz, of Charlesworth, near Glossop, Derbyshire, over three songs in which she denounced a supposed Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world and mocked the Shoah.

Chabloz, a self-described "Holocaust revisionist", was convicted of two counts of causing obscene material to be sent and one of sending obscene material in May last year.

She was sentenced to two concurrent suspended prison sentences of 12 weeks for two of the charges for which she was convicted.

A suspended sentence of eight weeks was passed for the third charge.

She appealed the conviction but, after hearing the evidence at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Christopher Hehir upheld the convictions on Wednesday.

In his judgment, Judge Hehir said that the court did not have to entertain “absurdity or fiction” in cases of Holocaust denial, adding: “We take judicial notice of the fact that the Holocaust occurred.”

He said: “She is a Holocaust denier... She is manifestly antisemitic and obsessed with what she perceives to be the wrongdoing of Jews.. She appears to have lost all sense of perspective."

Addressing her song (((survivors))), in which she mocks Anne and Otto Frank to the tune of Hava NagilaJudge Hehir said: “It is by no means an exaggeration to call this song disgusting.”

He said: “She positively intended to be grossly offensive to Jews."

The case against Chabloz began as a private prosecution by Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), which the Crown Prosecution Service then took over.

CAA chairman Gideon Falter said: “Alison Chabloz is no patriot and her actions defending the Nazis and claiming that the Holocaust was a fraud seek to defile their sacrifice."

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