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A songwriter who caused controversy with an antisemitic quenelle gesture is not expected to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year.

Alison Chabloz claimed on Tuesday that her 45-minute show Tell Me More Lies would run for four days during the festival at a central venue. But the site did not include her in its online listings.

She claimed she would perform a song featuring "the outrageous lies of so-called 'Holocaust' 'survivors'".

But a festival spokesman confirmed the show was not listed on its schedule.

The producers of The Diary of Anne Frank, an opera at the festival, said they would protest outside any show put on by Ms Chabloz.

Ms Chabloz, from Derbyshire, tweeted a picture of herself performing the inverted Nazi salute outside Edinburgh Castle last year. She previously denied there were gas chambers at Auschwitz

● A 56-year-old man was arrested for breaching the peace at last week's anti-Israel demonstration outside the International Shalom Festival, police have confirmed. He is due to appear at an Edinburgh court in November.

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