Frankfurt book fair’s ‘hate texts’ - The Jewish Chronicle

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has urged the Frankfurt Book Fair to take action after discovering allegedly antisemitic texts at the event.

There had been no response at press time from the fair organisers.

In a letter to book-fair director Jürgen Boos, Shimon Samuels of the Wiesenthal Centre reported that several books in the stands of Turkey, Egypt, Palestine and Iran were "in violation of their contractual obligations to the Frankfurt Book Fair - among them are chronic annual recidivists.

"Consequently, our centre urges you to promptly confiscate these offensive texts and to blacklist the respective exhibitors from participation in the 60th Fair in 2009."

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