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Aktion Kinder des Holocaust also known by its initials AKdH is an international community of descendants of survivors of the Holocaust and World War II antifascist resistance, together with their relatives and friends.〔(Internet Streetworking, an Instrument for Psychosocial Short-Term Intervention ) paper at OSCE Meeting on the Relationship Between Racist, Xenophobic and anti-Semitic Propaganda on the Internet and Hate Crimes Paris, 16–17 June 2004 given by Swiss Delegation. Accessed June 2008〕 It is constituted as a club under Article 60ff CC of Swiss law. It describes itself as an "association against anti-Semitism, racism and political extremism." Its name translates as ''Action (by) Children of the Holocaust''. It was founded in 1991 around an interdisciplinary research project associated with the University of Basel, Switzerland . It is a partner and resource provider to the interdisciplinary research project "VIOLENCE youth" at the University of Basel. It is associated with the research project "Right-wing youths in Switzerland". Its principal aim is to document and counter right-wing extremist youth in Switzerland. It assesses extremist individuals on web forums and chatrooms to look for insecure adolescents who might be turned from their extremist views. It then engages with target individuals and eventually arranges face-to-face contact.〔 It maintains an extensive web archive of antisemitic views in the media and on the web. It puts pressure on Internet service providers to remove neo-Nazi websites.〔(Yahoo! said to delete dozens of neo-Nazi sites ) by Rick Perera, Cable News Network , February 7, 2001. Accessed June 2008〕 It criticized the work of Brazilian political cartoonist Carlos Latuff in 2002 for a cartoon depicting a Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto saying "I am Palestinian".〔(Infoshop News ) - Jun 3, 2006〕 It sued the Independent Media Center (IMC, also known as Indymedia) of Switzerland on the charge of antisemitism. The reason was a cartoon of Latuff's ''We are all Palestinians'' series, published in Swiss IMC website, which depicted a Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto saying: "I am Palestinian."〔Alex Schärer: (Linke und Antisemitismus: Der Indymedia-Streit - Aufpassen, was im Kübel landet ), ''WOZ Die Wochenzeitung'', April 4, 2002〕〔Junge Welt: (Ärger im Internet: Wegen antisemitischer Beiträge hat Indymedia Schweiz den Betrieb gestoppt ), February 25, 2002〕〔Aktion Kinder des Holocaust: (Is this cartoon by Latuff, published at indymedia-switzerland, anti-Semitic? An analysis )〕 The criminal proceedings were suspended by Swiss court. Notable supporters are the writers Peter Bichsel and Mariella Mehr, the historian , the Israeli journalists François Loeb and Uri Avnery. ==References== *(AKTION KINDER DES HOLOCAUST ) at judymeschel.com. Accessed June 2008 *(Country report for Switzerland 2001 ) The Stepen Roth Institute for the study of contemporary Antisemitism and racism at Tel Aviv University. Accessed June 2008 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aktion Kinder des Holocaust」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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