Agosto Giovagnoli supports the law on Holocaust denial

The historian and writer Agostino Giovagnoli considers the proposal presented by the Italian Minister of Justice, Clemente Mastella, for a law allowing the prosecution of negationists. "Over the past few days, 150 historians agreed to refuse the adoption of a judicial sanction of negationism. It is impossible not to compare this bill to the text against racism that has just been approved by the last Council of ministers. It is in the name of freedom of expression that the historians rejected this text ... . However, the distinction between negationism and anti-Semitism, difficult in theory, is virtually impossible in practice. Thus the question no longer concerns freedom of expression, but the best-adapted way to thwart anti-Semitism."

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