Η απαγόρευση του μισαλλόδοξου "αναθεωρητισμού" και τα δικαιώματα του ανθρώπου

Abstract

Denial of Holocaust by some ‘intellectuals’ and historians is an issue of growing concern in our times. National and international judicial bodies have been striving to strike a fair balance between liberty of expression and scientific research, on the one hand, and the need to restrict ‘hate speech’, which undermines the very foundations of the democratic society, on the other. A common european approach on this crucial matter has progressively emerged, stressing the pseudo-scientific nature of‘revisionnism’, which aims at excluding and marginalising vulnerable social groups, as well as destroying the ‘culture of tolerance’ characterising modem pluralist democracies. But, at the same time, this approach underlines the need to protect a genuine scientific dialogue, even if points of view hurting the deeper convictions of a majority of citizens are expressed. States, as well as the international community, are called upon, based on these principles, to confront the new challenges arising from the increasing use of the Internet by the advocates of hate.