October 26, 2005
Anti-Semitic tracts are on sale at the Frankfurt Book Fair again this year. English-language copies of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and Henry Ford's "The International Jew" were displayed on the shelves of one of the Iranian booksellers at the fair, according to German political scientist Matthias Kuentzel, who purchased the books there last Friday. Kuentzel, an author and educator specializing in anti-Semitism and Islam, told the news agency JTA that this year the books were available in English. Last year, the book fair, one of the world's largest gatherings of publishers, was criticized for allowing Arabic book publishers to display Arabic versions of Holocaust denial books and other anti-Semitic texts.