A court in Switzerland has condemned a radical animal rights campaigner to five months in jail for making comments about Jews which "seriously undermined human dignity". Erwin Kessler had called Jewish kosher slaughtering practices "disgusting cruelty to animals" and equated it with the crimes committed by the Nazis. Moreover, he had lamented the "despicable lies of organized Jewry" and likened the smile of a Jewish butcher on one picture to that of a Nazi soldier torturing a concentration camp inmate on another. The court noted that as this was not the first time that Kessler had violated Swiss anti-discrimination laws, his jail sentence could not be suspended. The accused had systematically libeled Jews and attempted to arouse hatred against them.