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Anti-Semitic blogger who compared Auschwitz to 'theme park' jailed over offensive song

An anti-Semitic campaigner who once compared Auschwitz to a "theme park" is behind bars again for mocking the Jewish faith in a "grossly offensive" version of an Oliver Twist song.

Alison Chabloz, 58, changed the lyrics 'you've got to pick a pocket or two,' to "you've got to shift a shekel or two" in a video posted online on April 18, 2020.

Chabloz denied the lyrics mocked Jewish people, and in particular the anti-Semitic activist Ambrosine Chetrit, claiming the song was written from the perspective of the English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson.

She posted the video while she was subject to a suspended sentence for a similar offence, which she received in 2019, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard.

Adrian Davies, defending, said: "The defendant has in effect been rendered unemployable by her past history.

Alison, pictured posing outside Southwark Crown Court in 2019, has struggled to find a job (Brais g. Rouco)

"She has not been able to find reasonably paid work since then."

He said there was no evidence that the song was made in reference to Ms Chetrit.

He added: "The complainant was quite unaware of the song until someone called Enoch in Israel, who spends his time monitoring online for anti-Semitism, told her."

Jailing Chabloz for 22 weeks District Judge Nina Tempia told her: "I do not accept your explanation to your words, you've got to pick a pocket or two, were for Tommy Robinson.

"I do find that the offence is aggravated by hostility to a religious or group and I have to take into account your previous convictions for like offence and the fact that you were subject to a suspended sentence at the time this offence was committed.

One million people, most of them Jews, were slaughtered by the Nazis at the Auschwitz Birkenau site in Oswiecim, Poland (Getty Images)

"My view is that you spent time making the words offensive."

Mr Davies said Chabloz intends to appeal her sentence and asked Judge Tempia for bail but it was refused.

She said: "I have made my decision. It is so serious that only an immediate custodial sentence is warranted."

Chabloz was jailed for 18 weeks last April, later increased to 32 week, for saying on US podcasts Realist Radio and the Graham Hart Show that Hitler wanted the Jews out of Europe for behaving "in a certain fashion as we're seeing again today."

She also called the Holocaust an "eternal cash cow" and compared it to a theme park while asserting that the gas chambers were not "homicidal", but used "to save lives from typhus epidemics".

Chabloz also linked to the latter podcast on her account on Gab, a social media platform popular with extremists.

She was convicted of three charges for posting offensive songs about the Holocaust and handed a suspended jail sentence in May 2018.

In the songs, the music teacher who refers to herself a 'historical revisionist', sings: "Did the Holocaust ever happen? 'Was it just a bunch of lies? Seems that some intend to pull the wool over our eyes."

She said Auschwitz is "a theme park just for fools" and "the gassing zone, a proven hoax, indoctrination rules."

The holocaust denier had appealed against those convictions but a judge upheld them at Southwark Crown Court in February 2019.

She has since breached her suspended sentence by ranting anti-Semitic comments as she telephoned in twice as a guest to anti-Semitic far-right podcasts, Realist Report and The Graham Hart Show.

The musician claimed in the podcasts that Jewish parents are "indoctrinating their children that their grandparents were gassed because they were Jews", turning the children into 'psychopathic maniacs', the court heard.

She also claimed the Auschwitz gas chambers were fake, and that Jews "were promoting homosexuality, promiscuity, the same things they are promoting today."

Chabloz from St John's Wood, north London, denied but was convicted of sending an offensive message by public communication.

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