The Russian lower house is considering a new bill proposing to five years in prison for publicly denying the Holocaust or portraying Nazis as heroes, the Russian RT.com website reported, but Feedbacks revealed overwhelming anti-Jewish hate.

The current Russian law only outlaws Nazi movements and incitement of racial and ethnic hatred.

The sponsor of the bill is Boris Shpigel, who was and Upper House member who had to resign in order to be allowed to served as president of international rights group ‘”World without Nazism,.”

The new bill would also allow for the imposition of a fine from $3,300-$10,000m in addition to jail, for portraying Nazis or their aides as heroes, for Holocaust denial and for humiliating the dignity of individuals or groups on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, language, background, religion or belonging to a social group.

Judging by a random sample of 328 Feedbacks to the article on the Russian site, there is a lot of hatred of Jews out there.

Some choice comments, with unedited spellings, were:

– I thought Russia is safe from jews now but big surpise the cochraches are all over and moving again;

–as satan the father of lies is hiding from the dark so do the jews of being exposed from the treth;

–My grandfather fought in WW2, and freed a concentration camp, it’s not a lie.

– USA converted jew to christianity Brother Nathaneal fights zionist in america..God bless him

– THE HOLOCAUST ..WITH THIS LIE ,THE JEWS TOOK OVER THE WORLD.

– The Russian people suffered most at the hands of the jews. These laws are being pushed by the jews.

The Chief Rabbinate of Israel on Thursday reacted to the election of Pope Francis I by highlighting his predecessors’ “rich and fruitful dialogue …with the Chief Rabbinate of Israel on primary issues such as banning terrorism in God’s Name, the sanctity of life and the sanctity of the family unit.”

The office of the Chief Rabbis said the dialogue led to Pope Benedict XVI “to heed the Chief Rabbinate’s request and suspend Holocaust-denier Bishop Richard Williamson, and the modification of sections of the Good Friday liturgy that were harsh and insulting towards the Jewish People.”

The Rabbinate also noted statements by Pope Benedict and Pope John Paul II that “Jews are the elder brothers, and even the parents, of Christian believers.”

They added that both popes joined the fight against anti-Semitism n Europe and elsewhere,

“The Chief Rabbinate of Israel is confident that Pope Francis, whose good relations with the Jewish People are well known, will keep the same spirit, and strengthen and develop the Roman Catholic Church’s connections with the State of Israel and the Jewish People,” the office of Israel’s two chief rabbis added.

In my hunting spree today for news about Jews and the people who want to kill us—a task I accept so you won’t have to—I ran into this top JTA headline: Top Egyptian official calls Holocaust a ‘myth.’

“The myth of the Holocaust is an industry that America invented,” Fathi Shihab Eddim reportedly claimed in recent days, according to JTA.

“Shihab Eddim reportedly is responsible for appointing the editors of all state-run Egyptian newspapers,” JTA explained.

Here’s some more of Fathi Shihab Eddim’s historic analysis:

“U.S. intelligence agencies in cooperation with their counterparts in allied nations during World War II created it [the Holocaust] to destroy the image of their opponents in Germany, and to justify war and massive destruction against military and civilian facilities of the Axis powers, and especially to hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the atomic bomb,” Shihab Eddim reportedly said.

He claimed that the 6 million Jews moved to the United States during World War II.

And this was followed by the familiar condemnations by professional offended Jewish persons, in this case, Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, who called on the U.S. to “inform the Egyptian government that the United States can no longer tolerate such anti-Semitic rants and Holocaust denial behavior from another top Egyptian official.”

Followed by a reference to President Morsi’s 2010 view that we are “the descendants of apes and pigs.”

This is what we in the business call a Trifecta: it opens with the anti-Semitic official in some troubled country saying the Holocaust never happened; follows with expressions of shock by several dignitaries (Tony Blair is often available, Angela Merkel is great, too, for the old-German new-German contrast; and concludes with some older offense against the memory of the Holocaust by someone in the same troubled country.

In my 24 years of doing this beat for various publications, I’ve become convinced that we should add a special Holocaust Denial category to Health, Diplomacy, Finance, and Sports. Like every reliable genre, the Holocaust Denial story has a set formula – just add the current details, decide on an aptly outraged headline and press “publish.”

I googled Fathi Shihab Eddim and discovered the man has never existed in English until somebody told humanity what this guy thinks about the events of 1939-45. He has no Facebook page. None of the English language, state-owned Egyptian papers that he is said to manage has any mention of his name. He came into the world riding a Daniel Greenfield FrontPage.com story on January 26, (Thanks to Honest Reporting for the link) based on an article in Arabic in the “Brothers Online” website, titled: Holocaust .. The largest monument in history!! by: M.. Fathi Shehab.

According to Greenfield, M.. Fathi Shehab is Fathi Shihab-Eddin, who “headed up the Muslim Brotherhood’s Labor Dossier until the Brotherhood took over Egypt moving him into the Egyptian parliament and making him Chairman of the Culture, Tourism & Information Committee. He also heads the Supreme Press Council which allows him to choose the editors of state-owned newspapers in Egypt. All this makes him one of the major players in the Egyptian government and the Brotherhood. And these days the two are one and the same.”

Fathi Shehab is also a member of the Shura Council, the upper house of Egypt’s bicameral Parliament. And Greenfield is absolutely correct, Fathi Shehab is to Morsi what, say, Bob Kerry is to Obama.

Greenfield provides a thorough and satisfying listing of Fathi Shehab’s frothing diatribes, in context. Alas, he is also the last one to attempt to deal with the story in context. As soon as UPI picked up his “find” and gave it to the rest of the world, every subtlety and nuance were lost. First of all, Fathi Shihab-Eddin became an anonymous “senior adviser” that controls newspapers. Then, the story was fit by experts editors—only about three of them, everyone else just lifted their copy—into the Holocaust denial formula, and off we all went.

I urge to folks in the know to educate us about the reasons why the Muslim Brothers website would choose this time of violence and conflict to publish this article, and about Fathi Shehab and why he hates us so much.