{"id":3878,"date":"2024-01-22T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/?page_id=3878"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:01:19","slug":"public-agitation-against-jews-is-a-punishable-offense-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/hatred-of-jews-and-israel-is-booming-again\/public-agitation-against-jews-is-a-punishable-offense-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Public agitation against Jews is a punishable offense in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"article__intro\">Since 1994, Switzerland has had an article in its Criminal Code that criminalizes public incitement to hatred and discrimination based on race, ethnicity or religion (anti-racism criminal provision). In 2020, this article of the Criminal Code was extended to include sexual orientation. Since then, the relevant article has been 261bis of the Swiss Criminal Code:  <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/markus-spiske-PGpi-oKW8I-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white quota print card\" class=\"wp-image-779\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"image-meta\">&copy;<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/de\/@markusspiske?utm_content=creditCopyText&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_source=unsplash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Markus Spiske<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/de\/fotos\/schwarz-weiss-quote-druckkarte--PGpi-oKW8I?utm_content=creditCopyText&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_source=unsplash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsplash<\/a><\/span><\/figure><\/figcaption>\n\n<p>Anyone who publicly incites hatred or violence against a person or a group of persons because of their race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.  <a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diskriminierung\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Discrimination<\/a>  who publicly disseminates ideologies aimed at the systematic disparagement or defamation of such persons or groups of persons,who with the same aim  <a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Propaganda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Propaganda campaigns<\/a>  organizes, promotes or participates in the organization, promotion or participation of anyone who publicly, by word, writing, image, gesture, assault or in any other way, harasses a person or a group of persons because of their race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation in a manner contrary to the law.  <a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Menschenw%C3%BCrde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Human dignity<\/a>  disparages or discriminates in a manner that is contrary to the law or for any of these reasons  <a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/V%C3%B6lkermord\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Genocide<\/a>  or other  <a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Verbrechen_gegen_die_Menschlichkeit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Crimes against humanity<\/a>  denies, grossly trivializes or seeks to justify, whoever refuses a service offered by him which is intended for the general public to a person or a group of persons because of their race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation is liable to a custodial sentence not exceeding three years or a monetary penalty.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artikel_261bis_StGB\">Further information on the Swiss anti-racism criminal standard  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Switzerland, Article 261bis of the Swiss Criminal Code prohibits public incitement to hatred or discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3879,"parent":3898,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_socialbar":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[626,665],"class_list":["post-3878","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-anti-semitism","tag-switzerland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5328,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3878\/revisions\/5328"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fokusisrael.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}