Daily Times: OP-ED: Anti-Semitism on trial Ultimately, freedom to express one’s thoughts, however generously conceived in a democracy, must be balanced against other values, such as reputation, honour, privacy, dignity, and equality When Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled in the case of Sigfried Ellwanger — an editor, author, and notorious Nazi sympathiser — it entered the perilous field where free speech and efforts to contain racism meet. For years, Ellwanger published anti-Semitic books, such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, as well as books of Holocaust denial, such as his own Jewish or German Holocaust: Behind the Lie of the Century. By a vote of eight to three, the Court upheld his conviction on charges of racism. Of course, the enormity of the Holocaust ought to have eradicated anti-Semitism for all time. Shamefully, it did not. In many places, hatred of Jews thrives. Elsewhere — including Europe and the United States — anti-Semitism survives among a fringe of neo-Nazis and renegades like Ellwanger, but also, more widely, in milder forms of prejudice."