Bible Believers is the antisemitic

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of the Bible Believers' Church of Sydney,

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, Australia. Not to be confused with "Whole Bible Believers" which is based in the US. Because the website reprints antisemitic material such as ''

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, Stephen Roth Institute, Country Anti-Semitism Reports, 2004. and

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material from authors such as Bradley Smith and Mark Weber, a complaint was lodged under Australia's Racial Discrimination Act."Group ordered to stop Holocaust-denial"
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'', 27 November 2006. In 2007, Justice Richard Conti of the Federal Court of Australia ordered Anthony Grigor-Scott to remove from the website antisemitic claims that Jews deliberately exaggerated the number of Jews killed during

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'', 5 February 2007. However, the order was overturned on appeal due to a legal technicality: "Bible Believers Church" could not be sued, since it lacked

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, and the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (Cth) (HREOC Act) would not permit (in the same proceeding) its substitution with another defendant who could be. Bible Believers were described as " e of the most visible of the plethora of eccentric pseudo-Christian groups in Australia" and "extremist" by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) in their 2008 report on antisemitism in Australia. The church is run by Anthony Grigor-Scott.

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Jeremy Jones, and on behalf of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry v The Bible Believers Church (2007) FCA 55 (2 February 2007)
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