by Mark Weber
On August 27, Canada's Supreme Court dismissed charges against Ernst Zündel of "publishing false news" because he had circulated a reprint edition of a booklet that disputes the generally accepted Holocaust extermination story. The Court struck down as unconstitutional the law under which the German-Canadian publisher and commercial artist had been convicted. (For more on this, see the IHR Newsletter, Oct. 1992, pp. 1-3.)
At a news conference immediately following the Court's ruling, Zündel defiantly repeated his view of the Holocaust story, provocatively calling it a "hoax" and a "racket."
Canadian Jewish groups promptly responded by demanding that Zündel be tried again for the same "crime," this time under Canada's "hate law" that bans willful incitement to hatred. Bernie Farber, national director of the Canadian Jewish Congress, filed a formal complaint against Zündel with the "Pornography/ Hate Literature Section" of the Ontario Provincial Police in Toronto.
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