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Update on Ernst Zuendel and the Canadian Hate Police

By Bradley R. Smith ∙ June 1, 1997

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Ernst Zuendel’s hearing before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal opened on May 28th, and closed the next day. As reported in SR #39 (January 1997), the misnamed tribunal is attempting to close down the US-based Zuendel Website by holding Ernst responsible under Canadian law pertaining to hate (!) messages over the telephone (!!).

While a couple of motions brought by Zuendel to end the inquisition then and there were (predictably) rejected, the raucous antics of the thug-like (and Canadian taxpayer-funded) “Anti-Racist Action” in attempting (unsuccessfully) to intimidate Zuendel witness’s outside the courtroom have backfired. When several of the Jewish groups (including Sabina Citron's Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Association and the Canadian branches of B’nai B’rith and the Simon Wiesenthal Center) which have waged an unremitting, 20-year-long campaign of persecution against Zuendel applied for leave to join the government in the prosecution, Zuendel’s fiery, courageous and capable attorney, Doug Christie, launched a withering attack, pointing to evidence Team Zuendel has unearthed of collusion between Jewish groups and ARA, also known for raucous demonstrations outside Zuendelhouse, including chants and signs urging that Ernst’s home (several times bombed and torched already) be burnt to the ground. Several of the would-be “intervenors” in the prosecution, in particular the citrus-faced Citron, visibly squirmed and cringed as Christie told the court—and them—that they were a disgrace to decent Jews. Ernst and Doug now believe they have a real shot at keeping these busybodies out of the trial. The tribunal, just one tine of a multi-pronged attack aimed at ultimately deporting Zuendel to a German prison, resumes October 14th.

(A reminder: CODOH's Website continues to “mirror” [duplicate] the contents of the Zuendelsite—just in case he is compelled to close down.)

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  • Bradley R. Smith

    Bradley R. Smith was born in Los Angeles on February 18, 1930. At 18 he joined the army and in 1951 served with the infantry in Korea where he was twice wounded. After three decades of a variety of professional activities, it suddenly hit him: In 1979 he read a leaflet by Professor Robert Faurisson, "The Problem of the Gas Chambers." Then, Arthur Butz’s The Hoax of the Twentieth Century did it for him. He understood from the beginning that he would address the censorship, the suppression of independent thought, the taboo against publishing and debating revisionist arguments—not the arguments themselves. That has remained his position. In 1989, Smith founded Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) dedicated to defending free speech and free inquiry into the Holocaust question. He handed over CODOH's helm in late 2014. He passed away on his 86th birthday, February 18, 2016. Read a series of obituaries here.

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Bibliographic information about this document: Smith's Report, no. 44, June 1997, pp. 4f.
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