Mar 01, 2005 - CJC comments on deportation of Ernst Zundel
March 1, 2005
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TORONTO  Canadian Jewish Congress welcomed the closing of a sad chapter in our history  the final deportation of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel.
Canadian Jewish Congress has been monitoring the Zundel case since it began in the late 1970s.
This is a significant day for the Jewish community and for all those who treasure tolerance in a multicultural society, said CJC National President Ed Morgan. Zundels departure demonstrates Canadas abhorrence for those who would propagate Holocaust denial and antisemitism. It brings closure to our efforts to bring this man to justice.
One would be hard-pressed to find many Canadians who will be sad to see Zundel go, added CJCONT Chair Joel Richler. This man has been found to be a threat to national security. By his own admission, he is the guru of the white supremacist movement. Canadas action in deporting him is, without question, the correct one.
Canadian Jewish Congress welcomed the closing of a sad chapter in our history  the final deportation of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel.Canadian Jewish Congress has been monitoring the Zundel case since it began in the late 1970s.This is a significant day for the Jewish community and for all those who treasure tolerance in a multicultural society, said CJC National President Ed Morgan. Zundels departure demonstrates Canadas abhorrence for those who would propagate Holocaust denial and antisemitism. It brings closure to our efforts to bring this man to justice.One would be hard-pressed to find many Canadians who will be sad to see Zundel go, added CJCONT Chair Joel Richler. This man has been found to be a threat to national security. By his own admission, he is the guru of the white supremacist movement. Canadas action in deporting him is, without question, the correct one. -30-
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White supremacist and Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel was expelled from Canada and arrived in Germany today.  A Federal Court judge ruled that his anti-Semitic activities were "not only a threat to Canada's national security, but also a threat to the international community of nations."

In a press release given by B'nai Brith Canada, executive vice president Frank Dimant said that "For decades Zundel has spewed his venom and imbued his brand of hate in a new generation of white supremacist groups that had made him a hero ... Zundel's day of reckoning has finally come."  Canadian Jewish Congress National President Ed Morgan was quoted as saying that “this is a significant day for the Jewish community (of Canada) and for all those who treasure tolerance in a multicultural society ... Zundel’s departure demonstrates Canada’s abhorrence for those who would propagate Holocaust denial and antisemitism. It brings closure to our efforts to bring this man to justice." 

Zündel's Toronto lawyer, Peter Lindsay, said Zündel is "very disillusioned about the process and about being the victim of a secret trial, and now being deported based on evidence he's never seen."

Upon arriving in Germany, Zündel, 65, was immediately taken into custody by authorities on the grounds that he was running a web site denying the existence of the Holocaust, which is a crime in that country.  Prosecutors in the city of Mannheim have issued a warrant for his arrest according to the Associated Press.  A spokeswoman for the federal Justice Ministry, on condition of anonymity, said authorities were able to open a case against Zundel because his Holocaust-denying site can be accessed in Germany.

In 1977, Zündel founded a small press publishing house called Samisdat Publishers which issued such pamphlets as ''The Hitler We Loved'' and ''Why and Did Six Million Really Die?'' by Richard Harwood aka Richard Verrall (a British neo-Nazi leader) as well as booklets claiming that UFOs were actually Nazi secret weapons operated from secret Nazi military bases in Antarctica.  Zundel lived in Canada for 42 years as a landed immigrant.  His last two years were spent in a Toronto jail, where he was held under the Canadian security certificate law.  The law was passed after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, and allows the Canadian government to hold suspects of terrorism without charge, based on secret evidence that does not have to be disclosed to a suspect or his defense.