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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1989 4(1):77-88; doi:10.1093/hgs/4.1.77
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‘After the Holocaust: National Attitudes to Jews’

A TALE OF TWO TRAILS: Antisemitism in Canada 1985

ALAN DAVIES

Victoria College, University of Toronto

In 1985, two men were brought to trial under the criminal Code of Canada for propagating antisemtic slanders: (1) James Keegstra, an Alberta high school teacher, and (2) Emst Zundel, a Toronto resident who produced revisionist tracts for export. They are similar and different. Keegstra is a classical antisemite who derives his ideas from anti-Talmudic literature and from nineteenth-century European conspiracy theories, especially following the French Revolution. His roots also lie in Social Credit politics in western Canada. Zundel is a neo-Nazi German nationalist preoccupied with the restoration of Germany's ‘honour’ and the rehabilitation of the Third Reich. Neither Keegstra nor Zundel represents more than a fringe element in Canadian society. However, both appeal to antisemitic feelings already latent in Canada, and, for this reason, their trials are significant.


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