Canadian Jewish News: Zundel doesn’t believe his own propaganda, Crown lawyer says

The government lawyer in Ernst Zundel’s deportation case said he doesn’t think the notorious Holocaust denier really believes his own propaganda. “I cross-examined Zundel for five days. In my view, he does not believe the Holocaust did not happen. He’s far more intelligent than that. He’s doing it because he hates Jewish people and made a great deal of money,” Donald MacIntosh, the lead Crown prosecutor, told a McGill University audience recently. Zundel profited handsomely from the publication of hate literature that was distributed around the world, MacIntosh said in a lecture on the case at McGill’s law faculty, part of the Holocaust Education Series, sponsored by the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre. MacIntosh said there was no doubt that Zundel was a threat to national security, and even to international stability. “Some people believe that Zundel is nothing but a revisionist, a Holocaust denier, which is reprehensible, but not a danger to national security… Zundel was a very dangerous man,” MacIntosh said. He said Zundel’s propaganda could have further fuelled rising anti-Semitism in the world and Islamic extremism.