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April 25, 2022

Criminalizing Holocaust Denial Won’t Help Combat Canadian Anti-Semitism

It’s difficult to discuss anti-Semitism “without trespassing from the language of the secular.”

While Terry Glavin does not count himself an adherent of the “libertarian” position that outlawing the expression of loathsome ideas is in all cases a mistake, he nonetheless opposes a recent measure before the Canadian parliament that would make it a crime to deny the Holocaust. Glavin argues that the new legislation would be redundant, given Canada’s existing hate-speech laws. But he also points to a larger problem:

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