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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/3348/full/3348/racist-quote-in-magazine-stirs-brouhaha/ <br /><br /> <b>Racist quote in magazine stirs brouhaha</b> <br /> Friday, May 31, 1996 | by <p>BILL GLADSTONE </p> <br /><br /><p>TORONTO—A National Geographic magazine article about Toronto has ignited a controversy because it contains overtly racist remarks by an outspoken neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier.<br /><br /> The generally laudatory article about the Canadian city in the magazine's June 1996 issue accurately described Toronto resident Ernst Zundel as "one of the leading neo-Nazi propagandists in the world."<br /><br /> It quoted him as saying, "Canadians deserve all the problems that are coming with immigration."<br /><br /> Blacks are responsible for such problems as drive-by shootings, rapes and robberies, Zundel continued.<br /><br /> "I'm objecting to allowing hordes of racially unabsorbable populations to invade the living space of a specific race," the article, written by Richard Conniff, also quoted him as saying.<br /><br /> Ellen Cole, chairwoman of the community relations committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region, wrote a letter seeking an explanation from the National Geographic Society.<br /><br /> "Ernst Zundel, a German national with landed immigrant status, has been refused Canadian citizenship on the basis of being a security threat to Canada," Cole wrote.<br /><br /> "He is, by all accounts, one of the largest distributors of neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial material in the world. He is a racist and a bigot with links to some of the most violent white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations worldwide."<br /><br /> Cole wrote that a large number of politicians and field workers "would have been more appropriate to speak with credibility on immigration matters.<br /><br /> "Your choice to utilize Mr. Zundel gave him undeserved credibility and is a stain on your magazine's good name."<br /><br /> Toronto Mayor Barbara Hall, along with four other mayors in the Toronto area, are preparing a joint letter to National Geographic that will also protest the use of Zundel as a source.<br /><br /> "If anybody is unabsorbable, it happens to be Ernst Zundel," said Janis Dembo, coordinator of the mayor's committee on community and race relations. "He's not a legitimate voice. It's reprehensible that they would actually publish his stereotypically racist comments about the black community."<br /><br /> Bernie Farber, national director of community relations for the Canadian Jewish Congress, noted that Conniff did not quote the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan in a similar article he wrote for National Geographic on the city of Chicago.</p> <p> </p>

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