The police in London, Ontario – Canada, are investigating a potential hate crime after a local Arabic language newspaper published an article that blamed Jews for the Holocaust.
The article, headlined “the question which everyone ignores: why did Hitler kill the Jews?”, accused Jews of causing Germany’s economic collapse in the 1920s as well as of causing sexual “promiscuity…homosexuality…every type of sexual deviance”.
The article then goes on to accuse “Jewish propaganda” of leading to the modern consensus about the Holocaust, which it claims is held despite the fact that “the total number of Jews in Germany was less than a quarter of this figure that they say Hitler burned!”, apparently ignoring that Hitler militarily occupied most of Europe and not just Germany.
The article originally featured in the Egyptian paper al-Masry al-Youm, which has frequently featured antisemitic content, including a Menorah as part of the ISIS symbol, connected to a common antisemitic claim of the alleged Jewish origins of ISIS, as well as featuring other “elaborate antisemitic conspiracy theories”. According to the National Post, this newspaper is recommended as reading by the London and Middlesex Immigration Partnership, a publicly funded body. The London and Middlesex Immigration Partnership claims that its mission is “serving and integrating immigrants”, yet promoting antisemitic propaganda serves nobody, and certainly will not help an immigrant integrate into Canadian society.