Holocaust Denier Loses Canadian Appeal

OTTAWA - A German lost another bid Thursday to challenge Canada's claim that he is a security threat and should be deported to his native land, where he faces charges for alleged anti-Semitic activities.

The Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear Ernst Zundel's argument that he is being treated unfairly because some of the evidence against him remains secret.

The government filed court papers last year saying Zundel posed a threat to national security and should be deported. The determinaton was based on secret intelligence, some of which has been shared with a Federal Court judge but hasn't been made public.

Zundel wanted to force the government to hand over the whole file.

Canada's Federal Court rejected the demand. That decision will stand now that the Supreme Court has refused to get involved.

Zundel remains in custody while the deportation case against him continues. He faces prosecution in Germany for his neo-Nazi and Holocaust-denying activities.

Court documents have linked Zundel with white supremacist leaders. Since the late 1970s Zundel has operated Samisdat Publishing, one of the leading distributors of Nazi propaganda. He is also a provider of Internet material dedicated to Holocaust denial, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Born in Germany in 1939, Zundel emigrated to Canada in 1958 and lived in Toronto and Montreal until 2001. Canadian officials rejected his attempts to obtain Canadian citizenship in 1966 and 1994.

He moved to the United States and lived in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee until he was deported back to Canada in 2003 for alleged immigration violations.