3 - Sunday, January 15, 1989 - North Shore News

MAILBOX

‘Had enough of Zundel worship’

Dear Editor:

It has become patently obvious
to my wife and I that your
publication enjoys the controversy
swirling around the red neck of
Mr. Doug Collins. The second
helping of his nonsense on the
“‘questionable’’ validity of the
Holocaust is too much to bear.

It may attract more attention
than normal to your otherwise
bland publication. At what cost?

As a community newspaper,
your mandate is to publish materi-
al that meets and mirrors com-

munity standards. We have had
enough of Mr. Collins’ Ernst
Zundel worship and his attacks on
creditable historians using publica-
tions by the lunatic fringe as his
authority.

I am neither Jewish nor German
and thus I can only empathize with
the pain this brand of journalism
must bring to both. If this line of
commentary remains a staple in
your publication I will be even
happier that I have a puppy to
paper train.

J.E. Rabbior
North Vancouver

Doug Collins should apologize

Deas Editor:

As a born German I found it
scandalous that a hate-filled man
like Doug Collins is allowed to
spread lies about the Holocaust.

Doug Collins quotes people who
are in the same category as E.
Zundel and Keegstra.

I cannot stand by and let Doug
Collins draw a man like Elie
Wiesel into the dirt. One only has
to read a book that E. Wiesel has
written to know that the man is a
modern saint. E. Wiesel never
writes a word of hate, in spite of
the fact that most members of his
family and of his native communi-
ty perished in the camps.

I have met here and especially in
Paris numerous people with con-
centration camp numbers tattooed
on their forearms, all of whom
were the only survivors of their
families, and sometimes of entire
communities.

What is Doug Collins trying to
do: stir up anti-Semitism on the
North Shore? I think Doug Collins
owes the Jewish community an

apology.
Terry Dekur
North Vancouver

HOLOCAUST

Collins’ column
‘outrageously stupid’

Dear Editor:

Doug Collins’ latest writing on
the subject of the Holocaust does
net deserve much attention, for it
is old hate fabrication recycled for
the occasion.

One part, however, is so
outrageously stupid that it merits a
reply.

To prove how Holocaust writers
are twisting the truth, Mr. Collins
is attacking Nobel Prize winner
Elie Wiesel for writing in one of
his books about ‘‘gysers of blood’’
spurting from the ground at
Babiyar in the Ukraine, months
after the massacre there. That is

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according to Professor Collins a
“*physical impossibility.”’

Of course, Mr. Collins does not
understand, while very clear to
anyone educated in a school and
not in a beer parlor, that Wiesel
was using a figure of speech or a
metaphor as writers have been do-
ing for thousands of years. It is
like saying ‘I felt eight feet tall”
or ‘‘My heart was in the seventh
heaven"’ or even when Mr. Collins
calls someone a ‘“‘nut’’ or ‘‘gar-
bage”’ which is also physically im-
possible.

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