“In its 3-0 decision released Monday, the appeal court said while Ahenakew’s 2002 remarks about Jews were ‘shocking, brutal and hurtful,’ the trial judge didn’t consider all the relevant evidence as to whether he wilfully promote hatred against them.
“Ahenakew, former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, called Jews ‘a disease’ in a 2002 interview with a newspaper reporter.”
