Another Native chief in Canada attacks "Jewish-controlled media"

Terrance Nelson, a Native Canadian chief, provoked outrage on Monday after he charged that Jewish-controlled media would ignore violence against natives. Media coverage of the David Ahenakew hate trial in Saskatchewan would produce a dramatic rise in natives' hatred of Jews and lead to native people "killing police officers on a regular basis", Nelson said in a letter faxed to the "Winnipeg Free Press". He later confirmed his views in a telephone interview. Punishing Ahenakew would only make him a martyr and make him appear to be right in his attacks on Jews, Nelson said. The B'nai Brith senior counsel David Matas immediately denounced Nelson for spreading anti-Semitism and demanded that Nelson be fired from his post as chief. Nelson wrote that Jews owned and controlled much of Canada's media, which would ignore the Holocaust suffered by native people. Ahenakew, a former head of the Assembly of First Nations, is charged with willful promotion of hatred. In a interview published two years, he called Jews a disease and suggested the Holocaust was justified.