Woodinville Residents Confront Holocaust Denier

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WOODINVILLE, WA — A man holding a sign with a swastika advertising conspiracy theories about the Holocaust appeared on a busy street corner in downtown Woodinville on Wednesday night. But the man's antisemitic protest ended after he was confronted by several local residents.



The man was standing at the corner of Northeast 175th Street and 140th Avenue Northeast holding a sign with a swastika and "The Holocaust is a proven hoax" written on it. The other side of the sign referred to a notorious Holocaust-denier who has served multiple prison sentences in Germany for inciting racial hatred and criminal libel.

At around 7:30 p.m., two men had stopped to talk to the man in an attempt to get him to leave the corner, according to witnesses. At one point, an unidentified woman grabbed the man's sign out of his hands. The woman ripped the sign in half and stomped on it. The Holocaust-denier didn't get it back.

Patti Mintz was one of the people who stopped to confront the Holocaust-denier. She said she drove by the intersection three times before deciding to stop. She heard plenty of people driving by shouting swears at the man.

"I was pretty freaked out," Mintz, a 14-year Woodinville resident who is Jewish, said. "I've only seen on TV, movies, and the news. This is the first time I've experienced this."

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She called 911, but was told there was nothing police could do. It was a tense scene, Mintz said, because the man was wearing a knife around his neck. She asked him what it was for, and he responded, "Occasions like this."

Hundreds of local residents discussed the incident on social media, with most expressing sadness and anger — and some standing up for the Holocaust denier's right to free speech.

"There are no words to demonstrate how deeply painful and upsetting this is to me. I know there is hatred and antisemitism in this world, but seeing it in Woodinville is a new level of sadness, anger, and heartbreak. I hope tomorrow is a brighter day," Woodinville resident Josh Erlich wrote on Facebook.