How a Jewish summer camp basketball game 40 years ago fought to undo antisemitic lessons

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The Sunday Magazine16:02How a summer camp basketball game changed lives

When Hart Snider was nine years old, he played a basketball game at summer camp that changed his life.

It was 1983 and his teammates were Jewish kids like him staying at Camp BB Riback, on the shores of Pine Lake near Red Deer, Alta.

The opposing team was made up of students from a nearby town called Eckville, who had previously been taught by a notorious Holocaust denier named James (Jim) Keegstra.

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“I remember being nervous before they came … talking to my friends about it and thinking what’s going to happen,” Snider told CBC’s

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