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More than 2,100 people have signed a petition to keep conspiracy theorist and alleged Holocaust denier Kevin Barret from speaking at a rally in Toronto.

Jewish advocacy group B’nai Brith launched the petition after Barrett was invited to speak at the al-Quds march that will start at Queen’s Park on Saturday. Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of B’nai Brith Canada called the event “an absolute hate fest.”

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“This is both outrageous and unacceptable,” Mostyn said in a press release. “Inviting a notorious Holocaust denier to this event demonstrates once and for all that al-Quds Day is not a mere ‘anti-Israel’ event, but rather a hate rally designed to demonize and denigrate Canada’s Jewish population.”

Barrett’s teaching career at the University of Wisconsin ended in 2006 after he stirred controversy over his support of a 9/11 conspiracy theory.

In an email to the National Post, he said that since then he has been “blacklisted” and unable to find another teaching job.