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Apologies if I did not make myself clear. I entirely agree that one cannot or should not criminalise thoughts.

However, when those thoughts are published to third parties, they have the potential to cause real harm, either by inciting intolerant action, or by seeking to persuade others to accept intolerable action. If the communication of such ideas to third parties can reasonably be interpreted as likely to cause such harm, then in my opinion, those expressions of thoughts should be actionable.

When you see actual documents from the Wansee Conference (as I did in a museum in Prague) containing a list of the estimated number of Jews to be rounded up in countries which the Nazis had not yet conquered at that time (including Ireland, where my parents lived) , you realise that the Holocaust was real; that the Nazis DID intend to wipe out the Jews and other groups of people, ; that but for the bravery of countless allied servicemen and women, my parents and many others who survived the war could potentially have been turned into bars of soap.

I cannot understand why anyone would want to deny the truth of the Holocaust unless they have a sinister motive. To me, seeking by word or deed to recruit others to have the same motives is something which should be stopped by the law.