Prosecutors argue that the comedy video is "anti-Semitic in nature," and could cause fear and alarm to the public and stoke religious hatred. Prosecutors are also charging Meechan with posting a video on social media and YouTube, which they claim was offensive because it is "anti-Semitic and racist in nature." The prosecution claims that the video was aggravated by religious bigotry.

Addressing the court, prosecutors asked Sheriff Derek O'Carroll to convict Meechan for the video.

"This is not some two and a half hour production with many shards every half hour, this is a toxic distillation of what he may call the best bits of his video," said the sheriff. "He has made very, very, sure the phrase 'gas the Jews' is repeated over and over and over again. He has constructed the video and he accepts that within a short time frame the noxious phrase is uttered 23 times by him."

The sheriff said the phrase "contains a clear threat of incitement to carry out a seriously violent act."

According to independent journalist Lauren Southern, who was present in court, Crown prosecutors argued that Meechan "is colluding with his pug to use adorableness to trick people into gassing football stadiums full of people."

"No, I'm not joking," Southern tweeted.