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2005 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents

APPENDICES

Appendix D – Endnotes

Introduction

1. Doudou Diene, Special Rapporteur, United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and all Forms of Discrimination, Situation of Muslim and Arab peoples in various part of the World, Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and all forms of discrimination, February 23, 2004, E/CN. 4/2004/19

I. Findings of the Audit

1. League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada, 2004 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, March, 2004, II. Findings of the Audit – 1. Overall Picture http://www.bnaibrith.ca/audit2004_Cap2.html

2. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, US State Department, US State Department Report on France—International Religious Freedom Report 2005, November 5, 2005, http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51552.htm

3. United Kingdom Community Security Trust, 2005 Antisemitic Incidents Report, February 2005 http://www.thecst.org.uk/docs/Incident_Report_05.pdf

4. Statistics Canada, Canada Customs and Revenue Agency Employee, December

5.2002,http://www.statcan.ca/cgi bin/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5087&lang=en&db=IMDB&dbg=f&adm=8&dis=2
5. Balvir Singh Multani v. Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys and AG, 2006 SCC 6, March 2, 2006. http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/csc-scc/en/rec/html/2006scc006.wpd.html


6. See Toronto Police Services Intelligence Services Hate Crime Unit, 2005 Annual Hate/Bias Crime Statistical Report, February 2005 http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/publications/files/reports/2005hatecrimereport.pdf
See also York Regional Police Diversity and Community Relations Unit, 2005 Annual Hate/Bias Crime Statistical Report, March 2005

7.Population figures based on 2001 Census data issued by Statistics Canada http://www40.statcan.ca Population for Jewish population based on responses to questions on ethnic origin.

II. Analysis and Discussion


II.1 Legal Developments by Marvin Kurz

1. Mugesera v. Canada, [2005] 2 S.C.R. 100, 2005 SCC 40 June 28, 2005 http://www.canlii.org/ca/cas/scc/2005/2005scc40.html

2. Ibid


3. R. v. Zundel (re) [2004] F.C.J. No. 1089 (Federal Court) par. 15

4. R. v. Krymowski, [2005] 1 S.C.R. 101, 2005 SCC 7 www.lexum.umontreal.ca/csc-scc/ en/pub/2005/vol1/html/2005scr1_0101.html

5. Ibid

6. see CTV news report December 4, 2002 http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1039918876117_39/?hub=Top

7. Criminal Code of Canada, RS 1985 c. C-46

8. R. v Ahenakew, [2005] SJ No. 439, Saskatchewan Provincial Court Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Irwin Prov. Ct. J. July 8, 2005

9. Ibid

10. R. v. Elms 2005 CanLII 24759 Ontario Superior Court, July 6, 2005 http://www.canlii.org/on/cas/onsc/2005/2005onsc14183.html

11. R. v. Sentana-Ries, 2005 ABQB 260, April 7, 2005 http://www.canlii.org/ab/cas/abqb/2005/2005abqb260.html

12. CBC, “Edmonton police investigate hate crime seizure” May 14, 2004 http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/05/14/canada/bahr040514

13. Canadian Human Rights Act RS, 1985, c. H-6
wwww. laws.justice.gc.ca/en/H-6/text.html

14. Citron et. al. v. Zundel, CHRT, January 18, 2002 www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/view_html.asp?doid=252&Jg=_e&isruling=0


15. See www.bnaibrith.ca

16. Criminal Code of Canada, RS 1985, c. C-46, s. 318(3)

17. http://www.bnaibrith.ca/prdisplay.php?id=929

18. Stephen Brown, Canadian Muslim Leader Promotes Suicide Bombings
FrontPageMagazine.com November 1, 2004 http://frontpagemag.com/articles/Printable.asp?ID=15758

19. Marina Jimenez, “Israelis Legitimate Targets, Canadian Muslim Says” Globe and Mail, October 23, 2004, www.safs.ca/jan2005/jimenez.html

20. Halton Regional Police Services, Press Release March 11, 2005 www.hrps.on.ca/data/media/05-03-11-01%20No%20Charges See also John Burman, Calling

18-year-old Israelis fair targets not hate crime, Hamilton Spectator, March 12, 2005

21. David Matas, A Review of Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act, B’nai Brith Canada, September 2005 http://www.bnaibrith.ca/pdf/AntiTerrorism05.pdf

22. Re Zundel, 2005 FC 295 February, 24, 2005, http://www.canlii.org/ca/cas/fct/2005/2005fc295.html par. 69

23. United Nation’s International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, December, 1965, http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/d_icerd.htm

24. For example Article 86a of the German Penal Code provides for a charge of up to three years in prison or a financial fee for publishing symbols of an organization hostile to the constitution, or using these symbols publicly in meetings or publications http://www.lawww.de/Library/stgb/86a.


25. BBC News, March 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4339983.stm\z

26. Suresh v. M.C.I., 2002 SCC 1. B

27. BC News “Call for Europe-wide swastika ban” January, 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4178643.stm

28. Ibid

II.2 Hate on the Internet

i The Canadian Scene by Richard Warman

1. See: http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/189.htm

2. The Council of Europe treaty website does not indicate what the intention of the Canadian Government is with regard to the filing of any reservations

3. For full details, see Section I.4 Regional Breakdown -- Alberta section

4. For full details, see Section I.4 Regional Breakdown -- Alberta section

5. The full reasons for the decision followed on September 23, 2005.

6. For the full decision, please see:www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/files/t998_11804de.pdf

7. See Alberta section for further details.

8. Warman and CHRC vs. Kulbashian et al., March 10, 2006, Available at http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/view_html.asp?doid=661&lg=_e&isruling=0

9. For more information on the Network please see www.inach.net

10. Pursuant to a proposal to creditors, all of those owed money will be paid approximately forty cents on the dollar over the next five years.

11. http://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fct/2005/2005fc1493.shtml

12 http://cyberwise.gc.ca/english/home.html

ii. International Response by Professor Michael Geist

1. United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, International Religious Freedom Report 2005 -- France , November 8, 2005, http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51552.htm


2. August, 2005 http://www.osce.org/odihr/item_2_15943.html


3. http://www.bnaibrith.ca/league/hoti/hoti2rex.htm


4. Warman v. Kulbashian, March 10, 2006 http://www.chrt-tcdp.gc.ca/search/view_html.asp?doid=661&lg=_e&isruling=0
See also Section II.2 Hate on the Internet by Richard Warman for further details

II.3 The Campus Scene by Professor Alain Goldschlager

1. University Vice President Chuck Bridges, CBC, Feb 8, 2006

II.4 Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: When Two Hatreds Intersect by David Matas

1. Working Definition on Antisemitism, European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, http://eumc.eu.int/eumc/material/pub/AS/AS-WorkingDefinition-draft.pdf

2. See Irwin Cotler “New Anti-Jewishness” Jewish People Planning Institute Alert Paper, November 2002.


3. “The Non-Jewish Jew” reprinted in “Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing about Zionism and Israel” edited by Adam Shatz, Nation Books, 2004.


4. Will Offley “David Icke and the Politics of Madness” PublicEye.Org, February 29, 2000 www.publicete.org

Conclusion

1. George Orwell, “Antisemitism in Britain”, Contemporary Jewish Record London, UK April 1945

 


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