Aug. 9, 2018 By Noa Levin, Daniel Koren & Ran Ukashi B’nai Brith Canada Today, Aug. 9, we observe the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, when we remember to promote and protect indigenous rights around the world. As Israeli civilians are yet again under fire by terrorists hell-bent on their destruction, we look back […]
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Aug. 8, 2018 By Ran Ukashi & Daniel Koren B’nai Brith Canada It’s official: Professor Anthony Hall will not be returning to the classroom. On Wednesday, the University of Lethbridge confirmed that Hall, who has faced an internal investigation since B’nai Brith Canada exposed his promotion of online Holocaust denial videos and other antisemitic tropes, will not
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Aug. 8, 2018 By Daniel Koren Manager, Media Relations & Communications B’nai Brith Canada MEDICINE HAT, Alta. – B’nai Brith Canada is commending the Medicine Hat Police Service after it charged a man who was publicly promoting antisemitism with inciting hatred in public. Loki Hulgaard, 35, is facing 14 charges in total, including two counts
Aug. 8, 2018 By Marty York Chief Media Relations & Communications Officer B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – The City of Toronto has chosen to allow a rally at Nathan Phillips Square this Saturday despite concerns expressed by B’nai Brith Canada about the potential promotion of hatred at the event. In a letter sent Tuesday to
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August 2, 2018 By Aidan Fishman National Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – A professor at the University of Lethbridge in southern Alberta has been removed from the classroom yet again, amid an ongoing internal investigation into his antisemitic activities. Anthony Hall was initially suspended by the University in October
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July 23, 2018 By Violet Levin Government Relations Associate B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – With the U.S. State Department serving as host of the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom this week, B’nai Brith Canada has penned an open letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland asking Canada to restate its opposition to antisemitism and racism. B’nai Brith
July 19, 2018 By Violet Levin Government Relations Associate B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Following a study linking Poland’s controversial Holocaust legislation to a surge in Polish antisemitism and after taking careful note of its latest amendments, B’nai Brith Canada is questioning the law’s necessity as the changes do not address widespread concerns over its impact. On
Dear Friends, Earlier this month, B’nai Brith Canada achieved a key legal victory by knocking out a libel suit by former Green Party justice critic and anti-Israel activist Dimitri Lascaris. Had the lawsuit succeeded, B’nai Brith and other pro-Israel groups could have been effectively barred from criticizing adversaries of the Jewish State, even as they promote
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July 12, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – The Iroquois National Lacrosse Team has touched down in Israel for the World Men’s Lacrosse Championships, defying the protests of anti-Israel campaigners. The Iroquois Team, composed of players from the indigenous Haudenosaunee Confederacy, founded centuries before the European
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July 4, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada The trial of two German-Canadian siblings for inciting hatred against Jews got under way in Munich on Monday, a week after one of the accused gave a Nazi salute during a speech at a public rally. Monika and Alfred Schaefer are facing charges stemming from a
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