By Aidan Fishman Interim National Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada Feb. 28, 2018 OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada has conveyed its dismay to the Embassy of Iceland in Canada in light of a proposed ban on male circumcision. The proposal is working its way this week through the parliament of this […]
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Feb. 21, 2018 MONTREAL – Administrators at McGill University are acknowledging that a recent antisemitism report contains factual errors, B’nai Brith Canada has learned. Please click here to sign our petition demanding a new investigation. In a letter sent by a high-ranking McGill official to B’nai Brith, an admission was made that a part of the report was “inaccurate,” but that “this element does not effectively change
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Feb. 16, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Interim National Director, League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – In a massive setback for Canada’s anti-Israel camp, a resolution aiming to eliminate Israel as a Jewish State will not be voted on by NDP members at this weekend’s national convention in Ottawa. The resolution, which would have opened the door for economic warfare against Israel – including
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Feb. 15, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Interim National Director League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada VANCOUVER – A Vancouver imam is in hot water once again after he was caught condemning “the malevolent Jews” and calling for the destruction of “the enemies of Islam” at a downtown anti-Israel protest. After a rally that took place outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on July
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The opinions, facts and any media content presented do not necessarily reflect the position of B’nai Brith Canada. Feb. 7, 2018 WINNIPEG – In honour of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, 2018, B’nai Brith Canada came together in Winnipeg with the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and several community organizations to put on a
Feb. 6, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Interim National Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada MONTREAL – B’nai Brith Canada is expressing its frustration after a McGill University report asserted that antisemitism played no role in the removal of Jewish student Noah Lew and two pro-Israel peers from student government in October. The report, authored by former
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Feb. 5, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Interim National Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – A United Nations agency, already under fire for indoctrinating youngsters to violent struggle instead of peace, is raising money in Canada with help from a supporter of Palestinian terrorism, B’nai Brith Canada has learned. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) participated
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Jan. 31, 2018 By Daniel Koren Media Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – For the second time in slightly more than a year, a bid to establish a permanent committee to promote the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement at the University of Toronto has failed. In a ruling Tuesday night, the Board of Appeal of
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Jan. 31, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Interim National Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada CALGARY – B’nai Brith Canada has filed a complaint with the Calgary Police Service over the virulently antisemitic content being promoted by a group, Muslims in Calgary, on its website and Facebook page. On Wednesday, a concerned community member
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Jan. 29, 2018 By Daniel Koren Media Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is strongly urging the Government of Poland to reconsider adopting proposed legislation that would outlaw blaming the country for any crimes committed during the Holocaust. The legislation, passed as a bill on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, suggests
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