Nov. 30, 2018 By Daniel Koren Manager, Media Relations & Communications B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – MPs David Sweet (Flamborough—Glanbrook, Conservatives) and Marco Mendicino (Mount Royal, Liberals) both made statements in the House of Commons Friday to commemorate the Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from Arab Countries and Iran, also known […]
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Nov. 28, 2018 By Daniel Koren Manager, Media Relations & Communications B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Statistics Canada has released its dossier on police-reported hate crimes for the year 2017 – and the results confirm a worrying trend highlighted in B’nai Brith Canada’s 2017 Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, the authoritative document on antisemitism in Canada. In response, B’nai
Dear Friends, Today is Giving Tuesday, when we support charitable causes that are near and dear to our hearts. That’s why we’re asking you to consider making a donation to Canada’s oldest independent and self-funded Jewish organization: B’nai Brith Canada. Whether it means defending the State of Israel from demonization and slander, identifying and bringing to justice
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Nov. 20, 2018 On Friday, Nov. 15, 2018, the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), representing some 530,000 Canadian university students across Canada, voted to endorse the antisemitic boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, and has even pledged to provide in-kind support and funds up to a maximum of $500 dollars towards organizations engaged in BDS
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Nov. 12, 2018 By Janna Minikovich and Ran Ukashi B’nai Brith Canada MONTREAL – B’nai Brith Canada is pleased to learn that a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Gabriel Sohier Chaput, a Montreal-area man alleged to be a neo-Nazi and hate propagandist. B’nai Brith complained about Chaput to the Service de Police de la Ville de
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The Honourable Minister Ralph Goodale Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 Dear Minister Ralph Goodale We the undersigned are calling for the immediate deportation of former Nazi Helmut Oberlander following the exhaustion of all possible legal defences. For far too long, spanning two decades, Canadians have watched
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Nov. 8, 2018 By Daniel Koren & Marty York B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – A day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized in the House of Commons for Canada’s failures toward Jewish refugees during the Holocaust, the federal government is now in position to deport Nazi Helmut Oberlander. B’nai Brith Canada is urging the government to act
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Nov. 7, 2018 By Marty York & Daniel Koren B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is welcoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s apology to the Jewish community. Still, the organization is again urging the federal government to adopt a concrete, national action plan to fight antisemitism. On Wednesday, the Prime Minister made a statement
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Oct. 31, 2018 By Ran Ukashi National Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada MONTREAL – B’nai Brith Canada is commending the Montreal Hate Crimes Unit after it swiftly charged a purveyor of antisemitic content online with voluntarily inciting hatred towards an identifiable group. Last week, the Service de Police de la
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Oct. 26, 2018 Alfred and Monika Schaefer, the German-Canadian siblings behind a series of Holocaust-denial videos, have received prison sentences in Germany. B’nai Brith Canada provided detailed intelligence reports to German officials, leading to their eventual arrests. Supporters of the siblings have explicitly blamed B’nai Brith for their legal challenges. Alfred Schaefer this week received a sentence
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