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Neo-Nazi-Linked Concert Cancelled After B’nai Brith Intervention

By Aidan Fishman Campus Advocacy Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada A Montreal concert by the neo-Nazi-linked band “Graveland” was cancelled Saturday night after B’nai Brith Canada warned the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) about the group. A CBSA spokesperson told B’nai Brith that, after the agency received B’nai Brith’s letter, Graveland was refused entry to Canada at Pierre […]

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B’nai Brith Canada Launches Series in Tribute to Jews from Arab Lands

Advocacy, Community /

From the 1940s until the 1970s, and heightening with the founding of Israel in 1948, nearly 1-million Jews were expelled from their homes across Arab countries such as Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Algeria and Iran. In Egypt, the government arrested and charged Jews with being part of Zionist or Communist plots. They seized Jewish assets,

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Global News Interviews B’nai Brith on German Police Investigation of Holocaust Denier Alfred Schaefer

Advocacy, In the media /

Global Toronto’s Christina Stevens spoke to Amanda Hohmann, National Director of B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights, on the German police investigation of Canadian Alfred Schaefer. Schaefer had computer and notes seized by German police. This was prompted after B’nai Brith Canada received a call on its anti-hate hotline about his holocaust denial videos. Alfred

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B’nai Brith Condemns Canadian Government’s Decision to Fund UNRWA

Advocacy, Press Releases /

B’nai Brith Canada is outraged that the Government of Canada has committed $25-million in funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) – an organization previously criticized for its ties to the Hamas terrorist organization – without addressing the agency’s long history of incitement. “UNRWA has a track record of problematic behaviour

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U of T Graduate Students Reject Permanent BDS Committee

Advocacy, Press Releases /

On Tuesday, Nov. 15, the General Council of the University of Toronto Graduate Students’ Union (GSU) rejected a proposal to transform its “BDS Ad Hoc Committee” into a permanent fixture of the organization. The vote needed a ⅔ majority in order to pass, but was defeated by a decisive margin of 34-17, with 11 abstentions.

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Antisemitic Vandals Target Jewish Sites in Montreal, Ottawa

Advocacy, Press Releases /

Over the past few days, Jewish sites in both Montreal and Ottawa have been targeted with an unusually heavy barrage of antisemitic vandalism. On Monday morning, a swastika was discovered on the wall of Hof Kelsten, an iconic Jewish bakery on Boulevard Saint-Laurent, just a block away from the memorial site for the late Jewish-Canadian

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Global News Interviews B’nai Brith Canada CEO on Toronto Teenager’s Antisemitism

Advocacy, In the media /

Hate crime complaints have been made to multiple Ontario police departments against a Toronto teenager over anitsemitic and racist videos she posted on YouTube. Veronica Bouchard, 19, who goes by Veronica Evalion online, has built a large following as a result of her videos, which contain amtisemitic messages and racial slurs. Global News Toronto Senior Reporter Christina Stevens spoke

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B’nai B’rith Decries UN For Batch Of Rote Resolutions Against Israel

Advocacy, Press Releases /

B’nai B’rith International decries the United Nations for moving to adopt yet another ten resolutions against Israel. Members of the UN General Assembly met yesterday at the committee level to vote on several partisan resolutions claiming that the State of Israel violates the human rights of Palestinians. One resolution mirrors two that UNESCO (the United

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B’nai B’rith Sends Letter to US President-Elect Donald Trump

Advocacy, Policy Positions /

B’nai B’rith International has sent a letter to President-elect Donald J. Trump congratulating him on his election as the 45th president of the United States. On behalf of B’nai B’rith International, President Gary P. Saltzman and Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin wrote: Dear Mr. President-elect: On behalf of B’nai B’rith International’s members and supporters around

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York U Vows to Stop Circulation of Antisemitic Publication

Advocacy, Press Releases /

York University has vowed to stop the circulation of Your Ward News – a publication deemed by various human rights groups as antisemitic, racist and homophobic – after copies of it were widely distributed on York’s Keele campus. A spokesperson at the York University President’s Office told B’nai Brith Canada that it “will take appropriate steps to

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