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 […]
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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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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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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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 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 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 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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By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada WINNIPEG – Stickers supporting and encouraging the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) against Israel have been discovered defacing products in two department stores in one of the largest malls in Winnipeg. The stickers were found on Sodastream products by two customers shopping at the Hudson’s Bay
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By Marty York Chief Media Officer B’nai Brith Canada In response to recent antisemitic vandalism on campus, the University of Toronto reiterated in a news release Thursday that it deplores “abhorrent acts” of antisemitism and will support those affected. The question, however, is what will the university do to prevent further acts of antisemitism on campus? B’nai Brith
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