March 15, 2022 OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada has formally asked Bob Rae, Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations, to help remove the highly biased Chair of the “Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories” of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). B’nai Brith urged Rae to raise Navi Pillay’s lack of […]
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March 14, 2022 OTTAWA – The Federal Court has granted intervener status to B’nai Brith of Canada League for Human Rights for an upcoming case about a Jewish judge, rejecting opposition from parties who sought to exclude the Jewish human rights organization from the legal process. The case concerns Justice David Spiro. Justice Spiro
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March 11, 2022 Dear Friends, We have been watching the Russian invasion of Ukraine with horror and grave concern. To demonstrate our support for our Ukrainian-Canadian neighbours and the people of Ukraine, B’nai Brith Canada, The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), and Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC)
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March 09, 2022 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada supports an important speech given recently in the Senate by Senator Leo Housakos, who urged the Government to call on democratic countries in the “international community” to supervise free and fair elections in the Palestinian Territories. Housakos’ speech, delivered March 2, was the first and only time a
March 08, 2022 OTTAWA — B’nai Brith Canada is supporting a group of respected community leaders who have launched a citizens’ petition to stop government funding to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that promote antisemitism. At the request of the citizens, B’nai Brith will handle the technical and media aspects of the petition. The citizens approached
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March 07, 2022 TORONTO — In a precedent-setting development, the University of Toronto has announced that it will finally begin withholding fees from the Graduate Students’ Union (GSU) over its policy of forcing students to fund boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activities. In a letter sent Friday, U of T Vice-President and Provost Cheryl Regehr
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March 02, 2022 B’nai Brith Canada is standing up against anti-Zionism and antisemitism by submitting a detailed report addressing the root causes of continued attacks on Israel to a United Nations body dominated by anti-Zionist countries. These countries seek to delegitimize and demonize the Jewish State through the latest so-called United Nations Commission of Inquiry on
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CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN ENGLISH Le 25 février 2022 MONTRÉAL – B’nai Brith Canada veut des réponses après qu’un conseiller municipal de Montréal ait “aimé” un deuxième post qui fait la promotion du mouvement antisémite de boycott, désinvestissement et sanctions (BDS). Plus tôt cette semaine, B’nai Brith a demandé des éclaircissements aux
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Cliquez ici pour la version française Feb. 25, 2022 MONTREAL – B’nai Brith Canada wants answers after a Montreal City Councilor “liked” a second post that promotes the antisemitic boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement (BDS). Earlier this week, B’nai Brith sought clarification from city officials after Alexander Norris, leader of Projet Montreal, the governing municipal political party,
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Feb. 25, 2022 TORONTO – For the third time this month, students at a Toronto public elementary school have performed the Hitler salute in class, this time targeting a Jewish teacher in a Grade 6 classroom. The latest incident occurred Thursday at Pleasant Public School in North York, Ont. The victim, a substitute teacher who
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