Dec. 08, 2021 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is appalled by a counterproductive report from the University of Toronto that will allow a climate of antisemitism to continue on its campus. U of T’s Antisemitism Working Group, formed in December of 2020 and composed of academics and campus bureaucrats, issued its final report on Wednesday, following a […]
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Dec. 05, 2021 TORONTO — B’nai Brith Canada is standing in solidarity with a Jewish trustee of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) who is facing persecution for speaking out against antisemitism. In May, in the midst of a controversy over materials distributed by TDSB equity advisor Javier Dávila, trustee Alexandra Lulka took to social
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It is no secret that social media platforms provide easy access to hate and other harmful content. However, their mode of operation, algorithms, reacts to people’s searches and so fuels users with suggested sites according to their interests. These algorithms promote alarming glorification of violence and misinformation in Canada. According to the report, social media
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B’nai Brith sent an open letter to Irwin Cotler, Canada’s Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism. The letter calls for a four-point plan that: Encourages legislation to be tabled in Parliament in the coming weeks to combat a disturbing increase in online hate; Invites the Special Envoy to promote implementing the
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For the first time in 40 years, Marvin Rotrand’s name was not on the ballot paper for Montreal’s municipal elections. The longest-serving councillor, who represented the Snowdon district for 39 years under eight different mayors, has left city politics for a new position. As National Director of B’nai Brith’s League of Human Rights, he is
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Dec. 03, 2021 TORONTO — A group of Jewish professors at the University of Toronto has launched a human rights complaint against the President of the University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA). The complaint before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) emerges out of an online panel event last June 15 regarding the Valentina
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To Read This Press Release in English, Click Here Le 2 décembre 2021 MONTRÉAL – B’nai Brith Canada est ravi du soutien d’une coalition nouvellement formée de groupes communautaires et d’individus basés à Montréal, unis pour faire avancer notre plan d’action en quatre points proposé pour guider le gouvernement dans la garantie de l’engagement du
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pour lire ce communiqué en français, cliquez ici Dec. 2, 2021 MONTREAL – B’nai Brith Canada is delighted with the support of a newly formed coalition of community groups and individuals based in Montreal, united on advancing our proposed four-point action plan to guide the Government in ensuring Canada’s commitment to fight antisemitism. Today, Prime
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Dec. 1, 2021 VANCOUVER — B’nai Brith Canada is demanding that the University of British Columbia (UBC) cancel a film screening intended to honour an unrepentant murderer and member of a designated terrorist entity. On Thursday, four groups intend to hold a viewing of the film “Fedayin, le combat de Georges Abdallah” in the Henry Angus
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TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is demanding that the University of Toronto act decisively following an egregious act of antisemitism by a student union earlier in the week. On Thursday, the Scarborough Campus Students’ Union (SCSU) passed a motion at its annual general meeting to ban speakers who “support the military occupation of Palestine” from
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