Pour le français, voir ci-dessous April 20, 2021 MONTREAL – The student union at Quebec’s largest anglophone university has formally abandoned its support for the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, B’nai Brith Canada has confirmed. On April 6, the Concordia Student Union (CSU) posted a lengthy apology to the Jewish community over antisemitism, making …
April 16, 2021 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada strongly condemns the rise of anti-Asian racism in Canada – a pattern consistent with what Asian communities have faced elsewhere in recent times. Reports have widely indicated increased levels of fear and concern among Asian Canadians in the wake of violent attacks against members of their community. B’nai …
April 11, 2021 OTTAWA – The federal New Democratic Party did not adopt a resolution that would have committed it to opposing the internationally-accepted definition of antisemitism. However, B’nai Brith Canada remains concerned by ongoing efforts within the party to attack the Jewish State, as demonstrated by a decidedly one-sided resolution adopted yesterday during the …
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April 7, 2021 The National Post cited B’nai Brith Canada’s statement about the latest development in the Helmut Oberlander deportation case. To read the full article, CLICK HERE.
April 5, 2021 TORONTO – A Maoist group, which B’nai Brith Canada now understands is linked to a designated terrorist entity, is continuing to target the Jewish community with graffiti in the Greater Toronto Area. On Wednesday, the fourth day of Passover, graffiti attacking the internationally-accepted definition of antisemitism was found on an entrance to the …
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April 3, 2021 The Toronto Star just interviewed Eddie Rice, Chair of B’nai Brith Canada’s Canadians with Disabilities Subcommittee, about his efforts to make this country’s gas stations more accessible to those with disabilities. To read the full article, CLICK HERE.
TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is deeply disturbed by two brazen incidents of antisemitic vandalism in the North York district of Toronto over the Jewish Passover holiday. On Wednesday, the fourth day of Passover, B’nai Brith was made aware of graffiti on the side of a Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) entrance in the Yonge and Finch …
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TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada welcomes the publication of The Honourable Thomas A. Cromwell’s Independent Review of the Search Process for the Directorship of the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. We are proud to have contributed to this report. B’nai Brith Canada made written submissions, in December 2020, as noted in Appendix B …
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WINNIPEG – B’nai Brith Canada is pleased that a motion opposing the IHRA definition of antisemitism was defeated yesterday, on procedural grounds, at a meeting of the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA). On March 24, B’nai Brith called on the UMFA executive to reject the motion that was egregious in not only opposing the adoption of …
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