April 30, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada has filed a complaint with Toronto Police after video recently surfaced of a local imam advocating the complete destruction of the Jews. In a video posted to YouTube by Kamil Ahmad in August of 2014, and recently unearthed by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Ahmad calls on Allah to […]
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April 29, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada The nation has reacted to B’nai Brith Canada’s 2019 Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released on Monday of this week. The Audit is the definitive source of data on antisemitism in Canada and is cited by governments and NGOs worldwide. The new Audit found that the total number of antisemitic incidents in this country rose
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B’nai Brith Canada is proud to mark Yom Hasho’ah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with the relaunch of its Nizkor website, an important and unique resource on the subject of the Holocaust. While many are looking for productive uses of their time in isolation during the COVID-19 crisis, a great option might be raising our historical awareness and keeping the memory of
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April 1, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada VICTORIA – A British Columbia imam has called for the destruction and elimination of “heretics and atheists” in a number of recent sermons posted online. In a video posted last Sunday to YouTube by the “Muslim Youth of Victoria,” Younus Kathrada calls on Allah to “humiliate the unbelievers and polytheists” and to “destroy
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March 31, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – A webinar held by a Canadian Jewish group was hacked Monday and disrupted with grotesque, hateful and inappropriate messages. The Canada Antisemitism Education Foundation (CAEF) ran a webinar featuring Yifa Segal, director of the International Legal Forum, on the popular video-calling app, Zoom. During the event, racist messages and pornographic
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Join us on October 28, 2019 at the Fantasyland Hotel in Edmonton, Alberta for an evening of fine dining and entertainment, as we celebrate Stockwell Day’s lifetime of friendship and solidarity with the Jewish community and Israel. The night will feature a keynote address by Canada’s 22nd Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Stephen Harper and greetings from
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March 23, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is urging the federal government to include support for charities in its response to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Throughout Canada, charitable organizations are serving the needs of citizens. Every dollar donated to these groups goes back into the community to address challenges. In times of
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How is B’nai Brith in Canada related to B’nai B’rith International and the Anti-Defamation League? B’nai Brith Canada is the Canadian affiliate of B’nai B’rith International (BBI). B’nai B’rith International, with members in more than 50 countries around the world, is the world’s oldest Jewish service organization. While B’nai Brith is an independent Canadian organization,
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When does B’nai Brith intervene in the court? B’nai Brith will regularly intervene before the courts to defend human rights as a matter of public policy for all Canadians. In recent years we have intervened in a number of cases, some all the way to the Supreme Court. Some of the most notable cases with
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What can you do if I’ve been the victim of antisemitism? We can do a number of things to assist you. We can help you to understand the steps necessary in filing a complaint with the police (and in many cases, connect you with hate crimes units in your area), assist you in filing a
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