August 16, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is pleased to share that the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) has taken a strong stance against anti-Israel vandalism in its stores, after B’nai Brith reached out following an incident earlier this week. “We are encouraged by the LCBO’s strong response to these antisemitic acts in …
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August 15, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – A B’nai Brith Canada investigation has uncovered frequent antisemitic and hateful material in a Canadian Polish-language newspaper. Content recently published in Goniec, a Mississauga-based news outlet run by Andrzej Kumor, accuses Jews and Zionists of having “terrorism in their blood” and urges readers to “stand up to the Jews” in response to fabricated attempts to destroy Poland. In a series of incendiary articles, …
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August 13, 2019 QUEBEC CONFIDENTIAL | By Mike Cohen MONTREAL – B’nai Brith Canada recently held its first basketball tournament in Quebec. The event was not only an enormous success, but it also sparked the interest of almost three dozen youths who now want to learn more about B’nai Brith and get further involved in the …
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August 6, 2019 EDMONTON– An Edmonton imam has been prevented from leading prayers at a local community centre after B’nai Brith drew attention to his hateful rhetoric from the pulpit and online. Sheikh Shaban Sherif Mady, who claims to be licensed by the prestigious al-Azhar University in Egypt, told congregants in March that “international Zionism” was behind …
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March 27, 2018 By Aidan Fishman National Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – The Federal Court of Canada has granted the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada intervener status in the case of Helmut Oberlander, a 94-year-old former Nazi who illegally gained entry into Canada by lying about his past. The Canadian government has attempted to strip Oberlander of his citizenship on three …
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B’nai Brith Canada is urging the University of Lethbridge in Alberta to investigate one of its professors over suggestions that he has promoted Holocaust denial and other antisemitic conspiracy theories. Anthony Hall, who teaches Globalization Studies, is a proponent of what he refers to as an “open debate on the Holocaust” (page doesn’t exist), a supporter …
Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada To borrow a term from baseball, B’nai Brith Day at the Winnipeg Goldeyes’ game this past Sunday was a big hit. Nearly 1,700 people showed up at Shaw Park for the eighth time that B’nai Brith has hosted its “Afternoon with the Goldeyes” event. The event is a community service …
