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Say NO to Antisemitism and Incitement on Mississauga City Property

Nov 13, 2017 MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – B’nai Brith Canada is calling on the City of Mississauga to enforce its bylaws against protestors who have threatened violence against Jews and encouraged children to engage in terrorism. In July, B’nai Brith exposed a rally in Mississauga’s Celebration Square, in which hundreds of people chanted in Arabic, “Remember Khaybar, oh you Jews, the …

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SIGN OUR PETITION TO ACT NOW Against Antisemitism at McGill

Oct. 25, 2017 By Aidan Fishman Interim National Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada MONTREAL – On Monday, at a general meeting of the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU), a group calling themselves “Democratize SSMU” targeted three SSMU directors over their support for Jewish causes. The group – which, according to …

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SIGN OUR PETITION: Say NO to Publicly-Funded Anti-Israel Hatred

Sept. 13, 2017 By Aidan Fishman Interim National Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada EDMONTON – B’nai Brith Canada is calling for action in response to an Edmonton event that used taxpayer dollars to spread false claims about the State of Israel and antisemitism. On Aug. 22, as part of the Ignite Change …

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SIGN OUR PETITION: Say NO to Publicly-Funded Anti-Israel Hatred

TO: Marie-Claude Landry, Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission Rachel Notley, Premier of Alberta Don Iveson, Mayor of Edmonton Renee Vaugeois, Executive Director of the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights We, the undersigned, as Canadians from coast to coast, demand an apology to the Jewish community of Alberta for your role …

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SIGN OUR PETITION: Keep Holocaust Denier Kevin Barrett Out of Canada

June 20, 2017 By Aidan Fishman Campus Advocacy Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada Kevin Barrett, a notorious Holocaust denier from the United States, has accepted an invitation to address the Toronto al-Quds Day rally on June 24 at Queen’s Park, B’nai Brith Canada has learned. In a bid to protect Canada from foreign hate mongers, B’nai …

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SIGN OUR PETITION: Keep Holocaust Denier Kevin Barrett Out of Canada

Kevin Barrett, who has been invited to speak at the vehemently anti-Israel al-Quds Day rally in Toronto, continues to engage in Holocaust denial, which both the governments of Ontario and Canada clearly define as an act of antisemitism, as well as promote conspiracy theories blaming the State of Israel and the “Zionist lobby” for the …

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ACT NOW Against Antisemitism at McGill

Dear Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier, In October, thousands of Canadians from coast to coast called on you to take action against antisemitism at McGill University, after Jewish student Noah Lew and two of his peers were unjustly removed from student government. This was only the latest in a string of horrifying incidents targeting Jewish students at McGill during the …

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Say NO to UNESCO’s Anti-Jewish Smear Campaign

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) voted in favour of a draft decision on ‘”Occupied Palestine,” which ignores the Jewish connection to Jerusalem and Jewish holy sites, referred to throughout the resolution only by their Islamic names. By weighing in on security concerns that have nothing to do with cultural or educational …

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SIGN OUR PETITION: Canada Must Enforce Its Existing Hate Crime Laws

Dear Friends, The time has come for Canada to finally get serious about addressing antisemitism and hatred against its Jewish community. Over the last few years, several clear instances of antisemitic hate crimes have occurred throughout the country, though appropriate charges were never laid. B’nai Brith Canada has been diligent in reporting these hate crimes …

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