CLICK HERE FOR ENGLISH Le 16 mai 2023 CALGARY – Les membres de la communauté juive ont été outrés d’apprendre récemment que le Prix de la paix de Calgary sera décerné plus tard cette semaine à Mohammed El-Kurd, un homme qui a célébré les kamikazes comme des « martyrs », qui a ouvertement comparé l’État d’Israël …
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Cliquez ici pour le français May 16, 2023 CALGARY – Members of the Jewish community were outraged to learn recently that the Calgary Peace Prize will be awarded later this week to Mohammed El-Kurd, a man who celebrated suicide bombers as “martyrs”, openly compared the State of Israel to the Nazi regime in Germany, celebrated the deadly …
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CLICK HERE FOR ENGLISH Le 15 mai 2023 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada félicite l’Université de Toronto (U de T) pour sa décision de continuer à retenir une partie des frais de scolarité des étudiants alloués au Syndicat des étudiants diplômés (SED). Ces frais, retenus l’an dernier par l’Université de Toronto dans le cadre d’une …
Cliquez ici pour le français May 15, 2023 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada commends the University of Toronto (U of T) for a decision to continue withholding a portion of students’ tuition fees allocated to the Graduate Student’s Union (GSU). These fees, withheld in a precedent-setting development by the U of T last year, will …
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An image of the University of Toronto April 30, 2021 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada welcomes the University of Toronto’s support of recommendations made recently by former Supreme Court Justice Thomas Cromwell – but rejects the inappropriate censure of the university by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT). These sentiments were expressed clearly in …
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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 …
University of Manitoba Shuts Down Absurd Motion to Ban IHRA Definition Read More »
December 16, 2020 TORONTO — Thomas Cromwell, former Supreme Court of Canada Justice, has been appointed by the University of Toronto to inquire into the controversial events surrounding the decision not to hire Valentina Azarova as the head of the Faculty of Law’s International Human Rights Program (IHRP). Over the past few months, B’nai Brith Canada …
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In August, Bnai Brith dutifully called upon York University to take action against Nicholas Balaskas, a non-academic faculty member, after Jewish students complained of his antisemitic hate speech, found on his personal Facebook account. Having read said hate speech, I can vouch for the fact that this sort of antisemitism goes far beyond the regular anti-Israel …
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December 1, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada has intensified its demand that the University of Toronto (U of T) address concerns raised by a large number of faculty members about antisemitism on campus. In the aftermath of last month’s kosher food debacle, efforts by a group of nearly 60 faculty members to work …
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