By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee has approved a bill to honour the life and work of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel. The bipartisan-sponsored bill “memorializes the life and work of Elie Wiesel and reaffirms the Congress’ commitment to continuing his work of keeping the memory and lessons …
By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada Boulder District Court (Colorado) has sentenced a man who threatened a Jewish Community Center to a one-year work release and four years of probation. Jeffrey Thomas Klinkel sent hateful, handwritten letters to the center in envelopes containing a mysterious white powder. His work release involves him working during …
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada The Republican Party has approved a new platform that does not call for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying it will no longer support the establishment of a Palestinian state. The platform, approved on July 12, gives Israel the freedom to determine whether or not it …
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Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada The German Federal Criminal Police launched a raid in Germany this week targeting social media users who have posted antisemitic and other racial hatred. The police entered the homes of more than 60 media users across the country. No arrests were made, according to Times of Israel. Most of the offenders belonged …
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By Reut Cohen B’nai Brith Canada On Thursday, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that a photographer had captured images of deliveries into the Gaza strip arriving through the Erez crossing, which has been closed for the past nine years. The Erez crossing has been restricted to individuals since 2007, with deliveries to Gaza arriving solely …
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By Jordan ZaitchikB’nai Brith Canada Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the Second Lebanon War, a 34-day-long conflict between Israel and the terrorist organization Hezbollah. The conflict took place in Northern Israel, the Golan Heights, and Lebanon. It ended in a UN-led ceasefire on August 14, 2006. Hezbollah, backed by the Iranian and Syrian regimes, …
By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada Facebook is once again on the receiving end of accusations of letting antisemitism run rampant without consequences on its website. Shurat HaDin, an Israeli civil rights organization, has filed a lawsuit (page doesn’t exist) against Facebook on behalf of the families of five U.S. citizens injured and murdered by Palestinian …
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada A South African court has charged identical twins with terrorism for plotting to attack several Jewish targets and a U.S. diplomatic mission. Twenty-three-year-old twins Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie as well as two others were arrested during a police raid in Johannesburg over the weekend. They were allegedly planning to …
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp Sunday to pay tribute to the millions who were massacred during the Holocaust. The Prime Minister was accompanied by Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion, International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, Canadian Holocaust Survivor and past president of the Canadian Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants (CJHSD) Nate Leipciger …
The United Nations has passed a resolution to promote and protect individuals’ right to freedom of expression on the internet without interference. The resolution emphasized the importance of individuals’ right to have affordable and inclusive access to the internet in order to become better educated and better equipped for an increasingly digital world. The resolution is a …
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