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Why Doesn’t Canadian Media Mention that Jews Are Most-Targeted Group for Hate Crimes?

June 19, 2017 Last week, Stats Canada released its hate crime statistics for the year 2015, finding that hate crimes reported to police rose by five per cent over the year 2014, with 1,362 hate-motivated incidents. According to the government’s numbers, 469 of those incidents were motivated by religion, accounting for 35 per cent. Unsurprisingly, the […]

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The Globe and Mail Must Also Apologize for Misleading Headline on Palestinian Terrorism

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June 18, 2017 After severe public backlash from officials across the political spectrum – both in Israel and abroad – the BBC apologized Sunday for running a headline that grossly misinformed its readers about Friday’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem. Following the attack that eventually took 23-year-old Hadas Malka’s life, the BBC published an article with the headline: “Three Palestinians Killed

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A Tale of Two Cities for B’nai Brith Quebec: Côte Saint-Luc and Lachute

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For officials from B’nai Brith Canada’s Quebec office, this past week truly represented a tale of two cities: Côte Saint-Luc and Lachute. Côte Saint-Luc, of course, is very dear to the heart of B’nai Brith members. Full disclosure: I have lived in this community most of my life and have served as a member of

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Now on Parole, Does Michael Applebaum Deserve a Second Chance?

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Earlier this week, former Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum was granted parole, only two months after he began serving a one-year jail sentence for eight corruption-related offences, including fraud and breach of trust. But now that he’s out of jail, the question is whether or not anyone in the Jewish community will reach out to him? Although Applebaum was

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Antonio Guterres Must Do More to Change the UN’s Anti-Israel Bias

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Anti-Zionists who undoubtedly scoff at the (false) notion that anti-Zionism and antisemitism aren’t intrinsically linked should be a bit happier with new(ish) UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. In a recent meeting with senior officials of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in New York, Guterres reportedly emphasized that, “Denial of Israel’s right to exist is antisemitism.” He

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Are Hate Crimes Up or Are People Just Finally Taking Notice?

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Full disclosure – I personally am not a supporter of U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump. But in recent weeks I’ve come to realize that, in one way at least, we owe him some gratitude. I’ve heard both sides of the argument. Some believe that Trump’s campaign and subsequent election emboldened the alt-right and others to show

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Quebec’s Only Jewish MNA Rises to Occasion on Premier’s Mission to Israel

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June 2, 2017 David Birnbaum became an elected official in the spring of 2014 when he was tapped by then Quebec Liberal Party leader Philippe Couillard to succeed Lawrence Bergman as the candidate and ultimately the Member of the National Assembly for D’Arcy McGee. I always used to call Bergman the de facto Minister of

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Ryerson University Scandal Speaks Volumes About its Antisemitism Problem

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As it turns out, student groups and professors aren’t the only ones on Canadian university campuses that promote anti-Israel stances. Administrators are guilty of it, too. A report came out this weekend on a student about to graduate from Ryerson University’s Social Work program. A prerequisite for her program, Rebecca Katzman had to complete a certain number of placements,

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B’nai Brith Audit Could Serve As Model for Other Minority Groups

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Sociology demands data. It demands that there be a process of data collection, standards and a strict process that must be upheld before coming to a conclusion. For one day of the year, the problem of prejudice against the Jewish community was the focus of the national dialogue in Canada. B’nai Brith spoke, and the

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