September 22, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is deeply disturbed by three antisemitic incidents that marred Jewish holiday observances in Canada’s largest province this past weekend. From Friday night to Sunday night, Jews across Canada and around the world marked Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, when members of the community pray for […]
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September 17, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada EDMONTON – A figure with a long history of inciting hatred has been denied a platform in Canada following community and B’nai Brith Canada advocacy. Following fruitful discussions between B’nai Brith Alberta Public Affairs Manager Abe Silverman and the Archdiosese of Edmonton, the latter has barred Father Tadeusz Rydzyk, head of
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September 16, 2020 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada and the Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce (CBCC) are thrilled to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between our organizations. At a special press conference today, representatives from both groups gathered together to speak about the initiative and sign the historic document. B’nai Brith was represented by its Chair
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September 4, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is joining with leaders of the Uyghur community to demand that Canada, the United Nations and all world leaders take concrete steps to bring China’s brutality against the Uyghur people to an end. The Uyghur Muslims are an ethnic and religious minority found largely in
China’s Human Rights Abuses Can’t Be Ignored: B’nai Brith Canada & Uyghur Leaders Read More »
September 3, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights is proudly supporting the launch of a new app to help make life easier for Canadians with disabilities. We are thrilled that Eddie Rice, Chair of B’nai Brith’s Canadians with Disabilities committee, has played a key role in the official nationwide
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August 28, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada MONTREAL – Nearly two years after B’nai Brith Canada alerted both police and the Jewish community to one of the internet’s leading neo-Nazi influencers, the culprit is finally due to appear in court. Gabriel Sohier Chaput is a 33-year-old Montreal resident who, under the pseudonym of Charles Zeiger, was one of the primary
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August 17, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is urging a Greater Toronto Area municipality to rename a street dedicated to a Nazi battleship captain who fought in the Second World War. Langsdorff Drive, located in Ajax, Ontario, was named in 2007 after Hans Langsdorff, who commanded Nazi German forces at the 1939 Battle of
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Aug. 14, 2020 TORONTO – The Polish National Union of Canada (PNU) has publicly denounced a newspaper exposed by B’nai Brith Canada for antisemitic content. Last week, B’nai Brith revealed that Głos, a Toronto-based Polish-language newspaper, published an article blaming COVID-19 on an imagined Jewish conspiracy, in addition to other antisemitic content. The story received widespread media attention, including
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August 13, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – An Arabic-language newspaper distributed in the Greater Toronto Area accused Israel of having plotted last week’s devastating explosion in Beirut, despite clear evidence to the contrary. The Aug. 7 edition of al-Meshwar contains a half-page editorial by editor-in-chief Nazih Khatatba (page 5), entitled “Who Is Responsible for the Beirut Port Disaster?”
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