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B’nai Brith Proud to Revive Nizkor Holocaust Historical Archive

B’nai Brith Canada is proud to mark Yom Hasho’ah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with the relaunch of its Nizkor website, an important and unique resource on the subject of the Holocaust. While many are looking for productive uses of their time in isolation during the COVID-19 crisis, a great option might be raising our historical awareness and keeping the memory of […]

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B.C. Imam Calls for Elimination of Atheists, Victory for Jihad

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April 1, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada VICTORIA – A British Columbia imam has called for the destruction and elimination of “heretics and atheists” in a number of recent sermons posted online. In a video posted last Sunday to YouTube by the “Muslim Youth of Victoria,” Younus Kathrada calls on Allah to “humiliate the unbelievers and polytheists” and to “destroy

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COVID-19: As Charities Step Up, Canadian Government Support Is Urged

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March 23, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is urging the federal government to include support for charities in its response to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Throughout Canada, charitable organizations are serving the needs of citizens. Every dollar donated to these groups goes back into the community to address challenges. In times of

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Website says Holocaust-denying Professor Has Been ‘Asked to Step Down’

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According to American Herald Tribune, a website run by Professor Anthony Hall, the University of Lethbridge has requested that he resign over suggestions that he has promoted Holocaust denial and other antisemitic conspiracy theories. In a petition and press release Tuesday, B’nai Brith Canada urged the university to investigate Hall. In response, University of Lethbridge President Michael

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B’nai Brith Expects Disturbing Canadian Food Inspection Agency Decision Against Israeli Wines to Be Reversed Soon

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By Marty York Chief Media Officer B’nai Brith Canada July 12, 2017 B’nai Brith Canada is expecting that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will soon rescind its recent decision to order the removal of certain Israeli wines from store shelves. “B’nai Brith has received a lot of information on this matter from multiple sources and officials during the past 24 hours

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B’nai Brith Investigation on IJV Produces Positive Reactions

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B’nai Brith Investigation on IJV Produces Positive Reactions By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada Earlier this week, B’nai Brith Canada began a series of revelations following an investigation of Independent Jewish Voices. The investigation revealed that it used social media to promote the boycott and sanctions movement against Israel, Holocaust denial, and its affiliation with white supremacist

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Former Green Party Candidate Makes Holocaust Denial Video

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By Aidan Fishman Campus Advocacy Co-ordinator B’nai Brith Canada Monika Schaefer, who stood as the Green Party of Canada’s candidate in the Alberta riding of Yellowhead in 2006, 2008 and 2011, is denying the Holocaust in a homemade Youtube video. Schaefer has also taken credit for convincing Green Party Leader Elizabeth May to submit a 9/11 conspiracy

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Canadian Antisemitic Magazine Finds New Home in United States

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March 9, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – An antisemitic monthly magazine, previously published out of a Toronto-area mosque, now claims a post office box in Berryville, Virginia as its new address. The development follows a lengthy campaign by B’nai Brith Canada against the publication. During the past few years, Crescent International: Newsmagazine of the Islamic Movement has carried articles

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B’nai Brith Canada Presents The Canadian Premiere of Wish You Weren’t Here

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With Roger Waters’ Canadian tour quickly approaching, and in a bid to refute his misguided and inflammatory views on the State of Israel, B’nai Brith Canada is proud to team up with #1 New York Times best-selling author and award-winning filmmaker Ian Halperin (Who Killed Kurt Cobain?, Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson) to present screenings of his latest

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Canadian Arabic Newspaper Runs Terrorist Official’s Antisemitic Article

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March 3, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – An Arabic-language newspaper in the Greater Toronto Area has published an article by a Hamas figure, praising terrorism, peddling outlandish conspiracy theories and blaming Israel’s supposed faults on Judaism itself. Hamas is the radical Islamist ruling party in the Gaza Strip, responsible for more than a decade of constant rocket attacks on

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