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B’nai Brith Questions Ontario Civil Rights Group’s Support of Holocaust Denier

July 17, 2018 By Dana Fields Senior Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is questioning the Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) after it publicly suggested the Canadian government step in to aid Holocaust denier Monika Schaefer. Schaefer is on trial in Germany for publishing videos that promote antisemitic messages. Schaefer was a founding member of the Green Party of Canada …

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Help B’nai Brith Canada Defeat Anti-Israel Lawfare

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Dear Friends, Earlier this month, B’nai Brith Canada achieved a key legal victory by knocking out a libel suit by former Green Party justice critic and anti-Israel activist Dimitri Lascaris. Had the lawsuit succeeded, B’nai Brith and other pro-Israel groups could have been effectively barred from criticizing adversaries of the Jewish State, even as they promote …

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Iroquois Lacrosse Team Defies BDS to Reach Israel

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July 12, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – The Iroquois National Lacrosse Team has touched down in Israel for the World Men’s Lacrosse Championships, defying the protests of anti-Israel campaigners. The Iroquois Team, composed of players from the indigenous Haudenosaunee Confederacy, founded centuries before the European …

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Hate Crimes Trial Under Way for German-Canadian Siblings

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July 4, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada The trial of two German-Canadian siblings for inciting hatred against Jews got under way in Munich on Monday, a week after one of the accused gave a Nazi salute during a speech at a public rally. Monika and Alfred Schaefer are facing charges stemming from a …

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B’nai Brith Canada Applauds Ottawa Jazz Festival for Standing Up to Anti-Israel Bias

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June 28, 2018 By Reut Cohen Communications/League for Human Rights Associate B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is commending the Ottawa Jazz Festival for standing up to the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, which wrongfully singles out the Jewish state. The festival, which runs this year from June 21 to July 1, …

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Perpetrator of Chabad Flamingo Attack Still Unidentified After Three Months

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June 26, 2018 By Reut Cohen Communications/League for Human Rights Associate B’nai Brith Canada THORNHILL, Ont. – The perpetrator behind an attack of antisemitic vandalism at the Chabad Flamingo synagogue in Thornhill, Ont., has still not been identified, three months after the incident occurred. Detective Mark Topping of the York Regional Police told B’nai Brith Canada Tuesday that extensive work has been done in …

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Alberta Professor Anthony Hall Continues to Peddle Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories

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June 21, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – A professor at the University of Lethbridge in southern Alberta is peddling fresh antisemitic conspiracy theories over the Internet, despite facing an investigation into his earlier activity. Anthony Hall, who was formally reinstated as a faculty member in November …

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Listing IRGC as Terrorists Long Overdue: B’nai Brith Canada

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June 15, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is pleased to report significant progress in having the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) designated as a terrorist entity in Canada, a position the organization has strongly advocated for many years. The IRGC, a branch of …

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Ontario Group Whose Leader Called for “Eradication” of Israelis Receiving Federal Grant

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June 14, 2018 By Benjamin Paul Communications Associate B’nai Brith Canada KITCHENER, Ont. – B’nai Brith Canada is perturbed by revelations that an organization, whose spokesperson called for the “eradication” of Israelis, is receiving federal funding through the Canada Summer Jobs program. Sheikh Shafiq Huda, listed as the public contact for the Islamic Humanitarian Service in Kitchener, Ont., delivered his …

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Sheikh Calls for “Eradication” of Israelis at Toronto al-Quds Day Rally

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June 10, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is in the process of filing a complaint with Toronto Police after a speaker at Saturday’s al-Quds Day rally in downtown Toronto called for the “eradication” of Israelis. Sheikh Shafiq Huda of the Islamic Humanitarian …

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