July 27, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada and the Canadian Polish Congress are jointly calling for the removal of a memorial at Oakville’s St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Cemetery that glorifies Nazi German collaborators. As has been widely reported, a cenotaph honouring Ukrainian volunteers of the 14th Waffen SS “Galicia” Division stands prominently on the grounds […]
July 8, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – B’nai Brith Canada has filed a hate-crimes complaint with Peel Regional Police after protesters chanted hateful antisemitic slogans at an anti-Israel protest just west of Toronto. Last Saturday, about 100 protesters gathered at Celebration Square in downtown Mississauga, ostensibly to condemn Israel’s potential extension of sovereignty to communities east of the Green
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July 5, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is calling on community members to take action against a Toronto establishment that has used antisemitic tropes and posted pro-terrorist content on social media. Foodbenders, located in the Bloordale neighbourhood of Toronto, has previously landed itself in hot water for proclaiming “F@ck the Police” on a
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June 29, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is demanding answers after uncovering evidence that at least two GTA mosques held ceremonies mourning slain terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Qods Force, a designated terrorist entity in Canada, was killed in a U.S. airstrike on Jan. 3 — sparking relief
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June 23, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is calling on York University to ensure that a lecturer who smeared this country’s Jewish community during a recent online panel be disqualified from teaching a human-rights course. SIGN OUR PETITION HERE Faisal Bhabha is an associate professor at York’s Osgoode Hall Law School, where he teaches human
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June 19, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – A glorifier of slain terrorists has been selected as the Canadian Regional Head of the political party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a B’nai Brith Canada investigation has revealed. Nabil Nassar shared a Facebook post announcing that he had been appointed “Secretary of the Fatah Movement in Canada.”
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June 17, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Newly revealed police data shows that Jews were once again the most targeted group for hate crimes in both Toronto and York Region in 2019. These numbers are consistent with what was recently reported in B’nai Brith Canada’s 2019 Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, which found an alarming 62.8 per cent
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June 15, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada has written to Marc-André Blanchard, Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations, to express concern over anti-Israel bias and misinformation at the UN. In a June 10 letter to UN Member States and Observer States, Blanchard affirmed Canada’s commitment to a two-state solution – but also
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June 11, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – The publisher of a Polish-language news outlet has been arrested and released by Peel Regional Police following a complaint filed by B’nai Brith Canada over antisemitic content. In August, B’nai Brith exposed articles in Goniec, a Mississauga-based publication, in which Andrzej Kumor accused Jews and Zionists of having “terrorism in their
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June 8, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Ontario’s government has announced that it will lift restrictions preventing group prayers, following intervention by B’nai Brith Canada and other community groups. Under emergency regulations issued to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Ontario had banned religious gatherings of more than five people since the end of March. Full Jewish prayer services require the presence
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