June 4, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is denouncing a highly publicized open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as both hypocritical and unjustified. The letter, released earlier this week, was written by a group of retired Canadian diplomats who objected to hypothetical Israeli government plans to extend its legal jurisdiction to […]
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June 2, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – During this difficult time, B’nai Brith Canada’s Special Advisory Council to the League for Human Rights (SAC-LHR) wishes to express solidarity with those mourning the killing of George Floyd and anti-black racism in the United States, Canada and around the world. The SAC-LHR is a group of 25 liaisons
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May 27, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Ontario Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath has assured the Jewish community that an outspoken MPP from her party will cease his public praising of terrorist leaders. Joel Harden, NDP MPP for Ottawa Centre and the party’s Critic for Accessibility & Persons with Disabilities, Pensions and Seniors’ Affairs, hailed Khalida Jarrar on May
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May 28, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada MONTREAL – B’nai Brith Canada is shocked and appalled by the violation of a local synagogue, one of the worst such incidents to take place in Canada in years. On Wednesday, a congregant visited the Sepharade Kol Yehouda synagogue in Côte St-Luc, Que. with his son to retrieve ritual items for
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April 30, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada has filed a complaint with Toronto Police after video recently surfaced of a local imam advocating the complete destruction of the Jews. In a video posted to YouTube by Kamil Ahmad in August of 2014, and recently unearthed by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Ahmad calls on Allah to
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April 29, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada The nation has reacted to B’nai Brith Canada’s 2019 Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released on Monday of this week. The Audit is the definitive source of data on antisemitism in Canada and is cited by governments and NGOs worldwide. The new Audit found that the total number of antisemitic incidents in this country rose
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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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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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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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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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