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Ontario City Admits Issues with Terror-Glorifying Event on City Property

February 7, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Officials just west of Toronto have belatedly admitted that city policy was breached at an event held by a Palestinian group at a local community centre. On Feb. 2, the Arab Palestine Association of Ontario (APAO) held an event at the Mississauga Valley Community Centre to celebrate “the 55th Anniversary of […]

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Canadian Pro-Tehran Holocaust Denier Shut Down by Facebook

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January 30, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Facebook has shut down at least two Canadian-linked pages that have publicly sympathized with the Islamist Regime in Iran, B’nai Brith Canada has learned. Last Friday, CNN profiled the “American Herald Tribune” website, revealing that Facebook had deleted its page on the social media website in August of 2018 because it

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Federal Government Put on Notice by Canadian Jewish and Iranian Groups

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January 13, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – Leaders from Canada’s Iranian and Jewish communities have given the federal government 30 days’ notice to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in its entirety as a terrorist organization. At a news conference in Ottawa Monday, leaders from the Council of Iranian Canadians, the Justice 88 Campaign and B’nai Brith Canada urged the government to

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Sign Our Petition to List the IRGC as a Terrorist Organization within the Next 30 Days

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Dear Mr. Prime Minister, Nineteen months have elapsed since the House of Commons passed a bipartisan motion calling on the government to “immediately” list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in its entirety, as a terrorist organization. Nevertheless, the government has not yet followed through on this commitment. It makes little sense to ban only

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B’nai Brith Deeply Disturbed by Swastika Hate Incidents

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January 9, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is sounding the alarm after two particularly brazen hate incidents involving swastikas were revealed this week. In Toronto, an elderly man with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and diabetes was reported by his family on Wednesday to have had a swastika drawn on his head with black marker. The man resides

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B’nai Brith Condemns U of T Labour Union over Antisemitic Tweets

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January 5, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is taking a labour union at the University of Toronto (U of T) to task over a series of anti-Israel and antisemitic tweets issued by its official Twitter account. On Friday, CUPE 3902 lashed out at Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, lamenting the fact that his “recent rejection

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Radical Speakers on Agenda for Toronto Islamic Conference

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December 19, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is disturbed by the scheduled appearances of extremist figures at a major Islamic event, set to begin this Friday (Dec. 20) in Canada’s largest city. “Reviving the Islamic Spirit,” Canada’s largest Islamic conference, will feature American preachers Yasir Qadhi, Siraj Wahhaj and Omar Suleiman among

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B’nai Brith Outraged by Canada’s Anti-Israel UN Vote

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December 18, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is outraged that Canada has maintained its vote in favour of an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations (UN). The United Nations General Assembly voted Wednesday in favour of a resolution regarding Palestinian self-determination and condemning anti-terror measures in Israel. The resolution has been broadly criticized by

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Survey Showing Persistent Antisemitism in Europe a Grave Warning for Canada, B’nai Brith Says

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By Daniel Koren Manager, Media Relations & Communications B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – A major survey of Jews in Europe has painted a harrowing account of what it’s like to be Jewish in the European Diaspora. Conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), the survey, the largest in history conducted of Jewish people worldwide, shows

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Supreme Court Denies Nazi’s Deportation Appeal

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December 5, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – The Supreme Court of Canada has denied a former Nazi’s request to appeal the revocation of his citizenship. Helmut Oberlander was a member of a gruesome Nazi death squad unit that murdered more than 90,000 Jewish men, women and children during the Second World War. Efforts have been under way for more than two decades

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