Press Releases

B’nai Brith Canada Lauds Medicine Hat Police For Laying Charges in Antisemitic Hate Crime

Aug. 8, 2018 By Daniel Koren Manager, Media Relations & Communications B’nai Brith Canada MEDICINE HAT, Alta. – B’nai Brith Canada is commending the Medicine Hat Police Service after it charged a man who was publicly promoting antisemitism with inciting hatred in public. Loki Hulgaard, 35, is facing 14 charges in total, including two counts […]

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City of Toronto Rejects B’nai Brith Canada’s Request to Disallow Far-Right Rally

Aug. 8, 2018 By Marty York Chief Media Relations & Communications Officer B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – The City of Toronto has chosen to allow a rally at Nathan Phillips Square this Saturday despite concerns expressed by B’nai Brith Canada about the potential promotion of hatred at the event. In a letter sent Tuesday to

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Alberta Professor Booted from the Classroom – Again

August 2, 2018 By Aidan Fishman National Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – A professor at the University of Lethbridge in southern Alberta has been removed from the classroom yet again, amid an ongoing internal investigation into his antisemitic activities. Anthony Hall was initially suspended by the University in October

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B’nai Brith Canada Questions Polish Holocaust Law After Study Links it to Rising Antisemitism

July 19, 2018 By Violet Levin Government Relations Associate B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Following a study linking Poland’s controversial Holocaust legislation to a surge in Polish antisemitism and after taking careful note of its latest amendments, B’nai Brith Canada is questioning the law’s necessity as the changes do not address widespread concerns over its impact. On

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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

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

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

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

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

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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