June 12, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Jews must be “dismantled.” Israelis should be “shot,” “run over” and “eradicated.” These are just some of the hateful, inflammatory remarks that we have heard at Toronto al-Quds Day rallies in the past few years. On Friday, Toronto …
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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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June 8, 2018 By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Toronto Mayor John Tory is vowing that the city will take strong action if Saturday’s al-Quds Day rally at Queen’s Park turns into another hatefest. “I’m confident that if there are incidents of hate, police will act and we will be urging city staff …
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By Aidan Fishman Interim National Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada Nov. 27, 2017 TORONTO – A Toronto group that played host to a neo-Nazi speaker in April of 2016 is leading the charge against an effort by City Councillor James Pasternak to prohibit “hate-sponsored rallies” on public property. Beit Zatoun, which calls itself “a …
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By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada Apparently, some defenders of freedom expression are allowed to squash that very same freedom of others – specifically when it challenges their own point of view. This seemed to be the case at a news conference arranged by a “self-proclaimed human rights panel,” which included three university …
On Sunday, Canadian and world Jewry will observe the fast of Tisha B’Av, which commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. Throughout the centuries, Tisha B’Av has also become a day for commemorating the Crusader massacres, the expulsion from Spain, and the countless other waves of antisemitic persecution that have affected …
The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board has announced that it has suspended with pay Nadia Shoufani, a teacher from St. Catherine of Siena Separate School who, as first reported by CIJNews (page doesn’t exist), praised terrorists at the Toronto al-Quds Day hatefest in July. B’nai Brith Canada had filed complaints with police. Separate investigations into Shoufani by both her …
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By Aidan Fishman B’nai Brith Canada Campus Affairs Coordinator A speaker at the 2016 al-Quds Day rally recited a poem filled with antisemitic stereotypes before an audience of hundreds of people in downtown Toronto. Ali Razvi began by condemning “occupiers” who “slaughter Palestinians more worse [sic] than they do to cows.” He then accused those …
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A teacher from the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, who headlined the Toronto al-Quds hate-rally in early July, is being investigated following a complaint from B’nai Brith Canada. Nadia Shoufani, who teaches at St. Catherine of Siena Separate School, was filmed glorifying terrorists and calling for violence against Israelis through ‘resistance.’ “We are greatly concerned …
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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada Speaking at the al-Quds Day rally in Toronto, a Muslim cleric claimed that without Zionism, ISIS would not exist. In the following video recorded at Queen’s Park in Toronto on July 2, Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moulana Syed Abbas Abedi said, “Zionism is the mother of ISIS” (4:20) and called …
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