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White Nationalists Banned from Using Virtual Office after B’nai Brith Complaint

August 27, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – A Saskatchewan-based white nationalist group has been barred from using a Toronto mailing service following information provided by B’nai Brith Canada. The Canadian Nationalist Party, a hate group seeking a place on the ballot in the upcoming federal election, had been using the services of Telsec, an office space solutions company, […]

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B’nai Brith Renews Call for G7 to Act on Antisemitism

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August 23, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is calling on the Canadian government, along with G7 Summit host France, to issue a clarion call for action in combating the growth of global antisemitism. With antisemitism increasing in Canada and around the world, B’nai Brith has put forward a series of concrete measures that build on ideas issued before last year’s Summit in Charlevoix. “As a global

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Combatting Antisemitism – From Charlevoix to Biarritz

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August 23, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is this country’s oldest national Jewish organization, founded in 1875, with a long history of defending the human rights of Canadian Jews, and all Canadians regardless of religious affiliation. We advocate for the interests of the grassroots Jewish community in Canada and for their rights

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B’nai Brith Applauds Maximum Sentence for Your Ward News Editor

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August 22, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is satisfied with the sentence imposed Thursday on the editor of an antisemitic and misogynistic Toronto publication. In January, Your Ward News editor James Sears and publisher LeRoy St. Germaine were convicted of two counts each of wilful promotion of hatred, against both Jews and women, for their involvement with the Your Ward News hate rag.

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B’nai Brith Canada Goes One on One with Boss of Montreal Taxi Company

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August 21, 2019 QUEBEC CONFIDENTIAL | By Mike Cohen MONTREAL- George Boussios grew up in the Montreal borough of Outremont, known for its large Hasidic population. His father, John, drove a cab for many years and eventually rose to become president of Taxi Champlain. George followed in his dad’s footsteps, first as a driver and now at the helm

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“Jews Are Spying on You,” Ontario Polish Newspaper Claims

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August 15, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – A B’nai Brith Canada investigation has uncovered frequent antisemitic and hateful material in a Canadian Polish-language newspaper. Content recently published in Goniec, a Mississauga-based news outlet run by Andrzej Kumor, accuses Jews and Zionists of having “terrorism in their blood” and urges readers to “stand up to the Jews” in response to fabricated attempts to destroy Poland. In a series of incendiary articles,

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B’nai Brith Outraged by Antisemitic Taxi Assault in Montreal

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August 1, 2019 MONTREAL – B’nai Brith Canada is sounding the alarm after a Jewish man was assaulted by a taxi driver amid a barrage of antisemitic slurs over the weekend. On Sunday, July 28, the victim, who has asked B’nai Brith not to share his name publicly, was visiting his elderly parents at a condo building in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal. While waiting for

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Attention: Calling All Ontario Students!

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July 26, 2019 This year, Ontario students have a unique opportunity to deny funding to one of Canada’s most prominent supporters of the antisemitic BDS movement. But you need to act quickly. Join B’nai Brith Canada, Hasbara Fellowships Canada, StandWithUs Canada, and AEPI in opting out of fees to the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), and

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Winnipeg Commemorates the Horrific AMIA Bombing

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July 22, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada WINNIPEG – This past Thursday, July 18th, marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the horrific AMIA bombing, an antisemitic terrorist attack against a Buenos Aires Jewish community center that left eighty-five dead and hundreds injured. What followed was a whirlwind of presidential corruption, clandestine political dealings, assassinations, and inaction, specifically

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B’nai Brith Canada Asks International Religious Freedom Ministerial to Combat Antisemitism

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July 15, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – With the United States hosting this week a major Ministerial on International Religious Freedom, B’nai Brith Canada has penned an open letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland asking Canada to restate its opposition to antisemitism and racism. B’nai Brith is also encouraging other countries to take specific actions to

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