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 […]
July 24, 2018 By Daniel Koren Manager, Media Relations & Communications B’nai Brith Canada WARSAW – B’nai Brith Canada is proud to have recently participated in the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE)’s Activist Forum on Preventing and Responding to Hate Crimes in Warsaw hosted by its Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). The Forum focused on
July 23, 2018 The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, P.C., M.P. Minister of Foreign Affairs Lester B. Pearson Building 125 Sussex Drive Ottawa, ON K1A 0G2 Dear Minister Freeland, This coming week, United States Secretary of State Pompeo will host a critical Ministerial meeting on religious freedom. This meeting offers Canada an opportunity to reaffirm its commitment
July 23, 2018 By Violet Levin Government Relations Associate B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – With the U.S. State Department serving as host of the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom this week, 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
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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June 22, 2018 By Violet Levin Government Relations Associate B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is supporting a new initiative to combat antisemitism from UNESCO and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. At the same time, B’nai Brith strongly urges UNESCO to reconsider politicized
May 28, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is deeply concerned by the spread of neo-Nazi and antisemitic posters in midtown Toronto over the past week. On Monday morning, a local resident alerted B’nai Brith to neo-Nazi propaganda posted on public property in
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April 24, 2018 By Daniel Koren Media Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada The year 2017 set records for antisemitism in Canada. B’nai Brith Canada’s Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents reports that 2017 was the second consecutive year in which record numbers were reached. The authoritative study on antisemitism in Canada, the Audit recorded 1,752 incidents, a 1.4 per cent overall
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April 16, 2018 By Brian Herman Director of Government Relations B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is calling on the federal government to lead the fight against antisemitism at the G7 Summit this June in the Quebec region of Charlevoix. With antisemitism increasing in Canada and abroad, B’nai Brith has issued a series of concrete
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March 21, 2018 By Daniel Koren Media Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada THORNHILL, Ont. – B’nai Brith Canada is appalled after learning Wednesday morning that a synagogue in Thornhill, Ont. has been targeted by antisemitic vandalism. On Wednesday at about 9:40 a.m., a vandal smashed the glass doors of Chabad at Flamingo with a rock, according to Chabad
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