CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN ENGLISH Le 21 février 2022 MONTRÉAL – B’nai Brith Canada demande des éclaircissements après qu’un éminent conseiller municipal de Montréal a « aimé » une publication sur Facebook d’un groupe anti-israélien. Alexander Norris, chef de Projet Montréal, le parti politique sortant, a aimé un message Facebook des voix …
Jan. 04, 2022 Toronto – An anti-Israel group that is promoting boycotts, divestments, and sanctions against the world’s only Jewish state is using Israeli software to circulate its message. Petition for Palestine, the aforementioned Canadian group, is pushing for negative coverage of Israel by sharing a petition. The website builder that the group used for …
Nov. 26, 2021 TORONTO — B’nai Brith Canada applauds members of Canada’s largest labour union for voting against the antisemitic boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents 700,000 workers from coast to coast, is holding its National Convention online this week and voted on BDS yesterday. Anti-Israel forces were …
June 17, 2021 PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. – A vessel owned by an Israel-based company managed to unload its cargo at a northern British Columbia port last night, following an ultimately unsuccessful blockade effort by anti-Israel extremists. The ship in question is the Volans, a Liberian-flagged container ship carrying cargo for ZIM, a Haifa-based shipping company that …
Anti-Israel Blockade Vanquished on Second Try at B.C. Port Read More »
Our Senior Legal Counsel, David Matas, just co-authored a piece debunking some common anti-Israel smears. CLICK HERE to read the article.
June 4, 2021 OTTAWA/TORONTO – Following outreach from B’nai Brith Canada, Canadian Muslim groups are distancing themselves from false and inflammatory “mock eviction notices” sent to Canadian households. The notices, which tell recipients that their “house is scheduled for demolition in the next three days” before later clarifying that it is “not real,” are ostensibly intended …
Canadian Muslim Groups Disassociate from Fake “Eviction Notices” Read More »
May 3, 2021 Joel Goldenberg of the Suburban just wrote about the Concordia Student Union abandoning BDS, and our work on that issue. CLICK HERE to read the article.
Pour le français, voir ci-dessous April 20, 2021 MONTREAL – The student union at Quebec’s largest anglophone university has formally abandoned its support for the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, B’nai Brith Canada has confirmed. On April 6, the Concordia Student Union (CSU) posted a lengthy apology to the Jewish community over antisemitism, making …
March 2, 2021 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is calling on the University of Toronto to take immediate steps to implement a recent ruling against a mandatory “BDS Caucus” for graduate students. In a landmark ruling released on Feb. 4, the Complaint and Resolution Council for Student Societies (CRCSS) found that the University of Toronto Graduate Students’ Union …
February 5, 2021 TORONTO – In a landmark ruling – the first of its kind in Canada – the University of Toronto Graduate Students’ Union (UTGSU) has been told by a university panel to stop using student fees to promote the anti-Israel BDS movement. In the ruling released Thursday, the Complaint and Resolution Council for Student Societies (CRCSS), …
