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SPECIAL REPORT: Last Month’s Surge of Antisemitism Far Worse Than First Thought

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Warning: Graphic and Violent Events Discussed OTTAWA – Calls to rape Jewish women. Rocks thrown at peaceful protesters. Nazi emblems in our streets. From coast to coast, Canada’s Jewish community came under assault on multiple fronts throughout the month of May, 2021. And we’re talking about unprecedented ways. B’nai Brith Canada’s staffers were overwhelmed by …

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Anti-Israel Blockade Vanquished on Second Try at B.C. Port

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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 …

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B’nai Brith Canada CEO in Toronto Star: Learn Jewish History

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CLICK HERE TO READ THE OP-ED Our CEO, Michael Mostyn, just penned an important op-ed for the Toronto Star. It urges Canadians, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, to learn about the long and fascinating history of the Jewish nation and our origins in the land of Israel. Too often, contemporary political discourse erases this history and makes faulty …

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Anti-Israel Activists Dupe Medical Student Societies

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June 7, 2021 OTTAWA – Anti-Israel activists in Canada brazenly falsified the endorsements of three leading medical student organizations last week, B’nai Brith Canada has learned. Early last week, medical student societies at Canadian universities, including McGill, Dalhousie and the University of Toronto, received an email from “National Advocacy for Palestine,” asking them to sign “a …

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The Hub: Matas and Teich: Trivializing apartheid to attack Israel

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Our Senior Legal Counsel, David Matas, just co-authored a piece debunking some common anti-Israel smears. CLICK HERE to read the article.

OUR APPEAL TO CANADIANS: Stand with the Jewish Community in the Face of Antisemitism

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The past month has been extremely difficult for Canadian Jews. We have witnessed Jewish businesses boycotted, Jewish organizations targeted, Jewish students intimidated, and Jewish citizens assaulted, all ostensibly triggered by the recent conflict between Hamas, an organization long recognized by Canada as a terrorist entity, and Israel. What is most frightening is not the brazen …

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Toronto Sun: Mostyn: There are no two sides when standing against terror

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Our CEO, Michael Mostyn, just wrote an op-ed in the Toronto Sun about the conflict in the Middle East. CLICK HERE to read it.

Toronto Fails to Act Against Antisemitism Yet Again

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May 25, 2021 TORONTO – For the third week in a row, antisemitism and support for terrorism were on display Saturday at a massive protest in downtown Toronto. Over a thousand anti-Israel demonstrators marched from Yonge-Dundas Square to the Israeli consulate at Yonge and Bloor, shouting repeatedly for an “intifada.” In the Israeli-Palestinian context, an intifada means a …

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At this Time of Crisis, We’re Here to Help

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May 16, 2021 In the past week, Israel has been under attack, facing thousands of Hamas rockets, rioters burning synagogues, and much more. Canada’s Jewish community also has been under attack, albeit in a different way – a massive outpouring of antisemitic hate, much of it online, but also at schools, businesses and even in …

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Jewish Organizations Condemn Violence at Toronto Protest

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May 16, 2021 TORONTO – Saturday, antisemitic violence erupted at a protest organized by Palestinian activists at Nathan Phillips Square in downtown Toronto. Shocking video and eyewitness accounts confirm that a group of protestors bearing a Palestinian flag swarmed and brutally assaulted a small number of pro-Israel demonstrators. Vicious, antisemitic statements were voiced by the …

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