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Tech Giants Must Go Further to Combat Online Terrorism

July 12, 2017 Technology giants Facebook, Microsoft, Youtube, and Twitter have launched a joint effort to curb terrorist recruitment and extremism on their platforms. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, announced June 26, is an encouraging attempt to collaborate on existing efforts to remove content promoting violence, terrorism and discrimination from the Internet. Although this …

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The Globe and Mail Must Also Apologize for Misleading Headline on Palestinian Terrorism

Opinions / By

June 18, 2017 After severe public backlash from officials across the political spectrum – both in Israel and abroad – the BBC apologized Sunday for running a headline that grossly misinformed its readers about Friday’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem. Following the attack that eventually took 23-year-old Hadas Malka’s life, the BBC published an article with the headline: “Three Palestinians Killed …

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Feminism’s Newest ‘Hero’ is a Convicted Terrorist Who Murdered Two Israelis

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Over the last few years, the conversation surrounding racial identity politics – once exclusive to the domain of academia – has broken into the mainstream Western conscience, a trend unmistakably visible in the recent widespread culture of protest sparked by the rise of U.S. President Donald Trump. In response to the perceived misogyny and racism …

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‘An Attack on One Faith Group is an Attack on All of Us’

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The day after the deadly shooting at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec, I was at the B’nai Brith Canada Quebec Region office with senior leaders Eric Bissell and Ted Greenfield, executive director Harvey Levine, and B’nai Brith House director Eileen Katz. We were waiting to meet with D’Arcy McGee Liberal MNA David Birnbaum to …

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Bomb Threat Forces Evacuation of Jewish Community Centre in London, Ont.

Advocacy, Press Releases / By

January 31, 2017 (London, Ont.) The London Jewish Community Centre in London, Ont. was evacuated Tuesday morning after an unidentified person called in a bomb threat. Police were alerted to the threat at approximately 10:20 a.m. Emergency responders helped clear the community centre while paramedics stood by as a precaution, Const. Sandasha Bough told the London …

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B’nai Brith Canada Condemns Quebec City Mosque Shooting

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In response to the deadly shooting at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec on Sunday night, B’nai Brith Canada Chief Executive Officer Michael Mostyn has issued the following statement: “As a human rights organization, we denounce last night’s act of terrorism in the strongest terms and send our heartfelt condolences to the families of the …

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B’nai Brith Condemns Canadian Government’s Decision to Fund UNRWA

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B’nai Brith Canada is outraged that the Government of Canada has committed $25-million in funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) – an organization previously criticized for its ties to the Hamas terrorist organization – without addressing the agency’s long history of incitement. “UNRWA has a track record of problematic behaviour …

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Sept. 11 Lawsuit Bill Offers Justice for Grieving Families

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The United States Congress has formally passed the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) into law, which will allow the families and victims of terrorism, such as those of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, to bring legal action against state sponsors of terrorism. While Saudi Arabia was not directly labelled in the bill, it has …

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Terrorist Who Stabbed Yeshiva Student Arrested

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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada The Arab man who admitted to stabbing a yeshiva student last week in a Jerusalem neighbourhood has been found, arrested and discovered to be a dangerous terrorist. On August 11, a yeshiva student was attacked on his way back from praying at the Mount of Olives cemetery in A-Tur, …

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IDF Demolishes Home Of Palestinian Terrorist Who Murdered 13-Year-Old Girl

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By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada Israeli forces have demolished the family home of the Palestinian assailant who murdered a 13-year-old Israeli girl in June. A large military force, including the Combat Engineering Corps, razed the family home of Muhammad Nasser-Tarayrah early Monday morning. Last week, Israel’s Supreme Court approved the demolition of the terrorist’s family’s home. …

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