B’nai Brith Questions Yet Another Round of UNRWA Funding from Canada
Oct. 12, 2018
By Marty York
Chief Media Relations & Communications Officer
B'nai Brith Canada
OTTAWA – B'nai Brith Canada is extremely concerned about a decision by the federal government to contribute another $50-million to the United Nations Palestinian Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
Read moreB'nai Brith International: U.S. Withdrawal from UNHRC an Opportunity for Reform
A session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
June 20, 2018
The following is a press release issued by B'nai Brith International.
GENEVA – The United States’ decision to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) presents the international organization with an important opportunity for dramatic and urgently needed reform, as the steady politicization of the body has rendered it largely irrelevant at best and a destructive actor at worst.
Read moreB’nai Brith Canada Questions UNRWA Spending
March 15, 2018
By Daniel Koren
Media Coordinator
B'nai Brith Canada
OTTAWA – The Canadian government announced Thursday that it will transfer an extra $10-million to Palestinian refugees via the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
Read moreUNGA Resolution Against Jerusalem Unhelpful to Peace Process: B’nai Brith Canada
Orthodox Jews pray at the Kotel (Western Wall) in Jerusalem
By Daniel Koren
Media Coordinator
B'nai Brith Canada
Dec. 21, 2017
Thursday’s resolution by the United Nations General Assembly is unhelpful to the peace process, B’nai Brith Canada has concluded.
Read moreB’nai Brith Canada Calls for Removal of UN Palestinian Rapporteur
Michael Lynk speaks at a Nov. 29 fundraiser for Canadian Friends of Sabeel (Screenshot)
Dec. 4, 2017
TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is calling on the United Nations to strip Michael Lynk of his position as “Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” after he headlined a fundraiser for a radical anti-Israel group.
Read moreIn 70 Years Since UN Partition Plan for Palestine, Arabs Continue to Say ‘No’ to Peace
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Daniel Koren |
The opinions, facts and any media content presented do not necessarily reflect the position of B'nai Brith Canada.
Nov. 29, 2017
Seventy years ago today, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181, calling for the partition of Mandatory Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Despite that the proposed Jewish state had territorial limits, the Jewish Agency for Palestine accepted the plan. Arab leaders and governments, however, unequivocally refused on principle.
Antonio Guterres Must Do More to Change the UN’s Anti-Israel Bias
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Sara McCleary |
Anti-Zionists who undoubtedly scoff at the (false) notion that anti-Zionism and antisemitism aren’t intrinsically linked should be a bit happier with new(ish) UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
Read moreAre Member States Finally Waking Up to UNESCO's Anti-Israel Bias?
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Sara McCleary |
In a move that at this point should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has voted yet again in favour of a resolution that is overwhelmingly biased against Israel.
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Here’s Hoping the New UN Secretary-General is More Diplomatic
 Sara McCleary |
Two weeks ago, I wrote about now former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s 11th-hour admission that the UN has spent a decade passing “a disproportionate number of resolutions, reports, and committees against Israel.” Mere days later, the UN Security Council approved what has been described as the most severe resolution it has yet to pass against Israel.
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