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B’nai Brith Canada Condemns Neo-Nazi Posters at UBC

By Aidan Fishman Interim National Director League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada Nov. 12, 2017 B’nai Brith Canada utterly condemns a series of antisemitic incidents at the University of British Columbia last week, including neo-Nazi posters found at the site of the campus Remembrance Day ceremony. On Nov. 11, The Ubyssey, UBC’s student newspaper, reported that entrances to the War Memorial Gym were plastered […]

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B’nai Brith Canada Lauds UBC Students For Rejecting BDS

Advocacy, Press Releases /

April 9, 2017 By Aidan Fishman Campus Advocacy Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada VANCOUVER – After a week-long referendum, students at the University of British Columbia voted against endorsing the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, with 48 per cent for and 52 per cent against. Turnout in the referendum also fell well short of the eight

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Antisemitic Graffiti Strikes Four Canadian Campuses

Advocacy, Press Releases /

April 7, 2017 By Aidan Fishman Campus Advocacy Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Over the past week, Jewish students have discovered either disturbing antisemitic graffiti or vandalism at four separate university campuses across the country. The first incident came on March 30 at York University in Toronto, where a large swastika and the world “heil”

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