CLICK HERE FOR ENGLISH 21 septembre 2023 OTTAWA – La poésie glorifie les terroristes. Des cours d’histoire qui effacent l’histoire juive d’Israël. Des problèmes de mathématiques encouragent les jeunes à se livrer à des actes de violence contre des soldats. Ces contenus détestables, souvent antisémites, sont monnaie courante dans les programmes scolaires enseignés dans les …
June 1, 2021 OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada has historically accepted our government’s decisions to provide urgent humanitarian support for Palestinians in the Middle East, but we also have regularly sought assurances that our aid would not be diverted to attack Israel or promote hate directed at the Jewish community. In recent days, Canada announced it will …
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Feb. 18, 2021 OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is urging the Government of Canada to immediately freeze its support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), after fresh revelations about its school materials have proved that the United Nations agency misled its donors, including Canada. CLICK HERE TO SIGN OUR PETITION In January, …
CLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME TO THIS PETITION The Honourable Karina Gould Minister of International Development House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 Dear Minister Gould, As concerned citizens, we call for the Government of Canada to immediately suspend its funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), in light of …
June 15, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada has written to Marc-André Blanchard, Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations, to express concern over anti-Israel bias and misinformation at the UN. In a June 10 letter to UN Member States and Observer States, Blanchard affirmed Canada’s commitment to a two-state solution – but also …
TO: Ambassador Marc-André Blanchard 466 Lexington Avenue, 20th Floor New York, NY 10017 June 15, 2020 Dear Ambassador Blanchard, As a leading human rights advocate and voice of the grassroots Jewish community, B’nai Brith Canada wishes to respond to your letter of June 10, 2020, addressed to the representatives of United Nations member states. B’nai …
July 31, 2019 OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is demanding that the Government of Canada immediately suspend its support for UNRWA, after yet another setback hit the scandal-prone United Nations body. On Monday, a leaked internal ethics report revealed that the United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency (UNRWA), which caters to Palestinian refugees and their descendants, was …
Feb. 11, 2019 By Jackson Richman WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) accuses the U.S. State Department of misleading Congress over recent years regarding actions by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) over the distribution of textbooks that promote Palestinian violence against Israel, evidence that has long been documented. …
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Jan. 15, 2019 NEW YORK – Last month, human rights expert David Matas, who serves as B’nai Brith Canada’s senior legal counsel, delivered an address to the International Conference on Displacements of Jewish Communal Life in Islamic Lands and Cultural Reconstruction in Israel. Future Middle East peace negotiations will require the discussion of financial reparations to …
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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). The new Canadian funding, announced Friday, comes shortly after the U.S. government chose …
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