Willem Hart Archives - B'nai Brith Canada

Humanizing Racism at York University: Excalibur’s Antisemitism Problem

In August, Bnai Brith dutifully called upon York University to take action against Nicholas Balaskas, a non-academic faculty member, after Jewish students complained of his antisemitic hate speech, found on his personal Facebook account. Having read said hate speech, I can vouch for the fact that this sort of antisemitism goes far beyond the regular anti-Israel …

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It’s Time to Hit the Reset Button at York University

Campus, Opinions / By

This week, our community was exposed to yet another act of antisemitism at York University. According to reports, high school students who had journeyed to campus for an anti-racism workshop, including many from the heavily-Jewish Westmount Collegiate Institute in Thornhill, Ont. were told that discrimination against Jews is not a topic worthy of conversation, while …

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In Defence of Jewish and Israeli Studies in Canada

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Canadian Jews, as do all minority ethnic groups, possess the right to work together as an identifiable group to build and advance a community. In an advanced multicultural democracy like Canada, one would imagine that such a right would never come under attack. Yet, this is exactly the purpose of Montreal “activist” Yves Engler’s op-ed, …

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“Settlements” Are Not The Problem

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It is truly astounding that the issue of “settlements” – a politically loaded term used for Israeli residential planning and development in ancestral Judea and Samaria – has dominated the discussion on Israel and the Palestinian Territories. With the recent United Nations condemnation of said settlements, and Obama’s refusal to veto such a childish resolution, …

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