May 28, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada MONTREAL – B’nai Brith Canada is shocked and appalled by the violation of a local synagogue, one of the worst such incidents to take place in Canada in years. On Wednesday, a congregant visited the Sepharade Kol Yehouda synagogue in Côte St-Luc, Que. with his son to retrieve ritual items for […]
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April 30, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada has filed a complaint with Toronto Police after video recently surfaced of a local imam advocating the complete destruction of the Jews. In a video posted to YouTube by Kamil Ahmad in August of 2014, and recently unearthed by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Ahmad calls on Allah to
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April 29, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada The nation has reacted to B’nai Brith Canada’s 2019 Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released on Monday of this week. The Audit is the definitive source of data on antisemitism in Canada and is cited by governments and NGOs worldwide. The new Audit found that the total number of antisemitic incidents in this country rose
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B’nai Brith Canada is proud to mark Yom Hasho’ah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with the relaunch of its Nizkor website, an important and unique resource on the subject of the Holocaust. While many are looking for productive uses of their time in isolation during the COVID-19 crisis, a great option might be raising our historical awareness and keeping the memory of
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April 1, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada VICTORIA – A British Columbia imam has called for the destruction and elimination of “heretics and atheists” in a number of recent sermons posted online. In a video posted last Sunday to YouTube by the “Muslim Youth of Victoria,” Younus Kathrada calls on Allah to “humiliate the unbelievers and polytheists” and to “destroy
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March 31, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – A webinar held by a Canadian Jewish group was hacked Monday and disrupted with grotesque, hateful and inappropriate messages. The Canada Antisemitism Education Foundation (CAEF) ran a webinar featuring Yifa Segal, director of the International Legal Forum, on the popular video-calling app, Zoom. During the event, racist messages and pornographic
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March 23, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is urging the federal government to include support for charities in its response to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Throughout Canada, charitable organizations are serving the needs of citizens. Every dollar donated to these groups goes back into the community to address challenges. In times of
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According to American Herald Tribune, a website run by Professor Anthony Hall, the University of Lethbridge has requested that he resign over suggestions that he has promoted Holocaust denial and other antisemitic conspiracy theories. In a petition and press release Tuesday, B’nai Brith Canada urged the university to investigate Hall. In response, University of Lethbridge President Michael
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The time has come for Canada to finally get serious about addressing antisemitism and hatred against its Jewish community. Over the last few years, several clear instances of antisemitic hate crimes have occurred throughout the country, though appropriate charges were never laid. B’nai Brith Canada has been diligent in reporting these hate crimes and demanding
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By Marty York Chief Media Officer B’nai Brith Canada July 12, 2017 B’nai Brith Canada is expecting that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will soon rescind its recent decision to order the removal of certain Israeli wines from store shelves. “B’nai Brith has received a lot of information on this matter from multiple sources and officials during the past 24 hours