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Former Green Party President Reacts to Party Endorsement of BDS: “It’s Sickening”

By Reut Cohen B’nai Brith Canada Paul Estrin, the former president of the Green Party of Canada, expressed severe concerns over the party’s endorsement of the boycott movement against Israel at its convention this past weekend. “The BDS movement has duped yet another organization into supporting hate and acts of segregation,” said Estrin in an […]

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B’nai Brith, JNF Irate over Green Party’s Anti-Israel Policy

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During its weekend convention in Ottawa, the Green Party of Canada added support for the anti-Israel boycott movement (BDS) to its official roster of policies. “With the Green Party’s support for unfairly singling out the world’s only Jewish state for contempt, it has firmly entrenched itself beyond the fringe of mainstream Canadian politics,” said Michael

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Government-Partnered Conference Spreads Antisemitism in Montreal

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By Aidan Fishman Campus Advocacy Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada The World Social Forum (WSF), a government-partnered event set to take place in Montreal on Aug. 9 through 14, is promoting antisemitism and the anti-Israel boycott movement (BDS). The WSF is an annual conference aimed at uniting various far-left and anti-globalization civil society groups. The “Partners” page on

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Anti-Israel Protesters Attempt to Disrupt Multicultural Festival in Winnipeg

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About a dozen people protested Tuesday outside the Israel Pavilion at Shalom Square, targeting crowds attending Folklorama, Winnipeg’s annual celebration of multiculturalism. This is the third year in a row in which demonstrators protested outside the Asper Jewish Community Campus, Winnipeg’s main Jewish hub, at Folklorama. This comes in a city where public antisemitism and anti-Israel activity

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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne Condemns Antisemitic Arabic Newspaper

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By Aidan Fishman Campus Advocacy Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has condemned an antisemitic article appearing in a Southwestern Ontario publication. In an email sent to B’nai Brith Canada, Wynne did not mince words. “I want to condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the statements in the al-Saraha article that deny

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Immigration Agency Disavows Arabic Newspaper that Blamed Jews for Holocaust

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Fresh on the heels of B’nai Brith Canada’s expose of an Ontario Arabic newspaper that attempted to justify Adolf Hitler’s genocide of the Jewish people, a local immigration agency is distancing itself from the publication in question. “The City of London and the London and Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership (LMLIP) do not condone the racist

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Ontario Arabic Newspaper Blames Jews for Holocaust

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By Aidan Fishman Campus Advocacy Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada An article appearing in al-Saraha, a monthly Arabic newspaper distributed in London, Ont. engages in virulent antisemitism, Holocaust denial and homophobia, B’nai Brith Canada has discovered. Al-Saraha is recommended as a news outlet for new immigrants by the London and Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership, an official agency funded by

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Remembering the AMIA Terror Attack

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By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada Today marks the 22nd anniversary of of the worst terror attack in Argentina’s history. And at the center of it was the Jewish community of Buenos Aires. On July 18, 1994, the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentine (AMIA) was bombed, leaving 85 people dead and hundreds more injured. Unfortunately,

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Reactions to Former Green Party Candidate’s Holocaust Denial Video

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Earlier this week, a homemade YouTube video surfaced of former Green Party of Canada’s candidate, Monika Schaefer, denying the Holocaust. In the video, Schaefer makes disgusting remarks suchs as calling the Holocaust “the most persistent lie in all of history,” claims that victims of Nazi death camps “were kept as healthy and as well-fed as was possible,” and asserts that

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Green Party Moves to Expel Holocaust Denier Monika Schaefer

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By Aidan Fishman Campus Advocacy Co-ordinator B’nai Brith Canada Fewer than 24 hours after B’nai Brith Canada exposed and condemned a Holocaust denial video made by former Green Party of Canada candidate Monika Schaefer, GPC officials announced their intention to terminate her membership. “I condemn [Schaefer’s] terribly misguided and untrue statements,” Green Party leader Elizabeth May said

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