As part of B’nai Brith Canada’s week long series to commemorate the nearly 1-million Jews who fled their homes across Arab countries and Iran, we spoke to Joseph Esses and his wife Olga Abadi Esses from Syria. The Jewish people have a long and storied history in Syria, dating back to biblical times. Tradition in the region […]
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As part of B’nai Brith Canada’s week-long series to commemorate the nearly 1-million Jews who fled their homes across Arab countries and Iran, we spoke to Asad Muallim from Iraq. Although Asad left Iraq illegally in the early 1960s, his family that stayed endured many hardships, including arrests and property seizures due to their Jewish heritage. Many,
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B’nai Brith Canada is commending the Ontario Legislature for officially joining the chorus of voices that staunchly reject the antisemitic boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) against Israel. The ‘Standing Firm Against Intolerance’ motion, introduced by Gila Martow, Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Thornhill, passed on Thursday, Dec. 1 by 49 to 5 votes.
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B’nai B’rith Canada condemns the United Nations General Assembly for a series of annual resolutions singling out Israel for condemnation and utterly disregarding Arabs’ fuelling of a continued conflict in the Middle East. One resolution calls for Israeli relinquishment of the strategically vital Golan Heights to Syria at a time when that country is the
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As part of B’nai Brith Canada’s week-long series to commemorate the nearly 1-million Jews who fled their homes across Arab countries and Iran, we spoke to Ronit Eskenasi, who’s family came from Lebanon. Ronit’s grandfather was successful in smuggling several Jews out of Lebanon, wearing only the clothes on their backs, in the wake of rising antisemitism. Her
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By Aidan Fishman Campus Advocacy Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada A motion to commemorate Holocaust Education Week failed at the semi-annual General Meeting of the Ryerson Student Union (RSU) on Tuesday night, after students opposed to the motion staged a walk-out that caused the meeting to lose quorum. The motion in question, submitted by a member
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As part of B’nai Brith Canada’s week-long series to commemorate the nearly 1-million Jews who fled their homes across Arab countries and Iran, we spoke to Noemi Lieberman, originally from Tripoli, Libya. In 1947, wearing only the clothes on their backs, she and her family were forced to flee Libya, leaving all their possessions behind. To this
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By Aidan Fishman Campus Advocacy Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada A Montreal concert by the neo-Nazi-linked band “Graveland” was cancelled Saturday night after B’nai Brith Canada warned the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) about the group. A CBSA spokesperson told B’nai Brith that, after the agency received B’nai Brith’s letter, Graveland was refused entry to Canada at Pierre
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From the 1940s until the 1970s, and heightening with the founding of Israel in 1948, nearly 1-million Jews were expelled from their homes across Arab countries such as Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Algeria and Iran. In Egypt, the government arrested and charged Jews with being part of Zionist or Communist plots. They seized Jewish assets,
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Global Toronto’s Christina Stevens spoke to Amanda Hohmann, National Director of B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights, on the German police investigation of Canadian Alfred Schaefer. Schaefer had computer and notes seized by German police. This was prompted after B’nai Brith Canada received a call on its anti-hate hotline about his holocaust denial videos. Alfred