October 4, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith is reminding the Jewish community of its opportunities to vote ahead of Election Day, which falls on the holiday of Shemini Atzeret this year. There are only TWO WEEKS left where observant Jews will have opportunities to vote. B’nai Brith wants to ensure that all Jewish-Canadians […]
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October 3, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada HAMILTON – B’nai Brith Canada is disappointed by a local university’s refusal to remove a pair of anti-Israel speakers from its lineup for a conference Friday. Azeezah Kanji and Atif Kubursi are scheduled to speak at McMaster University’s “Gandhi 150 – Waging Action on Hate and Racism” conference, even though they are open and
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Dear Friends, Shalom and Shana Tova! We are coming up on Rosh Hashanah, a time for introspection and prayer as well as reflection on the past and hope for the future. As we gather with family and loved ones to mark the occasion, we remember the year that was and look forward to the fresh
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September 27, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – An incumbent Mississauga MP and nominated candidate for reelection has reneged on her past apologies by again associating with a radical activist who has incited violence against Jews. A photo received by B’nai Brith Canada shows Iqra Khalid posing at a recent event in the home of Amin El-Maoued, a
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September 26, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – Three of this country’s elected officials have attended events associated with the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP), B’nai Brith Canada has learned. Two of the officials expressed regret when approached by B’nai Brith. One, with the backing of Ottawa’s mayor, did not. During its investigation, B’nai Brith reached out to Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and Ottawa City Councillor Eli El-Chantiry with concern that the
September 24, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada welcomes the ground-breaking new report on antisemitism by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief. The complete report, by Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, has been posted on the Special Rapporteur’s website. It will be presented by Shaheed to the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee
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September 19, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada MONTREAL – B’nai Brith Canada is deeply disturbed by the New Democratic Party’s nomination of a candidate who was filmed affixing “warning” labels to Israeli products on Canadian store shelves and encouraging Canadians to boycott them. Miranda Gallo, the NDP candidate for the Montreal riding of Saint-Laurent, starred in the troubling videos in 2016
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September 17, 2019 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada condemns the rash of antisemitic vandalism against election-campaign signs and billboards across the country during the past several days. Every federal election year, campaign signs and billboards of all parties are vandalized with antisemitic slogans, swastikas, and other hate-filled messages and propaganda. This year, however, there
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September 16, 2019 OTTAWA – Following the launch of our Elections Centre and the announcement of our upcoming debates, B’nai Brith Canada is pleased to release a summary of the positions of the major political parties ahead of the coming federal election. The major parties all received questionnaires from B’nai Brith earlier this year, giving them an opportunity
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September 15, 2019 TORONTO – Major initiatives to hold the Iranian regime to account were proposed Sunday by representatives of Justice 88, B’nai Brith Canada, and The Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. At an event commemorating the Iranian regime’s brutal massacre of thousands of political prisoners in the summer of ’88, parliamentarians and human rights activists called on
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