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Immigration Agency Disavows Arabic Newspaper that Blamed Jews for Holocaust

  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

  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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Reactions to Former Green Party Candidate’s Holocaust Denial Video

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

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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Toronto Al-Quds Day Poem “Clearly Antisemitic”: Muslim-Canadian Activist

By Aidan Fishman B’nai Brith Canada Campus Affairs Coordinator A speaker at the 2016 al-Quds Day rally recited a poem filled with antisemitic stereotypes before an audience of hundreds of people in downtown Toronto. Ali Razvi began by condemning “occupiers” who “slaughter Palestinians more worse [sic] than they do to cows.” He then accused those

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Investigation Launched against Teacher Who Headlined Al-Quds Rally – B’nai Brith Canada

A teacher from the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, who headlined the Toronto al-Quds hate-rally in early July, is being investigated following a complaint from B’nai Brith Canada. Nadia Shoufani, who teaches at St. Catherine of Siena Separate School, was filmed glorifying terrorists and calling for violence against Israelis through ‘resistance.’ “We are greatly concerned

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Nazi Death Squad Member to Stay in Canada After Supreme Court Victory

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada chose not to hear the Attorney General’s appeal against Helmut Oberlander, as part of the Government of Canada’s ongoing efforts to strip the Nazi Einsatzkommando veteran of his Canadian citizenship. “Oberlander’s activities contributed to the Einsatzkommando’s sinister campaign to erase the Jewish population of Occupied Europe during the Holocaust,”

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Shi’ite Cleric Blames Israel for Creation of ISIS at Toronto Al-Quds Day Rally

By Jordan Zaitchik B’nai Brith Canada Speaking at the al-Quds Day rally in Toronto, a Muslim cleric claimed that without Zionism, ISIS would not exist. In the following video recorded at  Queen’s Park in Toronto on July 2, Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moulana Syed Abbas Abedi said, “Zionism is the mother of ISIS” (4:20) and called

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