Dear Friends, We are only two months into the year 2017, and yet, we have already witnessed several offensive and blatantly antisemitic incidents across Canada. We’ve seen religious leaders call for the destruction of Judaism in Quebec, a bomb threat at a London, Ont. Jewish community centre, mezuzahs ripped apart and vandalized in Toronto, antisemitic […]
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B’nai Brith Canada CEO Michael Mostyn has issued the following statement regarding the discovery of antisemitic vandalism in Hamilton on Feb. 22, 2017: “We unequivocally condemn these horrific acts of antisemitism. Along with Holocaust denial posters at the University of Calgary, calls to ‘punch a Zionist’ at McGill and attempts to obstruct Holocaust education at Ryerson, these
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Feb. 22, 2017 By Aidan Fishman Interim National Director, League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – At least three Jewish institutions across Canada received antisemitic hate mail during the past week calling to “expel the Jews to the lake of fire,” B’nai Brith Canada has learned. The letter, which also equates Jews with the “synagogue of Satan,” was sent to Jewish community centres in Windsor and Victoria last week, and the Forest
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By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada Feb. 22, 2017 B’nai Brith Canada CEO Michael Mostyn spoke at a news conference on Wednesday, Feb, 22, 2017, alongside Toronto police and Mayor John Tory at the Toronto Police Service Division 32 headquarters following incidents of antisemitic vandalism in Toronto, most notably, when post-it notes with
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By Aidan Fishman Campus Advocacy Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada The British Columbia Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Arthur Topham, who was convicted of promoting hatred against Jewish people in November, 2015. Through his website, RadicalPress.com, Topham has called for Jews to be forcibly sterilized, claimed that Canada is “controlled by the Zionist Jew lobby,” and described Jewish
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Dear Friends, 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
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German-Canadian Holocaust denier Alfred Schaefer has been charged with criminal incitement in Germany, after B’nai Brith Canada reported his activities to German officials. Schaefer is the brother of disgraced former Green Party of Canada candidate Monika Schaefer, who was denounced by the party after B’nai Brith exposed her Holocaust denial video in June, 2016. Alfred Schaefer is himself
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By Daniel Koren Media Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada First it was Mayor Brian Bowman. Disturbed by the antisemitic incident that took place last month in the Wolseley neighbourhood of Winnipeg – when a couple arrived at their home to find a rock painted with the words, “Die Jew Bitch. EinsatzGruppen” and other antisemitic slurs – the
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By Marty York Chief Media Officer B’nai Brith Canada The ugly reality of antisemitism in Canada was evident in the suburbs of two major Canadian cities in recent days, B’nai Brith has learned. In the Winnipeg neighbourhood of St. Vital, a former Cabinet Minister in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba became appalled and infuriated when
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The old adage is true: history does tend to repeat itself. At Toronto’s Ryerson University, members of its resident anti-Israel club (Students for Justice in Palestine) have found themselves perpetuating Nazi-era propaganda, despite all claims to the contrary that the group is not antisemitic, but anti-Zionist. It would behoove members of SJP Ryerson to acknowledge
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