June 8, 2018 By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Toronto Mayor John Tory is vowing that the city will take strong action if Saturday’s al-Quds Day rally at Queen’s Park turns into another hatefest. “I’m confident that if there are incidents of hate, police will act and we will be urging city staff […]
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June 4, 2018 By Sara Gruszczynski Communications Associate B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is urging residents of the Greater Toronto Area to be on the lookout for posters promoting the antisemitic boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign after several were spotted in the Annex neighbourhood of downtown Toronto. The posters encourage Canadians to
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May 28, 2018 By Aidan Fishman Director of the League for Human Rights B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is deeply concerned by the spread of neo-Nazi and antisemitic posters in midtown Toronto over the past week. On Monday morning, a local resident alerted B’nai Brith to neo-Nazi propaganda posted on public property in
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May 14, 2018 By Daniel Koren Media Coordinator B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – A flag of the Hezbollah terrorist group was spotted alongside Palestinian flags and makeshift signs falsely accusing Israel of apartheid at an anti-Israel rally in Toronto Saturday, just weeks after a similar incident in Montreal involving a PFLP flag. Both Hezbollah and the
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Jan. 15, 2018 By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – It’s a simple message: No matter how bleak or even inhumane your surroundings are, one must have faith in the existence and presence of good people and love will overcome. This was the message of Holocaust survivor Faigie Schmidt Libman, who spoke to a Grade
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October 2, 2017 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is raising concerns about an overly broad definition of Islamophobia adopted by the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), which would prohibit staff and students from criticizing “Islamic politics”. The TDSB’s Islamic Heritage Month Resource Guidebook, which will be used in schools across Toronto this October, defines Islamophobia as “fear,
October 2, 2017 TORONTO – Just a few hours after concerns were raised by B’nai Brith Canada, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has pledged to replace its definition of Islamophobia and recall all copies of its Islamic Heritage Month Resource Guidebook until the changes are complete. Earlier on Oct. 2, B’nai Brith Canada had expressed alarm at an
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June 16, 2017 By Tevy Pilc Staff Writer/Researcher B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – May and June of 2017 have yielded an uptick in antisemitic incidents in the Greater Toronto Area, including three separate incidents near a Jewish elementary school. B’nai Brith Canada, which actively assists victims of antisemitic incidents, has discovered that the following incidents have
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A rally on May 13, 2017 in solidarity with Palestinian terrorists staging a hunger strike in Israeli prisons was endorsed by the York Federation of Students (YFS) and the University of Toronto Mississauga Students’ Union (UTMSU), B’nai Brith Canada has learned. Hammam Farah, one of the organizers of the rally, described its purpose as “supporting the demands of our heroic prisoners.” Chief among those prisoners is Marwan al-Barghouti, who
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TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada will proudly take part in community-wide events across the country next week celebrating Israel’s 69th birthday on Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Israel Independence Day), and we urge you to join us, wherever you are! B’nai Brith will have representation at ceremonies taking place in Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, and Ottawa on Monday,
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