B’nai Brith Canada is outraged by reports the federal government will restore funding to a United Nations agency under investigation for infiltration by Hamas terrorists. B’nai Brith has long advocated for the government to reconsider supporting the UN Refugees Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), especially since Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7, 2023, … Read more
Amid an unprecedented rise in online hate against Jews, B’nai Brith Canada is concerned about the lack of attention being given to combating antisemitism in Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act. “We applaud the Government for tackling important issues that focus on online harms, predominantly the exploitation of minors,” said David Granovsky, Director of Government … Read more
B’nai Brith is pleased that our advocacy has finally led Canada to declassify a report detailing the extent to which Nazi war criminals settled in this country after the Second World War. On Jan. 31, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marc Miller (Ville-Marie-Le Sud-Ouest-Île-des-Sœurs, Que.) released a more complete version of the Rodal Report, a document originally … Read more
This past December, Liberal MP Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal, Que.), David Lametti (LaSalle-Émard-Verdun, Que.), Marco Mendicino (Eglinton–Lawrence, Ont.), Anna Gainey (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount, Que.) and Ben Carr (Winnipeg South Centre, Man.) sent a letter to Canada’s 27 largest universities asking them specific questions about how they address antisemitism on campus. In response, all schools confirmed that calls for the genocide of Jews would violate their codes of conduct. “We … Read more
B’nai Brith Canada is reiterating its call for the Government to deport Khaled Barakat and his wife, Charlotte Kates, two prominent anti-Israel radicals living in Canada. “Canadians have spoken,” said Michael Mostyn, B’nai Brith Canada’s CEO. “It is unacceptable that an admitted member of a terrorist entity has been permitted to enjoy the benefits of … Read more
B’nai Brith Canada stands with the people of Israel as they respond to the Gaza-based Hamas terrorists’ war on the Jewish State. B’nai Brith is monitoring rallies celebrating this terrorism organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement and other groups in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, as well as other major Canadian cities. “Every reasonable person should, irrespective … Read more
B’nai Brith Canada is further advancing its call for the federal government to release the complete and unredacted 1985-1986 Deschênes Commission report on Nazis who immigrated to Canada after the Second World War, as well as all other classified Holocaust-related records. The Jewish community expects more than an apology after Parliament last week celebrated a 98-year-old former member of the Waffen-SS. “How can we learn … Read more
B’nai Brith Canada is calling on the federal government to restore public trust in our institutions after elected representatives feted a Nazi SS veteran in Parliament last week. B’nai Brith demands Ottawa take this opportunity to finally open all Holocaust-related records to the public. Although Canada’s World War II policy towards Jewish immigration was, “none is too many,” our Government … Read more
B’nai Brith Canada’s CEO Michael Mostyn, research manager Richard Robertson and government relations director David Granovsky made public a new report exposing how the Palestinian Authority’s curriculum, as supported by the Canada-funded UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East, indoctrinates hate and is contrary to the UN’s sustainable development goals. … Read more
In its Aug. 1, 2023, submission to the House Finance Committee for its annual pre-budget consultations, B’nai Brith Canada called for the government to help charitable organizations build affordable housing for new Canadians, Indigenous peoples, low-income families and seniors. “Working with the charitable sector would revitalize existing programs within Canada’s National Housing Strategy at a time when Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities … Read more
