There was a slight decrease of 1.1 per cent in antisemitic incidents in Canada in 2022. The decline, however, is far from reassuring. As revealed in the latest edition of B’nai Brith Canada’s Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, unveiled April 17 at a press conference in Ottawa, the level of hate against Jewish Canadians continued to be unacceptably … Read more
B’nai Brith Canada is aware of a Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group meeting on Parliament Hill that was attended by Holocaust denier Nazih Khatatba. Khatatba is well known as the editor of the virulently antisemitic Al Meshwar Media newspaper, which circulates in the Greater Toronto Area and online. Various prominent parliamentarians from the Liberal, NDP and … Read more
B’nai Brith Canada has denounced an open letter from a group of retired Canadian diplomats to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.) earlier this week concerning hypothetical Israeli government plans to extend its legal jurisdiction to areas of the West Bank. “We are disgusted with the blatant hypocrisy and double standards of the international community constantly directed against Israel. This letter … Read more
B'nai Brith Canada has called on all Canadians to commemorate Yom Ha-Shoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day – to ensure that the victims of Hitler’s Nazi regime are never forgotten. B’nai Brith Canada has been active in Canada since 1875 as the Jewish community’s foremost human rights agency. Call (416) 633-6224 ext. 112.
The League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada has released its most recent Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, an authoritative study of patterns of prejudice released each year in this country. In total, 1,306 incidents were reported to the League in 2010, representing a 3.3% increase over the 2009 data, and a more than four-fold … Read more
