Monument at summer camp in Ontario honors Estonian collaborators of Nazi Germany
After an antisemitism watchdog group contacted Seedrioru—a summer camp for Estonian children in Elora, Ontario—regarding a monument built to honor four Nazi Waffen-SS-associated Estonians, officials quietly removed references to the men from its website.
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Canadian kosher-meat production protected by Federal Court decision
Canadian Jewish organizations have triumphed in their effort to maintain the legality of the country’s kosher-certified meat preparation.
On Wednesday, Canada’s Federal Court issued an interlocutory injunction against the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to halt the implementation...
UNRWA ‘not as an organization engaged in the conflict,’ US envoy says
Although Washington takes Israel’s allegations that employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency took part in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack “very, very seriously,” it does not believe that the global body’s relief...
Jerusalem warns Paris of Iran-backed plan to strike Israeli Olympians
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz sent a message to French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné on Thursday, one day prior to the launch of the Olympic Games in Paris, warning of an Iranian threat to...
A third of Facebook, Instagram posts about ‘martyrs’ praise terror
Of more than 28,000 posts and comments from more than 20,000 accounts on Facebook and Instagram that mentioned “martyrs,” some 32% of the 1.2 billion views—or an audience of 372.5 million—could have seen posts...
CAIR calls to ban Israel at Paris Olympics
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has submitted a request to bar the Jewish state from participating in the Olympics, citing statistics from the Hamas Health Ministry and claims of genocide taking place in Gaza.
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Top UN court tells Israel to end ‘unlawful’ Judea, Samaria ‘occupation’
The International Court of Justice, the principal judicial arm of the United Nations located in The Hague, issued a non-binding, 83-page opinion on Friday declaring Israeli “occupation” of Judea and Samaria to be “unlawful.”
“The court reaffirms...
Justice ‘not yet achieved’ 30 years after Argentina Jewish center bombing, Latino-Jewish Caucus says
Reps. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), the co-chairs of the Latino-Jewish Caucus, called for accountability three decades after the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in...
US, 31 countries launch global ground rules for countering Jew-hatred
The United States was one of 32 countries to sign onto a non-legally binding Global Guidelines for Countering Antisemitism plan in Buenos Aires on Wednesday, the day before the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the...
Proud Jews ‘have gone into their shells’ since Oct. 7, Shopify president says
An anti-Israel protester protested a podcast hosted by the Jewish president of Shopify, to accuse a Jewish guest, who wasn’t talking about Israel, of supporting genocide.
Harley Finkelstein—of the $81.86 billion Ottawa-based e-commerce company Shopify—and...