Tag: Canada
‘Be on the front lines,’ former Canadian envoy Irwin Cotler advises young Jews
Irwin Cotler, the 83-year-old human-rights advocate and former Canadian parliamentarian, received the lifetime achievement award of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs last month at a conference in Ottawa.
The award, according to organizers, recognized “his...
Netanyahu slams Trudeau over Gaza accusations
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday night fired back at accusations by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Israel is killing civilians in Gaza.
"I urge the government of Israel to exercise maximum restraint....
Canada’s largest museum to change Palestinian ‘dispossession’ exhibit texts
The exhibition "Being and Belonging," on view through Jan. 7 at the Royal Ontario Museum, features artworks by contemporary women artists "from the Islamic world and beyond," per the museum website, which hails the...
Canada apologizes for lauding another soldier who fought for Nazi unit
A week after Anthony Rota, the speaker of Canada’s House of Commons, resigned over its parliament honoring a Ukrainian man who fought in a voluntary Nazi unit, another highly decorated member in the Waffen-SS Galicia Division has come...
Canadian official resigns, Poland seeks extradition of Nazi veteran honored by Ottawa
Anthony Rota, the speaker of Canada’s House of Commons who apologized on Sunday for honoring a Ukrainian man who fought in a Nazi unit, has resigned, the Associated Press reported.
"Just after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered...
Arrival of 215 immigrants sparks dancing at Ben-Gurion Airport
A planeload of 215 immigrants from the U.S. and Canada landed at Ben-Gurion Airport on Wednesday, sparking emotional family reunions and even dancing in one of the terminals.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been happier...
Calgary Peace Prize going to Palestinian poet who spews hate against Jews
The Anti-Defamation League has called Mohammed El-Kurd an “unvarnished, vicious antisemite.” Yet in spite of widely available evidence attesting to his prominence as a hatemonger, Mount Royal University in Canada chose to award the writer with...
Antisemitic incidents, violence dropped slightly in Canada in 2022
Antisemitic incidents in Canada dropped 1.1% in 2022 from the record high of 2,799 incidents in 2021, and violent incidents dropped from 75 in 2021 to 25 in 2022, according to B’nai B’rith Canada’s just-released Annual Audit of...
Canadian authorities investigating two fires at Jewish camp
Authorities in Quebec, Canada, are investigating two fires at an overnight Jewish camp in the village of Quyon.
A neighbor reported a fire at Camp B’nai Brith of Ottawa at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, reports CBC...
Canada changes program funding after giving thousands to entity linked to anti-Semitic posts
Canada says it will be instituting policy changes as it relates to funding programs through Canadian Heritage after it was revealed that money was going to an organization whose co-founder and main speaker has...