Tag: Canada
B’nai Brith Canadia petitions to get church event honoring terrorist canceled
Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church in Toronto has canceled a scheduled event honoring Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist Ghassan Kanafani, following a campaign by B’nai Brith Canada.
The “Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Scholarship...
Canadian political candidate ejected for comparing Israel to Nazi Germany
A candidate for the Canadian Parliament has been ejected from her party for previous anti-Israel comments, including comparing the Jewish state to Nazi Germany.
Rana Zaman, a social activist and Muslim who won in May...
With Trudeau sliding in polls, next Canadian government may take a decidedly pro-Israel tilt
With Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau falling in the polls due to allegedly pressuring the country’s attorney general not to prosecute the Canadian engineering company SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., the Conservative Party, or Tories, led...
Canadian’s peace hopes for Mideast illusory
Robert Fulford, the distinguished Canadian journalist, recently devoted one of his regular columns in The National Post to some hopeful comments on the prospect of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Noting that, by all accounts,...
In Canada, Israel’s president thanks Trudeau for battling anti-Semitism, BDS
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin met on Monday with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Canadian capital of Ottawa.
Rivlin thanked Trudeau for fighting anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred, including the anti-Israel BDS movement,...
Canada obtains Hitler-possessed book chronicling North American Jewry
Library and Archives Canada announced that it had obtained a rare book from 1944 that Adolf Hitler once possessed.
The federal institution mentioned that it got the book through a well-respected Judaica seller, who received...
Disturbing poll in Canada reveals critical gaps in Holocaust knowledge
A new and troubling poll conducted in Canada ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day reveals critical gaps in knowledge about and awareness of the Holocaust, particularly among the country’s millennials.
The poll was conducted by...
Canadian premier apologizes for nation’s failure to save German Jews on ‘St. Louis’
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau officially apologized for his country’s 1939 refusal to allow entry to a ship carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression.
Trudeau made the statement at the House of...
Ex-Nazi, 94, loses appeal to keep Canadian citizenship
Helmut Oberlander, a 94-year-old living in Waterloo, Ontario, lost his appeal to keep his Canadian citizenship, being found to have lied about his identity as a former Nazi when applying for the status.
Canada’s Federal...
Canadian party recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, vows to move embassy
Canada’s Conservative Party overwhelmingly approved a resolution last week that, were the party to win the next majority government, recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Conservative...