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The Montreal community took part last week in a virtual solidarity rally for Dr. Sarah Halimi, a Parisian Jewish woman who in 2017 was assaulted and stabbed in her apartment,

“As Canadians spent much of 2020 under pandemic restrictions and lockdown, anti-Semitism did not take the year off,” stated Michael Mostyn, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada. “Though physical attacks decreased last year, online hate continues to skyrocket, particularly during a year that, more than ever, forced many of us to interact virtually rather than in-person.   An average of more than seven anti-Semitic acts a day were committed in Canada in 2020, the latest B’nai Brith Canada League ...

CSU Student Life Coordinator Eduardo Malorni confirmed this as well. This follows the CSU’s letter to the Jewish community apologizing for not doing enough to fight the presence of anti-Semitism on campus, including graffiti. B’nai Brith noted that the apology “made no reference to the CSU’s adoption of BDS in 2014, which has fueled hostility toward Jewish students at Concordia since that time. “B’nai Brith then reached out to CSU representatives to commend their b...

Marsha Lederman, an arts reporter at the Globe and Mail, shared an image of the graffiti via Twitter on Sunday. She said she saw it near David Lam Park and added: “This was particularly awful for me to see — and it’s personal. My mother encountered Mengele on the ramp in Auschwitz in August 1944. The angel of death. She survived. Most didn’t.” In an emailed statement, the City of Vancouver said it was “made aware of the graffiti, and has covered it temporarily until it can be remo...

Calls for Palestinian-Focused Permanent Exhibit at Human Rights Museum Sparks Controversy, Anti-Israel Fears Pro-Palestinian activists are making a renewed push for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights to install an exhibit highlighting the plight of Arab-Palestinian refugees, while mainstream Jewish organizations see the attempt as public political point-scoring and propaganda. The controversy surrounds what Palestinians refer to as “Nakba” (Arabic for catastrophe)—the displacement of so...

Article content The tweets compared the COVID-19 advice given to Ontario by its scientific advisers to something out of the Holocaust, calling those experts “public health extremists.” They came from a professor at Western University’s medical school, Donald Welsh, its chair of molecular neuroscience and vascular biology, who later posted that he wanted to pump the brakes on a public health approach “that deeply troubles me as a scientist.” We apologize, but this video has failed to l...

The Globe and Mail Letters April 15: ‘I am not only embarrassed but ashamed of Canada.’ How are vaccine rollouts going? Plus other letters to the editor Contributed to The Globe and Mail Published April 15, 2021 Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press Keep your Opinions sharp and informed. Get the Opinion newsletter. Sign up today. Falling behind Re The COVID-19 Tables Have Turned For Canada (Opinion, April 10): I am disheartened that, for the first time in my adult life, I am not only embarr...

Members of the Montreal community took part in the annual Yom Hashoah Holocaust commemoration — last Wednesday during the Montreal Holocaust Museums annual remembrance and on Thursday during the annual Montreal city hall-Bnai Brith Canada ceremony. During Thursdays ceremony, Mayor Valérie Plante denounced anti-Semitism, and referencing the 2020 vandalism and attempted arson at the Shaar Hashomayim synagogue in Westmount, said an attack on the Jewish community is an attack on all Montrea...

A grave moral failure of which administrators have yet to answer for. Fri Apr 9, 2021 Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. In a country where multiculturalism has a reverent following and criticism of protected minorities has essentially been criminalized as “hate speech,” it is more than ...

Rob Gurdebeke/The Canadian Press Keep your Opinions sharp and informed. Get the Opinion newsletter. Sign up today. Top gear? Re Provinces Struggle To Shift Vaccinations Into High Gear (April 7): At my vaccine appointment there were four intake workers processing people – they were not busy. The immunization stations were not busy either, with a number of doctors waiting to give shots. There were two emergency response units, also waiting. The final release personnel were reading or chatting w...