Former Liberal justice minister is an internationally respected human rights lawyer The federal government has named former Liberal justice minister and internationally-known human rights lawyer Irwin Cotler as Canada’s special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combating anti-Semitism. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the appointment today, stating that the government is committed to strengthening Canada’s […]

Statement Toronto (November 25, 2020) – Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) is thrilled to learn that the Government of Canada has named Irwin Cotler, an internationally respected human rights advocate and founder and chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, as Canada’s first-ever Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism. […]

November 25, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is applauding the federal government’s announcement Thursday that it will establish a position to help combat antisemitism. After many years of B’nai Brith advocacy calling for such a position to be created, the government indicated that it will appoint human-rights expert and former Justice Minister Irwin Cotler as […]

November 24, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada Victoria, B.C. – B’nai Brith Canada has reached out to police following the revelation of another act of incitement by a firebrand religious figure. In a Facebook post flagged Monday by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Younus Kathrada calls Jews “Brothers of monkeys and khanzeer” (pigs in Arabic), and […]

More than one-third of the nearly $20 billion in foreign donations and contracts made to American universities between just 2014 and 2020 were never disclosed as required by federal law, according to “Institutional Compliance with Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965,” a Department of Education report released on October 20, 2020. Among […]

As a college student in 2002, Reema Dodin justified suicide bombings “as a last resort of a desperate people.” By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News President-elect Joe Biden announced this week the first-ever appointment of a White House staffer of Palestinian origin. Reema Dodin will be a deputy director of the White House Office of […]

Olivia Katbi-Smith is the North American Coordinator for the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) movement and a prominent member of the radical-left organization Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) (Portland chapter). Katbi-Smith is an active BDS promoter, who disguises her Jew-hatred and affiliation with Palestinian terrorists under the mask of social justice activism. Katbi-Smith […]

Update: (November 18, 2020) After publication of this news story, Tides Canada contacted us by email. They state they moved out of the office building at 215 Spadina Avenue last year, although their name remains in the building door entry system and on the building’s directory of tenants. Tides Canada also told us that they […]

By comparing the extermination of six million Jews to internal American politics, CNN anchorwoman Christiane Amanpour effectively writes an inaccurate history of the Holocaust which was defined above all by genocide. This is troubling no matter what political party you support, because it is an affront to all who were affected, and it is a […]

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