From Kamloops to St. John’s, members of our community continue to be subjected to antisemitic harassment, violence and vandalism, a perennial reminder that, after all this time, many still view us as ‘the other’ While the Jewish people have enjoyed a long and meaningful history in Canada, we have not always been welcome in this […]

Opinion: What starts with Jews does not end with Jews. Those who threaten Jews pose a danger to broader society as well By Martin Sampson Though I am not Jewish, I have had the honour of working for a Canadian Jewish organization for the past five years. Like many readers, I did not understand the […]

Several weeks ago, two Tshirts mocking Jews were discovered being sold at Walmart in Aurora. They were found by a non Jew outraged at how “they crossed the line”. Calls were immediately made to both the B’nai Brith hot line for anti Semitic incidents and the Canadian Friends of Simon Wiesenthal. Days later, Simon Wiesenthal’s […]

The October 27th attack on the Tree of Life synagogue summoned a powerful Muslim response to American anti-Semitism. However, more than raising funds for American Jews, Muslim Americans have the power to counter anti-Semitism rather than just respond to it after the fact. To challenge anti-Semitism head on, American Muslims must: 1. Speak out against […]

There are badly timed product rollouts. And then there are really badly timed product rollouts.October 30, 2018 Daniel Greenfield There are badly timed product rollouts. And then there are really badly timed product rollouts. As the mass shooting at a synagogue in Squirrel Hill has touched off a nationwide debate about anti-Semitism, an ice cream […]

Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi News reports documented in recent years anti-Jewish sermons in Canadian mosques and Islamic literature that contains anti-Semitic messages. The exposure of the younger generation of the Canadian Muslim community to such messages may lead to the development of basic hostility toward the Jewish people, Israel, and Israelis/Zionists (in many […]

The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), alongside many individuals and institutions, condemns the brutal antisemitic mass murder carried out at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh this past Shabbat. As Professor Elie Wiesel warned, antisemitism is not a Jewish parochial issue. Antisemitism begins with Jews, but it never ends […]

Famed economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman suggested that Trump was to blame, at least in part. By Shmuley Boteach October 29, 2018 21:19 Mourners visit a makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue, a day after 11 Jewish worshippers were shot dead in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 28, 2018. (photo credit: CATHAL […]

This past August, I wrote an editorial piece in the Toronto Star calling Canada’s handling of Nazi war criminals a national shame. Despite the fact that over 800 war criminals were found to have snuck into this country by the Deschenes Commission, only 20 strong possibilities were identified for prosecution. Of those, Canada tried to […]

Canadian taxpayer money may be finding its way to Hamas, a listed terrorist group. The Criminal Code of Canada forbids funding terrorism, as well as forbidding the facilitation of those funding terrorism. But last Friday, Minister of International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau announced that Canada would send $50 million in the next two years to the […]