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 […]

One day last week, Bill Epstein got a call from a non Jewish friend in Aurora, a small town just north of Toronto. “Bill, they’re selling Tshirts here at Walmart, that are really offensive,” he said emotionally. Epstein reported the incident to a journalist who immediately made a call to B’nai Birth’s hotline, that reports […]

Toronto (September 27, 2018) – Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) commends the Federal Court of Canada for its decision to uphold the Canadian government’s revocation of Helmut Oberlander’s Canadian citizenship. Oberlander, who served as an interpreter for the Nazis, lost his appeal today after being stripped of his citizenship four times and successfully appealing […]

Intolerance raises its head when political correctness suppresses free speech and people of conscience lack the will or inoculation tools to protect themselves. An organization called Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) is sponsoring another Canadian conference next month where controversial speakers will preach intolerance against women, secular Muslims, LGBTQ, Jews, and other communities. In […]

The High Court of Justice in Asturias last week confirmed that a city council’s policy of boycotting Israel was unconstitutional. The City Council of Castrillon in Northern Spain passed a motion effectively boycotting Israel, Israeli businesses, and companies doing business with Israel in August last year. The Court declared, however, that this policy was in […]

The Palestinian Authority government in Ramallah blames Hamas for controlling the Gaza Strip and exploiting its resources for its own private ends and abusing Palestinian residents, while taking advantage of their difficult situation. Human rights organizations in Israel and around the world repeatedly claim that Israel is still an “occupying power” in the region and […]

Invited to speak at Hebrew Union College’s commencement ceremony, the novelist Michael Chabon took the opportunity not only to attack Zionism—and especially the Jewish residents of Hebron—but also to advocate for intermarriage and to express his dissatisfaction with Judaism itself, which strikes him as a “giant interlocking system of distinctions and divisions.” Nothing, Chabon began […]

The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) was founded in the 1920s and currently is supported by 15 separate church groups as “the relief, development and service arm” of the Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches in the United States and Canada. They are closely related to that other, better known group of Anabaptists, the Amish. According […]

List ranks world countries according to amount of violence against Christians and Jews. North Korea came out top for the 16th year running followed by Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan and Pakistan. Causes were radical Islam and governments using religious persecution to prop up their power, report said. The list was put together by Christian organisation Open […]