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anti-Semitism in Canada
Illustrative: Anti-Semitic hate mail received by the Jewish community center in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, February 16, 2018. (B'nai Brith Canada)
April 26, 2018, 12:07 am
Anti-Semitic incidents rise to record level in Canada
B'nai Brith Canada calls for a 'concerted national effort to ensure that anti-Semitic outbreaks do not become a fact of life'
By JTA
Illustrative: An ultra-Orthodox Jew walks by a Jewish school bus, which has a Yiddish sign on the front, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park on January 1, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
March 7, 2018, 11:56 pm
Montreal residents don yellow badges to protest Hasidic school buses
Jewish groups decry use of emblems as 'horrendous'; demonstrators say badges represent school buses they claim crowd streets
By JTA
Illustrative: Anti-Semitic hate mail received by the Jewish community center in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on Friday, February 16, 2018. (B'nai Brith Canada)
February 21, 2018, 9:22 am
Canadian JCC gets anti-Semitic mail calling to expel Jews
Flier equating Jews with 'Synagogue of Satan' received in Windsor, Ontario, after similar hate mail sent to other centers in December
By JTA and TOI staff
McGill University. (Wikimedia Commons)
February 9, 2018, 7:44 am
McGill U report says BDS actions not anti-Semitic, but sees campus anti-Semitism
Prejudice did not play a role in attempts to bar pro-Israel students from student government, former ombudsman says, drawing criticism from Jewish groups
By JTA
Imam Muhammad bin Musa al Nasr preaching against Jews at the Dar al-Arkam mosque in Montreal, Canada, December 2016. (YouTube screenshot)
October 20, 2017, 1:03 pm
Jewish group: Canada’s anti-Islamophobia measure inhibits free speech
Critics say motion singles out Muslims for special treatment and may make it harder to combat anti-Semitism
By JTA
Imam Sayed al-Ghitawi speaking at the al-Andalous Islamic Center in Montreal in 2014 (Screen capture: YouTube)
September 15, 2017, 11:32 pm
Montreal imam who asked Allah to ‘destroy the Jews’ will not be prosecuted
Jewish community disappointed with decision, says Sayyed Al-Ghitawi's call was 'incitement to genocide'
By JTA
Imam Muhammad bin Musa al Nasr preaching against Jews at the Dar al-Arkam mosque in Montreal, Canada, December 2016. (YouTube screenshot)
July 17, 2017, 11:47 am
Canadian police issue arrest warrant for anti-Semitic imam
In sermon at Montreal mosque, Muhammad bin Musa al Nasr filmed quoting Quran to call for Jews' destruction
By Sue Surkes
A rock with an anti-Semitic epithet and a reference to a Nazi death squad was left inside a package on the doorstep of a Jewish couple in Winnipeg, Canada. (Courtesy of B’nai Brith Canada)
May 11, 2017, 8:24 am
Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada set record in 2016, audit finds
Spike attributed to Holocaust denial on social media, campus anti-Zionism and anti-Israel sentiment in Arabic newspapers
By JTA
Anti-Semitic notes left on Toronto doorways, February 19, 2017. (Screen capture: CTV News)
March 19, 2017, 6:10 am
Jews most targeted group in Toronto hate crimes, police say
Community subjected to vandalism more than any other group, study shows, amid slight uptick in hate crimes across region in 2016
By TOI staff
Gavin McInnes in Tel Aviv, March 2017 (Screen capture:YouTube)
March 16, 2017, 2:35 pm
Ex-Vice founder: Israelis have ‘whiny paranoid fear of Nazis’
Canadian YouTube personality Gavin McInnes claims fact-finding visit to Israel led to him to 'become anti-Semitic'
By TOI staff
Arthur Topham, convicted of online hate crimes, arrives in court for sentencing in British Columbia, Canada on March 13, 2017. (Screen capture: Twitter video)
March 14, 2017, 2:43 pm
No jail time for Canadian man convicted of online anti-Semitism
Arthur Topham barred from internet for 6 months, says he has a duty to alert the public to 'imminent threat of Jewish lobby'
By TOI staff
Anti-Semitic notes left on Toronto doorways, February 19, 2017. (Screen capture: CTV News)
February 23, 2017, 12:35 am
Toronto police step up patrols of Jewish areas after anti-Semitic incident
Swastika notes stuck to doors of condo, mezuzahs vandalized; mayor says residents 'should not have to face hatred on their doorsteps'
By JTA and TOI staff
Igor Sadikov (McGill Arts Undergraduate Society)
February 13, 2017, 11:36 pm
McGill student leader doubles down on ‘punch a Zionist today’ message
Igor Sadikov refuses to retract previous call, says Jews are not 'a legitimate ethnic group'
By JTA
Hymie Sckolnick, now 95, opened Beauty's in Montreal's famously Jewish Mile End neighborhood in 1942 with his wife Freda. (Steve North)
December 1, 2016, 11:54 pm
Everything is fresh at iconic Jewish Montreal eatery frozen in time
Since 1942, when Hymie Sckolnick opened Beauty's luncheonette with wife Freda, only the surrounding neighborhood has changed
By Steve North
Spray-painted swastikas on the doors of the Machzikei Hadas synagogue in Ottawa, November 2016. (Screenshot)
November 25, 2016, 1:34 am
Has the ‘Trump effect’ spilled over the border to Canada?
Jewish community divided on whether perceived rise in hate crimes directly related to US election, as PM denounces anti-Semitic acts north of the border
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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