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anti-Semitism in Canada
The Toronto skyline, 2015. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
November 14, 2018, 3:28 pm
Attack on Jewish teens in Toronto investigated as hate crime
Police say group made derogatory comments about the boys’ religion before punching and kicking two of them
By JTA
The University of Winnipeg (CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia, KrazyTea)
October 26, 2018, 10:57 am
Canadian university admits anti-Semitic comments made at faculty-sponsored event
University of Winnipeg says it ‘regrets’ statements heard at talk on US embassy move, which report says included accusing Israel of ‘genocide’
By JTA
The Leo Baeck School in Toronto was vandalized with pro-Hamas graffiti in this image from October 8 2018 ( Courtesy /B'Nai Brith Canada)
October 10, 2018, 5:46 am
Jewish day school in Toronto vandalized with graffiti supporting Hamas
‘Free Palestine,’ ‘Long Live Palestine’ and ‘Long Life to the Hamas’ scrawled on signs in front of the Leo Baeck Day School
By JTA
William Shatner attends night one of the Television Academy's 2018 Creative Arts Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP)
October 10, 2018, 4:14 am
William Shatner experienced ‘a great deal of anti-Semitism’ growing up
Star Trek actor says he was often in fights as a kid in Montreal because he was Jewish, and the discrimination continued at McGill University
By JTA
Dimitri Lascaris speaks at a rally in June 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)
September 9, 2018, 10:30 pm
Trudeau slams activist who suggested Jewish MPs more loyal to Israel than Canada
Dimitri Lascaris’s comments calling on pair of lawmakers to condemn actions of B’nai Brith supporters lambasted as ‘vile and anti-Semitic smears’
By TOI staff
Naim Ateek (Screen capture: YouTube)
April 29, 2018, 11:08 pm
Pro-Palestinian charity in Canada accused of promoting ‘anti-Semitic’ book
B’nai Brith calls for revocation of tax exemption for group run by cleric Naim Ateek over his tome’s ‘falsehoods’
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)
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
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