Activists in Canada are launching a national campaign to demand that Scotiabank immediately divest from Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems.
Recent attacks against Roger Waters are the latest example of false accusations of antisemitism being weaponized to defend Israeli apartheid.
Hassan Diab is a Canadian academic falsely accused of bombing a Paris synagogue in 1980. In April, a French court convicted and sentenced him to life in prison in a trial that can only be described as a mockery of justice.
B’nai Brith Canada claims to be “dedicated to eradicating racism,” but the organization has been a leading instigator of Islamophobic hate for the last 20 years.
The import and sale of Israeli wines across Canada is a microcosm of how apartheid maintains “business as usual.”
Israel’s new far-right government is pushing more and more to criticize the country, but the Palestine solidarity movement cannot sacrifice core values for political expediency.
A recent article purporting to expose antisemitism at the University of Toronto actually serves to highlight the anti-Palestinianism of Canada’s elite institutions.
In 2019, Vancouver rejected the controversial IHRA definition of antisemitism but now a new city council is planning to adopt it despite outcry from the community.
The Canadian group Independent Jewish Voices today is releasing a report titled “Unveiling the Chilly Climate – The Suppression of Speech on Palestine In Canada.” We spoke to researchers Sheryl Nestel and Rowan Gaudet about what they found.
The Israel lobby in Canada says that New Democratic Party support for Palestinian rights is “dangerous for Jews.”