Jewish tradition instills in us a commitment to protecting the vulnerable and welcoming the stranger.
“Jewish tradition instills in us a commitment to protecting the vulnerable and welcoming the stranger. We have a long history of active engagement in supporting immigrants and refugees and developing our nation’s immigration policy. The Jewish community has enjoyed unprecedented opportunity in this nation, but we remember the struggles new immigrants face. We are united in our belief that we, as a society, share a moral and civic duty to help create the same opportunities for the next generation to share in the American Dream.“
B'nai Brith Canada Makes Bold Recommendations to Combat Antisemitism in Submission to Parliament
OTTAWA – As part of its advocacy at the federal level, B’nai Brith Canada penned a formal submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance (FINA), which is preparing an official report to inform the Federal Government’s Fall 2025 budget.
B’nai Brith Canada is, in addition, calling on the Federal Government to use the Budget Implementation Act (BIA) to eliminate a loophole that temporarily allowed Samidoun, which was listed as a terrorist entity in this country in 2024, to continue operating as a non-profit corporation.
“It is astonishing that, in Canada, an organization does not automatically lose its corporate status when it is declared a terrorist entity,” said Richard Robertson, B’nai Brith Canada’s Director of Research and Advocacy. “The Government must amend the law to prevent a similar scenario from bedeviling us in the future.”
In our fall budget submission, we recommended that the Government:
Make new investments to strengthen Canada’s resilience against violent extremism, including additional funding for its national security agencies;
Ensure that recipients of federal grants are in compliance with Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy: Changing Systems, Transforming Lives, 2024-2028;
Develop a five-year plan to enhance Canadian youths’ understanding of contemporary antisemitism, as outlined in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which Canada adopted in 2019;
Make mandatory the existing antisemitism training approved for federal public servants.
FINA endorsed several of these recommendations, including B’nai Brith Canada’s call for federal funding recipients to abide by the Government’s Anti-Racism Strategy, in a December, 2024 report.
“Canada is experiencing unprecedented levels of antisemitism,” Robertson said. “The coming federal budget must allocate funds to programs that enable our Government to proactively combat hatred and extremism. B’nai Brith Canada looks forward to working with the Government to defend Canadian values, protect Jewish Canadians and secure our communities.”
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Cliquez ici pour le français October 1, 2025 OTTAWA – As part of its advocacy at the federal level, B’nai Brith Canada penned a formal submi
Today, B’nai Brith Canada, together with many influential leaders from across Canada’s multicultural communities, sent an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney.
The letter warns that his government’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September is dangerous and premature. Such a decision destabilizes the Middle East and pushes Israelis and Palestinians further away from a true two-state solution.
Recognizing a Palestinian state under current conditions rewards authoritarianism and terrorism. It contradicts Canadian values of democracy, accountability, and moral clarity.
Furthermore, making such a decision while Parliament is not in session undermines Canadian democracy.
These signatories represent a wide cross-section of leaders from Canada’s diverse communities who share a commitment to Canadian values and to a peaceful and democratic future in the Middle East. Their voices underscore that this issue is not confined to one community but resonates across the country.
Canada should support conditions that foster real negotiations and a lasting peace. Premature recognition will only deepen instability and move peace further out of reach.
Critical Rage Theory: Anti-semitism is the refuge of the STUPID. It is the ultimate old-fashioned excuse for ill-mannered behavior. People who threaten, insult and harm Jews for any reason directly associated with the facts of their religion, ethnicity or culture are incapable of being justified in any other endeavor. It is not JUST RACISM, it is LAZY BIGOTRY. IT IS NOT JUST HATRED, it is INSTITUTIONAL BRAINDEATH! You want to dislike actual mean-spirited individuals who have done bad things, turn on your anti-semitic fellow travelers! They have earned the spite and sarcasm of HISTORY! The Jews didn’t kill Jesus, GOD did! The Jews aren’t part of a massive pan-generational conspiracy to take over the world, the anti-semites are! Holy Shit, the Jews have been chased from geographical areas and countries for thousands of years! 1492! The Jews were banished from Great Britain and Spain ! And why? Because of jealousy, superstition, stupidity, ignorance and the fucking New Testament of the Christian cult, which only exists because the Jews themselves didn’t STAMP IT OUT. ISRAEL EXISTS because of anti-semitism. The Palestinians have been afflicted with the Israeli political machine’s inability to grow up after 70 years of being told by anti-semitic ARABS on a daily basis THAT THEY MUST BE DRIVEN FROM EXISTENCE! JEWISH extinction is a mantra among the idiots who don’t realize that there really is nothing special about the Jews. They are just humans. That’s all they are. They are capable of bigotry. They are capable of ignorance. Their cutural bias and religious insanity is just as silly and unnecessary as anybody else’s. There is not a single body of morons who use the Jews as historical and societal scapegoats that do not have contemporaries and ancestors that are GUILTY of the same things they blame the Jews for. Remember, dipshits, the Nazis rounded up and killed people WHO DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THEY WERE JEWS until someone told them they were!
