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Holocaust education is becoming mandatory in British Columbia schools—but the teachers’ union is currently denying funds to experts in the field (The Canadian Jewish News)

The reasons behind the decision two weeks ago by a council within the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF), the union representing teachers in the province, to deny funding to a specialist association focused on Holocaust education remain unclear and continue to upset local Jewish groups.

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June 20, 2024

Canada finally lists IRGC as terrorists (The Suburban)

"This action sends a strong message that Canada will use all of the tools at its disposal to combat the terrorist entity of the IRGC," Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said June 19. "Our government will ensure that there is no immunity for Iran's unlawful actions and its support of terrorism....As an immediate consequence of this listing, Canadian financial institutions, such as banks and brokerages, are required to immediately freeze the property of a listed entity. It is a criminal offence for anyone in Canada and Canadians abroad to knowingly deal with property owned or controlled by a terrorist group."

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June 20, 2024

McGill camp ‘revolutionary education’ programme denounced (University World News)

Pro-Palestinian groups launched a youth summer camp programme on “resistance” on McGill University’s main campus on Monday despite strong condemnation from the university, Jewish groups, the city’s mayor, federal politicians and Quebec’s minister of higher education.

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June 20, 2024

“Anti-Zionist” Jews Disgrace Themselves (Jewish Post and News)

Is so-called “anti-Zionism” antisemitic? It was not always so. Prior to the Holocaust and the creation of a Jewish state, many Jews did consider Zionism – a return to the Land of Israel — unworkable, unnecessary, even wrong-headed. In the United States, prior to the Holocaust, Reform Jews in the American Council for Judaism were committed to the proposition that Jews are not a national but a religious group. Jewish socialists and others on the political left, including the influential Jewish Labour Bund, were opposed to what they thought was an ideological “bourgeois” error.

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June 20, 2024

Toronto Police Hate Crime Unit investigating truck playing ‘Islamaphobic’ video (Daily Guardian)

The Toronto Police Hate Crime Unit is investigating after a cube van was seen driving around the city playing an “Islamaphobic” video.

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June 20, 2024

Jewish community protests TDSB “anti-Palestinian racism” motion (True North)

Jewish students, teachers, parents and other community members are sounding the alarm over a Toronto District School Board staff report which would update the board’s anti-racism strategy to include “anti-Palestinian racism.”

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June 20, 2024

Shots fired at Montreal Israeli cuisine eatery on anti-Zionist boycott list (The Jerusalem Post)

Falafel Yoni was recently placed on an anti-Israel boycott list and has been bombarded with what it says are fake, politically motivated reviews.

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June 20, 2024

Canadian Jewish organizations welcome IRGC blacklist (Israel National News)

Jewish organizations in Canada praise the Canadian government’s blacklisting of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps. B'nai Brith Canada: Long overdue.

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June 20, 2024

TDSB trustees vote to adopt 'anti-Palestinian racism' term (CBC Toronto)

Trustees on the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) are set to vote on whether to update its Combating Hate and Racism Student Learning Strategy to include the term 'anti-Palestinian racism' after Palestinian and Jewish community members pushed for the board to name and recognize the discrimination at its schools.

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June 19, 2024