Group says Postmedia editorial contained ‘libellous attack’

Postmedia Network says it’s looking into complaints by Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) that an editorial published Aug. 24 in the Vancouver Sun, one of the newspapers owned by the media giant, contained what IJV is calling a “libellous attack” on the group. Postmedia’s senior vice-president of content Gerry Nott said he and the company’s lawyers […]

Israeli Arab MK criticized for pro-BDS speaking tour

Following his anti-Israel lecture at the World Social Forum in Montreal last week, an event that was widely denounced as anti-Semitic, Israeli-Arab member of Knesset Basel Ghattas continued to spread his views throughout Ontario, ending his tour in Toronto on Aug. 18. According to B’nai Brith Canada, whose representatives were on hand in Montreal to […]

Palestinian couple lose jobs after assisting Jews

Yochai Damari, the head of the Har Hebron Regional Council, in a Facebook post Sunday called on the Defence Ministry to procure work permits in Israel for the couple, who are medical professionals

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