Alouettes player promotes Holocaust denial on Twitter
MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes were not immediately responding to complaints about content on a player’s Twitter account that included retweets of material that denies the Holocaust and compares the Islamic State to Israel’s Mossad.
Why Netanyahu’s victory should please Canadian Jews
Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning re-election victory in last month’s Israeli elections was the best result that all western nations, including Canada, could have hoped for.
Sure, there are some obvious reasons why I make this statement.
Why Netanyahu’s victory should please Canadian Jews
Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning re-election victory in last month’s Israeli elections was the best result that all western nations, including Canada, could have hoped for.
Sure, there are some obvious reasons why I make this statement.
Jewish friends group supports Yezidi cause in Canada
TORONTO — It’s fair to say that until news agencies started taking the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) seriously, few people had heard of the Yezidi people. Or of the Chaldeans, the Assyrians or the Syriac, for that matter.
But as far as Mirza Ismail is concerned, they all share pretty much the same fate: they are non-Muslim minorities – considered infidels – living in Syria and Iraq, facing discrimination, forced conversion, sex slavery, mass rape and even death.
OPINION: Election results disappointing, but status quo not viable
In a few days, Jewish families will gather around their seder tables to teach their children about the pain of enslavement and the joy of freedom. As Jews, we prayed and worked toward the day when we could be truly free and live in peace and security in our own homeland. Now that we have achieved this prized goal, we have a responsibility to apply our own hard learned lessons to everyone, not just our fellow Jews.
Jewish groups testify in support of Bill C-51
The heads of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), B’nai Brith Canada and the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) all travelled to Ottawa last week to testify in support of the federal government’s controversial new anti-terror law, Bill C-51.
Q&A Ron Prosor: envoy walks UN halls ‘tall and proud’
Ron Prosor serves as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. Before that, he was Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom. Earlier this month, he was in Toronto as a guest of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and UJA Federation of Greater Toronto to provide briefings to Jewish community leaders as well as members of the media. He sat down to talk to The CJN.
Liberal democracy cannot be imposed from outside
Why is it that just about everything the United States tries in the Middle East turns to dust?
With the region – from Libya in North Africa to Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula – undergoing cataclysmic upheavals, can the United States, over the past decade or even longer, point to one policy achievement?
ISIS doesn’t threaten Israel today, but it could in the future
The impact on Israeli security of the civil war in Syria that’s been raging since 2011, even with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) involved, has so far been neutral to net-positive.
The carnage in Syria has been horrifying, but from a purely Israeli perspective, the intensity of the civil war has meant that since 2011, both Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces and Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters into the mix on Assad’s side, have had their hands full with ISIS.
Week of Feb. 26, 2015
Schabas’ defence appalling
As a litigator with more than 38 years of experience, I am appalled at William Schabas’ defence on the issue of bias (“William Schabas: No evidence of bias against Israel,” Feb. 12).
