BDS on Canadian campuses: What has been achieved in the months since 2024’s summer of unrest? | The Canadian Jewish News
Mitchell Consky | The Canadian Jewish News | February 10, 2025 In the summer of 2024, a cluster of tents sprang up on the University of Windsor’s central campus, transforming a patch of grass near the main quad into what organizers called ‘The Liberation Zone’. Colourful banners and hand-painted signs bearing slogans like ‘Free Palestine’ […]
McGill cancels talk with Hamas insider turned Israel advocate, citing fears of violence | The Canadian Jewish News
Campus event bookings have also been halted for the remainder of 2024. Mitchell Consky | The Canadian Jewish News | November 26, 2024 McGill University has cancelled an on-campus event planned by Jewish students—and temporarily halted bookings for all extracurricular activities—following threats of violence along with a death threat, as outlined in a message from […]
Ex-Israeli government official says antisemitism in Canada ‘out of control’ | Toronto Sun
Canada’s insistence on funding UNRWA emboldens anti-Israel activists, former government spokesperson says Bryan Passifiume | Toronto Sun | November 4, 2024 OTTAWA — As he attempted to speak with students at the University of Calgary last week, masked anti-Israel activists pounded on the doors shouting “Allahu akbar!” That was the scene that greeted former Israeli […]
Protesters trapped students in a Calgary lecture hall during a talk by Israel’s former spokesperson Eylon Levy | The Canadian Jewish News
Mitchell Consky | The Canadian Jewish News | November 1, 2024 Demonstrators trapped Jewish students in a classroom at the University of Calgary (UofC) on Oct. 31, during a talk with Israel’s former spokesperson Eylon Levy. Students had to evacuate the building through a back door in the middle of the lecture, and Levy was […]
StandWithUs Israel Team hosts exhibition to honor October 7 victims
By Jerusalem Post Staff | Jerusalem Post | September 26, 2024 “When we look into their eyes, we see their stories”: New exhibition honors October 7 victims Graffiti artist Benzi Brofman honors those killed and kidnapped in the Hamas massacre with a moving multimedia exhibition blending art and storytelling. Faces of October 7, a profoundly […]
Jewish students in Toronto challenge anti-Israel hostilities while marking Oct. 7 anniversary | The Canadian Jewish News
Mitchell Consky | The Canadian Jewish News | October 7, 2024 Hope Schrier was initially scared to go to her downtown Toronto campus on Oct. 7, 2024. But she ultimately decided this would be a day to show her strength—if just by showing up. A fourth-year creative industries student at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), Schrier […]
Oct. 7 anniversary is ‘an opportunity’ for education and togetherness, say Jewish students across Canada | The Canadian Jewish News
Mitchell Consky | The Canadian Jewish News | October 6, 2024 As the one-year mark of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel approaches, Jewish student organizations are preparing to commemorate victims and hostages while sparking conversations on university campuses. Concerns about security and counter-protests are also in the mix. At least one school is not […]
‘Nine Months in Hamas Hell’: Hundreds rally in Toronto demanding release of Israeli hostages | National Post
‘Usually, when people say nine months, the connotation is very happy. It’s a symbol of life, of being born. I am just shocked that we even reached this mark,’ says Canadian citizen Yasmine Magal, whose cousin Omer Neutra was abducted on October 7 Ari David Blaff | National Post | July 7, 2024 Hundreds of […]
Jewish cemetery in Montreal desecrated with stone Nazi swastikas | Jerusalem Post
Hampstead mayor Jeremy Levi condemned the Kehal Israel cemetery memorial park’s vandalism, in which the stones traditionally placed on graves out of respect and to mark a visit were misappropriated. Michael Starr | Jerusalem Post | July 3, 2024 A Montreal Jewish cemetery was desecrated over the weekend when pebbles on gravestones were rearranged in […]
University of Toronto is granted an injunction to dismantle a pro-Palestinian encampment that has been on campus for two months | The Canadian Jewish News
Alex Rose & Lila Sarick | July 2, 2024 | The Canadian Jewish News The University of Toronto has received an injunction to dismantle the pro-Palestinian encampment on its property. The 98-page decision from Justice Markus Koehnen of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice said that members of the encampment must take down the tents […]
Canada is no longer the safe haven it promised to Jews – opinion | Jerusalem Post
Over these past few years, antisemitism has been on the rise in Canada, with Jews some of the most likely to be victims of hate crimes. Since October 7, this hatred has come fully to the surface. Noga Shalev | June 5, 2024 | Jerusalem Post We were never supposed to be affected by war. […]
Jewish advocacy groups granted intervener status in the University of Toronto court case to remove encampment | The Canadian Jewish News
Plus the story of a pro-Israel counter-protest being removed. Jonathan Rothman | June 3, 2024 | The Canadian Jewish News A half-dozen Jewish Canadian organizations have been granted intervener status in the court case launched by the University of Toronto to end the pro-Palestinian encampment on its downtown campus. The court’s decision was announced June […]
Young Israelis Coming To Canada On Mission Of Peace | The Canadian Jewish News
The Canadian Jewish News October 31, 2019 By Susan Minuk WordSwap delegates pose for a photo after a team meeting at the StandWithUs Israel office A diverse group of young Israelis who represent the tapestry of Israeli citizens – Jewish, Druze, Muslim, Ethiopian, Bedouin, Orthodox, Reform and LGBTQ – will visit Canada for the first […]
