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 […]

University of Windsor must rescind agreement with encampment protestors

WINDSOR, ON, (July 11, 2024) – Allied Voices for Israel (AVI) and StandWithUs Canada are deeply troubled by the recent agreement between the University of Windsor and the Windsor Liberation Zone Team. We call on the university to rescind its agreement, as it will undoubtedly cause further harm to Jewish students and their allies on […]

‘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 […]

Injunction Against Anti-Israel Encampment Granted to the University of Toronto

TORONTO, ON (July 2, 2024) – StandWithUs Canada is grateful and relieved that the Ontario Superior of Court of Justice has granted the University of Toronto an injunction against the anti-Israel encampment that has been at King’s College Circle since May 2nd. We were proud to serve as an intervenor in this case, along with other Jewish organizations who […]

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 […]

StandWithUs Canada Applies to Join as an Intervenor in Injunction to Remove Illegal UofT Encampment

TORONTO, ON (May 28, 2024) – In response to the injunction filed by the Governing Council of the University of Toronto to remove the anti-Israel encampment, StandWithUs Canada has applied to join the case as an intervenor, prepared to provide relevant and effective evidence in support of the encampment’s termination.   Since the encampment’s inception at King’s College Circle […]

Unlawful Encampments: Canadian Universities Erupting with Unprecedented Bigotry, Hate, and Antisemitism

TORONTO, ON (May 1, 2024) – Last week, Columbia University classes were cancelled after a pro-Palestinian encampment overtook and obstructed operations on its campus. As a result, these new and highly disturbing demonstrations of antisemitism have spread like wildfire across prestigious universities in the U.S. with similar encampments appearing at Yale, NYU, Harvard, and more. […]

StandWithUs Canada and Hillel Atlantic Firmly Reject Discriminatory, BDS-Style Motion Passed by Dalhousie Student Union  

HALIFAX, N.S. (April 3, 2024) – On Friday, March 22nd, 2024, the Dalhousie Student Union (DSU) voted in favour of an immensely discriminatory motion calling for divestment from Israeli businesses, pausing of the school’s Israel Exchange Program for students, and a number of clauses harmful both to Jewish students at Dalhousie and the Jewish community at […]

StandWithUs Canada Firmly Rejects Statement from AMS UBC Slandering Israel

(Toronto, ON – June 27, 2022) – StandWithUs Canada firmly rejects the statement issued by the Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia (AMS UBC) falsely labeling Israel as an “apartheid state”. This distortion of facts is part of a larger global campaign to demonize and delegitimize Israel’s existence and the Jewish people’s […]

StandWithUs Canada Strongly Condemns Violent Antisemitic Vandalism Near York University

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto, ON Tuesday, June 14, 2022 StandWithUs Canada is appalled by the reprehensible antisemitic vandalism that stated “shoot a Jew in the head” discovered near York University last week. The message promoted is not only hateful, but it is dangerous and threatening. We thank York University’s administration for swiftly condemning this despicable […]

Bright pink billboards with ‘bold slogans’ fighting rising antisemitism in Toronto

CBC News Talia Ricci | Mar 08, 2022 A campaign against antisemitism is featuring bright pink billboards on some of Toronto’s main roadways in a bid to grab people’s attention and spark change. Two non-profit organizations, StandWithUs Canada and a U.S.-based group called JewBelong, recently launched the effort to raise awareness about the increasing number […]

JewBelong and StandWithUs launch campaign against antisemitism in Toronto

Jerusalem Post FEBRUARY 17, 2022 “We’re just 75 years since the gas chambers. So, no, a billboard calling out bigotry against Jews isn’t an overreaction” and “Does your church need armed guards? ‘Cause our synagogue does” are among the messages Toronto residents will see hanging from busy freeways and streets from February 28 to March […]

StandWithUs Canada, Hillel UofT & UT Students Supporting Israel (SSI) Condemn Discriminatory Motion

(Toronto, ON – February 16, 2022) – Today the University of Toronto Student Union (UTSU) held a Special General Meeting and voted in support of a motion calling on “the UTSU (to) wholly divest funds & further on forbid investment to firms complicit in the occupation of Palestinian Territory” (sic). More than 240 Jewish students […]

JewBelong and StandWithUs Canada Launch Antisemitism Ad Campaign in Toronto Beginning February 28

International partnership aims to address rising rate of antisemitic crimes in Canada – up 18.3% from 2019 (February 14, 2022) – JewBelong , a nonprofit resource dedicated to fighting antisemitism in partnership with StandWithUs Canada , a nonprofit that combats antisemitism and educates about Israel, are launching a billboard campaign in Toronto to raise awareness […]

Canada’s Recent, Though Rare, Vote Against Israel at UN Sparks Concern in Jewish Circles

Jewish News Syndicate January 3, 2020 BY  SHIRYN GHERMEZIAN The government could have expressed support for a two-state solution in ways that “would have been more effective and avoided adding credibility to the distorted, anti-Israel narrative that adversaries seek to advance within the U.N.,” said Shimon Fogel of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. […]