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Organization headed by anti-Semitic leader violated hate speech guidelines, company says; accounts belonging to some of group’s members still active.

Human rights lawyer Annamie Paul heads into the final hours of the race to succeed Elizabeth May as leader of the Green Party of Canada as the candidate to beat.

During the twelve-month period, from 1 October 2019 to 30 September 2020, there were 331 antisemitic incidents logged by volunteer Community Security Groups (CSGs), official Jewish state roof bodies, and the ECAJ. The total figure consists of 188 attacks and 143 threats.

Antisemitism is a form of racism. It is a key component of extremist ideology espoused by Islamists, the far-right and the far-left alike. Antisemites and their supporters have no place in any political party.

Meliza Haradinaj tweets on Kosovo’s adoption of the International Holocaust Rememberance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.

A primary area where government commitment to combatting antisemitism has been lacking occurs in the context of NGO funding. As documented by NGO Monitor, these governments, as well as the European Union, have given hundreds of millions of dollars over the past twenty years to organizations that engage in and promote blatant antisemitism as defined by IHRA.

With overwhelming support, the German parliament, or Bundestag, passed a resolution last year declaring, “[T]he arguments and methods of the BDS [Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions] Movement are anti-Semitic.” The resolution explained that the tactics of the BDS campaign “inevitably arouse associations with the Nazi slogan ‘Kauft nicht bei Juden!’” (emphasis added)1 – “Don’t buy...

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Two Green party leadership candidates had anti-Semitic, racist and sexist remarks made to them during an online town hall last week. One of the candidates, Annamie Paul, from Toronto, said the party needs to be more pro-active in stamping out discrimination.

Moshe Kantor Database for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, European Jewish Congress, Tel Aviv University Although this report should deal with antisemitism in 2019 we cannot and should not disregard the implications of the coronavirus. It inspired antisemitic expressions that will be addressed here, while taken in proportion with regard to its larger effects.