David Lazarus
By David Lazarus
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Incidents In Canada Rise To Record Number For 3rd Straight Year
MONTREAL (JTA) — Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada rose to a record high for the third consecutive year, according to an annual audit by B’nai Brith Canada released Monday. The audit showed 2,041 anti-Semitic incidents recorded last year in Canada – 16.5 percent more than the 1,752 incidents in 2017. “To put that in stark perspective,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Charity In Canada Audited For Giving Donor Money To IDF-Linked Projects
MONTREAL (JTA)— Canada’s largest and oldest Jewish charity, the Jewish National Fund of Canada, is downplaying news that it was audited by Canadian tax authorities for using donor money to fund projects linked to the IDF. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Jan. 4 that the audit was carried out by the Canada Revenue Agency…
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Fast Forward Montreal’s First Jewish Mayor To Serve 1 Year In Prison For Fraud
MONTREAL (JTA) — Montreal’s first Jewish mayor was handed a one-year prison term and two years probation following his January conviction on eight counts of corruption, breach of trust, and fraud. “I can guarantee you and my family that I will be a better person when I come out,” Michael Applebaum said in provincial court…
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Fast Forward ‘Punch A Zionist’ Tweeter Quits McGill Student Government
MONTREAL (JTA) — The McGill University student who tweeted “punch a Zionist today” gave up his last remaining student government title, citing “personal reasons related to mental health.” Igor Sadikov, 22, a political science major at the Montreal school, resigned last week from the Student Society legislative council. Sadikov, who had described his Feb. 6 Twitter…
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Fast Forward Montreal Police Investigate Hate-Filled Sermon At Mosque — Again
MONTREAL (JTA) — Police have been asked for the second time in three weeks to investigate a newly-found video hate sermon against Jews coming from the same local mosque. Only this time the imam is different. The video, released online Tuesday by the Middle East Media Research Institute, shows Sheikh Wael Al-Ghitawi in November, 2014, delivering a…
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Breaking News ‘Punch A Zionist’ Tweeter Quits McGill Student Government
MONTREAL (JTA) — Igor Sadikov, the student politician who called on his Twitter followers to “punch a Zionist today,” stepped down as a director of McGill University’s student government one day after the university’s Arts Undergraduate Society voted against impeaching him. The 22-year-old political science student blamed “interference” by the McGill administration, he said in a statement Thursday…
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Fast Forward McGill Students Vote 22-16 Against Ousting ‘Punch A ZIonist’ Councilmember
MONTREAL (JTA) — McGill University’s Arts Undergraduate Society voted not to impeach Igor Sadikov for his “’punch a Zionist today” tweet earlier this month. On Wednesday evening, the society voted 22-16 with seven abstentions on the fate of Sadikov, also a member of the student legislative council at the Montreal university. Since his original post…
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Breaking News Montreal Imam Says ‘Destroy The Accursed Jews’ In Viral Video
MONTREAL (JTA) — Montreal police are investigating a three-year-old video that shows an imam at a local mosque calling on Allah to “destroy the accursed Jews” and to kill them “one by one.” The video, which went viral after being released Feb. 8 onto social media, appeared less than three weeks after six Muslim worshippers…
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