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Ontario Investing $500K to Improve Holocaust Education
Ontario's Ministry of Education announced on Monday a $551,000 investment to bolster education about the Holocaust and antisemitism in schools, $150,000 of which will go to FSWC to expand workshops on historical and contemporary antisemitism for elementary and secondary school students.
FSWC Outraged by Canadian Government’s Refusal to Release Names of Nazis Canada Accepted as Immigrants After WWII
FSWC is appalled by the latest decision by Library and Archives Canada (LAC) to conceal the names of Nazi war criminals who immigrated to Canada after the Second World War. Following a series of stakeholder consultations, including with FSWC, LAC has refused to release Part II of Canada’s 1986 Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals, which includes the names of some 900 suspected Nazis and their collaborators.
Anti-Israel Protest at Montreal Synagogue Draws MPs' Condemnation
Liberal MPs Marc Miller, Anthony Housefather and Anna Gainey condemned a protest outside Shaar Hashomayim synagogue in Westmount on Tuesday evening as "disgusting." According to the Montreal police, about 40 anti-Israel protesters were holding a demonstration outside the synagogue.
An ‘OCTOBER7’ Plate Triggers Overhaul of Ontario’s Custom Licence Process
The release and subsequent cancellation of a licence plate with the words "October7," referencing the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in Israel, has reportedly triggered a complete review and overhaul of Ontario's personalized licence plate system.
Arsen Ostrovsky: Why Is Canada Welcoming an Antisemitic, Terror-Supporting UN Official?
"Despite purportedly being an 'independent expert,' even in the pantheon of Jew-hatred at the UN, there has not been another official with such a bottomless CV of unrepentant and unrestrained antisemitism, engagement in Holocaust distortion and whitewashing of terror," writes human rights attorney Arsen Ostrovsky in his piece about UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese in the National Post.
Eighty Years After Thousands of Greek Jews Were Murdered, Thessaloniki’s Holocaust Museum Is Finally Set to Open
The eight-story, octagonal-shaped Holocaust museum has been branded the most important behemoth to be erected in Thessaloniki since the Second World War. It was on this site that thousands of Greek Jews were loaded onto cattle trucks and taken to the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
Germany Arrests Suspected Members of Neo-Nazi Group Plotting Revolt
German police have arrested eight suspected members of a neo-Nazi militant group driven by racist ideology and conspiracy theories who had been training in warfare for the downfall of the modern German state. News of the arrests came amid a 450-strong police operation to dismantle the group, named by prosecutors as "Saechsische Separatisten", or Saxony Separatists, which has the abbreviation SS, the same as the Nazi party's elite militia.
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If you would like to report antisemitism or news of concern to Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, please email advocacy@fswc.ca.
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