Simon Wiesenthal Center
“This is about arrogance and irresponsibility, enabling the odious anti-Semitic BDS movement to brand Jews as occupiers in their own land,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The town hall drew rabbis and communal leaders from throughout the San Fernando Valley and West Los Angeles, and highlighted the action plans of LAPD, especially during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
It’s not the first time the request to the local Ukrainian community has been made; it’s also not the first time the statues have been marred.
“Bullying, vandalism and hateful discourse targeting Jewish youth creates an unsafe learning environment and compels children to mask their Jewish identity. This is a reality no Canadian should accept,” said Noah Shack of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
The Canadian Labour Congress used “backdoor methods to ram through” a resolution in support of a boycott of Israel that have left many union representatives “shocked and angry,” said The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center.
In response, members of the campus medical community penned an open letter calling the allegations “defamatory and libelous.” They also claimed that Israel is guilty of “war crimes,” “violent settler-colonialism” and “forced displacement.”
The worst grades went to the networking sites AnonUp, Gab and 8Kun, as well as the video platform Brighteon, all of which received an “F.”
The incident in part of the city’s “vibrant Jewish community” is being treated as a hate crime by police.
A far-right white nationalist party founded in 2017, it unsuccessfully ran three candidates in the 2019 Canadian federal elections.
From the “weaponization” of COVID-19 against Jews to tweets by Iran’s Supreme Leader, there were no shortage of candidates, says Wiesenthal Center associate dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper.
The social-media platform has emerged as a powerful alternative to larger platforms like Twitter and Facebook, which conservatives have criticized for censoring and flagging right-wing content.
Avi Benlolo, former president and CEO of the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, applauded the resolution’s passage.