CIJR | Canadian Institute for Jewish Research

L'institut Canadien de Recherches sur le Judaisme

Daily Briefing: ANTONY BLINKEN TALKS ISRAEL AND HAMAS

Daily Briefing: CANADA’S PM TRUDEAU ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION AFTER REPLACEMENT CHOSEN

TRUDEAU'S BETRAYAL OF JEWS

Daily Briefing: CAN ISRAEL DESTROY IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM?

Hillel Neuer addresses students at CIJR in Montreal

Executive director of UN Watch

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WHAT THEY DID, AND WHAT WE MUST REMEMBER

BOOK REVIEW: THE DEATH MARCHES: THE FINAL PHASE OF NAZIGENOCIDE Timothy Snyder Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2011 In spring 1945, as battle-hardened American and British soldiers entered Germany, they came upon shocking evidence of mass murder. The sight of the living skeletons and mounds of bodies at Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen fills […]

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WEDNESDAY’S “NEWS IN REVIEW” ROUND-UP— SPECIAL KRISTALLNACHT EDITION

Yesterday, CIJR published UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer’s National Post article, “Letting An Anti-Semitic Truther Speak Is A Disgrace To McGill,” describing Montreal-based McGill University’s decision to offer a platform to Richard Falk, thereby legitimating his explicit anti-Semitism. Of the many emotions stirred by this gross violation of ethical conduct, justified under the banner […]

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LIBYA AND THE UN: ‘TYRANT’S LAST REFUGE,’ OR ‘RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT?”

UN OFFERS A TYRANT’S LAST REFUGE Rex Murphy National Post, February 26, 2011 It would take the dark menacing imagination of Flann O’Brien, the fabulator of the absurd terrible world of his greatest novel, The Third Policeman, to be capable of equal encounter with some of the collateral absurdities that touch […]

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THE WORLD’S BLIND EYE…

‘ISRAEL HAS SHOWN GENUINE DESIRE TO RENEW NEGOTIATIONS’ Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, February 22, 2011 [Israeli] Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman went on the offensive at the annual EU-Israel Association Council meeting in Brussels… During the meeting, held annually between the Israeli foreign minister and his EU counterparts, Lieberman said that since […]

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THE ARAB REVOLUTION: DESTINATION ‘FREEDOM’, OR A LONG & WINDING ROAD TO TEHRAN?

HOW THE ARABS TURNED SHAME INTO LIBERTY Fouad Ajami NY Times, February 26, 2011 Perhaps this Arab Revolution of 2011 had a scent for the geography of grief and cruelty. It erupted in Tunisia, made its way eastward to Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain, then doubled back to Libya. In Tunisia and […]

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TRUTH & FALSEHOOD: FROM RABIN’S LEGACY TO “JERUSALEM, ISRAEL”, TO MCGILL U. IN CANADA

On Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at 5:00pm a candle lighting ceremony will take place at Israeli President Shimon Peres’ residence in Jerusalem, ushering in the 16th Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day. An official memorial service for Lea and Yitzhak Rabin, z”l, will be held Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at 3:00pm at Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem. […]

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COMBATTING THE DELEGITIMATION OF ISRAEL, VI

The Canadian Institute for Jewish Research sincerely thanks all those, presenters and audience members, who participated in yesterday’s (Sunday, November 6, 2011) remarkable and highly successful International Conference, “Combatting the Delegitimation of Israel.” The event brought together nine respected academics from a variety of fields to analyze, and devise strategies to overcome, the global […]

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PART I ‘ISRAELI APARTHEID’ ROADSHOW COMES TO TOWN: A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF ANTISEMITIC DELEGITIMATION

WE ALL MUST CONDEMN ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK Editorial Prince Arthur Herald, March 3, 2011 This March, cities and university campuses around the world will take part in the 7th annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW)—a 13 day global event (in contrast to its name) aimed at attacking the state of Israel and […]

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PART II ‘ISRAELI APARTHEID’ ROADSHOW COMES TO TOWN: A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF ANTISEMITIC DELEGITIMATION

ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK: POLITICAL THEATER AT ITS WORST Phyllis Chesler FrontPage Blog, March 8, 2011 The mob roars its hoarse, ear-splitting chants. “Death to the Jews,” “Death to Zionism,” “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free.” Keffiyas abound: On heads, over faces, around shoulders. The Arab “street” is […]

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EGYPT’S METAMORPHOSIS: CHAOS OR CALIPHATE?

STILL FIGHTING IN CAIRO Mohamed El Dashan Foreign Policy, March 7, 2011 While the world turns its attention to the riveting drama in Libya…the revolution next door in Egypt is entering a new phase—one that is just as exhilarating and consequential as the protests that drove President Hosni Mubarak from power […]

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THOSE WHO HAVE FOUGHT— AND PERISHED—UNDERSTOOD: THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE NOT ‘ROOTLESS’!

NEVER FORGOTTEN Kathryn Blaze Carlson National Post, March 8, 2011 It has been 1,717 days since Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was captured by Hamas, and Karnit Goldwasser is counting. Ms. Goldwasser—the stalwart widow whose two-year fight for the release of her kidnapped husband, Ehud, ended only when his body was returned […]

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DELEGITIMATING ISRAEL, V: DELEGITIMIZING THE DELEGITIMIZERS: ISRAEL AS A JEWISH STATE & STRATEGIC ASSET

In anticipation of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research’s upcoming Sunday, 6 November 2011 International Conference, “Combatting the Delegitimation of Israel,” this week’s Daily Briefings will focus on the global effort to demonize the lone democracy in the Middle East. The series will provide insight into the pervasive “soft war” being waged against the Jewish […]