Ellin Bessner

A new @StatCan_eng report on hate crimes handled by Canadian police–counted 4,777 total, including 900 hate crimes against Jews in 2023—contains some disturbing findings: ✖️ 72 % don't get solved, though police already know more than half of the alleged suspects, who are repeat https://t.co/EanHrLhzFq

For decades, Canada has held more than 1 m. pages of Nazi war-criminal investigation files secret. But prof. Jared McBride at @UCLA and his students have found more than 1,000 historic @rcmpgrcpolice war crimes pages—all freely available online. They appear to match the https://t.co/jOOCmgFRNW

How Canadians living in Israel could impact this month's🇨🇦#Election2025 results back home.–thanks to Elliot Gluck, a Vancouver native now interning in Tel Aviv, with his new, non-partisan website https://t.co/Fb0ApeVxbK offering to help expats in 🇮🇱navigate the @ElectionsCan_E https://t.co/J0QDWoTvwk

Some Canadian Jewish business owners "deeply, deeply concerned" about U.S. trade war, with possible April 3 new auto tariffs on Made in 🇨🇦 cars. With 128,000 autoworkers, mostly in Ontario, big box furniture&appliance chain @Teppermans fears autoworker layoffs will mean budget https://t.co/ZKhp3oMG7M

RT @ABJewishNews: Is it safe to return to northern Israel’s border towns? Canadians are divided - https://t.co/0nJ7JxM688 https://t.co/Ase…

Why Canada's Conservative leader @PierrePoilievre will cancel funding for the UN's Palestinian refugee agency @UNRWA which has been linked to H*m*s' Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis. Plus jail antisemitic rioters here in Canada, beef up security for the Jewish community, keep suspects https://t.co/NDVhay9kBF

Some disturbing & clearly antisemitic incidents happened at Toronto's #AlQudsDay protest Sunday. About 2,000 anti-Israel protesters turned up. Calls to ban these events in cities across Canada were especially loud this year, but civic leaders were silent. While @TorontoPolice had https://t.co/EqboDTWFl3

Some disturbing images from the Toronto Al-Quds anti-Israel protest rally Sunday. About 2,000 people called for Free Palestine, demonized Israel, displayed flags supporting Iran’s Ayatollah, chanted From The River to the Sea. A fee people screamed “Go Back To Europe”. About 25 https://t.co/xPbDl94cSF

The Crown prosecutor has already filed a motion to appeal a decision by an Ontario justice of the peace on Monday March 17 to release on bail the 32-year old suspect who Toronto police charged with 29 counts in an alleged terrorism-related spree of attacks and threats against the https://t.co/0bGL66xuAT

Hear why, since Oct. 7, hundreds of Jewish lawyers in Canada (non-Jewish ones, too) are working pro-bono to help over 550 Canadian victims of antisemitism. Today @TheCJN Daily we discuss the high-profile cases vs. @OPSEU, @TorontoMet U @UWindsor @tdsb & Cdn. families of Hamas https://t.co/noaBejUC2J

Canada holds a national #antisemitism forum Thursday to better protect Jewish Canadians from “a troubling rise in antisemitic incidents, threats, and hate crimes.” It’s expected to bring together police, prosecutors, politicians and Jewish leaders. The timing has prompted https://t.co/LJicB7lqGi

In the #OntarioElection 2025, amidst debates over Trump tariffs & inflation, Jewish topics aren’t getting much attention: which party will best protect synagogues/schools from vandalism and protests? Which would tackle anti-Zionism in public schools? Which best to address campus https://t.co/YTjLp2jrw0

Why Ontario's Solicitor General has thrown cold water of the idea of "bubble zones" to protect Jewish synagogues, schools (and other faith-based places of worship) from violent protests: they don't work and are likely unconstitutional, @TeamKerzner told a virtual election debate.

Why the efforts to declassify Canada's secret records on approx. 900-2,000 Nazi war criminals let in after WW2, are now before the Federal Court. Jewish human rights group @bnaibrithcanada has officially appealed @LibraryArchives recent refusal to release the remaining pages of a https://t.co/lTdxI8gxoN