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Man charged for antisemitic threats against Ottawa family doctor

Published December 18, 2023

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Published by: CTV News
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By William Eltherington

Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustee Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth says she was subject to a threatening and antisemitic phone call against her which has led to a 39-year-old man from British Columbia being charged with hate-motivated offences on Monday.

In a press release on Monday morning, the Ottawa Police Service Hate and Crime Bias Unit say they charged a man with several offences for a phone call against a healthcare professional which also included mysoginistic and intimidating threats, but did not name the victim.

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Public health officials detail threats, changed landscape post-pandemic

Published December 11, 2023

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By Stephanie Soucheray

Public health leaders, including state commissioners and directors, and frontline health workers experienced threats to their well-being and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to up to 30% to step down, retire, or leave the field, according to a recent study in Public Health in Practice.

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Column: RFK Jr. gets around to blaming the Jews

Published July 17, 2023

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Published by: Los Angeles Times
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By Michael Hiltzik

It has been well noted that, whatever their starting points, conspiracy theorists sooner or later get around to blaming the Jews.

During a press dinner in New York last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is hoping to convert his portfolio of chuckleheaded conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and all sorts of other things into the semblance of a presidential campaign, went there last week.

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Viral spread: Peter Hotez on the increase of anti-science aggression on social media

Published January 30, 2023

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Published by: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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By Sara Goudarzi

Last November, Twitter announced it will no longer enforce “the COVID-19 misleading information policy.” The platform also allowed previously banned users to rejoin the site. Since then, anti-vaccination messaging has gained renewed energy, distressing scientists and researchers who have been combatting misinformation and disinformation on social media.

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Residents abandoned to a violent occupation during ‘Freedom Convoy’: Report

Published January 30, 2023

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People who live and work in downtown Ottawa endured several weeks of widespread human rights abuse, amidst a climate of threats, fear, sexual harassment and intimidation marked by racism, misogyny, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, and other expressions of hate and intolerance.

While convoy organizers claimed there was diversity among the participants and supporters, and that was true to a limited extent, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of people involved in the protests were white males.

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Anti-vaccine activism melded with US antisemitism – study

Published January 29, 2023

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Published by: The Jerusalem Post
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By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich

Because of rising anti-vaccine activism and some key global policy missteps, more than 70 years of global health gains are in danger of being eroded, according to a physician writing in the peer-reviewed Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal published by the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.

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Antisemitism surges during pandemic

Published January 26, 2023

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Published by: The Whig Standard
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By Geoffrey P. Johnston

“International Holocaust Remembrance Day is important to recognize, because it commemorates arguably the worst-case scenario for a liberal democracy,” declared Daniel Panneton, director of allyship and community engagement at the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies.

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How COVID Truthers Breathed New Life Into an Antisemitic Symbol

Published November 29, 2022

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By Tim Hume

The widespread appropriation by COVID truthers of the yellow star that the Nazis forced Jews to wear is a sign that public displays of antisemitism have become normalised in modern Germany to an unthinkable degree, experts say.

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Anti-vaccine protest in Canada spurs outrage

Published February 1, 2022

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Published by: The Associated Press
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By Rob Gillies

In a scene at odds with Canadians’ reputation for niceness and rule-following, thousands of protesters railing against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions descended on the capital over the weekend, deliberately blocking traffic around Parliament Hill.

Some urinated and parked on the National War Memorial. One danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A number carried signs and flags with swastikas.

In the aftermath of Canada’s biggest pandemic protest to date, the demonstrators have found little sympathy in a country where more than 80% are vaccinated. Many people were outraged by some of the crude behavior.

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