[{"date": "1996-05-02", "year": "1996", "session": "35-2", "parliament": "35", "speaker": "Ron Ghitter", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… le proportions would have occurred, since children were gathered at a daycare facility just a few steps away. I have reflected on this situation at great length, honourable senators, in a determination to arrive at what message this brings to us. We must not be quick to jump to the conclusion that it was the act of an anti-semitic individual who was desirous of taking his hatred and warped viewpoint to a violent conclusion. Nor should we jump to the conclusion that it was the act of a Middle Eastern terrorist who was endeavouring to exhibit his antagonism toward Israel. It is to be hoped that we will discover the perpetrator and his motives as …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 640, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/352/debates/014db_1996-05-02-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "alarm at the pipe bomb; cautions against assuming an anti-semitic motive", "trigger": "a pipe bomb delivered to the Jewish Centre in Calgary, addressed to the Jewish National Fund, which injured a secretary", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the bigoted remarks of the Whip of the Reform Party", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "1997-11-25", "year": "1997", "session": "36-1", "parliament": "36", "speaker": "Orville H. Phillips", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": [": Honourable senators, I rise to thank Senator Gigantès for his intervention and his support of the principle of the motion. I also appreciate his warning and hope that anti-Semitism will not become an issue during the hearings. If it does, I assure Senator Gigantès that I will be phoning him for advice. Again, I thank him for his interest in this motion and all honourable senators who have expressed support."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 71, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/021db_1997-11-25-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "hopes anti-Semitism will not become an issue in the hearings", "trigger": "Senator Phillips's motion on the Canadian War Museum", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "1997-11-25", "year": "1997", "session": "36-1", "parliament": "36", "speaker": "Philippe Deane Gigantès", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… Technology will take good care in proposing structures for governing this institution that will avoid its being in any way sectarian and in any way exclusive to the interests or the desires of any one group. I hope, too, that during this debate it will be possible to dispel some ugly allegations that our veterans are antisemitic because they do not want a holocaust exhibit in the war museum. I believe that the war museum would have much less relevance if it did not have the holocaust exhibit. (1600) I had the honour to serve in Britain's Royal Navy in World War II, and we fought against conquest, not just a conquest to change a border. This w …", "… inst such despicable tyranny. It explains World War II to the current and future generations better than the absence of a holocaust exhibit. I want the structure of the museum to be such that no one will say such an exhibit must be excluded, and that this is only for the veterans. I do not think the veterans are being anti-Semitic. I think they are saying, \"We must have a place that is only our own.\" I maintain that the veterans are made even more glorious because the holocaust exhibit shows what it was they were fighting against. They were truly the guys in the white hats."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 378, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/021db_1997-11-25-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "reputation"], "response": ["commemoration", "education"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "rejects the allegation that veterans are antisemitic over the museum exhibit", "trigger": "Senator Phillips's motion on the governance and independence of the Canadian War Museum", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "1998-02-10", "year": "1998", "session": "36-1", "parliament": "36", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… across North America. This canvas was still not broad enough for Joe; not broad enough for his ideas or his energy. While post-World War I in the 1920s was booming, the working conditions in Toronto were simply appalling. By 1926, Joe came to believe that communism as a means of eradicating discrimination, eradicating anti-Semitism, encouraging Jewish culture, but above all alleviating the working conditions, was the answer. He began to work as a union organizer, rising to vice-president of the International Hatters' Union, and within a short period J.B. was a key organizer behind just about every industrial union in Canada. Meanwhile, he became …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 504, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/036db_1998-02-10-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "recounts Salsberg's hope of eradicating anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the death of J.B. (Joe) Salsberg, reported in the Toronto Star", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "1998-03-31", "year": "1998", "session": "36-1", "parliament": "36", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… lics can bear even stronger witness respecting that papacy's silence. Honourable senators, while Popes may be \"infallible,\" they are not perfect. Yet no one can doubt the leadership the present Pope, Pope John Paul II, has taken in reconciling the role of the church and the responsibility for the roots and exercise of anti-Semitism. He was the first pope since the founder of the papacy, St. Peter himself, to visit a synagogue. He was the first pope to visit a death camp, Auschwitz, located just 35 miles from his Polish birthplace. He followed Pope John XXIII's footsteps, who in 1959 ordered the first changes to Catholic liturgy to start to cleanse it of anti-Semitism, and the Second Vatican Council in 1962 when anti-Semitism and culpability were first denounced in Nostra Aetate . In 1988, Pope John II stated: I repeat again with you, the strongest condemnation of anti-Semitism and racism, which are opposed to the principles of Christianity. Pope John Paul II was the first pope to establish relations between the Vatican and Israel and the first pope to condemn anti-Semitism both repeatedly and forcefully. In his recent book, entitled Crossing the Threshold of Hope, the Pope wrote with sensitivity and insight of the necessity for the reformation of relationships between Jews and the church. It is clear from a reading of a voluminous biography, entitled Man of the Century , that this Polis …", "… istorical, psychological and moral. Honourable senators, we must note, of course, the strong statements of accountability by the bishops of France and Germany, the latter who declared in 1995 that Christians had not carried out \"the required resistance\" to the Holocaust and now held \"a special responsibility to oppose anti-Semitism.\" Can we await a statement by the Conference of Bishops in Canada as to what role the church in Canada had prior to, during and following World War II in the documented unhappy attitudes of some of their priests and some of their adherents? May the newly appointed prince of the church in Toronto, His Eminence Cardinal …", "… oom to go further in the future, as even its adherents recommend, correcting the egregious errors of the past, perhaps moving from a \" mea culpa \" to a \" mea maxima culpa .\" Whether the Vatican document's carefully delineated distinction between centuries of \"anti-Judaism\" as a religious teaching and the Nazi brand of anti-Semitism leading to the extinction, which the Vatican document says has \"its roots outside of Christianity,\" is a distinction without a difference remains for theologians and historians to explore. What is the nature of the gulf separating these two friendless schools of ideas? Which school of ideas occupies which of St. Augus …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2279, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/051db_1998-03-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy"], "act_why": "reviews the Church's record and the Shoah with evident grief", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "the Vatican document 'We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah', issued two weeks earlier in Rome", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the Roman Catholic Church, the papacy, the Vatican", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "1998-04-30", "year": "1998", "session": "36-1", "parliament": "36", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… g chemical scientist in England and then on to the world stage as the first head of a state in the land known as Israel in 3,000 years? His secret lies buried in his compelling autobiography entitled Trial and Error . As an impoverished youth in Czarist Russia, horrified by pogroms, eye witness to virulent and violent anti-Semitism, Chaim Weizmann became an ardent Zionist. He wrote: ... from the beginning, I looked upon Zionism as a force for life in creativity residing in the Jewish masses... It was not simply the blind need of an exiled people for a home. ... If the Jewish people survived, it was not a biological accident but because they woul …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1129, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/056db_1998-04-30-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "recalls Weizmann as eyewitness to violent anti-Semitism", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the fiftieth anniversary of the rebirth of the State of Israel", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "1998-05-14", "year": "1998", "session": "36-1", "parliament": "36", "speaker": "Marcel Prud'homme", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… sour debate - an unhappy, unfortunate debate - where we were close to pitting Canadians against Canadians. Senator Chalifoux was listening closely to these points of view expressed by me. People were accusing each other of horrible crimes; others of not understanding. Legionnaires were very sad to be accused of being anti-Semitic because it seemed that they were objecting to having a special gallery commemorating the holocaust within the War Museum. (1550) All military people across Canada felt that these were two completely separate exhibits which could stand on their own feet. They were very concerned that if the two were mixed, one would ta …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1076, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/062db_1998-05-14-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "reputation"], "response": ["commemoration"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "says legionnaires were unfairly accused of being anti-Semitic", "trigger": "the Senate committee's inquiry and resolution on the Canadian War Museum and the proposed Holocaust gallery", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "1999-03-23", "year": "1999", "session": "36-1", "parliament": "36", "speaker": "Erminie J. Cohen", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… lates not only the victim, but all members of the group, and exposes them to vilification and an increased risk of physical harm. Statistics suggest that hate crimes have been on the rise in recent years. In his timely book, Web of Hate , Warren Kinsella extends our understanding of such crimes. B'nai Brith's audit of anti-Semitic activity indicates that such acts have increased 200 per cent in the last 10 years. In the City of Toronto, police reports indicate that hate crimes rose by 22 per cent in 1998 over the previous year. The propagation of hate is targeted especially at youth, and this could have disturbing effects if not effectively cou …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 690, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/123db_1999-03-23-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "police and security"], "act_why": "cites a 200 per cent rise in anti-Semitic acts, urges curbs on hate propaganda", "trigger": "March 21, the day designated to highlight racial discrimination", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "the far right who deny that the Holocaust occurred; the present government, which has done much less to promote multiculturalism", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "1999-04-13", "year": "1999", "session": "36-1", "parliament": "36", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ranch of the Grafstein family moved to the then more hospitable climes of southern Poland, where my great great grandfather eventually settled in a small crossroads county town called Wasniow, located 100 kilometres from the birthplace of Pope John II. There the family flourished for almost 100 years, despite periodic anti-Semitic eruptions. At the turn of the century, my aunt, a woman of some musical talent which she passed on to her children, came to Canada and then settled in New York. She was followed by an energetic uncle who, riled at the Orthodox strictures of his father and elder brother, broke loose from the family and found his way to …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 674, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/361/debates/126db_1999-04-13-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "recounts his family's destruction amid periodic anti-Semitic eruptions", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "the day set aside around the world to commemorate the Holocaust, the Shoah", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2000-03-28", "year": "2000", "session": "36-2", "parliament": "36", "speaker": "Jack Austin", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… hem, the memorial to the lost lives of the Holocaust, will forever be indelible images of reconciliation and hope. A clearly pained and heartfelt Pope expressed himself with these memorable words: I assure the Jewish people that the Catholic Church...is deeply saddened by the hatred acts of persecution and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews by Christians at any time and any place. Pope John Paul II called for a new understanding and sense of affiliation between Christians and Jews. He said he regarded the Jews as \"the elder brother\" of Christians since both had sprung from the traditions of Abraham and Moses. In his own words he …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 369, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/362/debates/039db_2000-03-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired", "domestic"], "response": ["solidarity", "commemoration"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy"], "act_why": "endorses the quoted papal apology for displays of anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Pope John Paul II's visit to Israel, his prayer at the Western Wall and his visit to Yad Vashem", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2000-05-02", "year": "2000", "session": "36-2", "parliament": "36", "speaker": "Erminie J. Cohen", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… position to racism and hatred. It is sad to say the world has not learned sufficiently well the tragic lessons of the Holocaust. There is much inhumanity around us: the atrocities in Bosnia; the slaughter of thousands of people in Rwanda, the Sudan and now Zimbabwe; and the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. The rise of anti-Semitism and the insidious growth of hate groups are recent examples that underscore the deep-seated bigotry that begets hatred and violence. Today, Yom Hashoah serves as a reminder of the millions who died in the death camps. It is our collective duty, as citizens of the world, to continue to educate and to speak out against …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 327, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/362/debates/050db_2000-05-02-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["education", "commemoration"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "warns of the rise of anti-Semitism on Holocaust Memorial Day", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2001-03-15", "year": "2001", "session": "37-1", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… with the exception perhaps of the late Paul Martin, Sr., and Pierre Trudeau. He was a Sir John A. Macdonald Conservative who dreamed great dreams of bringing Canada together from sea to sea to sea by massive development projects on the ground and for the mind. Roy owned great loves and harboured great hates. He hated anti-Semitism, and he abhorred racism and those who were soft on bringing war criminals to justice. He was a restless and rude seeker of the truth with whomever he encountered. Roy refused senior positions in government, including a Senate seat. After a long career as a broadcaster and catalyst, he joined the CRTC as vice-chairman. …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 682, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/016db_2001-03-15-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "praises Faibish for hating anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the death of Roy Faibish in London the previous week", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2001-03-22", "year": "2001", "session": "37-1", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Noël A. Kinsella", "role": "Deputy Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… in the other place, Minister Fry made a certain allegation concerning the community of Prince George, British Columbia. The allegation was that in that community crosses were burning — a clear reference to the abhorrent practice in some parts of that great republic to the south of the Ku Klux Clan and other racist and anti-Semitic organizations burning crosses. This has been denied by the RCMP and by the chief magistrate of that community. Could the minister advise this house whether the Minister of State for Multiculturalism was accurate in her statement? Is it the position of the Government of Canada that it is okay to be making these kinds o …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 176, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/019db_2001-03-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "challenges the minister's cross-burning accusation as denied and unfounded", "trigger": "the Minister of State for Multiculturalism's allegation in the other place that crosses were burning in Prince George, British Columbia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2001-04-25", "year": "2001", "session": "37-1", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ah may yet enable memory to play its necessary part in the process of shaping the future in which the unspeakable inequity of the Shoah will never again be possible. Repentance, honourable senators, is more than an individual act. All depends on future conduct. Each of us must ask ourselves whether the deadly virus of anti-Semitism continues to seep through the Catechism —"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 605, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/028db_2001-04-25-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy"], "act_why": "commemorates the Shoah, asks whether anti-Semitism still seeps through the Catechism", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "the week commemorating the Shoah", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution", "religious or ethnic community"], "target_detail": "the Church's role in the ongoing systemic anti-Semitism; the Christian townspeople of Jedwabne who massacred their Jewish neighbours", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2001-04-26", "year": "2001", "session": "37-1", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ed by James Carroll, a respected Catholic scholar and former priest. This book chronicles the history of the Church and the Jews through the ages. Let me share some of his conclusions. Repentance is more than an individual act. All depends on future conduct. So each of us must ask ourselves whether the deadly virus of anti-Semitism continues to seep through the catechism, the teachings of the Church, through the Mass, to the masses. Is a \"mea culpa\", even \"mea maxima culpa,\" enough? Is the lesson of the Shoah yet to be learned or even taught? And why, honourable senators, must we still ask ourselves these questions 50 years later? Does recent hi …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 186, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/029db_2001-04-26-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy", "academics"], "act_why": "asks whether the deadly virus of anti-Semitism persists in Church teaching", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "the week commemorating the Shoah", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the catechism, the teachings of the Church", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2001-05-02", "year": "2001", "session": "37-1", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Noël A. Kinsella", "role": "Deputy Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… chnology, to encourage them, thus the Government of Canada, to put some resources into new, contemporary, software-engineered means to deal with racism on the Internet? Any of us can access this type of material by going on the Net. Honourable senators, the number of hate sites, particularly racist hate sites, such as anti-Semitic sites, has grown in the last three years from about 200 to over 5,000 today, and we are not responding to the problem."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 242, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/031db_2001-05-02-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["technology"], "act_why": "cites growth of anti-Semitic hate sites and asks for resources", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2002-03-06", "year": "2002", "session": "37-1", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Laurier L. LaPierre", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… dictates of tradition. It is obvious to me that to achieve the end of the subjugation of women it was necessary for the promulgators of marriage to launch a horrible campaign of discrimination against homosexuality — a campaign that coincided, oddly enough, with what became the compelling obsession of most religions: anti-Semitism. In the long and cruel campaign against homosexuals of either sex, but particularly gay men, many have been discriminated against in the name of the gods and their lives ruined to maintain the hegemony of a fragile orthodoxy. They died in the dungeons of the princes of the churches and of the states or were burned at …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1679, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/093db_2002-03-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "names anti-Semitism as a religious obsession alongside anti-gay campaigns", "trigger": "Bill S-9 on the definition of marriage", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the compelling obsession of most religions: anti-Semitism", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2002-03-07", "year": "2002", "session": "37-1", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Marcel Prud'homme", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… r, this is something I have been faced with since 1964 when I was first elected to the Canadian Parliament. We are exposed daily to scenes, each one more horrible than the last. (1650) It is all so confusing. It is also confusing for people promoting the right of the Palestinians to self-determination to be accused of anti-Semitism. One inescapable fact remains: the situation in the Middle East is deteriorating rapidly. Yet, parliamentarians across the world, and especially in Canada, are deathly afraid to talk about it. I will always be astonished to see how easy it is to talk about practically anything, be it sports, sex, religion, but, when i …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1312, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/094db_2002-03-07-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "objects that defenders of Palestinian self-determination are accused of anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the escalating Israeli-Palestinian conflict 'taking place before our very eyes'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2002-03-26", "year": "2002", "session": "37-1", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Lucie Pépin", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… of the need to overcome racism in all its forms and to reaffirm our commitment to foster respect, equality and diversity. Unfortunately racism, which runs the gamut from social exclusion to ethnic cleansing, is still the source of atrocities and wars about which we cannot remain unmoved. Discrimination, sectarianism, anti-Semitism, and all forms of intolerance constitute a scourge we must work to eradicate at all cost. Modern-day racism is no longer merely based on a supposed inequality between races. Increasingly, it is based on culture, nationality or religion. This new form of racism, disseminated in large part on the Internet, targets vulne …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 353, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/102db_2002-03-26-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "names anti-Semitism a scourge to be eradicated at all cost", "trigger": "last Tuesday, March 21, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2002-04-17", "year": "2002", "session": "37-1", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "David Tkachuk", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ith cheers and jubilation. Our policy of supposed even-handedness, which ensures that even the most wretched of human behaviour receives a fair hearing, has not been modified with the proviso that \"the actions of Israel are not an excuse to attack Jews in your own county.\" Jews, to their credit, are not branding me an anti-Semite because I come from Saskatoon and am of Ukrainian descent. Currently, our foreign policy equally supports the Israelis and the Palestinians. It is the same as the European foreign policy of why can they not get along and why are the Jews obstructing — in some cases boycotting — potential export opportunitiesto all tho …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 618, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/105db_2002-04-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "condemns synagogue arson and acts of violence against Jews", "trigger": "the April 5 arson and vandalism against a Saskatoon synagogue and the memorial service held there Sunday", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state", "unspecified"], "target_detail": "Saudi Arabia's telethon and Yasser Arafat and his terrorist administration; the mob that attacked a synagogue in Ukraine and attackers in France", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2002-04-18", "year": "2002", "session": "37-1", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Colin Kenny", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, two weeks ago this Monday, April 1, vandals spray-painted anti-Israeli messages on the walls of Ottawa's Temple Israel. According to press reports, one of the messages threatened: \"All oppressors will die...Murderers.\" Within a week, additional anti-Semitic incidents were reported to the Ottawa police. These attacks — and they are deliberate attacks — on one of Canada's religious communities are completely unacceptable under any circumstances. The graffiti is intended not to express a point of view or engage in legitimate debate but to intimidate, to frighten and to isol …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 291, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/371/debates/106db_2002-04-18-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "calls the anti-Semitic graffiti and incidents deliberate, unacceptable attacks", "trigger": "vandals spray-painting threatening anti-Israeli messages on Ottawa's Temple Israel on April 1", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "vandals who spray-painted anti-Israeli messages on the walls of Ottawa's Temple Israel", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2002-10-22", "year": "2002", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Marcel Prud'homme", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ecause of that, I will abstain from giving his name. In 1982, 1983 and 1984, there was a debate here in the Senate on the Middle East. Read the report. See what happened to all the senators who were members of that committee at that time. They were accused! How dare we accuse Senator Hicks from Nova Scotia of being an anti-Semite! He raised money for Jewish causes in Canada. How dare we accuse Senator Van Roggen. He was a fine gentleman and chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee. There are only two witnesses left— one is Senator Murray who, hopefully, will participate eventually in the debate. Just because I happen to have opinions t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1615, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/008db_2002-10-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "protests that senators were wrongly accused of being anti-Semites", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2002-11-20", "year": "2002", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… following resolution, encapsulating the 2002 Berlin OSCE (PA) Resolution, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs for consideration and report before June 30, 2003. Honourable senators, the detailed resolution of four pages is contained in my written notice in English and in French and concerns anti-Semitic violence in the OSCE region, including Canada. [ Translation ] National Security and Defence Notice of Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Proposal of Valiants Group"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 90, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/019db_2002-11-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "gives notice of a motion citing the OSCE resolution on anti-Semitic violence", "trigger": "his notice of motion to refer the 2002 Berlin OSCE Parliamentary Assembly resolution on anti-Semitic violence to committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2002-11-21", "year": "2002", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… t 20 years since becoming a senator. I am a member of a Canadian- German group, the Atlantik-Brücke. In the back of my mind, I have always had the thought: How could a civilized society such as Germany, the leader of Europe in terms of science, literature and philosophy, succumb to what I consider to be the horrors of anti-Semitism? The people who were the most surprised about that were Germans themselves, many of whom served in the First World War with great distinction. Once I came across a text that said there was a higher proportion of Germans of Jewish origin who served with distinction in the First World War for Germany than, perhaps, any …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 599, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/020db_2002-11-21-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism a horror and deplores Canadian silence over burned synagogues", "trigger": "the motion referring the 2002 Berlin OSCE resolution on anti-Semitic violence to the Foreign Affairs Committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "systemic problems within the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church; no church or political leader, nor any major institution in Canada spoke out", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2002-11-21", "year": "2002", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… hts and fundamental freedoms and further that the participating member States recognized that such respect was an essential factor for the peace, justice and well- being necessary to ensure the development of friendly relations and co-operation between themselves and among all member States; WHEREAS the OSCE condemned anti-Semitism in the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document and undertook to take effective measures to protect individuals from anti-Semitic violence; WHEREAS the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document of the OSCE called for improved implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms and urged participating member States to address the acute problem of anti-Semitism; WHEREAS the 1999 Charter for European Security committed Canada and other participating members States to counter violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism; WHEREAS on July 8, 2002, at its Parliamentary Assembly held at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, the OSCE passed a unanimous resolution, as appended, condemning the current anti-Semitic violence throughout the OSCE space; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged all member States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti- Semitic and to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution called on all participating member States to combat anti-Semitism by ensuring aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged participating members States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by exploring effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism and by ensuring that laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti-Semitism; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution also encouraged all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti- Semitic violence in their respective countries; WHEREAS the alarming rise in anti-Semitic incidents and violence has been documented in Canada, as well as Europe and worldwide. Appendix RESOLUTION ON ANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE IN THE OSCE REGION Berlin, 6 - 10 July 2002 1. Recalling that the OSCE was among those organizations which publicly achieved international condemnation of anti-Semitism through the crafting of the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document; 2. Noting that all participating States, as stated in the Copenhagen Concluding Document, commit to \"unequivocally condemn\" anti-Semitism and take effective measures to protect individuals from anti- Semitic violence; 3. Remembering the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document, which highlights the OSCE's \"comprehensive approach\" to security, calls for \"improvement in the implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms,\" and urges participating States to address \"acute problems,\" such as anti-Semitism; 4. Reaffirming the 1999 Charter for European Security, committing participating States to \"counter such threats to security as violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism\"; 5. Recognizing that the scourge of anti-Semitism is not unique to any one country, and calls for steadfast perseverance by all participating States; The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Unequivocally condemns the alarming escalation of anti-Semitic violence throughout the OSCE region; 7. Voices deep concern over the recent escalation in anti- Semitic violence, as individuals of the Judaic faith and Jewish cultural properties have suffered attacks in many OSCE participating States; 8. Urges those States which undertake to return confiscated properties to rightful …", "… ost- communist States to redress injustices inflicted by previous regimes based on religious heritage, considering that the interests of justice dictate that more work remains to be done in this regard, particularly with regard to individual and community property restitution compensation; 10. Recognizes the danger of anti-Semitic violence to European security, especially in light of the trend of increasing violence and attacks regions wide; 11. Declares that violence against Jews and other manifestations of intolerance will never be justified by international developments or political issues, and that it obstructs democracy, pluralism, and peace; 12. Urges all States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic, as well as to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; 13. Calls upon participating States to ensure aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities, including thorough investigation of anti-Semitic criminal acts, apprehension of perpetrators, initiation of appropriate criminal prosecutions and judicial proceedings; 14. Urges participating States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by holding a follow-up seminar or human dimension meeting that explores effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism, and to ensure that their laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti- Semitism; and 15. Encourages all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries and at all regional and international forums. He said: Honourable senators, I rise in support of this resolution encapsulating the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Resolution on Anti-Semitic Violence in the OSCE Region, including Canada — the OSCE being comprised of 55 nations, stretching from Vancouver in Canada to Vladivostock — a resolution that I supported energetically and endorsed and which was unanimously approved by all OSCE parliamentarians in the Reichstag in Berlin last July. Honourable senators, hate always starts with words. Words can kill. Sadly, daily, we experience these painful lessons. Incitement to hate, anti-Semitism, starts with Jews, but never ends with Jews. This is the tragic lesson of history. The bitter lesson of European history is still scorched in our memories. The treatment of Jews, some political philosophers have argued, has been a test, or at least one benchmark, of a free and open civic society. The ugly faces and voices of anti-Semitism have not been seen or heard with such ferocity and force, nor witnessed, since the 1930s. Licence, even reaching into international fora, has been granted to acts of anti-Semitism — incitement to hatred — always leading to violence. In Canada in the past year, four synagogues have been scorched or burned, more than at any time in our entire history. In Canada, more than two incidents of anti-Semitism per day in the last year were collated this past spring — all this, in Canada, in the 21st century. After 1989, when the Berlin Wall finally came tumbling down, I never thought that I would ever have to open a dossier on anti- Semitism, certainly not a dossier in the 21st century. Yet, in England, in Germany, in Franc …", "… now a new tax on freedom of worship in synagogues, the cost of fulltime guards just to exercise the right to worship in Canada in peace and security. I should note that in Germany this guard tax is now borne freely and openly by the German government. Regrettably, no corner of OSCE space is free of taunts and fears of anti-Semitism. The news media has accelerated and even inflated this endemic problem. State-sponsored media are relentless, even stooping to produce and broadcast that oldest of old canards, the Protocols of Zion. Last summer, I spoke in the Reichstag, the German Parliament in Berlin — where Jews had settled on the banks of the Spe …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1838, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/020db_2002-11-21-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["criminal law", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "police and security"], "act_why": "moves and speaks for a resolution unequivocally condemning anti-Semitic violence", "trigger": "the motion encapsulating the 2002 Berlin OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Resolution on Anti-Semitic Violence in the OSCE Region", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2002-11-21", "year": "2002", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Joan Fraser", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I welcome Senator Grafstein's motion. For those senators who are interested, I would recommend, among many other publications, the remarkable book by Erna Paris called: Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History , which is an examination of societies where systemic racism has taken hold, not only anti-Semitism but many forms of racism. It is a remarkable and most enlightening document. I would ask Senator Grafstein whether he is aware that the Board of Governors at Concordia University has voted to lift the moratorium on discussions concerning the Middle East, but the exact timing of the lifting is to be left to the princip …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 270, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/020db_2002-11-21-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "welcomes the anti-Semitism motion and recounts the Concordia violence", "trigger": "Senator Grafstein's motion on the Berlin OSCE resolution", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "a number of protestors who greeted Netanyahu's arrival with remarkable physical violence at Concordia", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2003-02-05", "year": "2003", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Mira Spivak", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ed to speak to this motion about the 2002 Berlin Resolution of the Organization for Security and Economic Co-operation in Europe that will be referred to one of our committees, I hope. Like my colleague, the Honourable Senator Grafstein, I believe it is crucial for this Parliament to voice its deep concern for the new anti-Semitism, anti-Jewishness, that is surfacing not only abroad but also in Canada. The Berlin Resolution that calls on states to combat anti-Semitism provides an excellent mechanism for addressing this new evil and, hopefully, one of our committees will be the appropriate place for us to pursue it. I refer to the ``new anti-Jewishness.'' It is not my phrase. It is the phrase used by Professor Irwin Cotler, who is perhaps better known to many senators as a colleague in the other place. He is on leave from McGill University where he is also a Professor of Law and Director of the University's Human Rights Program. Last month, he published a paper in which he literally sounded the alarm about human rights and the new form of anti-Semitism: What we are witnessing today — which has been developing incrementally, almost imperceptibly, and sometimes indulgently, for some thirty years now — is a new, virulent, globalizing and even lethal anti-Jewishness reminiscent of the atmosphere of the 1930s, and without parallel or precedence since the end of the Secon …", "… n the world today, that are the object of a standing set of threats from governmental, religious and terrorist bodies seeking their destruction. And what is most disturbing is the silence — — something Senator Grafstein talked about — — the indifference, and sometimes even the indulgence, in the face of such genocidal anti-Semitism. He also speaks of political anti-Semitism — the ``demonizing of Israel'' and the denial of its legitimacy — and of ideological and theological anti-Semitism. He has two other indices that I think we need to pay special attention to here in Canada. One is cultural anti-Semitism, expressed in the attitudes, sentiments, innuendo, et cetera, in academe, in parliaments and elsewhere, including the discourse of the ``chattering classes'' and the enlightened elites. As an example, he cites a remark by the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom that prompted British journalist Petronella Wyatt to write: Anti-Semitism and its open expression has become respectable at London dinner tables. The second indices that must particularly concern us, he describes as European anti-Semitism, but as Senator Grafstein pointed out, it is not confined to Europe. One prime example is assaults upon and desecration of synagogues, cemeteries and Jewish institutions in the past two years. As Senator Grafstein said, we have had four synagogues burned or scorched, four synagogues in four provinces of Canada. Denial of the Holocaust, economic discrimination against Jews and state-sanctioned anti-Semitism — these are new examples of the new anti-Jewishness. Irwin Cotler is sounding an alarm, not only for Israel and the Jewish people, but also for the world community and the human condition as a whole. 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Appendix RESOLUTION ON ANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE IN THE OSCE REGION Berlin, 6 — 10 July 2002 1. Recalling that the OSCE was among those organizations which publicly achieved international condemnation of anti-Semitism through the crafting of the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document; 2. Noting that all participating States, as stated in the Copenhagen Concluding Document, commit to ``unequivocally condemn'' anti-Semitism and take effective measures to protect individuals from anti- Semitic violence; 3. Remembering the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document, which highlights the OSCE's ``comprehensive approach'' to security, calls for ``improvement in the implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to …", "… 999 Charter for European Security, committing participating States to ``counter such threats to security as violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism''; 5. Recognizing that the scourge of anti-Semitism is not unique to any one country, and calls for steadfast perseverance by all participating States; The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Unequivocally condemns the alarming escalation of anti-Semitic violence throughout the OSCE region; 7. Voices deep concern over the recent escalation in anti- Semitic violence, as individuals of the Judaic faith and Jewish cultural properties have suffered attacks in many OSCE participating States; 8. Urges those States which undertake to return confiscated properties to rightful …", "… ost- communist States to redress injustices inflicted by previous regimes based on religious heritage, considering that the interests of justice dictate that more work remains to be done in this regard, particularly with regard to individual and community property restitution compensation; 10. Recognizes the danger of anti-Semitic violence to European security, especially in light of the trend of increasing violence and attacks regions wide; 11. Declares that violence against Jews and other manifestations of intolerance will never be justified by international developments or political issues, and that it obstructs democracy, pluralism, and peace; 12. Urges all States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic, as well as to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; 13. Calls upon participating States to ensure aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities, including thorough investigation of anti-Semitic criminal acts, apprehension of perpetrators, initiation of appropriate criminal prosecutions and judicial proceedings; 14. Urges participating States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by holding a follow-up seminar or human dimension meeting that explores effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism, and to ensure that their laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti-Semitism; and 15. Encourages all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries and at all regional and international forums.—( Honourable Senator Spivak )."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 987, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/032db_2003-02-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2003-02-13", "year": "2003", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Marcel Prud'homme", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… a study on these issues was under the most distinguished chairmanship of Senator van Roggen. There were three years of study, all over the Middle East. Everyone was in agreement until the very last day, when a new senator joined in and bastardized the situation saying that every member who sat on that committee was an anti-Semite. We can go back to a 1984 press conference. Senator van Roggen never recovered. Senator Lapointe, distinguished Speaker, was a member. Senator Murray was a member. Senator Hicks, chief fundraiser for the B'nai B'rith of Canada and an ex-premier of Nova Scotia, felt insulted at being accused of being an anti-Semite. We have refused to take that question as we should here in the Senate of Canada. I have been here, and new senators had better learn why I am an independent. It is because, on this issue, one morning, I became fed up. Unfortunately, I lacked patience. I should have taken the day off. I would still be in the Liberal c …", "… to do it. (1540) I have seen so much hypocrisy on this issue. As soon as they speak like me, they whisper. I can name colleagues who are here now. They say, well, you know, Senator Prud'homme, he is anti- Jew, but they have never dared say that outside of this place because I will sue them. There is a sickness. It is anti-Semitism. I have at least 50 quotes from the House of Commons where I say anti-Semitism is a cancer that eats you from inside, and I am very healthy, and I do not want to have that kind of sickness. However, I have the right to have opinions on the Middle East that are not the views of some powers of Canada, powers that are the forces of hate! 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Remembering the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document, which highlights the OSCE's \"comprehensive approach\" to security, calls for \"improvement in the implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to hum …", "… 1999 Charter for European Security, committing participating States to \"counter such threats to security as violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism\"; 5. Recognizing that the scourge of anti-Semitism is not unique to any one country, and calls for steadfast perseverance by all participating States; The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Unequivocally condemns the alarming escalation of anti- Semitic violence throughout the OSCE region; 7. Voices deep concern over the recent escalation in anti- Semitic violence, as in …", "… ost- communist States to redress injustices inflicted by previous regimes based on religious heritage, considering that the interests of justice dictate that more work remains to be done in this regard, particularly with regard to individual and community property restitution compensation; 10. Recognizes the danger of anti-Semitic violence to European security, especially in light of the trend of increasing violence and attacks regions wide; 11. Declares that violence against Jews and other manifestations of intolerance will never be justified by international developments or political issues, and that it obstructs democracy, pluralism, and peace; 12. Urges all States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic, as well as to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; 13. Calls upon participating States to ensure aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities, including thorough investigation of anti-Semitic criminal acts, apprehension of perpetrators, initiation of appropriate criminal prosecutions and judicial proceedings; 14. Urges participating States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by holding a follow-up seminar or human dimension meeting that explores effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism, and to ensure that their laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti- Semitism; and 15. Encourages all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries and at all regional and international forums.—( Honourable Senator LaPierre)."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2934, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/040db_2003-03-18-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["criminal law", "inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "term absent from the supplied text; speech relays press coverage of a spending program", "trigger": "the Auditor General's December 2001 report on the $1.4 billion relief for heating expenses", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2003-03-18", "year": "2003", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Laurier L. LaPierre", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I rise in support of Senator Graftein's motion; anti-Semitism has become something of a disease in this country. [ English ] It saps our vitality and our strength as a people, and it endangers many aspects of our international and national life. I do not think that this motion should be referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee but, rather, it should be referred to the Human Rig …", "… efficient PowerPoint presentations. I think the entire civil service should be replaced by Black people, if they are not capable of doing PowerPoint, since the most boring issue of discussion is PowerPoint. I mention this as an example of what happens. While we were in recess, the newspapers reported that incidents of anti-Semitism have increased considerably in Canada. Why? I am a child of a culture, of an environment that welcomed and made almost natural anti-Semitism. I prayed for the Jews to find the right path. I prayed so that we could eliminate them from their roles in our society. We prayed and prayed, so that the day would come and they would all be converted and that would be the end of it. We did that to the native people, too. We thought that if we could only send them to …", "… day we see a growth of that kind of thing?\" People say to me, \"The cause has to do with the fact that Israel is too tough on the Palestinians, and the country is not being humanitarian.\" These are not reasons and they are not causes. It does not help us, though, honourable senators, that many Jewish organizations call anti-Semite anyone who questions the means whereby Israel assures its security. I am a Canadian and I have always believed, since I was able to start believing in things on my own and I was not afraid of being beaten up by some nun, that the day would come when the Israeli people would have their home. This summer, in the associa …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 944, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/040db_2003-03-18-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism a disease that must not be tolerated", "trigger": "Senator Grafstein's motion on the OSCE resolution on anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2003-03-19", "year": "2003", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Marcel Prud'homme", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… st. They are being introduced right now in the House of Commons. As Chairman of the Canada-Russia Inter- Parliamentary Group, it is my duty to do what I have been asked to do. I am interested in the subject matter of this motion. I could quote extensively from denouncements I have made over 30 years to the effect that anti-Semitism is one of our greatest cancers. I should like to participate in the debate because I should also like to add an addendum relating to how to combat the phobia against Islam that is becoming an immense danger for humanity. With the kind permission of honourable senators, I wish to adjourn the debate. I will not drag my …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 200, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/041db_2003-03-19-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism one of our greatest cancers", "trigger": "Senator Grafstein's motion referring the OSCE resolution on anti-Semitism to committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2003-03-19", "year": "2003", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Noël A. Kinsella", "role": "Deputy Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I rise to speak on Senator Grafstein's motion to refer this matter with regard to the rise in anti-Semitism and, particularly, the OSCE's resolution to a standing Senate committee. After a discussion with Senator Grafstein, and following the remarks made by Senator LaPierre yesterday, it would be preferable, in our opinion, to refer this study and the preparation of a report on the matter to the Standing Senate Committee on …", "… orld where all religions would form one family. For Canadians, this same idea of living together, as one family, is embodied by Saint Joseph. This idea highlights the importance of coexistence, convivientia , as the cornerstone of social and world peace. I am therefore deeply concerned by news from B'nai Brith that 87 anti-Semitic incidents occurred last year right in the shadow of Montreal's Saint-Joseph's Oratory. Fourteen of these cases involved violence. Honourable senators, the Parliament of Canada cannot ignore this rise in anti-Semitism, which is capable of undermining the political body of free societies, like a cancer. The Senate of Canada must take a firm stand against this situation. The OSCE resolution must be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, so that it can report back to the Senate by June 30 of this year, as proposed …", "… , such as a campaign to promote awareness of the importance of diversity and multiculturalism. It must ensure that there is a free and open dialogue to find a solution to this problem. The increase in violence against Jews is a worldwide phenomenon to which Canada has not been immune. Even though figures indicate that anti-Semitic feelings are twice as prevalent in Europe as in the United States, North America is not free of anti-Semitic violence, which is fuelled by negative attitudes towards Jews, stereotypes about Judaism, and physical attacks and violence against Jewish people, symbols and holy sites. A study conducted by the Anti-Defamation League in spring 2002 found that 17 per cent of Americans are \"unquestionably anti-Semitic,\" while this figure was only 12 per cent in 1988. A breakdown of American society into categories found that university professors were less likely to be anti-Semitic. The study showed that 3 per cent of professors held anti-Semitic prejudices, which supports the theory that education and principles can help to dissipate these stereotypes and attitudes. Honourable senators, the situation in Canada is truly disturbing. Between January and June last year, B'nai Brith, League for Human Rights, showed that there had been a 63 per cent increase in the number of anti-Semitic incidents over the same period in 2001. Unfortunately, barely a few months ago, last fall to be precise, Canadians caught a glimpse of the high tensions caused by the situation in the Middle East, when students were beaten up, insulted and spit in the face at Concordia University. Many of these attacks were directed a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1402, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/041db_2003-03-19-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "community organisations"], "act_why": "condemns the rise in anti-Semitism and urges committee study of it", "trigger": "Senator Grafstein's motion to refer the OSCE resolution on the rise in anti-Semitism to a standing Senate committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "university"], "target_detail": "protestors who beat, insulted and spat at Jewish students at Concordia University; the institution of higher learning that obstructs free discussion", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2003-03-19", "year": "2003", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Senators", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… hts and fundamental freedoms and further that the participating member States recognized that such respect was an essential factor for the peace, justice and well-being necessary to ensure the development of friendly relations and co- operation between themselves and among all member States; WHEREAS the OSCE condemned anti-Semitism in the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document and undertook to take effective measures to protect individuals from anti- Semitic violence; WHEREAS the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document of the OSCE called for improved implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms and urged participating member States to address the acute problem of anti-Semitism; WHEREAS the 1999 Charter for European Security committed Canada and other participating members States to counter violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti- Semitism; WHEREAS on July 8, 2002, at its Parliamentary Assembly held at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, the OSCE passed a unanimous resolution, as appended, condemning the current anti-Semitic violence throughout the OSCE space; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged all member States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic and to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution called on all participating member States to combat anti-Semitism by ensuring aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged participating members States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by exploring effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism and by ensuring that laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti-Semitism; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution also encouraged all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries; WHEREAS the alarming rise in anti-Semitic incidents and violence has been documented in Canada, as well as Europe and worldwide. 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Remembering the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document, which highlights the OSCE's \"comprehensive approach\" to security, calls for \"improvement in the implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to hum …", "… 1999 Charter for European Security, committing participating States to \"counter such threats to security as violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism\"; 5. Recognizing that the scourge of anti-Semitism is not unique to any one country, and calls for steadfast perseverance by all participating States; The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Unequivocally condemns the alarming escalation of anti- Semitic violence throughout the OSCE region; 7. Voices deep concern over the recent escalation in anti- Semitic violence, as in …", "… ost- communist States to redress injustices inflicted by previous regimes based on religious heritage, considering that the interests of justice dictate that more work remains to be done in this regard, particularly with regard to individual and community property restitution compensation; 10. Recognizes the danger of anti-Semitic violence to European security, especially in light of the trend of increasing violence and attacks regions wide; 11. Declares that violence against Jews and other manifestations of intolerance will never be justified by international developments or political issues, and that it obstructs democracy, pluralism, and peace; 12. Urges all States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic, as well as to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; 13. Calls upon participating States to ensure aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities, including thorough investigation of anti-Semitic criminal acts, apprehension of perpetrators, initiation of appropriate criminal prosecutions and judicial proceedings; 14. Urges participating States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by holding a follow-up seminar or human dimension meeting that explores effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism, and to ensure that their laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti- Semitism; and 15. Encourages all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries and at all regional and international forums.—( Honourable Senator Kinsella )."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 983, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/041db_2003-03-19-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["criminal law", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "police and security"], "act_why": "Order Paper reprint of the OSCE Berlin resolution text, no own position", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "motion of Senator Grafstein that the 2002 Berlin OSCE (PA) Resolution 'be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs for consideration and rep", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2003-03-25", "year": "2003", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "E. Leo Kolber", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… sts of anti-American sentiment that we have been hearing within the very precincts of Parliament are both intemperate and intolerant. Suffice it to say that discrimination comes in many pernicious forms, whether against Jews, cultural communities or Americans. Anti-Americanism is just as detestable and unacceptable as anti-Semitic or anti-Arabic sentiment or the dissemination of hatred against \"any identifiable group.\" That is not just a matter of opinion; it is a matter of legal fact in the Criminal Code. It is also a matter of decency. Good neighbours do not spit across the back fence; they talk across it. Good neighbours also mend fences whe …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 547, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/043db_2003-03-25-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "lists anti-Semitic sentiment among detestable forms of discrimination", "trigger": "'the war in Iraq and ... 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Appendix RESOLUTION ONANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE IN THE OSCE REGION Berlin, 6 - 10 July 2002 1. Recalling that the OSCE was among those organizations which publicly achieved international condemnation of anti-Semitism through the crafting of the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document; 2. Noting that all participating States, as stated in the Copenhagen Concluding Document, commit to \"unequivocally condemn\" anti-Semitism and take effective measures to protect individuals from anti- Semitic violence; 3. Remembering the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document, which highlights the OSCE's \"comprehensive approach\" to security, calls for \"improvement in the implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to hum …", "… 1999 Charter for European Security, committing participating States to \"counter such threats to security as violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism\"; 5. Recognizing that the scourge of anti-Semitism is not unique to any one country, and calls for steadfast perseverance by all participating States; The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Unequivocally condemns the alarming escalation of anti- Semitic violence throughout the OSCE region; 7. Voices deep concern over the recent escalation in anti- Semitic violence, as in …", "… ost- communist States to redress injustices inflicted by previous regimes based on religious heritage, considering that the interests of justice dictate that more work remains to be done in this regard, particularly with regard to individual and community property restitution compensation; 10. Recognizes the danger of anti-Semitic violence to European security, especially in light of the trend of increasing violence and attacks regions wide; 11. Declares that violence against Jews and other manifestations of intolerance will never be justified by international developments or political issues, and that it obstructs democracy, pluralism, and peace; 12. Urges all States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic, as well as to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; 13. Calls upon participating States to ensure aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities, including thorough investigation of anti-Semitic criminal acts, apprehension of perpetrators, initiation of appropriate criminal prosecutions and judicial proceedings; 14. Urges participating States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by holding a follow-up seminar or human dimension meeting that explores effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism, and to ensure that their laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti-Semitism; and 15. Encourages all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries and at all regional and international forums.—( Honourable Senator Prud'homme, P.C. )."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 1009, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/061db_2003-06-03-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2003-06-05", "year": "2003", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Michel Biron", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… hts and fundamental freedoms and further that the participating member States recognized that such respect was an essential factor for the peace, justice and well- being necessary to ensure the development of friendly relations and co-operation between themselves and among all member States; WHEREAS the OSCE condemned anti-Semitism in the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document and undertook to take effective measures to protect individuals from anti-Semitic violence; WHEREAS the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document of the OSCE called for improved implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms and urged participating member States to address the acute problem of anti-Semitism; WHEREAS the 1999 Charter for European Security committed Canada and other participating members States to counter violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism; WHEREAS on July 8, 2002, at its Parliamentary Assembly held at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, the OSCE passed a unanimous resolution, as appended, condemning the current anti-Semitic violence throughout the OSCE space; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged all member States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic and to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution called on all participating member States to combat anti-Semitism by ensuring aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged participating members States to bolster the importance of combating anti- Semitism by exploring effective measures to prevent anti- Semitism and by ensuring that laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti-Semitism; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution also encouraged all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries; WHEREAS the alarming rise in anti-Semitic incidents and violence has been documented in Canada, as well as Europe and worldwide. Appendix RESOLUTION ON ANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE IN THE OSCE REGION Berlin, 6 - 10 July 2002 1. Recalling that the OSCE was among those organizations which publicly achieved international condemnation of anti-Semitism through the crafting of the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document; 2. Noting that all participating States, as stated in the Copenhagen Concluding Document, commit to \"unequivocally condemn\" anti-Semitism and take effective measures to protect individuals from anti- Semitic violence; 3. Remembering the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document, which highlights the OSCE's \"comprehensive approach\" to security, calls for \"improvement in the implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms,\" and urges participating States to address \"acute problems,\" such as anti-Semitism; 4. Reaffirming the 1999 Charter for European Security, committing participating States to \"counter such threats to security as violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism\"; 5. Recognizing that the scourge of anti-Semitism is not unique to any one country, and calls for steadfast perseverance by all participating States; The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Unequivocally condemns the alarming escalation of anti- Semitic violence throughout the OSCE region; 7. Voices deep concern over the recent escalation in anti- Semitic violence, as in …", "… ost- communist States to redress injustices inflicted by previous regimes based on religious heritage, considering that the interests of justice dictate that more work remains to be done in this regard, particularly with regard to individual and community property restitution compensation; 10. Recognizes the danger of anti-Semitic violence to European security, especially in light of the trend of increasing violence and attacks regions wide; 11. Declares that violence against Jews and other manifestations of intolerance will never be justified by international developments or political issues, and that it obstructs democracy, pluralism, and peace; 12. Urges all States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic, as well as to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; 13. Calls upon participating States to ensure aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities, including thorough investigation of anti-Semitic criminal acts, apprehension of perpetrators, initiation of appropriate criminal prosecutions and judicial proceedings; 14. Urges participating States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by holding a follow-up seminar or human dimension meeting that explores effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism, and to ensure that their laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti- Semitism; and 15. Encourages all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries and at all regional and international forums.—( Honourable Senator Prud'homme, P.C. )."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1044, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/063db_2003-06-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["criminal law", "inquiry or summit"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "police and security"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "Order Paper reprint of the OSCE Berlin resolution text", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "motion to refer the '2002 Berlin OSCE (PA) Resolution' to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2003-06-12", "year": "2003", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Marcel Prud'homme", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… a.\" Justice Rand and Mr. Pearson were the ones who led the United Nations to adopt this famous resolution. From that time on, there were to be two states on the territory of Palestine, one for the Jews and one for the Palestinians. I have never deviated from that resolution. I have always vigorously fought any form of anti-semitism, because this is a cancer that devours one from within. A person is entitled to hold an opinion on the Middle East that does not suit a certain lobby in Canada, which attacked me mercilessly barely two minutes after I was chosen over Sheila Copps as President of the Liberal Caucus of Canada. In that secret ballot, I h …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1930, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/067db_2003-06-12-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "inspired"], "response": ["none"], "jurisdiction": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "act_why": "denies being anti-Jewish and objects to being smeared for Middle East views", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2003-06-19", "year": "2003", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Lise Bacon", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… hts and fundamental freedoms and further that the participating member States recognized that such respect was an essential factor for the peace, justice and well- being necessary to ensure the development of friendly relations and co-operation between themselves and among all member States; WHEREAS the OSCE condemned anti-Semitism in the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document and undertook to take effective measures to protect individuals from anti-Semitic violence; WHEREAS the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document of the OSCE called for improved implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms and urged participating member States to address the acute problem of anti-Semitism; WHEREAS the 1999 Charter for European Security committed Canada and other participating members States to counter violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism; WHEREAS on July 8, 2002, at its Parliamentary Assembly held at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, the OSCE passed a unanimous resolution, as appended, condemning the current anti-Semitic violence throughout the OSCE space; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged all member States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti- Semitic and to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution called on all participating member States to combat anti-Semitism by ensuring aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged participating members States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by exploring effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism and by ensuring that laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti-Semitism; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution also encouraged all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti- Semitic violence in their respective countries; WHEREAS the alarming rise in anti-Semitic incidents and violence has been documented in Canada, as well as Europe and worldwide. Appendix RESOLUTION ONANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE IN THE OSCE REGION Berlin, 6-10 July 2002 1. Recalling that the OSCE was among those organizations which publicly achieved international condemnation of anti-Semitism through the crafting of the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document; 2. Noting that all participating States, as stated in the Copenhagen Concluding Document, commit to \"unequivocally condemn\" anti-Semitism and take effective measures to protect individuals from anti- Semitic violence; 3. Remembering the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document, which highlights the OSCE's \"comprehensive approach\" to security, calls for \"improvement in the implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms\", and urges participating States to address \"acute problems\", such as anti-Semitism; 4. Reaffirming the 1999 Charter for European Security, committing participating States to \"counter such threats to security as violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism\"; 5. Recognizing that the scourge of anti-Semitism is not unique to any one country, and calls for steadfast perseverance by all participating States; The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Unequivocally condemns the alarming escalation of anti- Semitic violence throughout the OSCE region; 7. Voices deep concern over the recent escalation in anti- Semitic violence, as in …", "… ost- communist States to redress injustices inflicted by previous regimes based on religious heritage, considering that the interests of justice dictate that more work remains to be done in this regard, particularly with regard to individual and community property restitution compensation; 10. Recognizes the danger of anti-Semitic violence to European security, especially in light of the trend of increasing violence and attacks regions wide; 11. Declares that violence against Jews and other manifestations of intolerance will never be justified by international developments or political issues, and that it obstructs democracy, pluralism, and peace; 12. Urges all States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic, as well as to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; 13. Calls upon participating States to ensure aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities, including thorough investigation of anti-Semitic criminal acts, apprehension of perpetrators, initiation of appropriate criminal prosecutions and judicial proceedings; 14. Urges participating States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by holding a follow-up seminar or human dimension meeting that explores effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism, and to ensure that their laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti-Semitism; and 15. Encourages all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries and at all regional and international forums.—( Honourable Senator Prud'homme, P.C. )."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1014, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/072db_2003-06-19-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["criminal law", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "police and security"], "act_why": "Order Paper reprint of the OSCE Berlin resolution text", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "motion, as modified, to refer the '2002 Berlin OSCE (PA) Resolution' to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2003-09-24", "year": "2003", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Laurier L. LaPierre", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… y important. I am not in favour of this. However, I am in favour of utilizing September 11 for the essential lesson it gives to all of us on the planet. I would caution the honourable senator against making a mistake similar to the one that so many people make — that is, labelling anyone who criticizes Israel as being anti-Semitic. When people criticize the Bush administration and certain things American, they are now being labelled anti-American, and this is an opinion that is indoctrinated in the newspapers that belong to a certain owner in Canada who shall remain nameless. My question is this. Why does not the honourable senator, after speak …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 422, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/077db_2003-09-24-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "warns against labelling anyone who criticizes Israel as anti-Semitic", "trigger": "the senator's proposed bill designating September 11 ('calling his bill about September 11 \"Anti-terrorism Day\"')", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2003-09-24", "year": "2003", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… hts and fundamental freedoms and further that the participating member States recognized that such respect was an essential factor for the peace, justice and well-being necessary to ensure the development of friendly relations and co- operation between themselves and among all member States; Whereas the OSCE condemned anti-Semitism in the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document and undertook to take effective measures to protect individuals from anti-Semitic violence; Whereas the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document of the OSCE called for improved implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms and urged participating member States to address the acute problem of anti-Semitism; Whereas the 1999 Charter for European Security committed Canada and other participating members States to counter violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism; Whereas on July 8, 2002, at its Parliamentary Assembly held at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, the OSCE passed a unanimous resolution, as appended, condemning the current anti-Semitic violence throughout the OSCE space; Whereas the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged all member States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti- Semitic and to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; Whereas the 2002 Berlin Resolution called on all participating member States to combat anti-Semitism by ensuring aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities; Whereas the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged participating members States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by exploring effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism and by ensuring that laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti- Semitism; Whereas the 2002 Berlin Resolution also encouraged all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti- Semitic violence in their respective countries; Whereas the alarming rise in anti-Semitic incidents and violence has been documented in Canada, as well as Europe and worldwide. Appendix RESOLUTION ONANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE IN THE OSCE REGION Berlin, 6 - 10 July 2002 1. Recalling that the OSCE was among those organizations which publicly achieved international condemnation of anti-Semitism through the crafting of the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document; 2. Noting that all participating States, as stated in the Copenhagen Concluding Document, commit to \"unequivocally condemn\" anti-Semitism and take effective measures to protect individuals from anti- Semitic violence; 3. Remembering the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document, which highlights the OSCE's \"comprehensive approach\" to security, calls for \"improvement in the implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to hum …", "… 1999 Charter for European Security, committing participating States to \"counter such threats to security as violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism\"; 5. Recognizing that the scourge of anti-Semitism is not unique to any one country, and calls for steadfast perseverance by all participating States; The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Unequivocally condemns the alarming escalation of anti-Semitic violence throughout the OSCE region; 7. Voices deep concern over the recent escalation in anti- Semitic violence, as individuals of the Judaic faith and Jewish cultural properties have suffered attacks in many OSCE participating States; 8. Urges those States which undertake to return confiscated properties to rightful …", "… ost- communist States to redress injustices inflicted by previous regimes based on religious heritage, considering that the interests of justice dictate that more work remains to be done in this regard, particularly with regard to individual and community property restitution compensation; 10. Recognizes the danger of anti-Semitic violence to European security, especially in light of the trend of increasing violence and attacks regions wide; 11. Declares that violence against Jews and other manifestations of intolerance will never be justified by international developments or political issues, and that it obstructs democracy, pluralism, and peace; 12. Urges all States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic, as well as to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; 13. Calls upon participating States to ensure aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities, including thorough investigation of anti-Semitic criminal acts, apprehension of perpetrators, initiation of appropriate criminal prosecutions and judicial proceedings; 14. Urges participating States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by holding a follow-up seminar or human dimension meeting that explores effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism, and to ensure that their laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti-Semitism; and 15. Encourages all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries and at all regional and international forums.—( Honourable Senator Prud'homme, P.C. ). An Hon. Senator: Stand."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 994, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/077db_2003-09-24-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2003-10-02", "year": "2003", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Terry Stratton", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… . That should be obvious. And I should point out that, especially the controversy over Mel Gibson's movie and Garth Drabinsky's movie, which are supposed to be literal interpretations of the Christian Bible that nobody's ever been prosecuted for, for reading from those scriptures, even though certainly it's considered anti-Semitic. I go on to quote: ...I think it needs to be clear that that's is not what's happening. I think, as well, that the need for the Attorney General to consent to a prosecution under Section 318 and 319, one that is the advocacy of genocide and the section that deals with the promotion of hatred in a public place should a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 648, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/081db_2003-10-02-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "quotes B'nai Brith's Brian Kurz on scripture and anti-Semitic films", "trigger": "'the second reading of Bill C-250, to amend the Criminal Code' on hate propaganda and sexual orientation", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2003-10-21", "year": "2003", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "A. Raynell Andreychuk", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… change in government in another country from a dictatorial regime, we will often support the democratic forces, such as human rights groups, to ensure that this change of attitude prevails. We have been quite candid in our support of opposition and human rights groups against dictatorial, repressive and, in this case, anti-Semitic groups. What will we do in Malaysia about the position of the government?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 72, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/372/debates/086db_2003-10-21-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "charge_quote": "What will we do in Malaysia about the position of the government?", "act_why": "puts Malaysian government among anti-Semitic, repressive actors", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Malaysian government's antisemitic position following Mahathir's speech ('What will we do in Malaysia about the position of the government?')", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the government of Malaysia", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2003-10-21", "year": "2003", "session": "37-2", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Sharon Carstairs", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… was informed, and I have informed the honourable senator, that the Malaysian High Commissioner was called in to the Department of Foreign Affairs. If my honourable friend is asking me exactly with whom he met, I cannot give him that information, but I will seek to obtain it. 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Why do we not come out directly and say to the Prime Minister of Malaysia that we find his comments absolutely unacceptable? It is incredible that, according to The Toronto Star of October 21, Prime Minister Chrétien could have availed himself of scripted \"media lines on anti-Semitic remarks made by the Malaysian Prime Minister\" prepared by the Department of Foreign Affairs. A response was ready for him. The first suggested press line is that the Canadian government finds the comments made by Prime Minister Mahathir offensive, inflammatory and unbefitting of his position. 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For a number of years Canada has been engaged in funding governance structures and governance education. Clearly, it is important, if Russia is to maintain her international reputation, that she move forward in a spirit of acceptance of the rule of law and due process. 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Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ghts and fundamental freedoms and further that the participating member States recognized that such respect was an essential factor for the peace, justice and well-being necessary to ensure the development of friendly relations and co-operation between themselves and among all member States; WHEREAS the OSCE condemned anti-Semitism in the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document and undertook to take effective measures to protect individuals from anti-Semitic violence; WHEREAS the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document of the OSCE called for improved implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms and urged participating member States to address the acute problem of anti-Semitism; WHEREAS the 1999 Charter for European Security committed Canada and other participating members States to counter violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism; WHEREAS on July 8, 2002, at its Parliamentary Assembly held at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, the OSCE passed a unanimous resolution, as appended, condemning the current anti-Semitic violence throughout the OSCE space; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged all member States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic and to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution called on all participating member States to combat anti-Semitism by ensuring aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged participating members States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by exploring effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism and by ensuring that laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti-Semitism; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution also encouraged all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries; WHEREAS the alarming rise in anti-Semitic incidents and violence has been documented in Canada, as well as Europe and worldwide. Appendix RESOLUTION ON ANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE IN THE OSCE REGION Berlin, 6-10 July 2002 1. Recalling that the OSCE was among those organizations which publicly achieved international condemnation of anti-Semitism through the crafting of the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document; 2. Noting that all participating States, as stated in the Copenhagen Concluding Document, commit to \"unequivocally condemn\" anti-Semitism and take effective measures to protect individuals from anti-Semitic violence; 3. Remembering the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document, which highlights the OSCE's \"comprehensive approach\" to security, calls for \"improvement in the implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms\", and urges participating States to address \"acute problems\", such as anti-Semitism; 4. Reaffirming the 1999 Charter for European Security, committing participating States to \"counter such threats to security as violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism\"; 5. Recognizing that the scourge of anti-Semitism is not unique to any one country, and calls for steadfast perseverance by all participating States; The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Unequivocally condemns the alarming escalation of anti-Semitic violence throughout the OSCE region; 7. Voices deep concern over the recent escalation in anti-Semitic violence, as individuals of the Judaic faith and Jewish cultural properties have suffered attacks in many OSCE participating States; 8. Urges those States which undertake to return confiscated properties to rightful owners, or to provide alternative compensation to such owners, to ensure that their property restitutio …", "… post-communist States to redress injustices inflicted by previous regimes based on religious heritage, considering that the interests of justice dictate that more work remains to be done in this regard, particularly with regard to individual and community property restitution compensation; 10. Recognizes the danger of anti-Semitic violence to European security, especially in light of the trend of increasing violence and attacks regions wide; 11. Declares that violence against Jews and other manifestations of intolerance will never be justified by international developments or political issues, and that it obstructs democracy, pluralism, and peace; 12. Urges all States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic, as well as to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; 13. Calls upon participating States to ensure aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities, including thorough investigation of anti-Semitic criminal acts, apprehension of perpetrators, initiation of appropriate criminal prosecutions and judicial proceedings; 14. Urges participating States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by holding a follow-up seminar or human dimension meeting that explores effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism, and to ensure that their laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti-Semitism; and 15. Encourages all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries and at all regional and international forums. 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Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ghts and fundamental freedoms and further that the participating member States recognized that such respect was an essential factor for the peace, justice and well-being necessary to ensure the development of friendly relations and co-operation between themselves and among all member States; WHEREAS the OSCE condemned anti-Semitism in the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document and undertook to take effective measures to protect individuals from anti-Semitic violence; WHEREAS the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document of the OSCE called for improved implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms and urged participating member States to address the acute problem of anti-Semitism; WHEREAS the 1999 Charter for European Security committed Canada and other participating members States to counter violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism; WHEREAS on July 8, 2002, at its Parliamentary Assembly held at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, the OSCE passed a unanimous resolution, as appended, condemning the current anti-Semitic violence throughout the OSCE space; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged all member States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic and to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution called on all participating member States to combat anti-Semitism by ensuring aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged participating members States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by exploring effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism and by ensuring that laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti-Semitism; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution also encouraged all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries; WHEREAS the alarming rise in anti-Semitic incidents and violence has been documented in Canada, as well as Europe and worldwide. Appendix RESOLUTION ON ANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE IN THE OSCE REGION Berlin, 6-10 July 2002 1. Recalling that the OSCE was among those organizations which publicly achieved international condemnation of anti-Semitism through the crafting of the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document; 2. Noting that all participating States, as stated in the Copenhagen Concluding Document, commit to \"unequivocally condemn'' anti-Semitism and take effective measures to protect individuals from anti-Semitic violence; 3. Remembering the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document, which highlights the OSCE's \"comprehensive approach'' to security, calls for \"improvement in the implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms'', and urges participating States to address \"acute problems'', such as anti-Semitism; 4. Reaffirming the 1999 Charter for European Security, committing participating States to \"counter such threats to security as violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism''; 5. Recognizing that the scourge of anti-Semitism is not unique to any one country, and calls for steadfast perseverance by all participating States; The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Unequivocally condemns the alarming escalation of anti-Semitic violence throughout the OSCE region; 7. Voices deep concern over the recent escalation in anti-Semitic violence, as individuals of the Judaic faith and Jewish cultural properties have suffered attacks in many OSCE participating States; 8. Urges those States which undertake to return confiscated properties to rightful owners, or to provide alternative compensation to such owners, to ensure that their property restitutio …", "… post-communist States to redress injustices inflicted by previous regimes based on religious heritage, considering that the interests of justice dictate that more work remains to be done in this regard, particularly with regard to individual and community property restitution compensation; 10. Recognizes the danger of anti-Semitic violence to European security, especially in light of the trend of increasing violence and attacks regions wide; 11. Declares that violence against Jews and other manifestations of intolerance will never be justified by international developments or political issues, and that it obstructs democracy, pluralism, and peace; 12. Urges all States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic, as well as to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; 13. Calls upon participating States to ensure aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities, including thorough investigation of anti-Semitic criminal acts, apprehension of perpetrators, initiation of appropriate criminal prosecutions and judicial proceedings; 14. Urges participating States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by holding a follow-up seminar or human dimension meeting that explores effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism, and to ensure that their laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti-Semitism; and 15. Encourages all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries and at all regional and international forums. He said: Honourable senators, I rise to move this resolution on the Order Paper, a resolution on the rise of anti-Semitism across the OSCE region that was passed unanimously in Berlin at the OSCE annual Parliamentary Assembly in July 2002, almost two years ago. Perhaps I might spend a few moments before talking about the subject matter of the resolution to remind honourable senators about the origins and the role of the OSCE, the Organiza …", "… solution at hand. I did not initiate this resolution. How did it come about? As treasurer and head of the Liberal group at the OSCE, I was approached in May of 2002 to support a resolution to the Berlin Parliamentary Assembly by the German and American parliamentarians who decided that they would attack the problem of anti-Semitism head-on that was spiralling across the entire OSCE region. They were concerned about what was happening in their Parliaments and in their sovereign states. Parliamentarians took it upon themselves to put together the resolution that is encapsulated in this resolution. Their thrust was that this resolution should be debated in Parliaments across the 55 states and, in addition, that there should be a consideration of the reports to determine how, if there are laws that can be changed, or what steps can be taken to address the root causes of anti-Semitism. In 2002, each delegate in Berlin resolved to encourage debate in their Parliaments and to bring this measure forward to hopefully remove or shrink the roots of this ancient and intractable problem. There is no new or old anti-Semitism; there is just anti-Semitism. The resolution itself calls for consideration of effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism while examining the laws, regulations and policies in the member states in order for them to conform with the OSCE regulations. That is what this resolution does. It repeats and encapsulates the resolution unanimously passed by all parliamentarians at the OSCE. .(1550) Honourable senators, since May 2002, many other p …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2749, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/003db_2004-02-04-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians", "international bodies"], "act_why": "moves the OSCE resolution and speaks to the rise of anti-Semitism", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "the moved resolution 'encapsulating the 2002 Berlin OSCE (PA) Resolution' referred to the Human Rights Committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2004-02-04", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Joan Fraser", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… for precisely this kind of purpose, should examine this motion. That leads me to the second reason for my support of this motion. We cannot follow up on every topic addressed by every parliamentary group. There are tens of thousands of such topics. We have to pick the ones we consider important. This one is important. Anti-Semitism has been a scourge of Western civilization for 2000 years. In recent years, it has been reasserting some of its uglier forms particularly, but not only in Europe. As a country that believes in human rights and as a chamber that prides itself on its defence of human and minority rights everywhere and at all times, it i …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 339, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/003db_2004-02-04-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism a scourge reasserting its uglier forms", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "'Senator Grafstein's motion' to refer the Berlin OSCE resolution to the Human Rights Committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2004-02-10", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Bill Rompkey", "role": "Deputy Leader of the Government", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ghts and fundamental freedoms and further that the participating member States recognized that such respect was an essential factor for the peace, justice and well-being necessary to ensure the development of friendly relations and co-operation between themselves and among all member States; WHEREAS the OSCE condemned anti-Semitism in the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document and undertook to take effective measures to protect individuals from anti-Semitic violence; WHEREAS the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document of the OSCE called for improved implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms and urged participating member States to address the acute problem of anti-Semitism; WHEREAS the 1999 Charter for European Security committed Canada and other participating members States to counter violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism; WHEREAS on July 8, 2002, at its Parliamentary Assembly held at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, the OSCE passed a unanimous resolution, as appended, condemning the current anti-Semitic violence throughout the OSCE space; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged all member States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic and to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution called on all participating member States to combat anti-Semitism by ensuring aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution urged participating members States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by exploring effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism and by ensuring that laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti-Semitism; WHEREAS the 2002 Berlin Resolution also encouraged all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries; WHEREAS the alarming rise in anti-Semitic incidents and violence has been documented in Canada, as well as Europe and worldwide. Appendix RESOLUTION ON ANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE IN THE OSCE REGION Berlin, 6-10 July 2002 1. Recalling that the OSCE was among those organizations which publicly achieved international condemnation of anti-Semitism through the crafting of the 1990 Copenhagen Concluding Document; 2. Noting that all participating States, as stated in the Copenhagen Concluding Document, commit to \"unequivocally condemn'' anti-Semitism and take effective measures to protect individuals from anti-Semitic violence; 3. Remembering the 1996 Lisbon Concluding Document, which highlights the OSCE's \"comprehensive approach'' to security, calls for \"improvement in the implementation of all commitments in the human dimension, in particular with respect to human rights and fundamental freedoms'', and urges participating States to address \"acute problems'', such as anti-Semitism; 4. Reaffirming the 1999 Charter for European Security, committing participating States to \"counter such threats to security as violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and manifestations of intolerance, aggressive nationalism, racism, chauvinism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism''; 5. Recognizing that the scourge of anti-Semitism is not unique to any one country, and calls for steadfast perseverance by all participating States; The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Unequivocally condemns the alarming escalation of anti-Semitic violence throughout the OSCE region; 7. Voices deep concern over the recent escalation in anti-Semitic violence, as individuals of the Judaic faith and Jewish cultural properties have suffered attacks in many OSCE participating States; 8. Urges those States which undertake to return confiscated properties to rightful owners, or to provide alternative compensation to such owners, to ensure that their property restitutio …", "… post-communist States to redress injustices inflicted by previous regimes based on religious heritage, considering that the interests of justice dictate that more work remains to be done in this regard, particularly with regard to individual and community property restitution compensation; 10. Recognizes the danger of anti-Semitic violence to European security, especially in light of the trend of increasing violence and attacks regions wide; 11. Declares that violence against Jews and other manifestations of intolerance will never be justified by international developments or political issues, and that it obstructs democracy, pluralism, and peace; 12. Urges all States to make public statements recognizing violence against Jews and Jewish cultural properties as anti-Semitic, as well as to issue strong, public declarations condemning the depredations; 13. Calls upon participating States to ensure aggressive law enforcement by local and national authorities, including thorough investigation of anti-Semitic criminal acts, apprehension of perpetrators, initiation of appropriate criminal prosecutions and judicial proceedings; 14. Urges participating States to bolster the importance of combating anti-Semitism by holding a follow-up seminar or human dimension meeting that explores effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism, and to ensure that their laws, regulations, practices and policies conform with relevant OSCE commitments on anti-Semitism; and 15. Encourages all delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly to vocally and unconditionally condemn manifestations of anti-Semitic violence in their respective countries and at all regional and international forums.—( Honourable Senator Kinsella )."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 988, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/005db_2004-02-10-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["criminal law", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "police and security"], "act_why": "Order Paper reprint of the OSCE resolution text", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "motion to refer the 2002 Berlin OSCE resolution to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights (adopted)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2004-02-10", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… thank the Honourable Senator Kinsella for his assistance and his pointed references to our existing legislation and our obligations as a member state of the OSCE. When we sign treaties, we have an obligation to comply. The 2002 Berlin Resolution sets out the many manifestations of resolutions affecting the question of anti-Semitism in the entire OSCE region. As parliamentarians, we are obliged under that resolution to debate, consider and review our legislation, as the honourable senator pointed out, and to bring it forward to educate the public and ourselves about this ancient scourge. Again, I thank Senator Kinsella for his support."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 110, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/005db_2004-02-10-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["education", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians", "international bodies"], "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism an ancient scourge needing public education", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "'The 2002 Berlin Resolution' motion before the Senate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2004-02-10", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Noël A. Kinsella", "role": "Deputy Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ionship is at the cornerstone internationally of the United Nations system. Frequently throughout the Charter of the United Nations, we find the articulation of the relationship between respect for human rights and peace. The 2002 Berlin Resolution of OSCE calls upon all member states to take specific action to combat anti-Semitic violence and other manifestations of anti-Semitism and to condemn it unequivocally. The Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights might wish to analyze the nature of anti-Semitism in Canada in the year 2004 and to make recommendations concerning the effectiveness of our current federal anti-discrimination legislation. I believe that it is important. Honourable senators, supporting the motion that this resolution be examined by our Human Rights Committee is not only an opportunity for Canada to …", "… l its role as a member state of the OSCE but also an opportunity for us to assess the current nature of things in our ongoing development of human rights values so critical to our quality of life. We could also assess our progress toward the necessity for zero tolerance of any form of discrimination, and in particular anti-Semitism and acts of violence that are motivated by anti-Semitism, none of which has any place in Canadian society."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 603, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/005db_2004-02-10-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians", "international bodies"], "act_why": "urges zero tolerance for anti-Semitism and violence motivated by it", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "'the motion that is now before us, a motion to refer to committee the matter of the 2002 Berlin Resolution' of the OSCE", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2004-02-19", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Joan Fraser", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… now. I did participate in that debate, as Senator Maheu may recall. It was my understanding that the committee was being asked to consider the text of a resolution passed by a parliamentary association. We cannot change that. The text is before us. It is true that the debate here did range beyond the pure confines of anti-Semitism. It seemed to me at the time when I expressed my support for the motion that the primary focus of the committee's work would be anti-Semitism because that is what the text is all about. However, Senator Maheu does chair the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights. If it is the view of members of that committee that in order to give proper consideration to that document the committee should also look at comparable circumstances, I would not feel that the c …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 189, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/012db_2004-02-19-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural clarification of the committee's mandate on the resolution", "trigger": "the referred 'text of a resolution passed by a parliamentary association' (the Berlin OSCE resolution) and the committee's mandate under it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2004-02-19", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Shirley Maheu", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, our committee has asked that I request a further clarification of the mandate that was given to us on February 17. The motion before us refers in most paragraphs to the Jewish community and to anti-Semitism. Some members of the committee feel that the Jewish community is not the only Semitic group. They have asked whether, under the circumstances, we should look at all groups. I am looking for some guidance from the Senate on this issue."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 79, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/012db_2004-02-19-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "asks the Senate for guidance on the scope of the committee's mandate", "trigger": "'the mandate that was given to us on February 17' under the motion referring the Berlin OSCE anti-Semitism resolution", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2004-03-22", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "David Tkachuk", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I want to state my disgust over several ugly acts of anti-Semitism that were carried out in the Toronto area over the last week. Last Monday, 13 homes in a mainly Jewish neighbourhood were painted with swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans. Some of these homes belonged to Holocaust survivors, who expressed shock that such a thing could happen to them in Canada. This weekend, a synagogue's windows were smashed, and anti-Semitic graffiti and swastikas were found on a Jewish day school, a community centre and numerous signs for the United Jewish Appeal. Perhaps the most disturbing of all these incidents was the desecration of a Jewish cemetery. Twenty-two headstones, some benches and a menorah were destroyed in the Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park …", "… re were any doubts that we must continue to work toward racial tolerance in our own country, the incidents of this past weekend have erased them. Canada is not immune to this particular type of hatred. In fact, it is becoming an increasingly noticeable problem. B'nai B'rith recently released a study that found acts of anti-Semitism in Canada are now at their highest point in 20 years. The B'nai B'rith also says that the number of reported incidents has jumped over 27 per cent in just the last year. In another sad irony, this past weekend also commemorated the sixtieth anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Hungary, which ultimately led to the murde …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 436, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/021db_2004-03-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["domestic", "industrial"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "states disgust at anti-Semitic vandalism in Toronto", "trigger": "'several ugly acts of anti-Semitism ... carried out in the Toronto area over the last week' - 13 homes painted with swastikas, a synagogue's windows smashed, 22", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "those who perpetuate this violence (Toronto vandalism and cemetery desecration)", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2004-03-22", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Douglas Roche", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… nators, the Leader of the Government in the Senate will know that, in the last two years in Canada, attacks on Jews have doubled. The desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Toronto over the weekend is the latest incident of these deplorable hate crimes. The Toronto police chief says his force is now on high alert against anti-Semitic hate crimes. Does the leader see any connection between domestic crimes against Jews and the continuing violence in the Middle East? The Israeli assassination yesterday of Mr. Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the Hamas, is another act in the violence that has been committed by both sides in the Middle East …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 169, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/021db_2004-03-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["security", "foreign policy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "calls the desecrations deplorable hate crimes and asks about policy", "trigger": "'The desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Toronto over the weekend is the latest incident of these deplorable hate crimes'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2004-03-22", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Jack Austin", "role": "Leader of the Government", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, Senator Roche's question gives me the opportunity to thank Senator Tkachuk for his statement earlier this evening with respect to anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is a scourge based on an evil mythology that obviously cannot even be eliminated by the death of 6 million people in the Second World War. With respect to the hatred that lies in the souls of human beings, how shall we ever address it perfectly? How shall we ever eliminate it? We can only take these steps by building …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 262, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/021db_2004-03-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism a scourge based on an evil mythology", "trigger": "'the events taking place against the Jewish community in Toronto' raised by Senator Roche and Senator Tkachuk", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2004-03-22", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["pro tempore : I am sorry, Senator Losier-Cool, but your time is up. (2010) [ English ] Anti-Semitic Incidents"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 19, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/021db_2004-03-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2004-03-23", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Jack Austin", "role": "Leader of the Government", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… . Senators are quite familiar with the appointment of the inquiry commissioner, the appointment of a special prosecutor, the activities of the Public Accounts Committee and the investigation by the RCMP. While I am on my feet, I would like to repeat my thanks to Senator Tkachuk for his Senator's Statement yesterday on anti-Semitism. Prime Minster's Office Auditor General's Report—Sponsorship Program—Comments by Former Prime Minister"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 99, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/022db_2004-03-23-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "repeats thanks for a Senate statement on anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the Toronto antisemitic attacks behind 'Senator Tkachuk['s] ... Senator's Statement yesterday on anti-Semitism' (body otherwise answers on the Auditor General's", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2004-03-23", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Noël A. Kinsella", "role": "Deputy Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… tors, my question is to the Chair of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, the Honourable Senator Maheu. Honourable senators will recall that an order of reference was given by the chamber to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights to study the resolution of the parliamentary wing of the OSCE concerning anti-Semitism. Given the fact that acts of anti-Semitism have plagued us these past few days in Canada, might we obtain a verbal indication as to how the work is going and when we might expect a report from the committee?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 94, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/022db_2004-03-23-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "notes acts of anti-Semitism plaguing Canada while asking about the study", "trigger": "'the fact that acts of anti-Semitism have plagued us these past few days in Canada'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2004-03-31", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Noël A. Kinsella", "role": "Deputy Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, my question is directed to the Chair of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights. Can she advise as to the status of the committee's study under the order of reference given by the Senate dealing with the anti-Semitism resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE? Given the terrible events of the recent past in our own country and the fact that there may be a dissolution of Parliament and a general election, the matter is somewhat time sensitive."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 82, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/028db_2004-03-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "cites terrible recent events while asking about the committee study", "trigger": "'the terrible events of the recent past in our own country' (the Toronto-area antisemitic attacks), raised in asking the status of the committee study", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2004-04-01", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Noël A. Kinsella", "role": "Deputy Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… proceeding for an offence under this section shall be instituted without the consent of the Attorney General. Much has been made of that provision to try to respond to those who fear its misuse. Honourable senators, it was precisely because of this type of qualification that Criminal Code action was not taken against anti-Semitic school teacher Malcolm Ross in my province of New Brunswick. Rather, complaints had to be filed under the New Brunswick Human Rights Act, which did not require the approval of the Attorney General. A full court of nine judges in the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously upheld that proceeding. Obviously, I would prefer …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1295, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/029db_2004-04-01-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "act_why": "cites the Malcolm Ross case as precedent in a hate-propaganda bill debate", "trigger": "'Bill C-250 at third reading' and the two amendments before the Senate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "anti-Semitic school teacher Malcolm Ross", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2004-04-20", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Mobina S. B. Jaffer", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Hate crimes: Canadians show solidarity in condemning hate crimes against all people of all faiths. Honourable senators, in the early morning hours of April 5, 2004, the library of the United Talmud Torah school in Montreal was set ablaze. Anti-Semitic leaflets were reportedly left at the scene of the fire, leaving little doubt that this crime was one motivated by hatred. This attack followed an equally deplorable spate of racist attacks in Toronto, where two Jewish schools and a synagogue were vandalized and a Jewish cemetery was desecrated. The Al-madhi Islamic Ce …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 278, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/030db_2004-04-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "condemns the Talmud Torah arson and Toronto attacks", "trigger": "'in the early morning hours of April 5, 2004, the library of the United Talmud Torah school in Montreal was set ablaze' with antisemitic leaflets left at the sc", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "whoever set the United Talmud Torah library ablaze and left anti-Semitic leaflets", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2004-04-21", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "Shirley Maheu", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… study pursuant to Senator Grafstein's motion. The 2002 Berlin resolution was passed by the OSCE in recognition of the fact that incidents of anti-Jewish sentiment and violence have recently increased sharply throughout the world. The resolution asserts a clear need to recognize, address, condemn and work to eliminate anti-Semitism so as to promote human rights, democracy and security both in Europe and elsewhere. Passed unanimously by parliamentarians, the goal of the 2002 resolution is for all OSCE parliaments to bring the resolution forward for debate in their own countries. In order to fulfil this goal in Canada, the Senate has been tasked with determining what measures and steps need to be taken to address the root causes of anti-Semitism, and to put forward our own anti-Semitism resolution following an extensive review of Canadian laws, regulations, policies and the context of anti-Semitism in Canada. Honourable senators, on Monday of this week our committee had its first meeting on the issue and heard testimony from a variety of witnesses. Senator Grafstein explained the context of the resolution and the role that Canada has to play in the OSCE's struggle to combat anti-Semitism. We also heard from representatives of the government, namely, the Department of Justice, Canadian Heritage and the Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, who provided us with statistics on hate crimes and outlined Canada's anti-discrimination measures, policies and hate crimes legislation used to deal with the problem of anti-Semitism. Finally, we heard from a number of advocacy groups. They included the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada. These groups provided us with valuable information on anti-Semitism in its broader context and its manifestations in Canada. However, while we have only begun to hear witnesses on this matter, my colleagues and I have spoken together about the testimony that we have heard thus far and we agree that anti- Semitism is clearly a serious problem in Canada today. As noted in the B'nai Brith audit, published in the last month, the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Canada reached nearly 600 in 2003. The number has doubled since 2001. Anti-Semitism is a serious problem that is only getting worse. The issue clearly merits deeper study. The Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights is dedicated to inquiring further into this matter and will be hearing from more witnesses in the near future. When our study is completed, the committee will hopefully have recommendat …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 492, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/031db_2004-04-21-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "public service"], "act_why": "committee chair reports hearings and calls anti-Semitism a serious problem", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "'the 2002 OSCE Berlin resolution, which was referred to our committee on February 4 for study pursuant to Senator Grafstein's motion'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2004-05-05", "year": "2004", "session": "37-3", "parliament": "37", "speaker": "David Tkachuk", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ent that he would be quickly dealt with, he is still here. As many people had feared, he seems to be pleased to drag out the court process surrounding the issuing of a national security certificate against him for as long as possible. Mr. Zundel and his supporters have used the resulting media attention to promote his anti-Semitic ideas. It is disturbing to see some people presenting Mr. Zundel as a civil rights champion for putting our legal system through so many twists and turns when he was, in fact, declared a security risk to this country. My question is — and I have asked this before and I will continue to ask it until I receive an answer …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 159, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/373/debates/037db_2004-05-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "market"], "response": ["border"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "charge_quote": "Despite promises from the government that he would be quickly dealt with, he is still here.", "act_why": "names Ernst Zundel as promoting his anti-Semitic ideas", "trigger": "'last February Ernst Zundel was deported to Canada from the United States' and the drawn-out security-certificate proceedings he uses to promote antisemitic ide", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "Ernst Zundel", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2004-10-28", "year": "2004", "session": "38-1", "parliament": "38", "speaker": "Maria Chaput", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ate from Simon Fraser University and an honour roll distinction from Maclean's . He is also a recipient of the Order of Canada. Mr. Wong is founder and Chair of the Laurier Institution, an independent non-profit institution dedicated to advancing knowledge of the economic and social implications of cultural diversity. 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These kinds of statements have no place in the Canadian discourse and must be condemned not only for their hatefulness and promotion of violence toward our fellow man but also for the deep damage they do to the relationship between different Canad …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 230, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/010db_2004-10-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "condemns anti-Semitic remarks by unnamed Canadian Muslim leaders", "trigger": "'the anti-Semitic remarks that have recently been made by select Canadian Muslim leaders'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["religious or ethnic community"], "target_detail": "select Canadian Muslim leaders", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2005-02-03", "year": "2005", "session": "38-1", "parliament": "38", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… 02, the annual OSCE Parliamentary Assembly met in Berlin in the very Reichstag where the infamous Nazi laws were passed in the 1930s, considered and unanimously approved a resolution that I co-sponsored, urging parliamentarians in all member states — 55 in all — and others to study and address the insidious revival of anti-Semitism across the entire OSCE space, including Canada. In the last three years, anti-Semitic incidents have erupted and escalated across Canada — and all of those since the resolution against anti-Semitism was first introduced in the Senate. I gave notice of a motion to study the OSCE resolution on November 21, 2002, which languished on the Order Paper for almost a year and a half. On February 3, 2003, the resolution was referred by unanimous consent for consideration by the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, which held hearings for several hours on April 19, 2004. There, the matter stayed until Parliament dissolved on May 23, 2004. The OSCE resolution is a long one, but in part it urges — and I quote — consideration of the following: ...effective measures to prevent anti-Semitism and to ensure that laws, regulations and practices and policies conform to the OSCE commitments. Canada now lags behind a number of other states who have considered and acted on this resolution and made recommendations. Why commemorate Auschwitz if not to move to eradicate the roots of anti-Semitism in our time? I urge the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights to revive the resolution and give careful consideration to how this generation and future generations of Canadians can eradicate the contagious virus of anti-Semitism that animated and engineered Auschwitz and the Holocaust. How can we teach our children to respect the \"other\"? Senators, how can we expect our children to respect differences if the Senate remains indifferent to ongoing egregious acts of hate and discrimination in our time?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 551, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/031db_2005-02-03-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "education"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians", "international bodies"], "act_why": "urges eradicating the roots of anti-Semitism after Auschwitz commemoration", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "'when we commemorate on January 27, 60 years since the liberation of Auschwitz'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the Senate, which remains indifferent to ongoing egregious acts of hate", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2005-03-08", "year": "2005", "session": "38-1", "parliament": "38", "speaker": "David Tkachuk", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, on March 1, Ernst Zundel was finally deported to Germany after spending two years tying our courts into knots while trying to escape his fate. Mr. Zundel is infamous in Canada and abroad as a writer and promoter of anti-Semitic literature, and as a Holocaust denier. The Federal Court has determined him to be a national and international security threat and has upheld the security certificate that was initially issued against him in April 2003. In his recent ruling, Federal Court Justice Pierre Blais said that Mr. Zundel's views on the Holoca …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 466, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/042db_2005-03-08-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["border"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "charge_quote": "Mr. Zundel is infamous in Canada and abroad as a writer and promoter of anti-Semitic literature", "act_why": "names Ernst Zundel as a promoter of anti-Semitic literature", "trigger": "'on March 1, Ernst Zundel was finally deported to Germany', after the Federal Court upheld his security certificate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["individual", "unspecified"], "target_detail": "Ernst Zundel; others in our recent past who have desecrated cemeteries and firebombed a school", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2005-04-12", "year": "2005", "session": "38-1", "parliament": "38", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ion of the Church, its teachings and practices towards Jews and Judaism and its policy towards Israel shattered the Church's previous history and drew me and those of my faith to him. Honourable senators, all progress is by a winding staircase. The Pope spoke out repeatedly and forcefully against the rising scourge of anti-Semitism. He was the first Pope to visit a synagogue in Rome, to visit Auschwitz, to visit Jerusalem, to pray at the Wailing Wall, to pay his respects at Yad Vashem and to recognize the State of Israel. In his 1994 book entitled Crossing the Threshold of Hope , given to me by my great friend and mentor, the late Emmett Cardina …", "… he awareness that they prayed to the same God. The Pope continued: ...a personal experience. Auschwitz...the Holocaust of the Jewish people shows to what length a system constructed on...racial hatred and greed for power can go... (1530) He wrote: To this day, Auschwitz does not cease to admonish ... reminding us that anti-Semitism is a great sin against humanity... Allow me to repeat the Pope's words, \"anti-Semitism is a great sin against humanity.\" The Pope went on to write: ...a truly exceptional experience was my visit to the Synagogue in Rome ... the history of the Jews of Rome...is linked...to the Acts of the Apostles. ...As recognition of the State of Israel...it is important to affirm that I myself never had any doubts... Honourable senators, how best to pay homage to this late and great Pope? By heeding his words, \"Be not afraid.\" Meanwhile, it grieves me to say that the OSCE resolution against anti-Semitism, vigorously supported by the Vatican, which I introduced in the Senate on November 21, 2002, languishes in the Senate Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, still awaiting the committee's consideration and recommendations. As for the Pope, permit me to return to his words in Latin taken from his Last Will and Test …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 595, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/048db_2005-04-12-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy", "parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "quotes the Pope that anti-Semitism is a great sin against humanity", "canada_role": "legislating", "trigger": "the death of Pope John Paul II ('with profound humility I hesitate to rise to pay my meagre respects to Pope John Paul II')", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2005-05-10", "year": "2005", "session": "38-1", "parliament": "38", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… 59. In the result, I co-authored a book with Richard Marceau, MP, a co-sponsor of the bill, entitled The Passage Through Parliament to Establish Holocaust Memorial Day in Canada , to document the debate for students of the parliamentary process. Honourable senators, what are we to do when we witness the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Canada 60 years after the Holocaust scorched its horrible lesson on public opinion forever? Or so we thought. Just two weeks ago, at a prestigious secondary school in the heart of Toronto, students expropriated morbid scenes from the Holocaust to distribute obscene messages of hate on their Internet site. Horrified …", "… freedom and equality as if each one of us personally experienced that event. We are taught that we must remember that fight for freedom and equality as if it were a struggle to be personally experienced anew by each generation, and so it is. Elie Wiesel, the sombre witness of the \"Shoah,\" last year, at a conference on anti-Semitism convened in Berlin attended by parliamentarians from 55 countries, argued that the Holocaust would not be repeated if young children were taught to love rather than to hate, to respect rather than to denigrate \"the other.\" The proclamation \"Never Again\" is hollow. It is certainly hollow in my ears and in that of our g …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 519, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/057db_2005-05-10-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["education", "commemoration"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "alarm at rising tide of anti-Semitism and a Toronto school hate site", "trigger": "\"May 5 was Holocaust Memorial Day in Canada\" (with the Toronto secondary-school students' Holocaust-themed hate website)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "students at a prestigious secondary school in Toronto", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2005-06-29", "year": "2005", "session": "38-1", "parliament": "38", "speaker": "A. Raynell Andreychuk", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… on Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament the issue of developing a systematic process for the application of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as it applies to the Senate. Human Rights NOTICE OF MOTION TO AUTHORIZE COMMITTEE TO STUDY ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION IN EUROPE CORDOBA DECLARATION ON ANTI-SEMITISM AND OTHER FORMS OF INTOLERANCE"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 81, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/078db_2005-06-29-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "bare notice of motion; term appears only in the procedural heading", "trigger": "notice of motion to refer the OSCE Cordoba Declaration on Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2005-06-29", "year": "2005", "session": "38-1", "parliament": "38", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… a and augurs to be the largest and best attended in its history. The three standing committees have been hard at work all year preparing draft reports and resolutions for consideration by the assembly as a whole. Two weeks ago, in the historic city of Cordoba, Spain, the OSCE convened an equally historic Conference on Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance. I was privileged to attend and speak to the role of parliamentarians in combating anti-Semitism, the oldest form of discrimination. I was pleased that all of our ideas and recommendations were included in the final text of the declaration. (1340) This conference is a follow-up to a series of conferences attended by parliamentarians, held in all regions of the OSCE in the last five years, including Berlin, Rome, Paris, Vienna, Copenhagen, Oporto, Brussels, Rotterdam, Maastricht, Washington and others. The conference culminated with the Cordova Declaration Against Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance, which was adopted without objection by all 55 countries, including Canada. Later today, I intend to table the Cordova Declaration on Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance as a motion for consideration by the Senate and then by the Senate Committee on Human Rights as mandated by the text of the Cordoba declaration. Fighting the war against anti-Semitism and other insidious forms of intolerance is the work of every parliamentarian. Now is the time for the Senate to do its work. 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Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I give notice that on Wednesday, July 6, 2005, I will move: That the following declaration adopted at the 2005 OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism and on other Forms of Intolerance, in Cordoba, Spain, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and report no later than 16 February, 2006: Cordoba Declaration Based on consultations it is concluded that OSCE participating States, Inspired by the spirit of Cordoba, the City of Thre …", "… equal and effective protection of law; Recalling the decisions of the OSCE Ministerial Councils at Porto (MC.DD/6/02), Maastricht (MC.DEC/4/03) and Sofia (MC.DEC/12/04), and the need to promote implementation of commitments and operational follow up to the work started in 2003 and continued with the OSCE Conference on Anti-Semitism, (Berlin on 28 and 29 April 2004), the OSCE Meeting on the Relationship Between Racist, Xenophobic and anti-Semitic Propaganda on the Internet and Hate Crimes, held in Paris on 16 and 17 June 2004, and the OSCE Conference on Tolerance and the Fight against Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, (Brussels on 13 and 14 September 2004); Acknowledging that the purpose of this Conference was to analyze the status of implementation of th …", "… artnerships towards tolerance, respect and mutual understanding and ensuring the freedom of the individual to profess and practice a religion or belief, alone or in community with others through transparent and non-discriminatory laws, regulations, practices and policies; 2. Condemn without reserve racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and other forms of intolerance and discrimination, including against Muslims and Christians, as well as harassment and incitement to hate crimes motivated, inter alia , by race, colour, sex, language, religion or belief, political or other opinion, national or social origin, birth or other status; and reaffirm their …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1168, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/078db_2005-06-29-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "notice of motion reproducing the Cordoba Declaration verbatim", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "notice of motion that the Cordoba Declaration \"be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2005-07-06", "year": "2005", "session": "38-1", "parliament": "38", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… st international organization dedicated to the advancement of democratic rights, human rights, and economic and security cooperation. The Washington Declaration included a number of issues on which Canadian parliamentarians took the lead: trafficking in human beings; steps for cooperation in the Middle East; combating anti-Semitism; advancing the fight against corruption amongst parliamentarians and in the public service; improving democratic surveillance of election monitoring; codes of conduct for peacekeepers and international representatives; and gender issues. I was pleased to be re-elected for a third time as a Senior Officer and Treasurer …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 323, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/082db_2005-07-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "descriptive account of OSCE session listing 'combating anti-Semitism' among topics", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "completion of the fourteenth annual session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Washington, D.C.", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2005-07-20", "year": "2005", "session": "38-1", "parliament": "38", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I give notice that on Friday next, July 22, 2005, I will move: That the following resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism which was adopted unanimously at the 14th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Association, in which Canada participated in Washington on July 5, 2005, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the committee table its final report no later than February 16, 2006. RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM Recalling the resolutions on anti-Semitism by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, which were unanimously passed at the annual meetings in Berlin in 2002, in Rotterdam in 2003 and in Edinburgh in 2004, 1. Referring to the commitments made by the participating states emerging from the OSCE conferences in Vienna (June 2003), Berlin (April 2004) and Brussels (September 2004) regarding legal, political and educational efforts to fight anti-Semitism, ensuring \"that Jews in the OSCE region can live their lives free of discrimination, harassment and violence\", 2. Welcoming the convening of the Conference on Anti-Semitism and on Other Forms of Intolerance in Cordoba, Spain in June 2005, 3. Commending the appointment and continuing role of the three Personal Representatives of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Anti-Semitism, on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims, and on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, also focusing on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians and Members of Other Religions, reflecting the distinct role of each in addressing these separate issues in the OSCE region, 4. Reaffirming the view expressed in earlier resolutions that anti-Semitism constitutes a threat to fundamental human rights and to democratic values and hence to the security in the OSCE region, 5. Emphasizing the importance of permanent monitoring mechanisms of incidents of anti-Semitism at a national level, as well as the need for public condemnations, energetic police work and vigorous prosecutions, The Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE: 6. Urges OSCE participating states to adopt national uniform definitions for monitoring and collecting information about anti-Semitism and hate crimes along the lines of the January 2005 EUMC Working Definition of Anti-Semitism and to familiarize officials, civil servants and others working in the public sphere with these definitions so that incidents can be quickly identified and recorded; 7. Recommends that OSCE participating states establish national data collection and monitoring mechanisms and improve information-sharing among national government authorities, local officials, and civil society representatives, as well as exchange data and best practices with other OSCE participating states; 8. Urges OSCE participating states to publicize data on anti-Semitic incidents in a timely manner as well as report the information to the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR); 9. Recommends that ODIHR publicize its data on anti-Semitic crimes and hate crimes on a regular basis, highlight best practices, as well as initiate programs with a particular focus in the areas of police, law enforcement, and education; 10. Calls upon national governments to allot adequate resources to the monitoring of anti-Semitism, including the appointment of national ombudspersons or special representatives; 11. Emphasizes the need to broaden the involvement of civil society representatives in the collection, analysis and publication of data on anti-Semitism and related violence; 12. Calls on the national delegations of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to ensure that regular debates on the subject of anti-Semitism are conducted in their parliaments and furthermore to support public awareness campaigns on the threat to democracy posed by acts of anti-Semitic hatred, detailing best practices to combat this threat; 13. Calls on the national delegations of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to submit written reports at the 2006 Annual Session on the activities of their parliaments with regard to combating anti-Semitism; 14. Calls on the OSCE participating states to develop educational material and teacher training methods to counter contemporary forms of anti-Semitism, as well as update programs on Holocaust education; 15. Urges both the national parliaments and governments of OSCE participating states to review their national laws; 16. Urges the OSCE participating states to improve security at Jewish sites and other locations that are potential targets of anti-Semitic attacks in coordination with the representatives of these communities. 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Urges all OSCE participating states to cooperate with the Mediterranean Partners on dealing with both \"soft\" threats to security, such as …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 821, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/085db_2005-07-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["projective", "market"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "notice reproducing the OSCE Mediterranean resolution; term appears in the quoted text", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "notice of inquiry on the OSCE Resolution on the Mediterranean Dimension adopted in Washington", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2005-07-20", "year": "2005", "session": "38-1", "parliament": "38", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, when shall this bill be read the second time? On motion of Senator Grafstein, bill placed on the Orders of the Day for consideration two days hence. Human Rights Notice of Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 50, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/085db_2005-07-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2005-09-28", "year": "2005", "session": "38-1", "parliament": "38", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… by acts of terrorism actually despair of humanity, of life, of the future\" (message of his Holiness John Paul II to celebrate World Peace Day, 1 January 2002); 7. Agreeing in this same perspective, that the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which for decades has been committed to promoting religious tolerance and to combating anti-Semitism, has explicitly promoted a mobilization campaign to get the international community to recognize that terrorist suicide attacks are real \"crimes against humanity\"; 8. Considering that dealing in death in this manner is a blatant attack on the most elementary human rights and on the international legal order, because i …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1529, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/086db_2005-09-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["clergy", "community organisations"], "act_why": "notice reproducing the OSCE suicide-bomber resolution; term inside quoted text", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "notice of inquiry on the OSCE Resolution on Terrorism by Suicide Bombers", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2005-10-20", "year": "2005", "session": "38-1", "parliament": "38", "speaker": "Lucie Pépin", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… sidered a threat or a target because they are Black; still others are looked down on or viewed differently because they are Aboriginal. This year, the Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations created an honorary award, bestowed on the Honourable Irwin Cotler for his lifelong commitment to human rights over racism, anti-Semitism and hate crimes. (1340) I would ask honourable senators to join with me in congratulating the Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations and all of the award winners for refusing to sit by and do nothing when the dignity of others is threatened. [ English ] International Day for the Eradication of Poverty"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 397, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/090db_2005-10-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "anti-racism awards tribute treating anti-Semitism as a wrong to be fought", "trigger": "the Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations' Frederick Johnson Award ceremony of October 15, including the honorary award to Irwin Cotler", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2005-10-27", "year": "2005", "session": "38-1", "parliament": "38", "speaker": "David Tkachuk", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… deally suited for a nuclear weapon. Iran has barred inspectors from all locations near its military program. Honourable senators, Iran has stated clearly its intentions and is busy building the weapons to fulfil them. The Prime Minister has condemned the Iranian president for his words. He said they fuelled hatred and anti-Semitism. We need to move beyond words to action. We need to stand side by side with the United States and Israel to do everything we can to halt Iran's nuclear weapons program, and we need to convince all UN Security Council members to take appropriate UN action in this regard. These measures are just for starters. Women in S …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 287, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/381/debates/093db_2005-10-27-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["foreign policy", "Israel relations"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "charge_quote": "We need to move beyond words to action.", "act_why": "relays PM's charge that the named Iranian president's words fuelled anti-Semitism", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Iran's president publicly calling for Israel to be \"wiped off the map\" the previous day; IAEA finding of non-compliance", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "Iran's president", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2006-04-05", "year": "2006", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Hugh Segal", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… provide recommendations for measures mitigating rural poverty and reduced opportunity for rural Canadians; and That the Committee submit its final report no later than April 30, 2007. 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Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I give notice that on Friday next, April 7, 2006, I will move: That the following Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism which was adopted unanimously at the 14th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Association, in which Canada participated in Washington on July 5, 2005, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than October 30, 2006: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM Recalling the resolutions on anti-Semitism by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, which were unanimously passed at the annual meetings in Berlin in 2002, in Rotterdam in 2003 and in Edinburgh in 2004, 1. Referring to the commitments made by the participating states emerging from the OSCE conferences in Vienna (June 2003), Berlin (April 2004) and Brussels (September 2004) regarding legal, political and educational efforts to fight anti-Semitism, ensuring \"that Jews in the OSCE region can live their lives free of discrimination, harassment and violence\", 2. Welcoming the convening of the Conference on Anti-Semitism and on Other Forms of Intolerance in Cordoba, Spain in June 2005, 3. Commending the appointment and continuing role of the three Personal Representatives of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Anti-Semitism, on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims, and on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, also focusing on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians and Members of Other Religions, reflecting the distinct role of each in addressing these separate issues in the OSCE region, 4. Reaffirming the view expressed in earlier resolutions that anti-Semitism constitutes a threat to fundamental human rights and to democratic values and hence to the security in the OSCE region, 5. Emphasizing the importance of permanent monitoring mechanisms of incidents of anti-Semitism at a national level, as well as the need for public condemnations, energetic police work and vigorous prosecutions, The Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE: 6. Urges OSCE participating states to adopt national uniform definitions for monitoring and collecting information about anti-Semitism and hate crimes along the lines of the January 2005 EUMC Working Definition of Anti-Semitism and to familiarize officials, civil servants and others working in the public sphere with these definitions so that incidents can be quickly identified and recorded; 7. Recommends that OSCE participating states establish national data collection and monitoring mechanisms and improve information-sharing among national government authorities, local officials, and civil society representatives, as well as exchange data and best practices with other OSCE participating states; 8. Urges OSCE participating states to publicize data on anti-Semitic incidents in a timely manner as well as report the information to the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR); 9. Recommends that ODIHR publicize its data on anti-Semitic crimes and hate crimes on a regular basis, highlight best practices, as well as initiate programs with a particular focus in the areas of police, law enforcement, and education; 10. Calls upon national governments to allot adequate resources to the monitoring of anti-Semitism, including the appointment of national ombudspersons or special representatives; 11. Emphasizes the need to broaden the involvement of civil society representatives in the collection, analysis and publication of data on anti-Semitism and related violence; 12. Calls on the national delegations of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to ensure that regular debates on the subject of anti-Semitism are conducted in their parliaments and furthermore to support public awareness campaigns on the threat to democracy posed by acts of anti-Semitic hatred, detailing best practices to combat this threat; 13. Calls on the national delegations of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to submit written reports at the 2006 Annual Session on the activities of their parliaments with regard to combating anti-Semitism; 14. Calls on the OSCE participating states to develop educational material and teacher training methods to counter contemporary forms of anti-Semitism, as well as update programs on Holocaust education; 15. Urges both the national parliaments and governments of OSCE participating states to review their national laws; 16. Urges the OSCE participating states to improve security at Jewish sites and other locations that are potential targets of anti-Semitic attacks in coordination with the representatives of these communities. 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Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… t. Dominic and Professor Emeritus of Education at the distinguished Catholic university, Seton Hall in South Orange, New Jersey. Sister Rose was a nun of singular courage and leadership who discovered, to her surprise in her studies in the late fifties, that Catholic teachings from grade school to high school fostered anti-Semitism. It was her pioneering studies that profoundly influenced in 1962 the Vatican Council II, Nostra Aetate, to reverse church teachings, and concluded with these crucial words: \"The Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed of God.\" These words marked a profound reversal in church teachings and attitudes, and …", "… instrumental in convincing the State of New Jersey to provide Holocaust studies throughout its school system. Regrettably, not one community in Canada does so. It is hoped that the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights might consider this issue if and when it chooses to deal with the Washington declaration against anti-Semitism, now on the order paper. Indeed, words can kill and words can heal: so taught the late Sister Rose Thering. [ Translation ] Technology in the Senate"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 259, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/011db_2006-05-09-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["education", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "clergy"], "act_why": "eulogy for Sister Rose Thering, welcoming reversal of teachings that fostered anti-Semitism", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "\"the passing this past Saturday of Sister Rose Thering\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "Catholic teachings from grade school to high school", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2006-06-13", "year": "2006", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. 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Referring to the commitments made by the participating states emerging from the OSCE conferences in Vienna (June 2003), Berlin (April 2004) and Brussels (September 2004) regarding legal, political and educational efforts to fight anti-Semitism, ensuring \"that Jews in the OSCE region can live their lives free of discrimination, harassment and violence\", 2. Welcoming the convening of the Conference on Anti-Semitism and on Other Forms of Intolerance in Cordoba, Spain in June 2005, 3. Commending the appointment and continuing role of the three Personal Representatives of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Anti-Semitism, on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims, and on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, also focusing on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians and Members of Other Religions, reflecting the distinct role of each in addressing these separate issues in the OSCE region, 4. Reaffirming the view expressed in earlier resolutions that anti-Semitism constitutes a threat to fundamental human rights and to democratic values and hence to the security in the OSCE region, 5. Emphasizing the importance of permanent monitoring mechanisms of incidents of anti-Semitism at a national level, as well as the need for public condemnations, energetic police work and vigorous prosecutions, The Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE: 6. Urges OSCE participating states to adopt national uniform definitions for monitoring and collecting information about anti-Semitism and hate crimes along the lines of the January 2005 EUMC Working Definition of Anti-Semitism and to familiarize officials, civil servants and others working in the public sphere with these definitions so that incidents can be quickly identified and recorded; 7. Recommends that OSCE participating states establish national data collection and monitoring mechanisms and improve information-sharing among national government authorities, local officials, and civil society representatives, as well as exchange data and best practices with other OSCE participating states; 8. Urges OSCE participating states to publicize data on anti-Semitic incidents in a timely manner as well as report the information to the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR); 9. Recommends that ODIHR publicize its data on anti-Semitic crimes and hate crimes on a regular basis, highlight best practices, as well as initiate programs with a particular focus in the areas of police, law enforcement, and education; 10. Calls upon national governments to allot adequate resources to the monitoring of anti-Semitism, including the appointment of national ombudspersons or special representatives; 11. Emphasizes the need to broaden the involvement of civil society representatives in the collection, analysis and publication of data on anti-Semitism and related violence; 12. Calls on the national delegations of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to ensure that regular debates on the subject of anti-Semitism are conducted in their parliaments and furthermore to support public awareness campaigns on the threat to democracy posed by acts of anti-Semitic hatred, detailing best practices to combat this threat; 13. Calls on the national delegations of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to submit written reports at the 2006 Annual Session on the activities of their parliaments with regard to combating anti-Semitism; 14. Calls on the OSCE participating states to develop educational material and teacher training methods to counter contemporary forms of anti-Semitism, as well as update programs on Holocaust education; 15. Urges both the national parliaments and governments of OSCE participating states to review their national laws; 16. Urges the OSCE participating states to improve security at Jewish sites and other locations that are potential targets of anti-Semitic attacks in coordination with the representatives of these communities. He said: Honourable senators, I intended to speak on Motion No. 5, but due to the hour I will defer my remarks to another day. On motion of Senator Grafstein, debated adjourned. 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[ English ] Human Rights Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe 2005 Declaration on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance—Debate Adjourned"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 40, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/023db_2006-06-13-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2006-06-20", "year": "2006", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I rise to speak briefly, once again, on this motion respecting the rising spiral of anti-Semitism, the oldest of all prejudices, in Canada and elsewhere around the world. The alarming statistics simply cry out for redress. The largest number of recorded hate incidents across Canada and Toronto continue to be anti-Semitic in nature. This year the number of incidents has ebbed slightly but they remain in historic high numbers since the information was tracked first by B'nai Brith and more recently by some police authorities. The substance of this motion has been on the Order Paper in the Senate for almost five years. It was briefly cons …", "… rosoft. There are solutions to curbing hate on the Internet without reducing free speech. I hope that the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, if this motion is adopted, will explore these five elements, which can only dilute the impact of hate. We cannot hope to eradicate the roots of these odious prejudices of anti-Semitism, but we can hopefully make a difference. Some may wonder about my persistence on this topic. Honourable senators, I take this subject very personally. I take anti-Semitism up close and personal since this dismal subject matter is directed to me, my family and my co-religionists personally, right here in Canada. Honourable senators, I wonder why there is reluctance, in light of the clear evidence of this growing problem in Canada, on the part of the Senate Human Rights Committee to study …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 834, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/025db_2006-06-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["platform regulation", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "community organisations"], "act_why": "speech on the rising spiral of anti-Semitism and remedies for it", "trigger": "the motion referring the OSCE Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism to the Human Rights Committee, which \"has been on the Order Paper in the Senate for almost f", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "the Senate Human Rights Committee's reluctance to study the problem", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2006-06-20", "year": "2006", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Wilfred P. Moore", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… r Tardif: ...waiting for one year or more might be the difference between Canada being a global player and a global pretender. Let us get at it now. On motion of Senator Segal, debate adjourned. Human Rights Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe 2005 Declaration on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Stollery: That the following Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism which was adopted unanimously at the 14th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Association, in which Canada participated in Washington on July 5, 2005, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than October 30, 2006: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM Recalling the resolutions on anti-Semitism by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, which were unanimously passed at the annual meetings in Berlin in 2002, in Rotterdam in 2003 and in Edinburgh in 2004, 1. Referring to the commitments made by the participating states emerging from the OSCE conferences in Vienna (June 2003), Berlin (April 2004) and Brussels (September 2004) regarding legal, political and educational efforts to fight anti-Semitism, ensuring \"that Jews in the OSCE region can live their lives free of discrimination, harassment and violence\", 2. Welcoming the convening of the Conference on Anti-Semitism and on Other Forms of Intolerance in Cordoba, Spain in June 2005, 3. Commending the appointment and continuing role of the three Personal Representatives of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Anti-Semitism, on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims, and on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, also focusing on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians and Members of Other Religions, reflecting the distinct role of each in addressing these separate issues in the OSCE region, 4. Reaffirming the view expressed in earlier resolutions that anti-Semitism constitutes a threat to fundamental human rights and to democratic values and hence to the security in the OSCE region, 5. Emphasizing the importance of permanent monitoring mechanisms of incidents of anti-Semitism at a national level, as well as the need for public condemnations, energetic police work and vigorous prosecutions, The Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE: 6. Urges OSCE participating states to adopt national uniform definitions for monitoring and collecting information about anti-Semitism and hate crimes along the lines of the January 2005 EUMC Working Definition of Anti-Semitism and to familiarize officials, civil servants and others working in the public sphere with these definitions so that incidents can be quickly identified and recorded; 7. Recommends that OSCE participating states establish national data collection and monitoring mechanisms and improve information-sharing among national government authorities, local officials, and civil society representatives, as well as exchange data and best practices with other OSCE participating states; 8. Urges OSCE participating states to publicize data on anti-Semitic incidents in a timely manner as well as report the information to the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR); 9. Recommends that ODIHR publicize its data on anti-Semitic crimes and hate crimes on a regular basis, highlight best practices, as well as initiate programs with a particular focus in the areas of police, law enforcement, and education; 10. Calls upon national governments to allot adequate resources to the monitoring of anti-Semitism, including the appointment of national ombudspersons or special representatives; 11. Emphasizes the need to broaden the involvement of civil society representatives in the collection, analysis and publication of data on anti-Semitism and related violence; 12. Calls on the national delegations of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to ensure that regular debates on the subject of anti-Semitism are conducted in their parliaments and furthermore to support public awareness campaigns on the threat to democracy posed by acts of anti-Semitic hatred, detailing best practices to combat this threat; 13. Calls on the national delegations of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to submit written reports at the 2006 Annual Session on the activities of their parliaments with regard to combating anti-Semitism; 14. Calls on the OSCE participating states to develop educational material and teacher training methods to counter contemporary forms of anti-Semitism, as well as update programs on Holocaust education; 15. Urges both the national parliaments and governments of OSCE participating states to review their national laws; 16. 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Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I give notice that, two days hence, I will move: That the following Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance which was adopted at the 15th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Association, in which Canada participated in Brussels, Belgium on July 7, 2006, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than March 31, 2007: RESOLUTION ONCOMBATING ANTI-SEMITISMAND OTHER FORMS OF INTOLERANCE 1. Calling attention to the resolutions on anti-Semitism adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its annual sessions in Berlin in 2002, Rotterdam in 2003, Edinburgh in 2004 and Washington in 2005, 2. Intending to raise awareness of the need to combat anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination against Muslims, as well as racism, xenophobia and discrimination, also focusing on the intolerance and discrimination faced by Christians and members of other religions and minorities in different societies, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 3. Recognizes the steps taken by the OSCE and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to address the problems of anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance, including the work of the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Unit at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the appointment of the Personal Representatives of the Chairman-in-Office, and the organization of expert meetings on the issue of anti-Semitism; 4. Reminds its participating States that \"Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed towards Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, towards Jewish community institutions and religious facilities\", this being the definition of anti-Semitism adopted by representatives of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) and ODIHR; 5. Urges its participating States to establish a legal framework for targeted measures to combat the dissemination of racist and anti-Semitic material via the Internet; 6. Urges its participating States to intensify their efforts to combat discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities; 7. Urges its participating States to present written reports, at the 2007 Annual Session, on their activities to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 8. Welcomes the offer of the Romanian Government to host a follow-up conference in 2007 on combating anti-Semitism and all forms of discrimination with the aim of reviewing all the decisions adopted at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington), for which commitments were undertaken by the participating States, with a request for proposals on improving implementation, and calls upon participating States t …", "… e the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) with regular information on the status of implementation of the 38 commitments made at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington); 10. Urges its participating States to develop proposals for national action plans to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 11. Urges its participating States to raise awareness of the need to protect Jewish institutions and other minority institutions in the various societies; 12. Urges its participating States to appoint ombudspersons or special commissioners to present and promote national guidelines on educational work to promote tolerance and combat anti-Semitism, including Holocaust education; 13. Underlines the need for broad public support and promotion of, and cooperation with, civil society representatives involved in the collection, analysis and publication of data on anti-Semitism and racism and related violence; 14. Urges its participating States to engage with the history of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism and to analyze the role of public institutions in this context; 15. Requests its participating States to position themselves against all current forms of anti-Semitism wherever they encounter it; 16. Resolves to involve other inter-parliamentary organizations such as the IPU, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in its efforts to implement the above demands. Anti-Terrorism Act No …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 677, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/030db_2006-09-26-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": [], "response": ["definition or envoy", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "fisheries notice of motion with no substantive use of the term", "trigger": "the Second Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, tabled June 22, 2006", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2006-09-26", "year": "2006", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Joseph A. 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Comeau", "role": "Deputy Leader of the Government", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, all Canadians find anti-Semitism deplorable. It is important for us, honourable senators, to speak out on this issue. I believe that all senators should condemn such behaviour. I will likely wish to speak about this subject again in future. However, I would like to adjourn the debate, in my name, to a later date. 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On motion of Senator Robichaud, debate adjourned. (1700) [ Translation ] Human Rights Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe 2005 Declaration on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Stollery: That the following Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism which was adopted unanimously at the 14th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Association, in which Canada participated in Washington on July 5, 2005, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than October 30, 2006: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM Recalling the resolutions on anti-Semitism by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, which were unanimously passed at the annual meetings in Berlin in 2002, in Rotterdam in 2003 and in Edinburgh in 2004, 1. Referring to the commitments made by the participating states emerging from the OSCE conferences in Vienna (June 2003), Berlin (April 2004) and Brussels (September 2004) regarding legal, political and educational efforts to fight anti-Semitism, ensuring \"that Jews in the OSCE region can live their lives free of discrimination, harassment and violence\", 2. Welcoming the convening of the Conference on Anti-Semitism and on Other Forms of Intolerance in Cordoba, Spain in June 2005, 3. Commending the appointment and continuing role of the three Personal Representatives of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Anti-Semitism, on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims, and on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, also focusing on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians and Members of Other Religions, reflecting the distinct role of each in addressing these separate issues in the OSCE region, 4. Reaffirming the view expressed in earlier resolutions that anti-Semitism constitutes a threat to fundamental human rights and to democratic values and hence to the security in the OSCE region, 5. Emphasizing the importance of permanent monitoring mechanisms of incidents of anti-Semitism at a national level, as well as the need for public condemnations, energetic police work and vigorous prosecutions, The Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE: 6. Urges OSCE participating states to adopt national uniform definitions for monitoring and collecting information about anti-Semitism and hate crimes along the lines of the January 2005 EUMC Working Definition of Anti-Semitism and to familiarize officials, civil servants and others working in the public sphere with these definitions so that incidents can be quickly identified and recorded; 7. Recommends that OSCE participating states establish national data collection and monitoring mechanisms and improve information-sharing among national government authorities, local officials, and civil society representatives, as well as exchange data and best practices with other OSCE participating states; 8. Urges OSCE participating states to publicize data on anti-Semitic incidents in a timely manner as well as report the information to the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR); 9. Recommends that ODIHR publicize its data on anti-Semitic crimes and hate crimes on a regular basis, highlight best practices, as well as initiate programs with a particular focus in the areas of police, law enforcement, and education; 10. Calls upon national governments to allot adequate resources to the monitoring of anti-Semitism, including the appointment of national ombudspersons or special representatives; 11. Emphasizes the need to broaden the involvement of civil society representatives in the collection, analysis and publication of data on anti-Semitism and related violence; 12. Calls on the national delegations of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to ensure that regular debates on the subject of anti-Semitism are conducted in their parliaments and furthermore to support public awareness campaigns on the threat to democracy posed by acts of anti-Semitic hatred, detailing best practices to combat this threat; 13. Calls on the national delegations of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to submit written reports at the 2006 Annual Session on the activities of their parliaments with regard to combating anti-Semitism; 14. Calls on the OSCE participating states to develop educational material and teacher training methods to counter contemporary forms of anti-Semitism, as well as update programs on Holocaust education; 15. Urges both the national parliaments and governments of OSCE participating states to review their national laws; 16. Urges the OSCE participating states to improve security at Jewish sites and other locations that are potential targets of anti-Semitic attacks in coordination with the representatives of these communities.—( Honourable Senator Segal )"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 724, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/045db_2006-11-02-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "act_why": "'Hear, hear' plus the reproduced Order Paper motion text", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the motion to refer the OSCE 2005 Declaration on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance to the Human Rights Committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2006-11-23", "year": "2006", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Anne C. Cools", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… enators, with the exception of the one who denied me permission, are feeling a sense of relief that I am offering not to tax their minds on these taxing matters at this very late hour of the day. 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Calling attention to the resolutions on anti-Semitism adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its annual sessions in Berlin in 2002, Rotterdam in 2003, Edinburgh in 2004 and Washington in 2005, 2. Intending to raise awareness of the need to combat anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination against Muslims, as well as racism, xenophobia and discrimination, also focusing on the intolerance and discrimination faced by Christians and members of other religions and minorities in different societies, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 3. Recognizes the steps taken by the OSCE and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to address the problems of anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance, including the work of the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Unit at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the appointment of the Personal Representatives of the Chairman-in-Office, and the organization of expert meetings on the issue of anti-Semitism; 4. Reminds its participating States that \"Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed towards Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, towards Jewish community institutions and religious facilities\", this being the definition of anti-Semitism adopted by representatives of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) and ODIHR; 5. Urges its participating States to establish a legal framework for targeted measures to combat the dissemination of racist and anti-Semitic material via the Internet; 6. Urges its participating States to intensify their efforts to combat discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities; 7. Urges its participating States to present written reports, at the 2007 Annual Session, on their activities to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 8. Welcomes the offer of the Romanian Government to host a follow-up conference in 2007 on combating anti-Semitism and all forms of discrimination with the aim of reviewing all the decisions adopted at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington), for which commitments were undertaken by the participating States, with a request for proposals on improving implementation, and calls upon participating States t …", "… e the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) with regular information on the status of implementation of the 38 commitments made at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington); 10. Urges its participating States to develop proposals for national action plans to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 11. Urges its participating States to raise awareness of the need to protect Jewish institutions and other minority institutions in the various societies; 12. Urges its participating States to appoint ombudspersons or special commissioners to present and promote national guidelines on educational work to promote tolerance and combat anti-Semitism, including Holocaust education; 13. Underlines the need for broad public support and promotion of, and cooperation with, civil society representatives involved in the collection, analysis and publication of data on anti-Semitism and racism and related violence; 14. Urges its participating States to engage with the history of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism and to analyze the role of public institutions in this context; 15. Requests its participating States to position themselves against all current forms of anti-Semitism wherever they encounter it; 16. Resolves to involve other inter-parliamentary organizations such as the IPU, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in its efforts to implement the above demands. She said: Honourable …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 681, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/053db_2006-11-23-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "moves the motion for another senator, reproducing the OSCE resolution", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "motion that the OSCE 2006 Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism, adopted in Brussels on July 7, 2006, be referred to the Human Rights Committee", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2006-12-06", "year": "2006", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Hugh Segal", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I had undertaken to speak on this motion with respect to anti-Semitism — which, like others in this chamber, I am deeply opposed to. However, being mindful of the clock, if it is acceptable to honourable senators I wish to move the adjournment of the debate in my name. On motion of Senator Segal, debate adjourned. [ Translation ] Softwood Lumber Products Export Charge Bill, 2006 First Re …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 70, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/057db_2006-12-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "states he is deeply opposed to anti-Semitism before adjourning debate", "trigger": "\"this motion with respect to anti-Semitism\", on which he moves the adjournment of debate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2006-12-06", "year": "2006", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Nick G. Sibbeston", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… truthfully and sincerely today in the hope that in the future, when cuts are being considered, the people in the more remote parts of the country will be kept in mind. On motion of Senator Robichaud, debate adjourned. Human Rights Motion to Study Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe 2006 Resolution on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance—Debate continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Fraser, for the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Cook: That the following Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance which was adopted at the 15th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Association, in which Canada participated in Brussels, Belgium on July 7, 2006, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than March 31, 2007: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM AND OTHER FORMS OF INTOLERANCE 1. Calling attention to the resolutions on anti-Semitism adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its annual sessions in Berlin in 2002, Rotterdam in 2003, Edinburgh in 2004 and Washington in 2005, 2. Intending to raise awareness of the need to combat anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination against Muslims, as well as racism, xenophobia and discrimination, also focusing on the intolerance and discrimination faced by Christians and members of other religions and minorities in different societies, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 3. Recognizes the steps taken by the OSCE and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to address the problems of anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance, including the work of the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Unit at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the appointment of the Personal Representatives of the Chairman-in-Office, and the organization of expert meetings on the issue of anti-Semitism; 4. Reminds its participating States that \"Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed towards Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, towards Jewish community institutions and religious facilities\", this being the definition of anti-Semitism adopted by representatives of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) and ODIHR; 5. Urges its participating States to establish a legal framework for targeted measures to combat the dissemination of racist and anti-Semitic material via the Internet; 6. Urges its participating States to intensify their efforts to combat discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities; 7. Urges its participating States to present written reports, at the 2007 Annual Session, on their activities to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 8. Welcomes the offer of the Romanian Government to host a follow-up conference in 2007 on combating anti-Semitism and all forms of discrimination with the aim of reviewing all the decisions adopted at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington), for which commitments were undertaken by the participating States, with a request for proposals on improving implementation, and calls upon participating States t …", "… e the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) with regular information on the status of implementation of the 38 commitments made at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington); 10. Urges its participating States to develop proposals for national action plans to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 11. Urges its participating States to raise awareness of the need to protect Jewish institutions and other minority institutions in the various societies; 12. Urges its participating States to appoint ombudspersons or special commissioners to present and promote national guidelines on educational work to promote tolerance and combat anti-Semitism, including Holocaust education; 13. Underlines the need for broad public support and promotion of, and cooperation with, civil society representatives involved in the collection, analysis and publication of data on anti-Semitism and racism and related violence; 14. Urges its participating States to engage with the history of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism and to analyze the role of public institutions in this context; 15. Requests its participating States to position themselves against all current forms of anti-Semitism wherever they encounter it; 16. Resolves to involve other inter-parliamentary organizations such as the IPU, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in its efforts to implement the above demands.—( Honourable Senator …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1967, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/057db_2006-12-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "domestic"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "literacy speech; term only in the trailing Order Paper item", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2006-12-12", "year": "2006", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… 4 Guard your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit. (1410) The Chafetz Chaim taught that each word counts. Words can kill. I admonish the President of Iran and repeat those ancient words from the Bible: \"Guard your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.\" Liberal Party of Canada Convention Anti-Semitic Comments"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 253, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/060db_2006-12-12-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired", "domestic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "jurisdiction": ["clergy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "charge_quote": "the President of Iran sponsored an international conference, the sole purpose of which was to deny the Holocaust", "act_why": "admonishes the President of Iran over the Tehran Holocaust-denial conference", "trigger": "\"This week in Tehran, the President of Iran sponsored an international conference, the sole purpose of which was to deny the Holocaust\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the President of Iran", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2006-12-12", "year": "2006", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… at the systematic state sponsored murder of 6,000,000 Jews and other targeted groups by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II was either fabricated or exaggerated; Whereas in August 2006, Iran staged a reprehensible international contest of cartoons on the Holocaust, endorsing and promoting prevailing anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli stereotypes and Holocaust denial; Whereas President Ahmadinejad wrote in a letter in July 2006 to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, \"Is it not a reasonable possibility that some countries that had won the war (World War II) made up this excuse to constantly embarrass the defeated people ... to bar their progress.\"; Whereas on October 26, 2005, in a conference entitled, \"The World without Zionism\", President Ahmadinejad stated in a speech that \"Israel must be wiped off the map.\"; Whereas thereafter, these anti-Semitic comments were broadly condemned by the United Nations and others, including resolutions of various Parliaments; Whereas President Ahmadinejad's current sponsorship of an international Holocaust denial conference is only the latest abominable act he has taken in a series of threatening and anti-Semitic, Holocaust denial statements and actions since he rose to power; Whereas to deny the Holocaust's occurrence is in itself an act of anti-Semitism; Whereas one who denies the Holocaust, denies the greatest tragedy of the Jewish people and the most extreme act of anti-Semitism in history; Whereas President Ahmadinejad's past and present declarations and actions — spewing outrageous anti-Semitic, anti-Israel rhetoric, remaining a primary source of funding, training, and support for terrorist groups seeking to destroy Israel, and openly threatening Israel and other democracies — prove President Ahmadinejad is on a national crusade of hatred and ultimate destruction against Israel and the Western civilized worl …", "… ate of Israel, highlighted by statements made by President Ahmadinejad, underscores the threat posed by a nuclear Iran: Now, therefore, be it resolved, that the Senate of Canada— (1) Condemns in the strongest terms the international Holocaust denial conference held in Iran on December 11-12, 2006, and any and all vile anti-Semitic statements made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders; (2) Calls on the United Nations to officially and publicly repudiate all of Iran's anti-Semitic statements made at such conference and hold accountable United Nations member states that encourage or echo such statements; (3) Calls on the United Nations Security Council to strengthen its commitment to taking measures necessary to prevent Iran from possessing nuclear power; (4) Calls on the Government of Canada to condemn the anti-Semitic Holocaust denial conference; (5) Reaffirms the Canada's longstanding friendship and support for the State of Israel; and vows to never forget the horrendous murder of millions in the Holocaust and affirms that such genocide should never happen again. [ Translation ] ORDERS OF THE DAY Business of the Senate"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 544, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/060db_2006-12-12-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "projective"], "response": ["foreign policy", "Israel relations"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "charge_quote": "any and all vile anti-Semitic statements made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders", "act_why": "notice of resolution charging Ahmadinejad and Iran with anti-Semitic statements", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the international Holocaust denial conference held in Tehran on December 11-12, 2006", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2006-12-12", "year": "2006", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Mobina S. B. Jaffer", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I would like to speak of anti-Semitism in our society. Many of us were greatly distressed by the treatment of Bob Rae and Arlene Perly Rae at the recent Liberal leadership convention in Montreal, where anti-Semitic remarks were made against two very outstanding Canadians. Honourable senators, I believe that in our Canada these types of remarks are absolutely unacceptable. In our Canada, there is no place for such anti-Semitic statements. I know that all senators will join me in letting the very small minorities know by words and deeds that we do not accept such behaviour. I am a great fan of the Raes. I have had the opportunity to work with Bob Rae on a number of occasions. He aided me when I was Canada's Envoy for Peace in Sudan. He went …", "… rk on the Air India inquiry. He single-handedly empowered the victims of Canada's worst act of terrorism, victims from diverse backgrounds. In the last 10 months, I have worked closely with Arlene Perly Rae and her commitment to our country has been truly tremendous. Senator Grafstein has a motion before the Senate on anti-Semitism, and, when I speak, I will detail some of the challenges faced by my community in Vancouver. Honourable senators, a time has come when all of us here and all Canadians must make it clear that in our Canada we are like needles that sew together the diversity of our country into one harmonious fabric. We do not accept t …", "… ut. Then they came for Jews, but I wasn't Jewish — so I didn't speak out. Then they came for Catholics, but I was a Protestant — so I didn't speak out. Then they came for me, and there was nobody left to speak out. (1415) Honourable senators, I know you will join with me in saying that, in our Canada, we do not accept anti-Semitism, we do not tolerate it and there is no place for it in our country. Honourable senators, we must all speak out against anti-Semitic behaviour."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 415, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/060db_2006-12-12-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech", "solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "declares anti-Semitic remarks at the convention unacceptable without naming a culprit", "trigger": "\"the treatment of Bob Rae and Arlene Perly Rae at the recent Liberal leadership convention in Montreal, where anti-Semitic remarks were made\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["own side"], "target_detail": "the recent Liberal leadership convention in Montreal, where anti-Semitic remarks were made", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2006-12-12", "year": "2006", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Yoine Goldstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, Canada is a tolerant country. Canadians value diversity. Canadians welcome differences. It came, therefore, as a total shock that the Liberal convention of 10 days ago was marred by episodes of racism and vicious anti-Semitism. Arlene Perly Rae, the wife of a leadership candidate, was approached by a candidate who admonished her not to vote for Mr. Rae because \"he has a Jewish wife.\" When she pointed out that she was that Jewish wife, the delegate disappeared. A flyer was circulated electronically among convention delegates, denouncing Mr. …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 316, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/060db_2006-12-12-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "the Liberal convention of 10 days ago was marred by episodes of racism and vicious anti-Semitism", "act_why": "names Khaled Mouammar and the Canadian Arab Federation as racist and anti-Semitic", "trigger": "\"the Liberal convention of 10 days ago was marred by episodes of racism and vicious anti-Semitism\", including the flyer circulated against Bob Rae", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["individual", "religious or ethnic community"], "target_detail": "Mr. Khaled Mouammar, President of the Canadian Arab Federation", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2006-12-14", "year": "2006", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… at the systematic state sponsored murder of 6,000,000 Jews and other targeted groups by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II was either fabricated or exaggerated; Whereas in August 2006, Iran staged a reprehensible international contest of cartoons on the Holocaust, endorsing and promoting prevailing anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli stereotypes and Holocaust denial; Whereas President Ahmadinejad wrote in a letter in July 2006 to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, \"Is it not a reasonable possibility that some countries that had won the war (World War II) made up this excuse to constantly embarrass the defeated people ... to bar their progress.\"; Whereas on October 26, 2005, in a conference entitled, \"The World without Zionism\", President Ahmadinejad stated in a speech that \"Israel must be wiped off the map.\"; Whereas thereafter, these anti-Semitic comments were broadly condemned by the United Nations and others, including resolutions of various Parliaments; Whereas President Ahmadinejad's current sponsorship of an international Holocaust denial conference is only the latest abominable act he has taken in a series of threatening and anti-Semitic, Holocaust denial statements and actions since he rose to power; Whereas to deny the Holocaust's occurrence is in itself an act of anti-Semitism; Whereas one who denies the Holocaust, denies the greatest tragedy of the Jewish people and the most extreme act of anti-Semitism in history; Whereas President Ahmadinejad's past and present declarations and actions—spewing outrageous anti-Semitic, anti-Israel rhetoric, remaining a primary source of funding, training, and support for terrorist groups seeking to destroy Israel, and openly threatening Israel and other democracies — prove President Ahmadinejad is on a national crusade of hatred and ultimate destruction against Israel and the Western civilized worl …", "… ate of Israel, highlighted by statements made by President Ahmadinejad, underscores the threat posed by a nuclear Iran: Now, therefore, be it resolved, that the Senate of Canada— (1) Condemns in the strongest terms the international Holocaust denial conference held in Iran on December 11—12, 2006, and any and all vile anti-Semitic statements made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders; (2) Calls on the United Nations to officially and publicly repudiate all of Iran's anti-Semitic statements made at such conference and hold accountable United Nations member states that encourage or echo such statements; (3) Calls on the United Nations Security Council to strengthen its commitment to taking measures necessary to prevent Iran from possessing nuclear power; (4) Calls on the Government of Canada to condemn the anti-Semitic Holocaust denial conference; (5) Reaffirms the Canada's longstanding friendship and support for the State of Israel; and vows to never forget the horrendous murder of millions in the Holocaust and affirms that such genocide should never happen again."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 527, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/062db_2006-12-14-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "projective"], "response": ["foreign policy", "Israel relations"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "charge_quote": "any and all vile anti-Semitic statements made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders", "act_why": "moves resolution condemning Ahmadinejad's and Iran's anti-Semitic statements", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the international Holocaust denial conference held in Iran on December 11-12, 2006", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2007-01-31", "year": "2007", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Gerald J. Comeau", "role": "Deputy Leader of the Government", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… been changes in the government, I would like to consult my colleagues, as well as the new ministers involved. I move adjournment of the debate. On motion of Senator Comeau, debate adjourned. Human Rights Motion to Authorize the Committee to Study Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe 2005 Resolution on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Stollery, That the following Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism which was adopted unanimously at the 14th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Association, in which Canada participated in Washington on July 5, 2005, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than October 30, 2006: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM Recalling the resolutions on anti-Semitism by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, which were unanimously passed at the annual meetings in Berlin in 2002, in Rotterdam in 2003 and in Edinburgh in 2004, 1. Referring to the commitments made by the participating states emerging from the OSCE conferences in Vienna (June 2003), Berlin (April 2004) and Brussels (September 2004) regarding legal, political and educational efforts to fight anti-Semitism, ensuring that \"Jews in the OSCE region can live their lives free of discrimination, harassment and violence\", 2. Welcoming the convening of the Conference on Anti-Semitism and on Other Forms of Intolerance in Cordoba, Spain in June 2005, 3. Commending the appointment and continuing role of the three Personal Representatives of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Anti-Semitism, on Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims, and on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, also focusing on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians and Members of Other Religions, reflecting the distinct role of each in addressing these separate issues in the OSCE region, 4. Reaffirming the view expressed in earlier resolutions that anti-Semitism constitutes a threat to fundamental human rights and to democratic values and hence to the security in the OSCE region, 5. Emphasizing the importance of permanent monitoring mechanisms of incidents of anti-Semitism at a national level, as well as the need for public condemnations, energetic police work and vigorous prosecutions, The Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE: 6. Urges OSCE participating states to adopt national uniform definitions for monitoring and collecting information about anti-Semitism and hate crimes along the lines of the January 2005 EUMC Working Definition of Anti-Semitism and to familiarize officials, civil servants and others working in the public sphere with these definitions so that incidents can be quickly identified and recorded; 7. Recommends that OSCE participating states establish national data collection and monitoring mechanisms and improve information-sharing among national government authorities, local officials, and civil society representatives, as well as exchange data and best practices with other OSCE participating states; 8. Urges OSCE participating states to publicize data on anti-Semitic incidents in a timely manner as well as report the information to the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR); 9. Recommends that ODIHR publicize its data on anti-Semitic crimes and hate crimes on a regular basis, highlight best practices, as well as initiate programs with a particular focus in the areas of police, law enforcement, and education; 10. Calls upon national governments to allot adequate resources to the monitoring of anti-Semitism, including the appointment of national ombudspersons or special representatives; 11. Emphasizes the need to broaden the involvement of civil society representatives in the collection, analysis and publication of data on anti-Semitism and related violence; 12. Calls on the national delegations of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to ensure that regular debates on the subject of anti-Semitism are conducted in their parliaments and furthermore to support public awareness campaigns on the threat to democracy posed by acts of anti-Semitic hatred, detailing best practices to combat this threat; 13. Calls on the national delegations of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly to submit written reports at the 2006 Annual Session on the activities of their parliaments with regard to combating anti-Semitism; 14. Calls on the OSCE participating states to develop educational material and teacher training methods to counter contemporary forms of anti-Semitism, as well as update programs on Holocaust education; 15. Urges both the national parliaments and governments of OSCE participating states to review their national laws; 16. Urges the OSCE participating states to improve security at Jewish sites and other locations that are potential targets of anti-Semitic attacks in coordination with the representatives of these communities.—( Honourable Senator Segal )"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 761, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/064db_2007-01-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "inquiry or summit"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "procedural adjournment; term carried by the reproduced Order Paper motion", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the bill before the Senate at second reading, on which he moves adjournment of debate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2007-02-20", "year": "2007", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "David Tkachuk", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators may remember the case of Ernst Zundel, a man who gained notoriety in Canada and elsewhere as a writer and publisher of anti-Semitic propaganda and as a Holocaust denier. Mr. Zundel was deported from the U.S. to Canada in February 2003 and spent just over two years detained here as a national security threat while fighting his extradition to his native Germany to stand trial for hate crime charges. After lengthy and costly court proceedings, Mr. Zu …", "… do so as well by spreading vicious lies about the Holocaust and the Jewish people, and by giving aid to neo-Nazi groups that incite hatred and potential political violence against governments and multicultural societies such as our own. Honourable senators, Mr. Zundel serves as an example to remind all Canadians that anti-Semitism is not something that has been relegated to the history books. Sadly, it still has a voice and still finds an audience. Mr. Zundel was a teacher and views such as his can be nurtured in those who are not taught well. That is how we can produce people who can be easily influenced by such hate mongering. We must never s …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 430, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/072db_2007-02-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "reports Zundel's conviction and warns anti-Semitism still finds an audience", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "\"On Thursday, February 15, a German court convicted Mr. Zundel on 14 counts of incitement of racial hatred\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "Ernst Zundel", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2007-02-22", "year": "2007", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Lorna Milne", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… e, even those who are not listening to me, to push for greater investment on this vital issue without delay. Just put it into the upcoming budget. On motion of Senator Stratton, debate adjourned. Human Rights Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe 2006 Resolution on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Fraser, for the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Cook: That the following Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance which was adopted at the 15th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Association, in which Canada participated in Brussels, Belgium on July 7, 2006, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than March 31, 2007: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM AND OTHER FORMS OF INTOLERANCE 1. Calling attention to the resolutions on anti-Semitism adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its annual sessions in Berlin in 2002, Rotterdam in 2003, Edinburgh in 2004 and Washington in 2005, 2. Intending to raise awareness of the need to combat anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination against Muslims, as well as racism, xenophobia and discrimination, also focusing on the intolerance and discrimination faced by Christians and members of other religions and minorities in different societies, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 3. Recognizes the steps taken by the OSCE and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to address the problems of anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance, including the work of the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Unit at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the appointment of the Personal Representatives of the Chairman-in-Office, and the organization of expert meetings on the issue of anti-Semitism; 4. Reminds its participating States that \"Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed towards Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, towards Jewish community institutions and religious facilities\", this being the definition of anti-Semitism adopted by representatives of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) and ODIHR; 5. Urges its participating States to establish a legal framework for targeted measures to combat the dissemination of racist and anti-Semitic material via the Internet; 6. Urges its participating States to intensify their efforts to combat discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities; 7. Urges its participating States to present written reports, at the 2007 Annual Session, on their activities to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 8. Welcomes the offer of the Romanian Government to host a follow-up conference in 2007 on combating anti-Semitism and all forms of discrimination with the aim of reviewing all the decisions adopted at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington), for which commitments were undertaken by the participating States, with a request for proposals on improving implementation, and calls upon participating States t …", "… e the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) with regular information on the status of implementation of the 38 commitments made at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington); 10. Urges its participating States to develop proposals for national action plans to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 11. Urges its participating States to raise awareness of the need to protect Jewish institutions and other minority institutions in the various societies; 12. Urges its participating States to appoint ombudspersons or special commissioners to present and promote national guidelines on educational work to promote tolerance and combat anti-Semitism, including Holocaust education; 13. Underlines the need for broad public support and promotion of, and cooperation with, civil society representatives involved in the collection, analysis and publication of data on anti-Semitism and racism and related violence; 14. Urges its participating States to engage with the history of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism and to analyze the role of public institutions in this context; 15. Requests its participating States to position themselves against all current forms of anti-Semitism wherever they encounter it; 16. Resolves to involve other inter-parliamentary organizations such as the IPU, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in its efforts to implement the above demands. —( Honourable Senator …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1589, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/074db_2007-02-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "literacy speech; term only in the trailing Order Paper item", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2007-02-22", "year": "2007", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Sharon Carstairs", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I shall say a few words on this motion, following which I should like to see it adjourned in the name of Senator Segal. This motion has been put forward with respect to a resolution on combatting anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance — which is, I believe, something to which we can all concur. I should like to see this matter immediately pass this chamber, but a reference has been made to send the matter to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights. I have asked Senator Grafstein in the past what exactly he would …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 201, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/074db_2007-02-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "endorses the anti-Semitism resolution and urges the chamber to pass it", "trigger": "the motion to refer the resolution on combating anti-Semitism to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2007-02-28", "year": "2007", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Hugh Segal", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I rise today on the motion put forward by Senator Grafstein regarding the Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance adopted by the OSCE Parliamentary Association. Let me quote from the Oxford English dictionary: Semite: [noun] A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews and Phoenicians. The official definition of Semite reminds us all that the term itself refers to a vast group of Semitic-speaking peoples that happens to include, amongst others, both Arabs and Jews. This resolution emphasizes that fact, and although anti-Semitism is more often than not perceived as hatred and bigotry toward Jews per se, we must not lose sight of National Homelessness Initiative—Under-spending of Budget to Arabs. In our current global social climate, we must not allow one bigotry to be replaced by another. Combating anti-Semitism must include combating hatred and bigotry toward Arabs as well. On November 22, the Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel spoke at Queen's University to more than 1200 people. The most touching and resonating moment of his speech was his reminder to everyone in the hall that \"to remain silent and indiffere …", "… resolution before us, adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, calls to action all of its member states to speak up and shake off indifference by studying, legislating against, reporting on and, most important, acting on combating intolerance. Personally, to my knowledge, I have never been the target of anti-Semitism. However, is that not precisely the point? Bigotry, racism and discrimination are rarely overt, or at least they never were in the past. Of course, they existed, but most people were far too correct to give audible voice to their biases or bigotries. If my religious affiliation was ever a problem for anyone else, I do …", "… e religion or the same culture is the very basis for racism and bigotry. [ English ] I want to take the time to quote from a speech given on September 11, 2006, at the Canadian Club in Montreal by Tony Comper, Chief Executive Officer of the Bank of Montreal, who, along with his wife, founded the organization, Fighting Anti-Semitism Together, FAST. We believe, the majority of Canadians do — that the time has long passed for polite silence in the face of anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred, bigotry and racism. What we hope to help create, both with FAST itself and with our Choose Your Voice educational program, is a nation of non-bystanders, Canadians of all heritages who simply no longer permit the anti-Semites and their like-minded kin to spread their poison unscathed. We hope to embolden and encourage those with still-open hearts and minds to stand up and speak out against discrimination, wherever and however it rears its ugly head, and marginalize the anti-Semites and bullies and bigots and take away their power to intimidate. The Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance, adopted by the OSCE, urges, requests and resolves that all participating states, including Canada, act on the issue. The notion that many countries, many leaders and many cultures unite to contest this insidious problem is a good thing. [ Translation ] The planet has shrunk. Individual …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1008, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/076db_2007-02-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["education", "leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses", "community organisations"], "act_why": "supports the resolution and urges combating anti-Semitism and anti-Arab bigotry alike", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "\"the motion put forward by Senator Grafstein regarding the Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance adopted by the OSCE Parliamentar", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "it has become acceptable in some quarters to lump together one billion of our fellow human beings", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2007-02-28", "year": "2007", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Mira Spivak", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… re nothing grew before. In Canada, we do not have an option. We must grasp the indomitable and unbelievable opportunities that confront us and act. On motion of Senator Tkachuk, debate adjourned. Human Rights Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe 2006 Resolution on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Fraser, for the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Cook: That the following Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance which was adopted at the 15th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Association, in which Canada participated in Brussels, Belgium on July 7, 2006, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than March 31, 2007: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM AND OTHER FORMS OF INTOLERANCE 1. Calling attention to the resolutions on anti-Semitism adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its annual sessions in Berlin in 2002, Rotterdam in 2003, Edinburgh in 2004 and Washington in 2005, 2. Intending to raise awareness of the need to combat anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination against Muslims, as well as racism, xenophobia and discrimination, also focusing on the intolerance and discrimination faced by Christians and members of other religions and minorities in different societies, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 3. Recognizes the steps taken by the OSCE and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to address the problems of anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance, including the work of the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Unit at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the appointment of the Personal Representatives of the Chairman-in-Office, and the organization of expert meetings on the issue of anti-Semitism; 4. Reminds its participating States that \"Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed towards Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, towards Jewish community institutions and religious facilities\", this being the definition of anti-Semitism adopted by representatives of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) and ODIHR; 5. Urges its participating States to establish a legal framework for targeted measures to combat the dissemination of racist and anti-Semitic material via the Internet; 6. Urges its participating States to intensify their efforts to combat discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities; 7. Urges its participating States to present written reports, at the 2007 Annual Session, on their activities to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 8. Welcomes the offer of the Romanian Government to host a follow-up conference in 2007 on combating anti-Semitism and all forms of discrimination with the aim of reviewing all the decisions adopted at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington), for which commitments were undertaken by the participating States, with a request for proposals on improving implementation, and calls upon participating States t …", "… e the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) with regular information on the status of implementation of the 38 commitments made at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington); 10. Urges its participating States to develop proposals for national action plans to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 11. Urges its participating States to raise awareness of the need to protect Jewish institutions and other minority institutions in the various societies; 12. Urges its participating States to appoint ombudspersons or special commissioners to present and promote national guidelines on educational work to promote tolerance and combat anti-Semitism, including Holocaust education; 13. Underlines the need for broad public support and promotion of, and cooperation with, civil society representatives involved in the collection, analysis and publication of data on anti-Semitism and racism and related violence; 14. Urges its participating States to engage with the history of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism and to analyze the role of public institutions in this context; 15. Requests its participating States to position themselves against all current forms of anti-Semitism wherever they encounter it; 16. Resolves to involve other inter-parliamentary organizations such as the IPU, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in its efforts to implement the above demands. —( Honourable Senator …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 763, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/076db_2007-02-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "unrelated remarks; term only in the trailing Order Paper item", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2007-03-20", "year": "2007", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Yoine Goldstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… eration and collaboration with other like-minded, not-for-profit and representative organizations. Much of the work of the congress is carried on through the Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee, a separate charitable trust that supports a stronger Canadian society through activities involving fighting against anti-Semitism and all other forms of racism through education programs of inter-faith and cross-cultural relations. Honourable senators, please join me in congratulating this historic Canadian democratic institution on the occasion of its eighty-eighth anniversary. Visitors in the Gallery"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 268, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/078db_2007-03-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["education", "solidarity"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "CJC anniversary tribute endorsing its fight against anti-Semitism and racism", "trigger": "\"last weekend marked the eighty-eighth anniversary of the establishment of the Canadian Jewish Congress\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2007-03-27", "year": "2007", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Consiglio Di Nino", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… t week, the situation in Zimbabwe worsens, with horrific and heinous crimes being committed every day. Honourable senators, this is not an African problem. Democracy is not alive and well in our world. The tragedies of human trafficking, child and forced labour and the enslavement of women are occurring all around us. Anti-Semitism and racism are on the rise worldwide, right under the watchful eyes of governments. Human dignity is trampled on with impunity while the world watches. We are still talking in the hope that our words will shine a light on these issues and that things will improve. Cavendish University Cup Congratulations to University …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 433, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/082db_2007-03-27-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["inspired", "domestic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "warns anti-Semitism and racism are on the rise worldwide", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "events at York University on March 25, 2007 marking \"the two hundredth anniversary of the British Parliament's abolition of the Slave Trade Act\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "right under the watchful eyes of governments", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2007-04-17", "year": "2007", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Anne C. Cools", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I rise to speak to Senator Grafstein's motion, which is a motion asking the Senate to refer a resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a resolution on combatting anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance, to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights. This is an interesting motion, and I shall see if I can develop something here. Honourable senators, like many, I deplore racism in all its forms and expressions. As honourable senators know, I was born in the British Caribbean, in Barba …", "… in the language and in the idiom today. Many Arabic and Islamic Canadians tell me of their pain and of the burden they carry of prejudice and racism against them, and their efforts to overcome it and to be good Canadians. Honourable senators, Senator Segal in his speech here on February 28, 2007, said: . . . although anti-Semitism is more often than not perceived as hatred and bigotry toward Jews per se, we must not lose sight of the broader definition. The term also refers, of course, to Arabs. In our current global social climate, we must not allow one bigotry to be replaced by another. Combatting anti-Semitism must include combatting hatred and bigotry toward Arabs as well. Honourable senators, I know something of the history of the Jewish people and of the Arab people. I also know something of the history of the Holy Land, particularly that portion of greater Syria called Palestine. In the days of the Romans, I think it wa …", "… rew on the Old Testament book, the Book of Isaiah. The crucified Christ, the risen Christ, and their Easter messages of redemption, forgiveness and love are poignant, powerful and, I would dare say, necessary. Honourable senators, I believed that this motion asked the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights to study anti-Semitism and racism. However, in preparing my remarks, I discovered that this motion was not merely to study anti-Semitism and racism. Rather, it was a motion to consider a resolution from a foreign assembly, the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE. Consequently, honourable senators, I want to raise a point of order. Before I do so, I also want to point out that this motion is defective on a few other points as well. I am not sure of the s …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2707, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/085db_2007-04-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "deplores racism in all forms while raising a procedural objection to the motion", "trigger": "\"Senator Grafstein's motion... to refer a resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE... to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "the racist comments that I frequently hear about the Arab peoples", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2007-04-17", "year": "2007", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Noël A. Kinsella", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… wa, at which time I touched on a number of points. First, and importantly, the practice of freedom in our great country has enjoyed significant success during the past 140 years, notwithstanding some significant bumps along the way, such as the head tax, Komagata Maru, the internment of Canadians of Japanese heritage, anti-Semitic restrictive covenants and other forms of discrimination. However, successive generations of men and women of goodwill from all corners of Canada and at various times have risen to the occasion and have made significant contributions to the growing of Canadian freedom, from Macdonald and Cartier through the Labour Conv …", "… as are necessary to protect public safety, order, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedom of others. There have been notable decisions since R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd . In 1986, the case of Ross v. New Brunswick School District No. 15 , a case on which I worked, involved a teacher who was disseminating anti-Semitic works and making anti-Semitic statements outside the classroom. The Supreme Court upheld the teacher's right to express his opinions based on the sincerity of his beliefs and found that his freedom of religion had been violated when he was deprived of his post. However, the court restricted the scope of the teacher's freedom of religion and expres …", "… undermine the security of others. As first enunciated in Big M Drug Mart , freedom of religion is subject to limitations as are necessary to protect public safety, order, health or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others. In the Ross case, the teacher was precluded from holding a teaching post, as his anti-Semitic views harmed the students in his classroom. Even in the Amselem and Multani decisions, religious freedom was not absolute, and factors relating to safety and security were considered. Mr. Singh Multani had already agreed to certain conditions in being allowed to wear his kirpan, such as ensuring that it was worn under …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1908, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/085db_2007-04-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "Charter anniversary speech listing anti-Semitic covenants among past discriminations", "trigger": "\"the twenty-fifth anniversary\" of the signing of the Canada Act, 1982 and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "a teacher who was disseminating anti-Semitic works and making anti-Semitic statements", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2007-04-17", "year": "2007", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Is it your pleasure, honourable senators, to adopt the motion? Motion agreed to. Human Rights Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe 2006 Resolution on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance—Point of Order—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Fraser, for the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Cook: That the following Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance which was adopted at the 15th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Association, in which Canada participated in Brussels, Belgium on July 7, 2006, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than March 31, 2007: RESOLUTION ONCOMBATING ANTI-SEMITISMAND OTHER FORMS OF INTOLERANCE 1. Calling attention to the resolutions on anti-Semitism adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its annual sessions in Berlin in 2002, Rotterdam in 2003, Edinburgh in 2004 and Washington in 2005, 2. Intending to raise awareness of the need to combat anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination against Muslims, as well as racism, xenophobia and discrimination, also focusing on the intolerance and discrimination faced by Christians and members of other religions and minorities in different societies, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 3. Recognizes the steps taken by the OSCE and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to address the problems of anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance, including the work of the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Unit at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the appointment of the Personal Representatives of the Chairman-in-Office, and the organization of expert meetings on the issue of anti-Semitism; 4. Reminds its participating States that \"Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed towards Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, towards Jewish community institutions and religious facilities\", this being the definition of anti-Semitism adopted by representatives of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) and ODIHR; 5. Urges its participating States to establish a legal framework for targeted measures to combat the dissemination of racist and anti-Semitic material via the Internet; 6. Urges its participating States to intensify their efforts to combat discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities; 7. Urges its participating States to present written reports, at the 2007 Annual Session, on their activities to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 8. Welcomes the offer of the Romanian Government to host a follow-up conference in 2007 on combating anti-Semitism and all forms of discrimination with the aim of reviewing all the decisions adopted at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington), for which commitments were undertaken by the participating States, with a request for proposals on improving implementation, and calls upon participating States t …", "… e the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) with regular information on the status of implementation of the 38 commitments made at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington); 10. Urges its participating States to develop proposals for national action plans to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 11. Urges its participating States to raise awareness of the need to protect Jewish institutions and other minority institutions in the various societies; 12. Urges its participating States to appoint ombudspersons or special commissioners to present and promote national guidelines on educational work to promote tolerance and combat anti-Semitism, including Holocaust education; 13. Underlines the need for broad public support and promotion of, and cooperation with, civil society representatives involved in the collection, analysis and publication of data on anti-Semitism and racism and related violence; 14. Urges its participating States to engage with the history of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism and to analyze the role of public institutions in this context; 15. Requests its participating States to position themselves against all current forms of anti-Semitism wherever they encounter it; 16. Resolves to involve other inter-parliamentary organizations such as the IPU, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in its efforts to implement the above demands. —( Honourable Senator …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 716, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/085db_2007-04-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2007-04-24", "year": "2007", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Norman K. Atkins", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, if no one wishes to speak on this report, I move adoption. On motion of Senator Tkachuk, debate adjourned. Human Rights Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe 2006 Resolution on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance—Speaker's Ruling—Order Stands On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Fraser, for the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Cook: That the following Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance which was adopted at the 15th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Association, in which Canada participated in Brussels, Belgium on July 7, 2006, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than March 31, 2007: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM AND OTHER FORMS OF INTOLERANCE 1. Calling attention to the resolutions on anti-Semitism adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its annual sessions in Berlin in 2002, Rotterdam in 2003, Edinburgh in 2004 and Washington in 2005, 2. Intending to raise awareness of the need to combat anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination against Muslims, as well as racism, xenophobia and discrimination, also focusing on the intolerance and discrimination faced by Christians and members of other religions and minorities in different societies, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 3. Recognizes the steps taken by the OSCE and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to address the problems of anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance, including the work of the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Unit at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the appointment of the Personal Representatives of the Chairman-in-Office, and the organization of expert meetings on the issue of anti-Semitism; 4. Reminds its participating States that \"Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed towards Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, towards Jewish community institutions and religious facilities\", this being the definition of anti-Semitism adopted by representatives of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) and ODIHR; 5. Urges its participating States to establish a legal framework for targeted measures to combat the dissemination of racist and anti-Semitic material via the Internet; 6. Urges its participating States to intensify their efforts to combat discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities; 7. Urges its participating States to present written reports, at the 2007 Annual Session, on their activities to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 8. Welcomes the offer of the Romanian Government to host a follow-up conference in 2007 on combating anti-Semitism and all forms of discrimination with the aim of reviewing all the decisions adopted at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington), for which commitments were undertaken by the participating States, with a request for proposals on improving implementation, and calls upon participating States t …", "… e the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) with regular information on the status of implementation of the 38 commitments made at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington); 10. Urges its participating States to develop proposals for national action plans to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 11. Urges its participating States to raise awareness of the need to protect Jewish institutions and other minority institutions in the various societies; 12. Urges its participating States to appoint ombudspersons or special commissioners to present and promote national guidelines on educational work to promote tolerance and combat anti-Semitism, including Holocaust education; 13. Underlines the need for broad public support and promotion of, and cooperation with, civil society representatives involved in the collection, analysis and publication of data on anti-Semitism and racism and related violence; 14. Urges its participating States to engage with the history of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism and to analyze the role of public institutions in this context; 15. Requests its participating States to position themselves against all current forms of anti-Semitism wherever they encounter it; 16. Resolves to involve other inter-parliamentary organizations such as the IPU, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in its efforts to implement the above demands.—( Speaker's Ruling )"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 723, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/088db_2007-04-24-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "procedural motion for adoption; term carried by the reproduced Order Paper text", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the motion to study the OSCE 2006 Resolution on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance (Speaker's ruling, order stands)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2007-04-24", "year": "2007", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… t of order that was raised with reference to this item. On Tuesday, April 17, 2007, Senator Cools raised a point of order challenging procedural acceptability of the motion moved by Senator Fraser, for Senator Grafstein, to authorize the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights to consider the resolution on combating anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance as adopted by the fifteenth annual session of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) Parliamentary Association. Senator Cools had four concerns with the motion, and I propose to address each of them in turn. [ Translation ] The first concern is that the motion as …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 1341, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/088db_2007-04-24-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2007-04-25", "year": "2007", "session": "39-1", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "J. Trevor Eyton", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ewpoint, reflecting as it does the fundamental need for Parliament's clear authorization providing for the lawful collection of both fees and taxes. On motion of Senator Tardif, debate adjourned. Human Rights Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe 2006 Resolution on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Fraser, for the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Cook: That the following Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance which was adopted at the 15th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Association, in which Canada participated in Brussels, Belgium on July 7, 2006, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than March 31, 2007: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM AND OTHER FORMS OF INTOLERANCE 1. Calling attention to the resolutions on anti-Semitism adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its annual sessions in Berlin in 2002, Rotterdam in 2003, Edinburgh in 2004 and Washington in 2005, 2. Intending to raise awareness of the need to combat anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination against Muslims, as well as racism, xenophobia and discrimination, also focusing on the intolerance and discrimination faced by Christians and members of other religions and minorities in different societies, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 3. Recognizes the steps taken by the OSCE and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) to address the problems of anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance, including the work of the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Unit at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the appointment of the Personal Representatives of the Chairman-in-Office, and the organization of expert meetings on the issue of anti-Semitism; 4. Reminds its participating States that \"Anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred towards Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed towards Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, towards Jewish community institutions and religious facilities\", this being the definition of anti-Semitism adopted by representatives of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) and ODIHR; 5. Urges its participating States to establish a legal framework for targeted measures to combat the dissemination of racist and anti-Semitic material via the Internet; 6. Urges its participating States to intensify their efforts to combat discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities; 7. Urges its participating States to present written reports, at the 2007 Annual Session, on their activities to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 8. Welcomes the offer of the Romanian Government to host a follow-up conference in 2007 on combating anti-Semitism and all forms of discrimination with the aim of reviewing all the decisions adopted at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington), for which commitments were undertaken by the participating States, with a request for proposals on improving implementation, and calls upon participating States t …", "… e the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) with regular information on the status of implementation of the 38 commitments made at the OSCE conferences (Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Córdoba, Washington); 10. Urges its participating States to develop proposals for national action plans to combat anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination against Muslims; 11. Urges its participating States to raise awareness of the need to protect Jewish institutions and other minority institutions in the various societies; 12. Urges its participating States to appoint ombudspersons or special commissioners to present and promote national guidelines on educational work to promote tolerance and combat anti-Semitism, including Holocaust education; 13. Underlines the need for broad public support and promotion of, and cooperation with, civil society representatives involved in the collection, analysis and publication of data on anti-Semitism and racism and related violence; 14. Urges its participating States to engage with the history of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism and to analyze the role of public institutions in this context; 15. Requests its participating States to position themselves against all current forms of anti-Semitism wherever they encounter it; 16. Resolves to involve other inter-parliamentary organizations such as the IPU, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in its efforts to implement the above demands. On motion of Senator …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1567, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/391/debates/089db_2007-04-25-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "regulations report speech; term only in the trailing Order Paper item", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the fifth report of the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations, and the Federal Court ruling of December 14, 2006 on broadcasting licence fees", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2007-10-17", "year": "2007", "session": "39-2", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I give notice that, at the next sitting of the Senate, I will move: That the following Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance, which was adopted at the 16th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, in which Canada participated in Kyiv, Ukraine on July 9, 2007, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than March 31, 2008: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM, RACISM, XENOPHOBIA AND OTHER FORMS OF INTOLERANCE, INCLUDING AGAINST MUSLIMS AND ROMA 1. Recalling the Parliamentary Assembly's leadership in raising the focus and attention of the participating States since the 2002 Annual Session in Berlin on issues related to intolerance, discrimination, and hate crimes, including particular concern over manifestations of anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, 2. Celebrating the richness of ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious diversity within the 56 OSCE participating States, 3. Emphasizing the need to ensure implementation of existing OSCE commitments on combating anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, and other forms of intolerance and discrimination, including against Christians, Muslims, and members of other religions, as well as against Roma, 4. Recalling other international commitments of the OSCE participating States, and urging immediate ratification and full implementation of the Convent …", "… opinion, national or social origin, language, birth or other status, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Welcomes the convening of the June 2007 OSCE High Level Conference on Combating Discrimination and Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding, in Bucharest, Romania as a follow-up to the 2005 Cordoba Conference on Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance; 7. Appreciates the ongoing work undertaken by the OSCE and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (the OSCE/ODIHR) through its Programme on Tolerance and Non-discrimination, as well as its efforts to improve the situation of Roma and Sinti through its Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues, and supports the continued organization of expert meetings on anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance aimed at enhancing the implementation of relevant OSCE commitments; 8. Recognizes the importance of the OSCE/ODIHR Law Enforcement Officers Programme (LEOP) in helping police forces within the participating States better to identify and combat hate crimes, and recommends that other parti …", "… e of it; 9. Reiterates its full support for the political-level work undertaken by the three Personal Representatives of the Chair-in-Office and endorses the continuance of their efforts under their existing and distinct mandates; 10. Reminds participating States of the Holocaust, its impact, and the continued acts of anti-Semitism occurring throughout the 56-nation OSCE region that are not unique to any one country and necessitate unwavering steadfastness by all participating States to erase the black mark on human history; 11. Calls upon participating States to recall that atrocities within the OSCE region motivated by race, national origin, sex, religion or belief, disability or sexual orientation have contributed to the negative perceptions and treatment of persons in the region; 12. Further recalls the resolutions on anti-Semitism adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its Annual Sessions in Berlin in 2002, Rotterdam in 2003, Edinburgh in 2004, Washington in 2005 and Brussels in 2006; 13. Reaffirms especially the 2002 Porto Ministerial Decision condemning \"anti-Semitic incidents in the OSCE area, recognizing the role that the existence of anti-Semitism has played throughout history as a major threat to freedom\"; 14. Recalls the agreement of the participating States, adopted in Cracow in 1991 , to preserve and protect those monuments and sites of remembrance, including most notably extermination camps, and the related archives, which are themselves testimonials to tr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2195, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/392/debates/002db_2007-10-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": [], "response": ["definition or envoy", "commemoration"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "police and security"], "act_why": "sitting-hours notice with no substantive use of the term", "trigger": "notice of motion on Senate sitting hours for the remainder of the session", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2007-10-17", "year": "2007", "session": "39-2", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Sharon Carstairs", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ee submit its final report no later than June 30, 2008, and that the Committee retain all powers necessary to publicize its findings until 90 days after the tabling of the final report. 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Recalling the Parliamentary Assembly's leadership in raising the focus and attention of the participating States since the 2002 Annual Session in Berlin on issues related to intolerance, discrimination, and hate crimes, including particular concern over manifestations of anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, 2. Celebrating the richness of ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious diversity within the 56 OSCE participating States, 3. Emphasizing the need to ensure implementation of existing OSCE commitments on combating anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, and other forms of intolerance and discrimination, including against Christians, Muslims, and members of other religions, as well as against Roma, 4. Recalling other international commitments of the OSCE participating States, and urging immediate ratification and full implementation of the Convent …", "… opinion, national or social origin, language, birth or other status, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Welcomes the convening of the June 2007 OSCE High Level Conference on Combating Discrimination and Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding, in Bucharest, Romania as a follow-up to the 2005 Cordoba Conference on Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance; 7. Appreciates the ongoing work undertaken by the OSCE and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (the OSCE/ODIHR) through its Programme on Tolerance and Non-discrimination, as well as its efforts to improve the situation of Roma and Sinti through its Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues, and supports the continued organization of expert meetings on anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance aimed at enhancing the implementation of relevant OSCE commitments; 8. Recognizes the importance of the OSCE/ODIHR Law Enforcement Officers Programme (LEOP) in helping police forces within the participating States better to identify and combat hate crimes, and recommends that other parti …", "… e of it; 9. Reiterates its full support for the political-level work undertaken by the three Personal Representatives of the Chair-in-Office and endorses the continuance of their efforts under their existing and distinct mandates; 10. Reminds participating States of the Holocaust, its impact, and the continued acts of anti-Semitism occurring throughout the 56-nation OSCE region that are not unique to any one country and necessitate unwavering steadfastness by all participating States to erase the black mark on human history; 11. Calls upon participating States to recall that atrocities within the OSCE region motivated by race, national origin, sex, religion or belief, disability or sexual orientation have contributed to the negative perceptions and treatment of persons in the region; 12. Further recalls the resolutions on anti-Semitism adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its Annual Sessions in Berlin in 2002, Rotterdam in 2003, Edinburgh in 2004, Washington in 2005 and Brussels in 2006; 13. Reaffirms especially the 2002 Porto Ministerial Decision condemning \"anti-Semitic incidents in the OSCE area, recognizing the role that the existence of anti-Semitism has played throughout history as a major threat to freedom\"; 14. Recalls the agreement of the participating States, adopted in Cracow in 1991 , to preserve and protect those monuments and sites of remembrance, including most notably extermination camps, and the related archives, which are themselves testimonials to tr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 3695, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/392/debates/004db_2007-10-23-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "commemoration"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "police and security"], "act_why": "moves motion reproducing the 2007 OSCE resolution verbatim", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "motion that the OSCE 2007 Kyiv Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "the continuing intellectualization of anti-Semitism ... particularly through publications and public events at universities", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2007-10-23", "year": "2007", "session": "39-2", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Is it your pleasure, honourable senators, to adopt the motion? 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Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ment to me, unless my mentors were wrong when they told me that the federal government could be a focused, effective tool in the national interest. On motion of Senator Meighen, debate adjourned. Human Rights Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe 2007 Declaration on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance—Order Stands On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Losier-Cool: That the following Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance, which was adopted at the 16th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, in which Canada participated in Kyiv, Ukraine on July 9, 2007, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than March 31, 2008: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM, RACISM, XENOPHOBIA AND OTHER FORMS OF INTOLERANCE, INCLUDING AGAINST MUSLIMS AND ROMA 1. Recalling the Parliamentary Assembly's leadership in raising the focus and attention of the participating States since the 2002 Annual Session in Berlin on issues related to intolerance, discrimination, and hate crimes, including particular concern over manifestations of anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, 2. Celebrating the richness of ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious diversity within the 56 OSCE participating States, 3. Emphasizing the need to ensure implementation of existing OSCE commitments on combating anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, and other forms of intolerance and discrimination, including against Christians, Muslims, and members of other religions, as well as against Roma, 4. Recalling other international commitments of the OSCE participating States, and urging immediate ratification and full implementation of the Convent …", "… opinion, national or social origin, language, birth or other status, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Welcomes the convening of the June 2007 OSCE High Level Conference on Combating Discrimination and Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding, in Bucharest, Romania as a follow-up to the 2005 Cordoba Conference on Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance; 7. Appreciates the ongoing work undertaken by the OSCE and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (the OSCE/ODIHR) through its Programme on Tolerance and Non-discrimination, as well as its efforts to improve the situation of Roma and Sinti through its Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues, and supports the continued organization of expert meetings on anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance aimed at enhancing the implementation of relevant OSCE commitments; 8. Recognizes the importance of the OSCE/ODIHR Law Enforcement Officers Programme (LEOP) in helping police forces within the participating States better to identify and combat hate crimes, and recommends that other parti …", "… e of it; 9. Reiterates its full support for the political-level work undertaken by the three Personal Representatives of the Chair-in-Office and endorses the continuance of their efforts under their existing and distinct mandates; 10. Reminds participating States of the Holocaust, its impact, and the continued acts of anti-Semitism occurring throughout the 56-nation OSCE region that are not unique to any one country and necessitate unwavering steadfastness by all participating States to erase the black mark on human history; 11. Calls upon participating States to recall that atrocities within the OSCE region motivated by race, national origin, sex, religion or belief, disability or sexual orientation have contributed to the negative perceptions and treatment of persons in the region; 12. Further recalls the resolutions on anti-Semitism adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its Annual Sessions in Berlin in 2002, Rotterdam in 2003, Edinburgh in 2004, Washington in 2005 and Brussels in 2006; 13. Reaffirms especially the 2002 Porto Ministerial Decision condemning \"anti-Semitic incidents in the OSCE area, recognizing the role that the existence of anti-Semitism has played throughout history as a major threat to freedom\"; 14. Recalls the agreement of the participating States, adopted in Cracow in 1991 to preserve and protect those monuments and sites of remembrance, including most notably extermination camps, and the related archives, which are themselves testimonials to trag …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2451, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/392/debates/020db_2007-12-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "securities-regulation speech; term only in the trailing Order Paper item", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2008-02-14", "year": "2008", "session": "39-2", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Is it your pleasure, honourable senators, to adopt the motion? Motion agreed to and report adopted. (1540) Human Rights Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe 2007 Declaration on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Losier-Cool: That the following Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance, which was adopted at the 16th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, in which Canada participated in Kyiv, Ukraine on July 9, 2007, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than March 31, 2008: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM, RACISM, XENOPHOBIA AND OTHER FORMS OF INTOLERANCE, INCLUDING AGAINST MUSLIMS AND ROMA 1. Recalling the Parliamentary Assembly's leadership in raising the focus and attention of the participating States since the 2002 Annual Session in Berlin on issues related to intolerance, discrimination, and hate crimes, including particular concern over manifestations of anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, 2. Celebrating the richness of ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious diversity within the 56 OSCE participating States, 3. Emphasizing the need to ensure implementation of existing OSCE commitments on combating anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, and other forms of intolerance and discrimination, including against Christians, Muslims, and members of other religions, as well as against Roma, 4. Recalling other international commitments of the OSCE participating States, and urging immediate ratification and full implementation of the Convent …", "… opinion, national or social origin, language, birth or other status, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Welcomes the convening of the June 2007 OSCE High Level Conference on Combating Discrimination and Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding, in Bucharest, Romania as a follow-up to the 2005 Cordoba Conference on Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance; 7. Appreciates the ongoing work undertaken by the OSCE and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (the OSCE/ODIHR) through its Programme on Tolerance and Non-discrimination, as well as its efforts to improve the situation of Roma and Sinti through its Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues, and supports the continued organization of expert meetings on anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance aimed at enhancing the implementation of relevant OSCE commitments; 8. Recognizes the importance of the OSCE/ODIHR Law Enforcement Officers Programme (LEOP) in helping police forces within the participating States better to identify and combat hate crimes, and recommends that other parti …", "… e of it; 9. Reiterates its full support for the political-level work undertaken by the three Personal Representatives of the Chair-in-Office and endorses the continuance of their efforts under their existing and distinct mandates; 10. Reminds participating States of the Holocaust, its impact, and the continued acts of anti-Semitism occurring throughout the 56-nation OSCE region that are not unique to any one country and necessitate unwavering steadfastness by all participating States to erase the black mark on human history; 11. Calls upon participating States to recall that atrocities within the OSCE region motivated by race, national origin, sex, religion or belief, disability or sexual orientation have contributed to the negative perceptions and treatment of persons in the region; 12. Further recalls the resolutions on anti-Semitism adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its Annual Sessions in Berlin in 2002, Rotterdam in 2003, Edinburgh in 2004, Washington in 2005 and Brussels in 2006; 13. Reaffirms especially the 2002 Porto Ministerial Decision condemning \"anti-Semitic incidents in the OSCE area, recognizing the role that the existence of anti-Semitism has played throughout history as a major threat to freedom\"; 14. Recalls the agreement of the participating States, adopted in Cracow in 1991, to preserve and protect those monuments and sites of remembrance, including most notably extermination camps, and the related archives, which are themselves testimonials to tra …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 2222, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/392/debates/034db_2008-02-14-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2008-03-05", "year": "2008", "session": "39-2", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Marcel Prud'homme", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… e subcommittee while the house was not sitting. We learned a great deal by being told by witnesses from many organizations in Canada that the museum was going forward. However, by scratching a little bit more, we discovered that the Canadian War Museum that was to become a Holocaust museum was to have a section on the anti-Semitism of Quebec. I thought, \"Wait a minute. Are we re-opening a can of worms that will divide Canadians again and again?\" I am told, and I hope I will be proven wrong, that this new museum will have that kind of section. If there is that kind of section in that new museum, I assure you it will make things very difficult. Th …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1449, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/392/debates/039db_2008-03-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "reputation"], "response": ["commemoration"], "response_stance": "opposes", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "act_why": "objects to a museum section attributing anti-Semitism to Quebec", "trigger": "Bill C-42, An Act to amend the Museums Act (the Canadian Museum for Human Rights), and its passage in the Commons", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2008-04-29", "year": "2008", "session": "39-2", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Gerald J. Comeau", "role": "Deputy Leader of the Government", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… huk was here a few minutes ago and, I assume, will return shortly. I will inquire as to her intentions as to when she might speak on the subject and let the honourable senator know. Order stands. Human Rights Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe 2007 Declaration on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Losier-Cool: That the following Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance, which was adopted at the 16th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, in which Canada participated in Kyiv, Ukraine on July 9, 2007, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than March 31, 2008: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM, RACISM, XENOPHOBIA AND OTHER FORMS OF INTOLERANCE, INCLUDING AGAINST MUSLIMS AND ROMA 1. Recalling the Parliamentary Assembly's leadership in raising the focus and attention of the participating States since the 2002 Annual Session in Berlin on issues related to intolerance, discrimination, and hate crimes, including particular concern over manifestations of anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, 2. Celebrating the richness of ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious diversity within the 56 OSCE participating States, 3. Emphasizing the need to ensure implementation of existing OSCE commitments on combating anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, and other forms of intolerance and discrimination, including against Christians, Muslims, and members of other religions, as well as against Roma, 4. Recalling other international commitments of the OSCE participating States, and urging immediate ratification and full implementation of the Convent …", "… opinion, national or social origin, language, birth or other status, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Welcomes the convening of the June 2007 OSCE High Level Conference on Combating Discrimination and Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding, in Bucharest, Romania as a follow-up to the 2005 Cordoba Conference on Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance; 7. Appreciates the ongoing work undertaken by the OSCE and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (the OSCE/ODIHR) through its Programme on Tolerance and Non-discrimination, as well as its efforts to improve the situation of Roma and Sinti through its Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues, and supports the continued organization of expert meetings on anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance aimed at enhancing the implementation of relevant OSCE commitments; 8. Recognizes the importance of the OSCE/ODIHR Law Enforcement Officers Programme (LEOP) in helping police forces within the participating States better to identify and combat hate crimes, and recommends that other parti …", "… e of it; 9. Reiterates its full support for the political-level work undertaken by the three Personal Representatives of the Chair-in-Office and endorses the continuance of their efforts under their existing and distinct mandates; 10. Reminds participating States of the Holocaust, its impact, and the continued acts of anti-Semitism occurring throughout the 56-nation OSCE region that are not unique to any one country and necessitate unwavering steadfastness by all participating States to erase the black mark on human history; 11. Calls upon participating States to recall that atrocities within the OSCE region motivated by race, national origin, sex, religion or belief, disability or sexual orientation have contributed to the negative perceptions and treatment of persons in the region; 12. Further recalls the resolutions on anti-Semitism adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its Annual Sessions in Berlin in 2002, Rotterdam in 2003, Edinburgh in 2004, Washington in 2005 and Brussels in 2006; 13. Reaffirms especially the 2002 Porto Ministerial Decision condemning \"anti-Semitic incidents in the OSCE area, recognizing the role that the existence of anti-Semitism has played throughout history as a major threat to freedom\"; 14. 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Omar Khadr's beliefs at that time, to the extent that a child can be considered to have formed beliefs, are distasteful to us. They are particularly distasteful to me because those beliefs, aside from their various other horrors, are also avowedly and radically anti-Semitic. We do not have the right to allow universal condemnation of those beliefs to influence in any way the nature of our obligations towards this child. Those obligations are clear. They are not in any way varied or diminished by our thoroughly justifiable condemnation of his beliefs. His beliefs are irrelevant for purpos …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2188, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/392/debates/067db_2008-06-10-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "jurisdiction": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "charge_quote": "those beliefs, aside from their various other horrors, are also avowedly and radically anti-Semitic", "act_why": "describes Khadr's and al Qaeda's avowed beliefs as radically anti-Semitic", "trigger": "Senator Dallaire's motion on Omar Khadr, and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child report of June 6 on Guantanamo detainees", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "Omar Khadr and his family", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2008-06-18", "year": "2008", "session": "39-2", "parliament": "39", "speaker": "Pierre Claude Nolin", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… in this subject. That is why I am seeking leave to adjourn the debate in my name and resume it later for the remainder of my time. On motion of Senator Nolin, debate adjourned. [ English ] (2040) Human Rights Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe 2007 Declaration on Anti-Semitism and Intolerance—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Losier-Cool: That the following Resolution on Combating Anti- Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance, which was adopted at the 16 th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, in which Canada participated in Kyiv, Ukraine on July 9, 2007, be referred to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights for consideration and that the Committee table its final report no later than March 31, 2008: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM, RACISM, XENOPHOBIA AND OTHER FORMS OF INTOLERANCE, INCLUDING AGAINST MUSLIMS AND ROMA 1. Recalling the Parliamentary Assembly's leadership in raising the focus and attention of the participating States since the 2002 Annual Session in Berlin on issues related to intolerance, discrimination, and hate crimes, including particular concern over manifestations of anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, 2. Celebrating the richness of ethnic, cultural, racial, and religious diversity within the 56 OSCE participating States, 3. Emphasizing the need to ensure implementation of existing OSCE commitments on combating anti- Semitism, racism, xenophobia, and other forms of …", "… opinion, national or social origin, language, birth or other status, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 6. Welcomes the convening of the June 2007 OSCE High Level Conference on Combating Discrimination and Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding, in Bucharest, Romania as a follow-up to the 2005 Cordoba Conference on Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance; 7. Appreciates the ongoing work undertaken by the OSCE and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (the OSCE/ODIHR) through its Programme on Tolerance and Non-discrimination, as well as its efforts to improve the situation of Roma and Sinti through its Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues, and supports the continued organization of expert meetings on anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance aimed at enhancing the implementation of relevant OSCE commitments; 8. Recognizes the importance of the OSCE/ODIHR Law Enforcement Officers Programme (LEOP) in helping police forces within the participating States better to identify and combat hate crimes, and recommends that other parti …", "… n human history; 11. Calls upon participating States to recall that atrocities within the OSCE region motivated by race, national origin, sex, religion or belief, disability or sexual orientation have contributed to the negative perceptions and treatment of persons in the region; 12. Further recalls the resolutions on anti-Semitism adopted unanimously by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its Annual Sessions in Berlin in 2002, Rotterdam in 2003, Edinburgh in 2004, Washington in 2005 and Brussels in 2006; 13. Reaffirms especially the 2002 Porto Ministerial Decision condemning \"anti-Semitic incidents in the OSCE area, recognizing the role that the existence of anti-Semitism has played throughout history as a major threat to freedom\"; 14. Recalls the agreement of the participating States, adopted in Cracow in 1991 , to preserve and protect those monuments and sites of remembrance, including most notably extermination camps, and the related archives, which are themselves testimonials to tr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2349, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/392/debates/072db_2008-06-18-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "police and security"], "act_why": "antisemitism content is the OSCE resolution text on the Order, not the senator's own words", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Senator Grafstein's motion to refer the OSCE PA Kyiv Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["university", "online platform"], "target_detail": "publications and public events at universities; the Internet, computer games and sports", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2008-11-20", "year": "2008", "session": "40-1", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… s to continue their work with other regional and international institutions and organizations with respect to water management solutions, providing for the establishment of supranational arbitral commissions with decision-making powers delegated by the States. (1445) Notice of Motion to Support Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 752, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/401/debates/003db_2008-11-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "notice of motion; term appears only in the appended Hansard heading", "trigger": "notice of motion that the Senate endorse OSCE PA resolutions adopted at Astana, incl. the resolution on combating anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2008-11-20", "year": "2008", "session": "40-1", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I give notice that, at the next sitting of the Senate, I will move: That the Senate endorse the following Resolution, adopted by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its 17th Annual Session, held at Astana, Kazakhstan, from June 29 to July 3, 2008: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM, ESPECIALLY ITS MANIFESTATIONS IN THE MEDIA AND IN ACADEMIA 1. Recalling the Parliamentary Assembly's leadership in increasing the focus and attention of the participating States since the 2002 Annual Session in Berlin on issues related to manifestations of anti-Semitism, 2. Reaffirming especially the 2002 Porto Ministerial Decision condemning \"anti-Semitic incidents in the OSCE area, recognizing the role that the existence of anti-Semitism has played throughout history as a major threat to freedom\", 3. Referring to the commitments made by the participating States in the previous OSCE conferences in Vienna (2003), Berlin (2004), Brussels (2004) and Cordoba (2005) regarding legal, political and educational efforts to fight anti-Semitism, 4. Welcoming all efforts of the parliaments of the OSCE participating States on combating anti-Semitism, especially the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry on anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom, 5. Noting with satisfaction all initiatives of the civil society organizations which are active in the field of combating anti-Semitism, 6. Acknowledging that incidents of anti-Semitism occur throughout the OSCE region and are not unique to any one country, which necessitates unwavering steadfastness by all participating States to erase this black mark on human history, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 7. Appreciates the ongoing work undertaken by the OSCE and ODIHR through its Programme on Tolerance and Non-discrimination and supports the continued organisation of expert meetings on anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance aimed at enhancing the implementation of relevant OSCE commitments; 8. Appreciates the initiative by Mr John Mann MP (United Kingdom) to create a world-wide Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism and encourages the parliaments of the OSCE participating States to support this initiative; 9. Urges participating States to present written reports on their activities to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination at the 2009 Annual Session; 10. Reminds participating States to improve methods of monitoring and to report anti-Semitic incidents and other hate crimes to the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in a timely manner; 11. Recognizes the importance of the ODIHR tools in improving the effectiveness of States' response to anti-Semitism, such as teaching materials on anti-Semitism, the OSCE/ODIHR Law Enforcement Officers Programme (LEOP), which helps police forces within participating States better to identify and combat incitement to anti-Semitism and other hate crimes, and civil society capacity-building to combat anti-Semitism and hate crimes, including through the development of networks and coalitions with Muslim, Roma, African descendent and other communities combating intolerance; and recommends that other States make use of these tools; 12. Expresses appreciation of the commitment by 10 countries — Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain and Ukraine — in co-developing with ODIHR and the Anne Frank House teaching materials on the history of Jews and anti-Semitism in Europe, and encourages all other OSCE participating States to adopt these teaching materials in their respective national languages and put them into practice; 13. Encourages participating States to adopt the guide for educators entitled Addressing Anti-Semitism — WHY and HOW , developed by ODIHR in co-operation with Yad Vashem, in their respective national languages and put them into practice; 14. Urges governments to create and employ curricula that go beyond Holocaust education in dealing with Jewish life, history and culture; 15. Condemns continued incidents of anti-Semitic stereotypes appearing in the media, including news reports, news commentaries, as well as published commentaries by readers; 16. Condemns the use of double standards in media coverage of Israel and its role in the Middle East conflict; 17. Calls upon the media to have discussions on the impact of language and imagery on Judaism, anti-Zionism and Israel and its consequences on the interaction between communities in the OSCE participating States; 18. Deplores the continued dissemination of anti-Semitic content via the Internet, including through websites, blogs and email; 19. Urges participating States to increase their efforts to counter the spread of anti-Semitic content, including its dissemination through the Internet, within the framework of their respective national legislation; 20. Urges editors to refrain from publishing anti-Semitic material and to develop a self-regulated code of ethics for dealing with anti-Semitism in media; 21. Calls upon participating States to prevent the distribution of television programmes and other media which promote anti-Semitic views and incite anti-Semitic crimes, including, but not limited to, satellite broadcasting; 22. Reminds participating States of measures to combat the dissemination of racist and anti-Semitic material via the Internet suggested at the 2004 OSCE Meeting on the Relationship between Racist, Xenophobic and Anti-Semitic Propaganda on the Internet and Hate Crimes, that include calls to: pursue complementary parallel strategies, train investigators and prosecutors on how to address bias-motivated crimes on the Internet, support the establishment of programmes to educate children about bias-motivated expression they may encounter on the Internet, promote industry codes of conduct, gather data on the full extent of the distribution of anti-Semitic hate messages on the Internet; 23. Deplores the continued intellectualization of anti-Semitism in academic spheres, particularly through publications and public events at universities; 24. Suggests the preparation of standards and guidelines on academic responsibility to ensure the protection of Jewish and other minority students from harassment, discrimination and abuse in the academic environment; 25. Urges all participants of the upcoming Durban Review Conference in Geneva to make sure that pressing issues of racism around the world will be properly assessed and that the conference will not be misused as a platform for promoting anti-Semitism; 26. Suggests that the delegations of the OSCE participating States hold a meeting on the eve of the Durban Review Conference to discuss and evaluate the Durban Review process. QUESTION PERIOD Finance Economic Downturn—Government Spending"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 979, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/401/debates/003db_2008-11-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": [], "response": ["education", "platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "educators"], "act_why": "procedural sitting-hours notice with no substantive use of the term", "trigger": "notice of motion on Senate sitting hours; first reading of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act amendment", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-01-28", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… s to continue their work with other regional and international institutions and organizations with respect to water management solutions, providing for the establishment of supranational arbitral commissions with decision-making powers delegated by the States. (1425) Notice of Motion to Support Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 751, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/003db_2009-01-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "notice of motion; term appears only in the appended heading", "trigger": "notice of motion that the Senate endorse the OSCE PA Astana resolution (water management), tied to the notice on combating anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-01-28", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I give notice that, at the next sitting of the Senate, I shall move: That the Senate endorse the following Resolution, adopted by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its 17th Annual Session, held at Astana, Kazakhstan, from June 29 to July 3, 2008: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM, ESPECIALLY ITS MANIFESTATIONS IN THE MEDIA AND IN ACADEMIA 1. Recalling the Parliamentary Assembly's leadership in increasing the focus and attention of the participating States since the 2002 Annual Session in Berlin on issues related to manifestations of anti-Semitism, 2. Reaffirming especially the 2002 Porto Ministerial Decision condemning \"anti-Semitic incidents in the OSCE area, recognizing the role that the existence of anti-Semitism has played throughout history as a major threat to freedom\", 3. Referring to the commitments made by the participating States in the previous OSCE conferences in Vienna (2003), Berlin (2004), Brussels (2004) and Cordoba (2005) regarding legal, political and educational efforts to fight anti-Semitism, 4. Welcoming all efforts of the parliaments of the OSCE participating States on combating anti-Semitism, especially the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry on anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom, 5. Noting with satisfaction all initiatives of the civil society organizations which are active in the field of combating anti-Semitism, 6. Acknowledging that incidents of anti-Semitism occur throughout the OSCE region and are not unique to any one country, which necessitates unwavering steadfastness by all participating States to erase this black mark on human history, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 7. Appreciates the ongoing work undertaken by the OSCE and ODIHR through its Programme on Tolerance and Non-discrimination and supports the continued organisation of expert meetings on anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance aimed at enhancing the implementation of relevant OSCE commitments; 8. Appreciates the initiative by Mr. John Mann MP (United Kingdom) to create a world-wide Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism and encourages the parliaments of the OSCE participating States to support this initiative; 9. Urges participating States to present written reports on their activities to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination at the 2009 Annual Session; 10. Reminds participating States to improve methods of monitoring and to report anti-Semitic incidents and other hate crimes to the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in a timely manner; 11. Recognizes the importance of the ODIHR tools in improving the effectiveness of States' response to anti-Semitism, such as teaching materials on anti-Semitism, the OSCE/ODIHR Law Enforcement Officers Programme (LEOP), which helps police forces within participating States better to identify and combat incitement to anti-Semitism and other hate crimes, and civil society capacity-building to combat anti-Semitism and hate crimes, including through the development of networks and coalitions with Muslim, Roma, African descendent and other communities combating intolerance; and recommends that other States make use of these tools; 12. Expresses appreciation of the commitment by 10 countries — Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain and Ukraine — in co-developing with ODIHR and the Anne Frank House teaching materials on the history of Jews and anti-Semitism in Europe, and encourages all other OSCE participating States to adopt these teaching materials in their respective national languages and put them into practice; 13. Encourages participating States to adopt the guide for educators entitled Addressing Anti-Semitism — WHY and HOW , developed by ODIHR in co-operation with Yad Vashem, in their respective national languages and put them into practice; 14. Urges governments to create and employ curricula that go beyond Holocaust education in dealing with Jewish life, history and culture; 15. Condemns continued incidents of anti-Semitic stereotypes appearing in the media, including news reports, news commentaries, as well as published commentaries by readers; 16. Condemns the use of double standards in media coverage of Israel and its role in the Middle East conflict; 17. Calls upon the media to have discussions on the impact of language and imagery on Judaism, anti-Zionism and Israel and its consequences on the interaction between communities in the OSCE participating States; 18. Deplores the continued dissemination of anti-Semitic content via the Internet, including through websites, blogs and email; 19. Urges participating States to increase their efforts to counter the spread of anti-Semitic content, including its dissemination through the Internet, within the framework of their respective national legislation; 20. Urges editors to refrain from publishing anti-Semitic material and to develop a self-regulated code of ethics for dealing with anti-Semitism in media; 21. Calls upon participating States to prevent the distribution of television programmes and other media which promote anti-Semitic views and incite anti-Semitic crimes, including, but not limited to, satellite broadcasting; 22. Reminds participating States of measures to combat the dissemination of racist and anti-Semitic material via the Internet suggested at the 2004 OSCE Meeting on the Relationship between Racist, Xenophobic and Anti-Semitic Propaganda on the Internet and Hate Crimes, that include calls to: - pursue complementary parallel strategies, - train investigators and prosecutors on how to address bias-motivated crimes on the Internet, - support the establishment of programmes to educate children about bias-motivated expression they may encounter on the Internet, - promote industry codes of conduct, - gather data on the full extent of the distribution of anti-Semitic hate messages on the Internet; 23. Deplores the continued intellectualization of anti-Semitism in academic spheres, particularly through publications and public events at universities; 24. Suggests the preparation of standards and guidelines on academic responsibility to ensure the protection of Jewish and other minority students from harassment, discrimination and abuse in the academic environment; 25. Urges all participants of the upcoming Durban Review Conference in Geneva to make sure that pressing issues of racism around the world will be properly assessed and that the conference will not be misused as a platform for promoting anti-Semitism; 26. Suggests that the delegations of the OSCE participating States hold a meeting on the eve of the Durban Review Conference to discuss and evaluate the Durban Review process. [ Translation ] Budget 2009 Notice of Inquiry"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 986, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/003db_2009-01-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["market"], "response": ["education", "platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "educators"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "act_why": "trade resolution notice; no substantive use of the term", "trigger": "notice of motion that the Senate endorse the OSCE PA Astana resolution on expanding trade between North America and Europe", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-03-04", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "John D. 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Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 309, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/015db_2009-03-04-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "recreation-funding statement; term appears only in the trailing heading", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-03-04", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Yoine Goldstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… on. At a time when labour in this country faces disastrous economic situations, it appears entirely inappropriate for CUPE not to spend time on that economic situation and, instead, to spend time purporting to criticize academic institutions 3,000 miles away. The second event is the supposed Israeli Apartheid Week, an anti-Semitic frenzy that is taking place as we speak at dozens of university campuses across Canada. Protesters at these rallies cry, \"the Jews are our dogs.\" At York University, Jewish women students are called bitches and all Jewish students are so physically threatened that security guards are required to rescue them from the a …", "… tures of Jews that would put those published in the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer to shame are posted on campuses with little, if any, activity or protest from the university authorities. Jewish students and Jewish academics are intimidated merely because they are Jews. We are witnessing a significantly increased rate of anti-Semitism in this country time and again. Over 1,000 anti-Semitic incidents were reported in 2007, and 2008 has a worse record. (1350) Honourable senators will recall that during the Liberal leadership race after the 2006 election, the President of the Canadian Arab Federation actively solicited Liberal candidates not to vote for Bob Rae, not because he disagreed with Bob Rae's poli …", "… eal has been fire bombed. Explosive devices, which fortunately sputtered out and did not cause much damage, were placed at the entrance of a Montreal Jewish community centre. Some are saying that this is simply a reaction to activities undertaken by the Government of Israel. That assertion is false and dangerous. This anti-Semitism is the new anti-Semitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 384, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/015db_2009-03-04-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired", "industrial"], "response": ["education"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "charge_quote": "The second event is the supposed Israeli Apartheid Week, an anti-Semitic frenzy", "act_why": "names CUPE Ontario's resolution and calls Israeli Apartheid Week an anti-Semitic frenzy", "trigger": "CUPE Ontario's February 22 boycott resolution, Israeli Apartheid Week rallies at York and other campuses, and the firebombing of a Montreal Jewish day school", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["union", "university"], "target_detail": "the Ontario division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees; York University and the university authorities", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2009-03-05", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Gerald J. Comeau", "role": "Deputy Leader of the Government", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… pose. On the Fisheries Committee, Ray became my teacher, my adviser, and soon my friend, so I missed him when he retired from the Senate. For a number of years afterwards, and still today, I wish he were here to impart his advice on the West Coast fisheries. To Barbara and Ray's family, I offer my sincere condolences. Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 187, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/016db_2009-03-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["none"], "jurisdiction": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "low", "act_why": "tribute to a senator; term appears only in the trailing heading", "trigger": "tributes on the death of former Senator Ray Perrault", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-03-05", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Yoine Goldstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, yesterday, I was unable to complete my statement about anti-Semitism because the time required for Senators' Statements had terminated. I propose to complete my statement now. Honourable senators will recall that I spoke yesterday about anti-Semitism and the rise of anti-Semitism in Canada. Some say this rise is a reaction to activities undertaken by the Government of Israel, but that assertion is false and dangerous. This anti-Semitism is, in fact, the new anti-Semitism. Traditional anti-Semitism is an assault upon the right of a Jew to live as an equal member of whatever host society that Jew inhabits. The new anti-Semitism involves discrimination against the collective right of the Jewish people to live as an equal member of the family of nations. Criticism of Israeli policies is legitimate. Israelis themselves view that activity as a national sport. However, attempting to deny Israel's legitimacy as a country is the flip side of traditional anti-Semitism; it is collective anti-Semitism. Per Ahlmark, Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, put it well when he said that the new anti-Semitism is marked by attacks \". . . on the collective Jews — the state of Israel,\" which then \". . . starts a chain reaction of assaults on individual Jews and Jewish institutions.\" (1350) Distinguishing between the old anti-Semitism and the new anti-Semitism is a distinction without a difference. If there was ever any doubt about that, one need only look at the words of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who said, If all the Jews were gathered in Israel it would be easier to kill them all at the same time. Those who suggest that Hamas or Hezbollah are national movements and not anti-Semitic are speaking nonsense. Hamas seeks not only the destruction of Israel, but the death of all Jews. Regrettably, Canada is not immune to this ill-disguised anti-Semitism. The frenzy of hate that is going on at Canadian campuses this week is, in fact, a terrible, terrifying and vicious anti-Semitism never before seen in our country. When Jewish students are terrorized solely because they are Jewish, and when Canadian residents support those who call for the extermination of Jews, we, as senators, have an obligation to speak out. Honourable senators will recall that Edmund Burke taught us that all it takes for evi …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 392, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/016db_2009-03-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "Those who suggest that Hamas or Hezbollah are national movements and not anti-Semitic are speaking nonsense.", "act_why": "insists Hamas and Hezbollah are anti-Semitic and names the campus frenzy as such", "trigger": "the 'frenzy of hate' at Canadian campuses that week (Israeli Apartheid Week) and the intimidation of Jewish students", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["institution", "university"], "target_detail": "Hamas and Hezbollah; Canadian campuses", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2009-03-11", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I give notice that, at the next sitting of the Senate, I will move: That the Senate endorse the following Declaration, adopted by the Conference on Combating Antisemitism, held at London, United Kingdom, from February 15 to 17, 2009: THE LONDON DECLARATION ON COMBATING ANTISEMITISM Preamble We, Representatives of our respective Parliaments from across the world, convening in London for the founding Conference and Summit of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism, draw the democratic world's attention to the resurgence of antisemitism as a potent force in politics, international affairs and society. We note the dramatic increase in recorded antisemitic hate crimes and attacks targeting Jewish persons and property, and Jewish religious, educational and communal institutions. We are alarmed at the resurrection of the old language of prejudice and its modern manifestations — in rhetoric and political action — against Jews, Jewish belief and practice and the State of Israel. We are alarmed by Government-backed antisemitism in general, and state-backed genocidal antisemitism, in particular. We, as Parliamentarians, affirm our commitment to a comprehensive programme of action to meet this challenge. We call upon national governments, parliaments, international institutions, political and civic leaders, NGOs, and civil society to affirm democratic and human values, build societies based on respect and citizenship and combat any manifestations of antisemitism and discrimination. We today in London resolve that; Challenging Antisemitism 1. Parliamentarians shall expose, challenge, and isolate political actors who engage in hate against Jews and target the State of Israel as a Jewish collectivity; 2. Parliamentarians should speak out against antisemitism and discrimination directed against any minority, and guard against equivocation, hesitation and justification in the face of expressions of hatred; 3. Governments must challenge any foreign leader, politician or public figure who denies, denigrates or trivialises the Holocaust and must encourage civil society to be vigilant to this phenomenon and to openly condemn it; 4. Parliamentarians should campaign for their Government to uphold international commitments on combating antisemitism — including the OSCE Berlin Declaration and its eight main principles; 5. The UN should reaffirm its call for every member state to commit itself to the principles laid out in the Holocaust Remembrance initiative including specific and targeted policies to eradicate Holocaust denial and trivialisation; 6. Governments and the UN should resolve that never again will the institutions of the international community and the dialogue of nation states be abused to try to establish any legitimacy for antisemitism, including the singling out of Israel for discriminatory treatment in the international arena, and we will never witness — or be party to — another gathering like Durban in 2001; 7. The OSCE should encourage its member states to fulfil their commitments under the 2004 Berlin Declaration and to fully utilise programmes to combat antisemitism including the Law Enforcement programme LEOP; 8. The European Union, inter-state institutions and multilateral fora and religious communities must make a concerted effort to combat antisemitism and lead their member states to adopt proven and best practice methods of countering antisemitism; 9. Leaders of all religious faiths should be called upon to use all the means possible to combat antisemitism and all types of discriminatory hostilities among believers and society at large; 10. The EU Council of Ministers should convene a session on combating antisemitism relying on the outcomes of the London Conference on Combating Antisemitism and using the London Declaration as a basis. Prohibitions 11. Governments should take appropriate and necessary action to prevent the broadcast of explicitly antisemitic programmes on satellite television channels, and to apply pressure on the host broadcast nation to take action to prevent the transmission of explicitly antisemitic programmes; 12. Governments should fully reaffirm and actively uphold the Genocide Convention, recognising that where there is incitement to genocide signatories automatically have an obligation to act. This may include sanctions against countries involved in or threatening to commit genocide or referral of the matter …", "… a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems') should enact domestic enabling legislation; Identifying the threat 15. Parliamentarians should return to their legislature, Parliament or Assembly and establish inquiry scrutiny panels that are tasked with determining the existing nature and state of antisemitism in their countries and developing recommendations for government and civil society action; 16. Parliamentarians should engage with their governments in order to measure the effectiveness of existing policies and mechanisms in place and to recommend proven and best practice methods of countering antisemitism; 17. Governments should ensure they have publicly accessible incident reporting systems, and that statistics collected on antisemitism should be the subject of regular review and action by government and state prosecutors and that an adequate legislative framework is in place to tackle hate crime. 18. Governments must expand the use of the EUMC 'working definition' of antisemitism to inform policy of national and international organisations and as a basis for training material for use by Criminal Justice Agencies; 19. Police services should record allegations of hate crimes and incidents — including antisemitism — as routine part of reporting crimes; 20. The OSCE should work with member states to seek consistent data collection systems for antisemitism and hate crime. Education, awareness and training 21. Governments should train Police, prosecutors and judges comprehensively. The training is essential if perpetrators of antisemitic hate crime are to be successfully apprehended, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced. The OSCE's Law enforcement Programme LEOP is a model initiative consisting of an international cadre of expert police officers training police in several countries; 22. Governments should develop teaching materials on the subjects of the Holocaust, racism, antisemitism and discrimination which are incorporated into the national school curriculum. All teaching materials ought to be based on values of comprehensiveness, inclusiveness, acceptance and respect and should be designed to assist students to recognise and counter antisemitism and all forms of hate speech; 23. The OSCE should encourage their member states to fulfill their commitments under the 2004 Berlin Declaration and to fully utilise programmes to combat antisemitism including the Law Enforcement programme LEOP; 24. Governments should include a comprehensive training programme across the Criminal Justice System using programmes such as the LEOP programme; 25. Education Authorities should ensure that freedom of speech is upheld within the law and to protect students and staff from illegal antisemitic discourse and a hostile environment in whatever form it takes including calls for boycotts; Community Support 26. The Criminal Justice System should publicly notify local communities when antisemitic hate crimes are prosecuted by the courts to build community confidence in reporting and pursuing convictions through the Criminal Justice system; 27. Parliamentarians should engage with civil society institutions and leading NGOs to create partnerships that bring about change locally, domestically and globally, and support efforts that encourage Holocaust education, inter-religious dialogue and cultural exchange; Media and the Internet 28. Governments should acknowledge the challenge and opportunity of the growing new forms of communication; 29. Media Regulatory Bodies should utilise the EUMC 'Working Definition of antisemitism' to inform media standards; 30. Governments should take appropriate and necessary action to prevent the broadcast of antisemitic programmes on satellite television channels, and to apply pressure on the host broadcast nation to take action to prevent the transmission of antisemitic programmes; 31. The OSCE should seek ways to coordinate the response of member states to combat the use of the internet to promote incitement to hatred; 32. Law enforcement authorities should use domestic \"hate crime\", \"incitement to hatred\" and other legislation as well as other means to mitigate and, where permissible, to prosecute \"Hate on the Internet\" where racist and antisemitic content is hosted, published and written; 33. An international task force of Internet specialists comprised of parliamentarians and experts should be established to create common metrics to measure antisemitism and other manifestations of hate online and to develop policy recommendations and practical instruments for Governments and international frameworks to tackle these problems. Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism 34. Participants will endeavour to maintain contact with fellow delegates through working group framework; communicating successes or requesting further support where required; 35. Delegates should reconvene for the next ICCA Conference in Canada in 2010, become an active member of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition and promote and prioritise the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism. QUESTION PERIOD Finance Budget 2009"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1452, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/018db_2009-03-11-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "international bodies"], "act_why": "moves notice to endorse the London Declaration's alarm at antisemitism", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "notice of motion that the Senate endorse the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state", "institution"], "target_detail": "Government-backed antisemitism and state-backed genocidal antisemitism; the international arena / Durban 2001", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2009-03-11", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. 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Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["pursuant to notice of January 28, 2009, moved: That the Senate endorse the following Resolution, adopted by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its 17th Annual Session, held at Astana, Kazakhstan, from June 29 to July 3, 2008: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM, ESPECIALLY ITS MANIFESTATIONS IN THE MEDIA AND IN ACADEMIA 1. Recalling the Parliamentary Assembly's leadership in increasing the focus and attention of the participating States since the 2002 Annual Session in Berlin on issues related to manifestations of anti-Semitism, 2. Reaffirming especially the 2002 Porto Ministerial Decision condemning \"anti-Semitic incidents in the OSCE area, recognizing the role that the existence of anti-Semitism has played throughout history as a major threat to freedom\", 3. Referring to the commitments made by the participating States in the previous OSCE conferences in Vienna (2003), Berlin (2004), Brussels (2004) and Cordoba (2005) regarding legal, political and educational efforts to fight anti-Semitism, 4. Welcoming all efforts of the parliaments of the OSCE participating States on combating anti-Semitism, especially the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry on anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom, 5. Noting with satisfaction all initiatives of the civil society organizations which are active in the field of combating anti-Semitism, 6. Acknowledging that incidents of anti-Semitism occur throughout the OSCE region and are not unique to any one country, which necessitates unwavering steadfastness by all participating States to erase this black mark on human history, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 7. Appreciates the ongoing work undertaken by the OSCE and ODIHR through its Programme on Tolerance and Non-discrimination and supports the continued organisation of expert meetings on anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance aimed at enhancing the implementation of relevant OSCE commitments; 8. Appreciates the initiative by Mr John Mann MP (United Kingdom) to create a world-wide Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism and encourages the parliaments of the OSCE participating States to support this initiative; 9. Urges participating States to present written reports on their activities to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination at the 2009 Annual Session; 10. Reminds participating States to improve methods of monitoring and to report anti-Semitic incidents and other hate crimes to the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in a timely manner; 11. Recognizes the importance of the ODIHR tools in improving the effectiveness of States' response to anti-Semitism, such as teaching materials on anti-Semitism, the OSCE/ODIHR Law Enforcement Officers Programme (LEOP), which helps police forces within participating States better to identify and combat incitement to anti-Semitism and other hate crimes, and civil society capacity-building to combat anti-Semitism and hate crimes, including through the development of networks and coalitions with Muslim, Roma, African descendent and other communities combating intolerance; and recommends that other States make use of these tools; 12. Expresses appreciation of the commitment by 10 countries — Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain and Ukraine — in co-developing with ODIHR and the Anne Frank House teaching materials on the history of Jews and anti-Semitism in Europe, and encourages all other OSCE participating States to adopt these teaching materials in their respective national languages and put them into practice; 13. Encourages participating States to adopt the guide for educators entitled Addressing Anti-Semitism — WHY and HOW , developed by ODIHR in co-operation with Yad Vashem, in their respective national languages and put them into practice; 14. Urges governments to create and employ curricula that go beyond Holocaust education in dealing with Jewish life, history and culture; 15. Condemns continued incidents of anti-Semitic stereotypes appearing in the media, including news reports, news commentaries, as well as published commentaries by readers; 16. Condemns the use of double standards in media coverage of Israel and its role in the Middle East conflict; 17. Calls upon the media to have discussions on the impact of language and imagery on Judaism, anti-Zionism and Israel and its consequences on the interaction between communities in the OSCE participating States; 18. Deplores the continued dissemination of anti-Semitic content via the Internet, including through websites, blogs and email; 19. Urges participating States to increase their efforts to counter the spread of anti-Semitic content, including its dissemination through the Internet, within the framework of their respective national legislation; 20. Urges editors to refrain from publishing anti-Semitic material and to develop a self-regulated code of ethics for dealing with anti-Semitism in media; 21. Calls upon participating States to prevent the distribution of television programmes and other media which promote anti-Semitic views and incite anti-Semitic crimes, including, but not limited to, satellite broadcasting; 22. Reminds participating States of measures to combat the dissemination of racist and anti-Semitic material via the Internet suggested at the 2004 OSCE Meeting on the Relationship between Racist, Xenophobic and Anti-Semitic Propaganda on the Internet and Hate Crimes, that include calls to: - pursue complementary parallel strategies, - train investigators and prosecutors on how to address bias-motivated crimes on the Internet, - support the establishment of programmes to educate children about bias-motivated expression they may encounter on the Internet, - promote industry codes of conduct, - gather data on the full extent of the distribution of anti-Semitic hate messages on the Internet; 23. Deplores the continued intellectualization of anti-Semitism in academic spheres, particularly through publications and public events at universities; 24. Suggests the preparation of standards and guidelines on academic responsibility to ensure the protection of Jewish and other minority students from harassment, discrimination and abuse in the academic environment; 25. Urges all participants of the upcoming Durban Review Conference in Geneva to make sure that pressing issues of racism around the world will be properly assessed and that the conference will not be misused as a platform for promoting anti-Semitism; 26. Suggests that the delegations of the OSCE participating States hold a meeting on the eve of the Durban Review Conference to discuss and evaluate the Durban Review process. He said: Honourable senators, this topic is another fascinating one that has been on the Order Paper for the better part of nine years, so it …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1027, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/018db_2009-03-11-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["market", "projective"], "response": ["education", "platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "educators"], "act_why": "trade motion; antisemitism appears only in the trailing order heading", "trigger": "motion that the Senate endorse the OSCE PA Astana resolution on a Mediterranean free trade area", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2009-03-11", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Lise Bacon", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… innovations, the financial aspects associated with possible changes to the sector, and Canada's development of the sector in comparison to the performance in other countries; That the Committee report to the Senate from time to time, with a final report no later than March 31, 2010. [ English ] Conference on Combating Antisemitism Notice of Motion to Support London Declaration"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 126, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/018db_2009-03-11-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "transport notice; term appears only in the trailing heading", "trigger": "notice of motion authorizing a Transport and Communications study, followed by the notice of motion to support the London Declaration", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-03-26", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["pursuant to notice of March 11, 2009, moved: That the Senate endorse the following Declaration, adopted by the Conference on Combating Antisemitism, held at London, United Kingdom, from February 15 to 17, 2009: THE LONDON DECLARATION ON COMBATING ANTISEMITISM Preamble We, Representatives of our respective Parliaments from across the world, convening in London for the founding Conference and Summit of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism, draw the democratic world's attention to the resurgence of antisemitism as a potent force in politics, international affairs and society. We note the dramatic increase in recorded antisemitic hate crimes and attacks targeting Jewish persons and property, and Jewish religious, educational and communal institutions. We are alarmed at the resurrection of the old language of prejudice and its modern manifestations — in rhetoric and political action — against Jews, Jewish belief and practice and the State of Israel. We are alarmed by Government-backed antisemitism in general, and state-backed genocidal antisemitism, in particular. We, as Parliamentarians, affirm our commitment to a comprehensive programme of action to meet this challenge. We call upon national governments, parliaments, international institutions, political and civic leaders, NGOs, and civil society to affirm democratic and human values, build societies based on respect and citizenship and combat any manifestations of antisemitism and discrimination. We today in London resolve that; Challenging Antisemitism 1. Parliamentarians shall expose, challenge, and isolate political actors who engage in hate against Jews and target the State of Israel as a Jewish collectivity; 2. Parliamentarians should speak out against antisemitism and discrimination directed against any minority, and guard against equivocation, hesitation and justification in the face of expressions of hatred; 3. Governments must challenge any foreign leader, politician or public figure who denies, denigrates or trivialises the Holocaust and must encourage civil society to be vigilant to this phenomenon and to openly condemn it; 4. Parliamentarians should campaign for their Government to uphold international commitments on combating antisemitism — including the OSCE Berlin Declaration and its eight main principles; 5. The UN should reaffirm its call for every member state to commit itself to the principles laid out in the Holocaust Remembrance initiative including specific and targeted policies to eradicate Holocaust denial and trivialisation; 6. Governments and the UN should resolve that never again will the institutions of the international community and the dialogue of nation states be abused to try to establish any legitimacy for antisemitism, including the singling out of Israel for discriminatory treatment in the international arena, and we will never witness — or be party to — another gathering like Durban in 2001; 7. The OSCE should encourage its member states to fulfil their commitments under the 2004 Berlin Declaration and to fully utilise programmes to combat antisemitism including the Law Enforcement programme LEOP; 8. The European Union, inter-state institutions and multilateral fora and religious communities must make a concerted effort to combat antisemitism and lead their member states to adopt proven and best practice methods of countering antisemitism; 9. Leaders of all religious faiths should be called upon to use all the means possible to combat antisemitism and all types of discriminatory hostilities among believers and society at large; 10. The EU Council of Ministers should convene a session on combating antisemitism relying on the outcomes of the London Conference on Combating Antisemitism and using the London Declaration as a basis. Prohibitions 11. Governments should take appropriate and necessary action to prevent the broadcast of explicitly antisemitic programmes on satellite television channels, and to apply pressure on the host broadcast nation to take action to prevent the transmission of explicitly antisemitic programmes; 12. Governments should fully reaffirm and actively uphold the Genocide Convention, recognising that where there is incitement to genocide signatories automatically have an obligation to act. This may include sanctions against countries involved in or threatening to commit genocide or referral of the matter …", "… a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems') should enact domestic enabling legislation; Identifying the threat 15. Parliamentarians should return to their legislature, Parliament or Assembly and establish inquiry scrutiny panels that are tasked with determining the existing nature and state of antisemitism in their countries and developing recommendations for government and civil society action; 16. Parliamentarians should engage with their governments in order to measure the effectiveness of existing policies and mechanisms in place and to recommend proven and best practice methods of countering antisemitism; 17. Governments should ensure they have publicly accessible incident reporting systems, and that statistics collected on antisemitism should be the subject of regular review and action by government and state prosecutors and that an adequate legislative framework is in place to tackle hate crime. 18. Governments must expand the use of the EUMC 'working definition' of antisemitism to inform policy of national and international organisations and as a basis for training material for use by Criminal Justice Agencies; 19. Police services should record allegations of hate crimes and incidents — including antisemitism — as routine part of reporting crimes; 20. The OSCE should work with member states to seek consistent data collection systems for antisemitism and hate crime. Education, awareness and training 21. Governments should train Police, prosecutors and judges comprehensively. The training is essential if perpetrators of antisemitic hate crime are to be successfully apprehended, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced. The OSCE's Law enforcement Programme LEOP is a model initiative consisting of an international cadre of expert police officers training police in several countries; 22. Governments should develop teaching materials on the subjects of the Holocaust, racism, antisemitism and discrimination which are incorporated into the national school curriculum. All teaching materials ought to be based on values of comprehensiveness, inclusiveness, acceptance and respect and should be designed to assist students to recognise and counter antisemitism and all forms of hate speech; 23. The OSCE should encourage their member states to fulfill their commitments under the 2004 Berlin Declaration and to fully utilise programmes to combat antisemitism including the Law Enforcement programme LEOP; 24. Governments should include a comprehensive training programme across the Criminal Justice System using programmes such as the LEOP programme; 25. Education Authorities should ensure that freedom of speech is upheld within the law and to protect students and staff from illegal antisemitic discourse and a hostile environment in whatever form it takes including calls for boycotts; Community Support 26. The Criminal Justice System should publicly notify local communities when antisemitic hate crimes are prosecuted by the courts to build community confidence in reporting and pursuing convictions through the Criminal Justice system; 27. Parliamentarians should engage with civil society institutions and leading NGOs to create partnerships that bring about change locally, domestically and globally, and support efforts that encourage Holocaust education, inter-religious dialogue and cultural exchange; Media and the Internet 28. Governments should acknowledge the challenge and opportunity of the growing new forms of communication; 29. Media Regulatory Bodies should utilise the EUMC 'Working Definition of antisemitism' to inform media standards; 30. Governments should take appropriate and necessary action to prevent the broadcast of antisemitic programmes on satellite television channels, and to apply pressure on the host broadcast nation to take action to prevent the transmission of antisemitic programmes; 31. The OSCE should seek ways to coordinate the response of member states to combat the use of the internet to promote incitement to hatred; 32. Law enforcement authorities should use domestic \"hate crime\", \"incitement to hatred\" and other legislation as well as other means to mitigate and, where permissible, to prosecute \"Hate on the Internet\" where racist and antisemitic content is hosted, published and written; 33. An international task force of Internet specialists comprised of parliamentarians and experts should be established to create common metrics to measure antisemitism and other manifestations of hate online and to develop policy recommendations and practical instruments for Governments and international frameworks to tackle these problems. Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism 34. Participants will endeavour to maintain contact with fellow delegates through working group framework; communicating successes or requesting further support where required; 35. Delegates should reconvene for the next ICCA Conference in Canada in 2010, become an active member of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition and promote and prioritise the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism. He said: Honourable senators, I intended to speak at great length on this resolution but today there was a very important and seminal meeting on the other side. An all-party group is being formed led by Scott Reid M.P. to establish a special committee to examine the subject of this material. 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(On motion of Senator Prud'homme, debate adjourned.) [ English ] Conference on Combating Antisemitism Motion to Support London Declaration—Debate Adjourned"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 33, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/022db_2009-03-26-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2009-04-21", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Yoine Goldstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… others — preached social justice and peace. They were paid no heed. Can we now examine our own consciences and at least speak out against genocide and against the abuse of human rights? The Holocaust started with mere words, words which we find repeated in Europe and, yes, unfortunately in Canada, as barely disguised anti-Semitism. Yesterday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whom I call \"Ahme-genocide,\" in addressing Durban II in Geneva, again spouted anti-Semitic and destructive slogans. While the representatives of European countries walked out in protest, the bulk of the delegates applauded. The dictum of Santayana is right: Those who forget the lessons of history are condemned to relive it. Are we paying attention? [ Translation ] ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS Public Safety Canadian …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 532, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/026db_2009-04-21-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "Yom Hashoah reflection on genocide and barely disguised anti-Semitism", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "Yom Hashoah, and the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; the delegates at Durban II who applauded", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-05-07", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Donald H. 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However, to build that kind of society, the kind of s …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 430, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/033db_2009-05-07-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "tribute noting the senator's work on continuing problems of anti-Semitism", "trigger": "tribute on Senator Yoine Goldstein's retirement from the Senate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-05-14", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Joan Fraser", "role": "Acting Deputy Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… s of considerable interest to a number of us, including myself. I have not had a chance to prepare my notes, and I am embarrassed to see that the motion is on day 15. I ask your indulgence and move the adjournment of the debate. (On motion of Senator Fraser, debate adjourned.) Motion to Support Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Carstairs, P.C.: That the Senate endorse the following Resolution, adopted by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its 17th Annual Session, held at Astana, Kazakhstan, from June 29 to July 3, 2008: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM, ESPECIALLY ITS MANIFESTATIONS IN THE MEDIA AND IN ACADEMIA 1. Recalling the Parliamentary Assembly's leadership in increasing the focus and attention of the participating States since the 2002 Annual Session in Berlin on issues related to manifestations of anti-Semitism, 2. Reaffirming especially the 2002 Porto Ministerial Decision condemning \"anti-Semitic incidents in the OSCE area, recognizing the role that the existence of anti-Semitism has played throughout history as a major threat to freedom\", 3. Referring to the commitments made by the participating States in the previous OSCE conferences in Vienna (2003), Berlin (2004), Brussels (2004) and Cordoba (2005) regarding legal, political and educational efforts to fight anti-Semitism, 4. Welcoming all efforts of the parliaments of the OSCE participating States on combating anti-Semitism, especially the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry on anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom, 5. Noting with satisfaction all initiatives of the civil society organizations which are active in the field of combating anti-Semitism, 6. Acknowledging that incidents of anti-Semitism occur throughout the OSCE region and are not unique to any one country, which necessitates unwavering steadfastness by all participating States to erase this black mark on human history, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 7. Appreciates the ongoing work undertaken by the OSCE and ODIHR through its Programme on Tolerance and Non-discrimination and supports the continued organisation of expert meetings on anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance aimed at enhancing the implementation of relevant OSCE commitments; 8. Appreciates the initiative by Mr John Mann MP (United Kingdom) to create a world-wide Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism and encourages the parliaments of the OSCE participating States to support this initiative; 9. Urges participating States to present written reports on their activities to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination at the 2009 Annual Session; 10. Reminds participating States to improve methods of monitoring and to report anti-Semitic incidents and other hate crimes to the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in a timely manner; 11. Recognizes the importance of the ODIHR tools in improving the effectiveness of States' response to anti-Semitism, such as teaching materials on anti-Semitism, the OSCE/ODIHR Law Enforcement Officers Programme (LEOP), which helps police forces within participating States better to identify and combat incitement to anti-Semitism and other hate crimes, and civil society capacity-building to combat anti-Semitism and hate crimes, including through the development of networks and coalitions with Muslim, Roma, African descendent and other communities combating intolerance; and recommends that other States make use of these tools; 12. Expresses appreciation of the commitment by 10 countries — Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain and Ukraine — in co-developing with ODIHR and the Anne Frank House teaching materials on the history of Jews and anti-Semitism in Europe, and encourages all other OSCE participating States to adopt these teaching materials in their respective national languages and put them into practice; 13. Encourages participating States to adopt the guide for educators entitled Addressing Anti-Semitism — WHY and HOW , developed by ODIHR in co-operation with Yad Vashem, in their respective national languages and put them into practice; 14. Urges governments to create and employ curricula that go beyond Holocaust education in dealing with Jewish life, history and culture; 15. Condemns continued incidents of anti-Semitic stereotypes appearing in the media, including news reports, news commentaries, as well as published commentaries by readers; 16. Condemns the use of double standards in media coverage of Israel and its role in the Middle East conflict; 17. Calls upon the media to have discussions on the impact of language and imagery on Judaism, anti-Zionism and Israel and its consequences on the interaction between communities in the OSCE participating States; 18. Deplores the continued dissemination of anti-Semitic content via the Internet, including through websites, blogs and email; 19. Urges participating States to increase their efforts to counter the spread of anti-Semitic content, including its dissemination through the Internet, within the framework of their respective national legislation; 20. Urges editors to refrain from publishing anti-Semitic material and to develop a self-regulated code of ethics for dealing with anti-Semitism in media; 21. Calls upon participating States to prevent the distribution of television programmes and other media which promote anti-Semitic views and incite anti-Semitic crimes, including, but not limited to, satellite broadcasting; 22. Reminds participating States of measures to combat the dissemination of racist and anti-Semitic material via the Internet suggested at the 2004 OSCE Meeting on the Relationship between Racist, Xenophobic and Anti-Semitic Propaganda on the Internet and Hate Crimes, that include calls to: - pursue complementary parallel strategies, - train investigators and prosecutors on how to address bias-motivated crimes on the Internet, - support the establishment of programmes to educate children about bias-motivated expression they may encounter on the Internet, - promote industry codes of conduct, - gather data on the full extent of the distribution of anti-Semitic hate messages on the Internet; 23. Deplores the continued intellectualization of anti-Semitism in academic spheres, particularly through publications and public events at universities; 24. Suggests the preparation of standards and guidelines on academic responsibility to ensure the protection of Jewish and other minority students from harassment, discrimination and abuse in the academic environment; 25. Urges all participants of the upcoming Durban Review Conference in Geneva to make sure that pressing issues of racism around the world will be properly assessed and that the conference will not be misused as a platform for promoting anti-Semitism; 26. Suggests that the delegations of the OSCE participating States hold a meeting on the eve of the Durban Review Conference to discuss and evaluate the Durban Review process."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1047, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/036db_2009-05-14-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["education", "platform regulation"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "educators"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "adjournment motion; antisemitism text is the OSCE resolution on the Order", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Senator Grafstein's motion that the Senate endorse the OSCE PA resolution on combating anti-Semitism in the media and academia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["media", "university"], "target_detail": "the media, including news reports and commentaries; academic spheres, particularly publications and public events at universities", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2009-05-28", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Gerald J. Comeau", "role": "Deputy Leader of the Government", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… at day 14 and Senator Wallin has asked me to adjourn the debate in her absence, so that this item does not fall off the Order Paper. Therefore, I move the adjournment for the remainder of Senator Wallin's time. (On motion of Senator Comeau, for Senator Wallin, debate adjourned). [ Translation ] Conference on Combating Antisemitism Motion to Support London Declaration—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Fairbairn, P.C.: That the Senate endorse the following Declaration, adopted by the Conference on Combating Antisemitism, held at London, United Kingdom, from February 15 to 17, 2009: THE LONDON DECLARATION ON COMBATING ANTISEMITISM Preamble We, Representatives of our respective Parliaments from across the world, convening in London for the founding Conference and Summit of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism, draw the democratic world's attention to the resurgence of antisemitism as a potent force in politics, international affairs and society. We note the dramatic increase in recorded antisemitic hate crimes and attacks targeting Jewish persons and property, and Jewish religious, educational and communal institutions. We are alarmed at the resurrection of the old language of prejudice and its modern manifestations — in rhetoric and political action — against Jews, Jewish belief and practice and the State of Israel. We are alarmed by Government-backed antisemitism in general, and state-backed genocidal antisemitism, in particular. We, as Parliamentarians, affirm our commitment to a comprehensive programme of action to meet this challenge. We call upon national governments, parliaments, international institutions, political and civic leaders, NGOs, and civil society to affirm democratic and human values, build societies based on respect and citizenship and combat any manifestations of antisemitism and discrimination. We today in London resolve that; Challenging Antisemitism 1. Parliamentarians shall expose, challenge, and isolate political actors who engage in hate against Jews and target the State of Israel as a Jewish collectivity; 2. Parliamentarians should speak out against antisemitism and discrimination directed against any minority, and guard against equivocation, hesitation and justification in the face of expressions of hatred; 3. Governments must challenge any foreign leader, politician or public figure who denies, denigrates or trivialises the Holocaust and must encourage civil society to be vigilant to this phenomenon and to openly condemn it; 4. Parliamentarians should campaign for their Government to uphold international commitments on combating antisemitism — including the OSCE Berlin Declaration and its eight main principles; 5. The UN should reaffirm its call for every member state to commit itself to the principles laid out in the Holocaust Remembrance initiative including specific and targeted policies to eradicate Holocaust denial and trivialisation; 6. Governments and the UN should resolve that never again will the institutions of the international community and the dialogue of nation states be abused to try to establish any legitimacy for antisemitism, including the singling out of Israel for discriminatory treatment in the international arena, and we will never witness — or be party to — another gathering like Durban in 2001; 7. The OSCE should encourage its member states to fulfil their commitments under the 2004 Berlin Declaration and to fully utilise programmes to combat antisemitism including the Law Enforcement programme LEOP; 8. The European Union , inter-state institutions and multilateral fora and religious communities must make a concerted effort to combat antisemitism and lead their member states to adopt proven and best practice methods of countering antisemitism; 9. Leaders of all religious faiths should be called upon to use all the means possible to combat antisemitism and all types of discriminatory hostilities among believers and society at large; 10. The EU Council of Ministers should convene a session on combating antisemitism relying on the outcomes of the London Conference on Combating Antisemitism and using the London Declaration as a basis. Prohibitions 11. Governments should take appropriate and necessary action to prevent the broadcast of explicitly antisemitic programmes on satellite television channels, and to apply pressure on the host broadcast nation to take action to prevent the transmission of explicitly antisemitic programmes; 12. Governments should fully reaffirm and actively uphold the Genocide Convention, recognising that where there is incitement to genocide signatories automatically have an obligation to act. This may include sanctions against countries involved in or threatening to commit genocide or referral of the matter …", "… a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems') should enact domestic enabling legislation; Identifying the threat 15. Parliamentarians should return to their legislature, Parliament or Assembly and establish inquiry scrutiny panels that are tasked with determining the existing nature and state of antisemitism in their countries and developing recommendations for government and civil society action; 16. Parliamentarians should engage with their governments in order to measure the effectiveness of existing policies and mechanisms in place and to recommend proven and best practice methods of countering antisemitism; 17. Governments should ensure they have publicly accessible incident reporting systems, and that statistics collected on antisemitism should be the subject of regular review and action by government and state prosecutors and that an adequate legislative framework is in place to tackle hate crime. 18. Governments must expand the use of the EUMC 'working definition' of antisemitism to inform policy of national and international organisations and as a basis for training material for use by Criminal Justice Agencies; 19. Police services should record allegations of hate crimes and incidents — including antisemitism — as routine part of reporting crimes; 20. The OSCE should work with member states to seek consistent data collection systems for antisemitism and hate crime. Education, awareness and training 21. Governments should train Police, prosecutors and judges comprehensively. The training is essential if perpetrators of antisemitic hate crime are to be successfully apprehended, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced. The OSCE's Law enforcement Programme LEOP is a model initiative consisting of an international cadre of expert police officers training police in several countries; 22. Governments should develop teaching materials on the subjects of the Holocaust, racism, antisemitism and discrimination which are incorporated into the national school curriculum. All teaching materials ought to be based on values of comprehensiveness, inclusiveness, acceptance and respect and should be designed to assist students to recognise and counter antisemitism and all forms of hate speech; 23. The OSCE should encourage their member states to fulfill their commitments under the 2004 Berlin Declaration and to fully utilise programmes to combat antisemitism including the Law Enforcement programme LEOP; 24. Governments should include a comprehensive training programme across the Criminal Justice System using programmes such as the LEOP programme; 25. Education Authorities should ensure that freedom of speech is upheld within the law and to protect students and staff from illegal antisemitic discourse and a hostile environment in whatever form it takes including calls for boycotts; Community Support 26. The Criminal Justice System should publicly notify local communities when antisemitic hate crimes are prosecuted by the courts to build community confidence in reporting and pursuing convictions through the Criminal Justice system; 27. Parliamentarians should engage with civil society institutions and leading NGOs to create partnerships that bring about change locally, domestically and globally, and support efforts that encourage Holocaust education, inter-religious dialogue and cultural exchange; Media and the Internet 28. Governments should acknowledge the challenge and opportunity of the growing new forms of communication; 29. Media Regulatory Bodies should utilise the EUMC 'Working Definition of antisemitism' to inform media standards; 30. Governments should take appropriate and necessary action to prevent the broadcast of antisemitic programmes on satellite television channels, and to apply pressure on the host broadcast nation to take action to prevent the transmission of antisemitic programmes; 31. The OSCE should seek ways to coordinate the response of member states to combat the use of the internet to promote incitement to hatred; 32. Law enforcement authorities should use domestic \"hate crime\", \"incitement to hatred\" and other legislation as well as other means to mitigate and, where permissible, to prosecute \"Hate on the Internet\" where racist and antisemitic content is hosted, published and written; 33. An international task force of Internet specialists comprised of parliamentarians and experts should be established to create common metrics to measure antisemitism and other manifestations of hate online and to develop policy recommendations and practical instruments for Governments and international frameworks to tackle these problems. Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism 34. Participants will endeavour to maintain contact with fellow delegates through working group framework; communicating successes or requesting further support where required; 35. Delegates should reconvene for the next ICCA Conference in Canada in 2010, become an active member of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition and promote and prioritise the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1519, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/039db_2009-05-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "international bodies"], "act_why": "procedural adjournment; antisemitism text is the London Declaration on the Order", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the motion that the Senate endorse the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["foreign state", "institution"], "target_detail": "Government-backed antisemitism and state-backed genocidal antisemitism; the international arena / Durban 2001", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2009-09-16", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I give notice that, at the next sitting of the Senate, I will move: That the Senate endorse the following Resolution, adopted by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its 18th Annual Session, held at Vilnius, Lithuania, from June 29 to July 3, 2009: RESOLUTION ON ANTI-SEMITISM 1. Reaffirming the commitments made by the participating States at previous OSCE conferences in Vienna (2003), Berlin (2004), Brussels (2004) and Cordoba (2005) regarding legal, political and educational efforts to fight anti-Semitism, 2. Reaffirming , in particular, especially the 2002 Porto Ministerial Decision condemning \"anti-Semitic incidents in the OSCE area, recognising the role that the existence of anti-Semitism has played throughout history as a major threat to freedom\", 3. Recalling the 2005 OSCE PA Washington Declaration, the 2006 OSCE PA Brussels Declaration, the 2007 OSCE PA Kyiv Declaration and the 2008 OSCE PA Astana Declaration, and the resolutions adopted on combating anti-Semitism, 4. Saluting the commitment and activities of past and present Personal Representatives to the Chairman-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism, 5. Welcoming the efforts of the parliaments of participating States to combat anti-Semitism as highlighted in the Follow-Up Report to the Astana Declaration, 6. Hailing the work of the Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism, held in London, United Kingdom, from 15 to 17 February 2009, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 7. Remains greatly concerned at the increase in xenophobia and other forms of intolerance directed towards vulnerable groups during the economic crisis, including an increase in anti-Semitism characterised by claims that Jews were responsible for the economic crisis; 8. Endorses the declaration of the London Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism, and reaffirms in particular: a. concern for the dramatic increase in recorded anti-Semitic hate crimes and attacks targeting Jewish persons and property, and Jewish religious, educational and communal institutions and the incidents of government-backed anti-Semitism in general, and state-backed genocidal anti-Semitism, in particular; b. the role parliamentarians, governments, the United Nations and regional organisations should play in combating anti-Semitism in all its forms, including denial of the Holocaust, and in reaffirming the principles of tolerance and mutual respect; c. its call upon national governments, parliaments, international institutions, political and civic leaders, NGOs and civil society to affirm democratic and human values, build societies based on respect and citizenship and combat any manifestations of anti-Semitism and discrimination; d. that the participating States of the OSCE must fulfil their commitments under the 2004 Berlin Declaration and fully utilise programmes to combat anti-Semitism including the Law Enforcement programme; e. that appropriate and necessary action should be taken by governments to develop strategies to address television broadcasts and other uses of the media and Internet that promote anti-Semitism, while ensuring that such strategies and any related legislation fully respect the freedoms of expression, assembly and association, and are not used to repress peaceful activities of civil society, of political or religious groups, or of individuals; f. that, with the support of the OSCE, measures must be adopted to assess the effectiveness of existing policies and mechanisms in countering anti-Semitism, including the establishment of publicly accessible incident reporting systems, and the collection of statistics on anti-Semitism; g. the importance of education, awareness and training throughout the judicial and school systems in countering anti-Semitism; h. the importance of engagement with civil society institutions and leading NGOs to create partnerships that bring about change locally, domestically and globally, and support efforts that encourage Holocaust education, inter-religious dialogue and cultural exchange; i. that the OSCE should seek ways to co-ordinate the response of participating States to combat the use of the Internet to promote incitement to hatred; and, j. the establishment of an international task force of Internet specialists comprised of parliamentarians and experts in order to create common metrics to measure anti-Semitism and other manifestations of hate online and to develop policy recommendations and practical instruments for governments and international frameworks to tackle these problems; 9. Applauds the extensive work of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights to combat manifestations of anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance, including: the publication of an Annual Hate Crimes Report that monitors manifestations of anti-Semitism; development of Holocaust Remembrance and Hate Crimes Legislation guidelines and other educational materials to combat anti-Semitism; and training of government and civil society members to monitor, report on and prevent manifestations of anti-Semitism. Notice of Motion to Support Resolution on Water Management in the OSCE Area Adopted at Eighteenth Annual Session"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 733, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/052db_2009-09-16-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "education"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "police and security"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "notice of motion to endorse the OSCE Resolution on Anti-Semitism", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "notice of motion that the Senate endorse the OSCE PA Vilnius Resolution on Anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state", "media"], "target_detail": "government-backed anti-Semitism in general, and state-backed genocidal anti-Semitism in particular; television broadcasts and other uses of the media and Internet", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-09-16", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Joseph A. Day", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… on on its participation in the annual co-chairs visit held in Beijing, Nanchang (Jiangxi Province), Guangzhou (Guangdong Province), and Shanghai, China, from March 12 to 22, 2009. [ English ] Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly Notice of Motion to Support Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism Adopted at Eighteenth Annual Session"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 76, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/052db_2009-09-16-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "tabling of a delegation report; term appears only in the trailing heading", "trigger": "tabling of the report of the Canada-China Legislative Association delegation's March 2009 visit", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-10-06", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Claudette Tardif", "role": "Deputy Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, this motion on the Resolution on Water Management in the OSCE Area is an important motion that deserves closer attention. I move the adjournment of the debate. (On motion of Senator Tardif, debate adjourned.) [ English ] Motion to Support Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Carstairs, P.C.: That the Senate endorse the following Resolution, adopted by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its 17th Annual Session, held at Astana, Kazakhstan, from June 29 to July 3, 2008: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM, ESPECIALLY ITS MANIFESTATIONS IN THE MEDIA AND IN ACADEMIA 1. Recalling the Parliamentary Assembly's leadership in increasing the focus and attention of the participating States since the 2002 Annual Session in Berlin on issues related to manifestations of anti-Semitism, 2. Reaffirming especially the 2002 Porto Ministerial Decision condemning \"anti-Semitic incidents in the OSCE area, recognizing the role that the existence of anti-Semitism has played throughout history as a major threat to freedom\", 3. Referring to the commitments made by the participating States in the previous OSCE conferences in Vienna (2003), Berlin (2004), Brussels (2004) and Cordoba (2005) regarding legal, political and educational efforts to fight anti-Semitism, 4. Welcoming all efforts of the parliaments of the OSCE participating States on combating anti-Semitism, especially the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry on anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom, 5. Noting with satisfaction all initiatives of the civil society organizations which are active in the field of combating anti-Semitism, 6. Acknowledging that incidents of anti-Semitism occur throughout the OSCE region and are not unique to any one country, which necessitates unwavering steadfastness by all participating States to erase this black mark on human history, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 7. Appreciates the ongoing work undertaken by the OSCE and ODIHR through its Programme on Tolerance and Non-discrimination and supports the continued organisation of expert meetings on anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance aimed at enhancing the implementation of relevant OSCE commitments; 8. Appreciates the initiative by Mr John Mann MP (United Kingdom) to create a world-wide Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism and encourages the parliaments of the OSCE participating States to support this initiative; 9. Urges participating States to present written reports on their activities to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination at the 2009 Annual Session; 10. Reminds participating States to improve methods of monitoring and to report anti-Semitic incidents and other hate crimes to the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in a timely manner; 11. Recognizes the importance of the ODIHR tools in improving the effectiveness of States' response to anti-Semitism, such as teaching materials on anti-Semitism, the OSCE/ODIHR Law Enforcement Officers Programme (LEOP), which helps police forces within participating States better to identify and combat incitement to anti-Semitism and other hate crimes, and civil society capacity-building to combat anti-Semitism and hate crimes, including through the development of networks and coalitions with Muslim, Roma, African descendent and other communities combating intolerance; and recommends that other States make use of these tools; 12. Expresses appreciation of the commitment by 10 countries — Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain and Ukraine — in co-developing with ODIHR and the Anne Frank House teaching materials on the history of Jews and anti-Semitism in Europe, and encourages all other OSCE participating States to adopt these teaching materials in their respective national languages and put them into practice; 13. Encourages participating States to adopt the guide for educators entitled Addressing Anti-Semitism — WHY and HOW , developed by ODIHR in co-operation with Yad Vashem, in their respective national languages and put them into practice; 14. Urges governments to create and employ curricula that go beyond Holocaust education in dealing with Jewish life, history and culture; 15. Condemns continued incidents of anti-Semitic stereotypes appearing in the media, including news reports, news commentaries, as well as published commentaries by readers; 16. Condemns the use of double standards in media coverage of Israel and its role in the Middle East conflict; 17. Calls upon the media to have discussions on the impact of language and imagery on Judaism, anti-Zionism and Israel and its consequences on the interaction between communities in the OSCE participating States; 18. Deplores the continued dissemination of anti-Semitic content via the Internet, including through websites, blogs and email; 19. Urges participating States to increase their efforts to counter the spread of anti-Semitic content, including its dissemination through the Internet, within the framework of their respective national legislation; 20. Urges editors to refrain from publishing anti-Semitic material and to develop a self-regulated code of ethics for dealing with anti-Semitism in media; 21. Calls upon participating States to prevent the distribution of television programmes and other media which promote anti-Semitic views and incite anti-Semitic crimes, including, but not limited to, satellite broadcasting; 22. Reminds participating States of measures to combat the dissemination of racist and anti-Semitic material via the Internet suggested at the 2004 OSCE Meeting on the Relationship between Racist, Xenophobic and Anti-Semitic Propaganda on the Internet and Hate Crimes, that include calls to: - pursue complementary parallel strategies, - train investigators and prosecutors on how to address bias-motivated crimes on the Internet, - support the establishment of programmes to educate children about bias-motivated expression they may encounter on the Internet, - promote industry codes of conduct, - gather data on the full extent of the distribution of anti-Semitic hate messages on the Internet; 23. Deplores the continued intellectualization of anti-Semitism in academic spheres, particularly through publications and public events at universities; 24. Suggests the preparation of standards and guidelines on academic responsibility to ensure the protection of Jewish and other minority students from harassment, discrimination and abuse in the academic environment; 25. Urges all participants of the upcoming Durban Review Conference in Geneva to make sure that pressing issues of racism around the world will be properly assessed and that the conference will not be misused as a platform for promoting anti-Semitism; 26. Suggests that the delegations of the OSCE participating States hold a meeting on the eve of the Durban Review Conference to discuss and evaluate the Durban Review process."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1029, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/057db_2009-10-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["education", "platform regulation"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "educators"], "act_why": "adjournment motion; antisemitism text is the OSCE resolution on the Order", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the motion that the Senate endorse the OSCE PA resolution on combating anti-Semitism in the media and academia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["media", "university"], "target_detail": "the media, including news reports and commentaries; academic spheres, particularly publications and public events at universities", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2009-10-07", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Yonah Martin", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… Next year, we will host not one but two major economic summits and, in the process, help to usher in a key new role to be played at the G20. Prime Minister Harper also took a strong stand against the President of Iran to ensure that Canada does not provide even the semblance of legitimacy to the president's history of anti-Semitism. We also made it clear that we expect the Iranian leadership to meet its obligations under UN Security Council resolutions and International Atomic Energy Agency requirements. Furthermore, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, Stockwell Day, has launched free trade talks with Ukrai …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 295, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/058db_2009-10-07-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "response_stance": "supports", "charge_quote": "the president's history of anti-Semitism", "act_why": "cites the Iranian president's history of anti-Semitism in a government record statement", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "the President of Iran", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-10-20", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Colin Kenny", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["moved the adoption of the report. (Motion agreed to and report adopted). Conference on Combating Antisemitism Motion to Support London Declaration—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Fairbairn, P.C.: That the Senate endorse the following Declaration, adopted by the Conference on Combating Antisemitism, held at London, United Kingdom, from February 15 to 17, 2009: THE LONDON DECLARATION ON COMBATING ANTISEMITISM Preamble We, Representatives of our respective Parliaments from across the world, convening in London for the founding Conference and Summit of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism, draw the democratic world's attention to the resurgence of antisemitism as a potent force in politics, international affairs and society. We note the dramatic increase in recorded antisemitic hate crimes and attacks targeting Jewish persons and property, and Jewish religious, educational and communal institutions. We are alarmed at the resurrection of the old language of prejudice and its modern manifestations — in rhetoric and political action — against Jews, Jewish belief and practice and the State of Israel. We are alarmed by Government-backed antisemitism in general, and state-backed genocidal antisemitism, in particular. We, as Parliamentarians, affirm our commitment to a comprehensive programme of action to meet this challenge. We call upon national governments, parliaments, international institutions, political and civic leaders, NGOs, and civil society to affirm democratic and human values, build societies based on respect and citizenship and combat any manifestations of antisemitism and discrimination. We today in London resolve that; Challenging Antisemitism 1. Parliamentarians shall expose, challenge, and isolate political actors who engage in hate against Jews and target the State of Israel as a Jewish collectivity; 2. Parliamentarians should speak out against antisemitism and discrimination directed against any minority, and guard against equivocation, hesitation and justification in the face of expressions of hatred; 3. Governments must challenge any foreign leader, politician or public figure who denies, denigrates or trivialises the Holocaust and must encourage civil society to be vigilant to this phenomenon and to openly condemn it; 4. Parliamentarians should campaign for their Government to uphold international commitments on combating antisemitism — including the OSCE Berlin Declaration and its eight main principles; 5. The UN should reaffirm its call for every member state to commit itself to the principles laid out in the Holocaust Remembrance initiative including specific and targeted policies to eradicate Holocaust denial and trivialisation; 6. Governments and the UN should resolve that never again will the institutions of the international community and the dialogue of nation states be abused to try to establish any legitimacy for antisemitism, including the singling out of Israel for discriminatory treatment in the international arena, and we will never witness — or be party to — another gathering like Durban in 2001; 7. The OSCE should encourage its member states to fulfil their commitments under the 2004 Berlin Declaration and to fully utilise programmes to combat antisemitism including the Law Enforcement programme LEOP; 8. The European Union, inter-state institutions and multilateral fora and religious communities must make a concerted effort to combat antisemitism and lead their member states to adopt proven and best practice methods of countering antisemitism; 9. Leaders of all religious faiths should be called upon to use all the means possible to combat antisemitism and all types of discriminatory hostilities among believers and society at large; 10. The EU Council of Ministers should convene a session on combating antisemitism relying on the outcomes of the London Conference on Combating Antisemitism and using the London Declaration as a basis. Prohibitions 11. Governments should take appropriate and necessary action to prevent the broadcast of explicitly antisemitic programmes on satellite television channels, and to apply pressure on the host broadcast nation to take action to prevent the transmission of explicitly antisemitic programmes; 12. Governments should fully reaffirm and actively uphold the Genocide Convention, recognising that where there is incitement to genocide signatories automatically have an obligation to act. This may include sanctions against countries involved in or threatening to commit genocide or referral of the matter …", "… a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems') should enact domestic enabling legislation; Identifying the threat 15. Parliamentarians should return to their legislature, Parliament or Assembly and establish inquiry scrutiny panels that are tasked with determining the existing nature and state of antisemitism in their countries and developing recommendations for government and civil society action; 16. Parliamentarians should engage with their governments in order to measure the effectiveness of existing policies and mechanisms in place and to recommend proven and best practice methods of countering antisemitism; 17. Governments should ensure they have publicly accessible incident reporting systems, and that statistics collected on antisemitism should be the subject of regular review and action by government and state prosecutors and that an adequate legislative framework is in place to tackle hate crime. 18. Governments must expand the use of the EUMC 'working definition' of antisemitism to inform policy of national and international organisations and as a basis for training material for use by Criminal Justice Agencies; 19. Police services should record allegations of hate crimes and incidents — including antisemitism — as routine part of reporting crimes; 20. The OSCE should work with member states to seek consistent data collection systems for antisemitism and hate crime. Education, awareness and training 21. Governments should train Police, prosecutors and judges comprehensively. The training is essential if perpetrators of antisemitic hate crime are to be successfully apprehended, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced. The OSCE's Law enforcement Programme LEOP is a model initiative consisting of an international cadre of expert police officers training police in several countries; 22. Governments should develop teaching materials on the subjects of the Holocaust, racism, antisemitism and discrimination which are incorporated into the national school curriculum. All teaching materials ought to be based on values of comprehensiveness, inclusiveness, acceptance and respect and should be designed to assist students to recognise and counter antisemitism and all forms of hate speech; 23. The OSCE should encourage their member states to fulfill their commitments under the 2004 Berlin Declaration and to fully utilise programmes to combat antisemitism including the Law Enforcement programme LEOP; 24. Governments should include a comprehensive training programme across the Criminal Justice System using programmes such as the LEOP programme; 25. Education Authorities should ensure that freedom of speech is upheld within the law and to protect students and staff from illegal antisemitic discourse and a hostile environment in whatever form it takes including calls for boycotts; Community Support 26. The Criminal Justice System should publicly notify local communities when antisemitic hate crimes are prosecuted by the courts to build community confidence in reporting and pursuing convictions through the Criminal Justice system; 27. Parliamentarians should engage with civil society institutions and leading NGOs to create partnerships that bring about change locally, domestically and globally, and support efforts that encourage Holocaust education, inter-religious dialogue and cultural exchange; Media and the Internet 28. Governments should acknowledge the challenge and opportunity of the growing new forms of communication; 29. Media Regulatory Bodies should utilise the EUMC 'Working Definition of antisemitism' to inform media standards; 30. Governments should take appropriate and necessary action to prevent the broadcast of antisemitic programmes on satellite television channels, and to apply pressure on the host broadcast nation to take action to prevent the transmission of antisemitic programmes; 31. The OSCE should seek ways to coordinate the response of member states to combat the use of the internet to promote incitement to hatred; 32. Law enforcement authorities should use domestic \"hate crime\", \"incitement to hatred\" and other legislation as well as other means to mitigate and, where permissible, to prosecute \"Hate on the Internet\" where racist and antisemitic content is hosted, published and written; 33. An international task force of Internet specialists comprised of parliamentarians and experts should be established to create common metrics to measure antisemitism and other manifestations of hate online and to develop policy recommendations and practical instruments for Governments and international frameworks to tackle these problems. Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism 34. Participants will endeavour to maintain contact with fellow delegates through working group framework; communicating successes or requesting further support where required; 35. Delegates should reconvene for the next ICCA Conference in Canada in 2010, become an active member of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition and promote and prioritise the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1473, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/060db_2009-10-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "international bodies"], "act_why": "procedural motion; antisemitism text is the London Declaration on the Order", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the motion that the Senate endorse the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["foreign state", "institution"], "target_detail": "Government-backed antisemitism and state-backed genocidal antisemitism; the international arena / Durban 2001", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2009-11-05", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Anne C. Cools", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ement, support or assent of this place to a resolution from another assembly. That is what is wrong with these motions. Maybe I should simply take the adjournment of the motion. The item is extremely out of order. (On motion of Senator Cools, debate adjourned.) [ Translation ] Motion to Support Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Carstairs, P.C.: That the Senate endorse the following Resolution, adopted by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its 17th Annual Session, held at Astana, Kazakhstan, from June 29 to July 3, 2008: RESOLUTION ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM, ESPECIALLY ITS MANIFESTATIONS IN THE MEDIA AND IN ACADEMIA 1. Recalling the Parliamentary Assembly's leadership in increasing the focus and attention of the participating States since the 2002 Annual Session in Berlin on issues related to manifestations of anti-Semitism, 2. Reaffirming especially the 2002 Porto Ministerial Decision condemning \"anti-Semitic incidents in the OSCE area, recognizing the role that the existence of anti-Semitism has played throughout history as a major threat to freedom\", 3. Referring to the commitments made by the participating States in the previous OSCE conferences in Vienna (2003), Berlin (2004), Brussels (2004) and Cordoba (2005) regarding legal, political and educational efforts to fight anti-Semitism, 4. Welcoming all efforts of the parliaments of the OSCE participating States on combating anti-Semitism, especially the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry on anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom, 5. Noting with satisfaction all initiatives of the civil society organizations which are active in the field of combating anti-Semitism, 6. Acknowledging that incidents of anti-Semitism occur throughout the OSCE region and are not unique to any one country, which necessitates unwavering steadfastness by all participating States to erase this black mark on human history, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 7. Appreciates the ongoing work undertaken by the OSCE and ODIHR through its Programme on Tolerance and Non-discrimination and supports the continued organisation of expert meetings on anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance aimed at enhancing the implementation of relevant OSCE commitments; 8. Appreciates the initiative by Mr John Mann MP (United Kingdom) to create a world-wide Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism and encourages the parliaments of the OSCE participating States to support this initiative; 9. Urges participating States to present written reports on their activities to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination at the 2009 Annual Session; 10. Reminds participating States to improve methods of monitoring and to report anti-Semitic incidents and other hate crimes to the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in a timely manner; 11. Recognizes the importance of the ODIHR tools in improving the effectiveness of States' response to anti-Semitism, such as teaching materials on anti-Semitism, the OSCE/ODIHR Law Enforcement Officers Programme (LEOP), which helps police forces within participating States better to identify and combat incitement to anti-Semitism and other hate crimes, and civil society capacity-building to combat anti-Semitism and hate crimes, including through the development of networks and coalitions with Muslim, Roma, African descendent and other communities combating intolerance; and recommends that other States make use of these tools; 12. Expresses appreciation of the commitment by 10 countries — Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, the Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain and Ukraine — in co-developing with ODIHR and the Anne Frank House teaching materials on the history of Jews and anti-Semitism in Europe, and encourages all other OSCE participating States to adopt these teaching materials in their respective national languages and put them into practice; 13. Encourages participating States to adopt the guide for educators entitled Addressing Anti-Semitism — WHY and HOW , developed by ODIHR in co-operation with Yad Vashem, in their respective national languages and put them into practice; 14. Urges governments to create and employ curricula that go beyond Holocaust education in dealing with Jewish life, history and culture; 15. Condemns continued incidents of anti-Semitic stereotypes appearing in the media, including news reports, news commentaries, as well as published commentaries by readers; 16. Condemns the use of double standards in media coverage of Israel and its role in the Middle East conflict; 17. Calls upon the media to have discussions on the impact of language and imagery on Judaism, anti-Zionism and Israel and its consequences on the interaction between communities in the OSCE participating States; 18. Deplores the continued dissemination of anti-Semitic content via the Internet, including through websites, blogs and email; 19. Urges participating States to increase their efforts to counter the spread of anti-Semitic content, including its dissemination through the Internet, within the framework of their respective national legislation; 20. Urges editors to refrain from publishing anti-Semitic material and to develop a self-regulated code of ethics for dealing with anti-Semitism in media; 21. Calls upon participating States to prevent the distribution of television programmes and other media which promote anti-Semitic views and incite anti-Semitic crimes, including, but not limited to, satellite broadcasting; 22. Reminds participating States of measures to combat the dissemination of racist and anti-Semitic material via the Internet suggested at the 2004 OSCE Meeting on the Relationship between Racist, Xenophobic and Anti-Semitic Propaganda on the Internet and Hate Crimes, that include calls to: - pursue complementary parallel strategies, - train investigators and prosecutors on how to address bias-motivated crimes on the Internet, - support the establishment of programmes to educate children about bias-motivated expression they may encounter on the Internet, - promote industry codes of conduct, - gather data on the full extent of the distribution of anti-Semitic hate messages on the Internet; 23. Deplores the continued intellectualization of anti-Semitism in academic spheres, particularly through publications and public events at universities; 24. Suggests the preparation of standards and guidelines on academic responsibility to ensure the protection of Jewish and other minority students from harassment, discrimination and abuse in the academic environment; 25. Urges all participants of the upcoming Durban Review Conference in Geneva to make sure that pressing issues of racism around the world will be properly assessed and that the conference will not be misused as a platform for promoting anti-Semitism; 26. Suggests that the delegations of the OSCE participating States hold a meeting on the eve of the Durban Review Conference to discuss and evaluate the Durban Review process."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1257, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/068db_2009-11-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["education", "platform regulation"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "educators"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "procedural objection to endorsing outside resolutions; term is in the appended Order", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the motions asking the Senate to endorse resolutions adopted by other assemblies, including the OSCE resolution on combating anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["media", "university"], "target_detail": "the media, including news reports and commentaries; academic spheres, particularly publications and public events at universities", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2009-11-05", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Lorna Milne", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I can assure everyone that I will speak to this inquiry the week that we return after the break for the remainder of my time. (Order stands.) [ Translation ] Conference on Combating Antisemitism Motion to Support London Declaration—Order Stands On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Fairbairn, P.C.: That the Senate endorse the following Declaration, adopted by the Conference on Combating Antisemitism, held at London, United Kingdom, from February 15 to 17, 2009: THE LONDON DECLARATION ON COMBATING ANTISEMITISM Preamble We, Representatives of our respective Parliaments from across the world, convening in London for the founding Conference and Summit of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism, draw the democratic world's attention to the resurgence of antisemitism as a potent force in politics, international affairs and society. We note the dramatic increase in recorded antisemitic hate crimes and attacks targeting Jewish persons and property, and Jewish religious, educational and communal institutions. We are alarmed at the resurrection of the old language of prejudice and its modern manifestations — in rhetoric and political action — against Jews, Jewish belief and practice and the State of Israel. We are alarmed by Government-backed antisemitism in general, and state-backed genocidal antisemitism, in particular. We, as Parliamentarians, affirm our commitment to a comprehensive programme of action to meet this challenge. We call upon national governments, parliaments, international institutions, political and civic leaders, NGOs, and civil society to affirm democratic and human values, build societies based on respect and citizenship and combat any manifestations of antisemitism and discrimination. We today in London resolve that; Challenging Antisemitism 1. Parliamentarians shall expose, challenge, and isolate political actors who engage in hate against Jews and target the State of Israel as a Jewish collectivity; 2. Parliamentarians should speak out against antisemitism and discrimination directed against any minority, and guard against equivocation, hesitation and justification in the face of expressions of hatred; 3. Governments must challenge any foreign leader, politician or public figure who denies, denigrates or trivialises the Holocaust and must encourage civil society to be vigilant to this phenomenon and to openly condemn it; 4. Parliamentarians should campaign for their Government to uphold international commitments on combating antisemitism — including the OSCE Berlin Declaration and its eight main principles; 5. The UN should reaffirm its call for every member state to commit itself to the principles laid out in the Holocaust Remembrance initiative including specific and targeted policies to eradicate Holocaust denial and trivialisation; 6. Governments and the UN should resolve that never again will the institutions of the international community and the dialogue of nation states be abused to try to establish any legitimacy for antisemitism, including the singling out of Israel for discriminatory treatment in the international arena, and we will never witness — or be party to — another gathering like Durban in 2001; 7. The OSCE should encourage its member states to fulfil their commitments under the 2004 Berlin Declaration and to fully utilise programmes to combat antisemitism including the Law Enforcement programme LEOP; 8. The European Union , inter-state institutions and multilateral fora and religious communities must make a concerted effort to combat antisemitism and lead their member states to adopt proven and best practice methods of countering antisemitism; 9. Leaders of all religious faiths should be called upon to use all the means possible to combat antisemitism and all types of discriminatory hostilities among believers and society at large; 10. The EU Council of Ministers should convene a session on combating antisemitism relying on the outcomes of the London Conference on Combating Antisemitism and using the London Declaration as a basis. Prohibitions 11. Governments should take appropriate and necessary action to prevent the broadcast of explicitly antisemitic programmes on satellite television channels, and to apply pressure on the host broadcast nation to take action to prevent the transmission of explicitly antisemitic programmes; 12. Governments should fully reaffirm and actively uphold the Genocide Convention, recognising that where there is incitement to genocide signatories automatically have an obligation to act. This may include sanctions against countries involved in or threatening to commit genocide or referral of the matter …", "… a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems') should enact domestic enabling legislation; Identifying the threat 15. Parliamentarians should return to their legislature, Parliament or Assembly and establish inquiry scrutiny panels that are tasked with determining the existing nature and state of antisemitism in their countries and developing recommendations for government and civil society action; 16. Parliamentarians should engage with their governments in order to measure the effectiveness of existing policies and mechanisms in place and to recommend proven and best practice methods of countering antisemitism; 17. Governments should ensure they have publicly accessible incident reporting systems, and that statistics collected on antisemitism should be the subject of regular review and action by government and state prosecutors and that an adequate legislative framework is in place to tackle hate crime. 18. Governments must expand the use of the EUMC 'working definition' of antisemitism to inform policy of national and international organisations and as a basis for training material for use by Criminal Justice Agencies; 19. Police services should record allegations of hate crimes and incidents — including antisemitism — as routine part of reporting crimes; 20. The OSCE should work with member states to seek consistent data collection systems for antisemitism and hate crime. Education, awareness and training 21. Governments should train Police, prosecutors and judges comprehensively. The training is essential if perpetrators of antisemitic hate crime are to be successfully apprehended, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced. The OSCE's Law enforcement Programme LEOP is a model initiative consisting of an international cadre of expert police officers training police in several countries; 22. Governments should develop teaching materials on the subjects of the Holocaust, racism, antisemitism and discrimination which are incorporated into the national school curriculum. All teaching materials ought to be based on values of comprehensiveness, inclusiveness, acceptance and respect and should be designed to assist students to recognise and counter antisemitism and all forms of hate speech; 23. The OSCE should encourage their member states to fulfill their commitments under the 2004 Berlin Declaration and to fully utilise programmes to combat antisemitism including the Law Enforcement programme LEOP; 24. Governments should include a comprehensive training programme across the Criminal Justice System using programmes such as the LEOP programme; 25. Education Authorities should ensure that freedom of speech is upheld within the law and to protect students and staff from illegal antisemitic discourse and a hostile environment in whatever form it takes including calls for boycotts; Community Support 26. The Criminal Justice System should publicly notify local communities when antisemitic hate crimes are prosecuted by the courts to build community confidence in reporting and pursuing convictions through the Criminal Justice system; 27. Parliamentarians should engage with civil society institutions and leading NGOs to create partnerships that bring about change locally, domestically and globally, and support efforts that encourage Holocaust education, inter-religious dialogue and cultural exchange; Media and the Internet 28. Governments should acknowledge the challenge and opportunity of the growing new forms of communication; 29. Media Regulatory Bodies should utilise the EUMC 'Working Definition of antisemitism' to inform media standards; 30. Governments should take appropriate and necessary action to prevent the broadcast of antisemitic programmes on satellite television channels, and to apply pressure on the host broadcast nation to take action to prevent the transmission of antisemitic programmes; 31. The OSCE should seek ways to coordinate the response of member states to combat the use of the internet to promote incitement to hatred; 32. Law enforcement authorities should use domestic \"hate crime\", \"incitement to hatred\" and other legislation as well as other means to mitigate and, where permissible, to prosecute \"Hate on the Internet\" where racist and antisemitic content is hosted, published and written; 33. An international task force of Internet specialists comprised of parliamentarians and experts should be established to create common metrics to measure antisemitism and other manifestations of hate online and to develop policy recommendations and practical instruments for Governments and international frameworks to tackle these problems. Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism 34. Participants will endeavour to maintain contact with fellow delegates through working group framework; communicating successes or requesting further support where required; 35. Delegates should reconvene for the next ICCA Conference in Canada in 2010, become an active member of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition and promote and prioritise the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism.—( Honourable Senator Grafstein )"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1498, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/068db_2009-11-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "international bodies"], "act_why": "order stands; antisemitism text is the London Declaration on the Order", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the motion that the Senate endorse the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["foreign state", "institution"], "target_detail": "Government-backed antisemitism and state-backed genocidal antisemitism; the international arena / Durban 2001", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2009-11-05", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Marcel Prud'homme", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ts that Senator Grafstein presents in the form of motions are informative and useful. I think him for bringing these important issues to our attention. Now, some colleagues may want to take a Valium or two, because the next paragraph will be somewhat controversial. Regarding the motion entitled Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism, Especially its Manifestations in the Media and in Academia , the honourable senator is asking that the Senate vote to endorse this resolution that was passed at a conference some time ago, and that has come up again at other conferences and in other countries. The Senate is being asked to endorse it. Honourable senat …", "… rt, that is the end of it! What has always concerned me, these 40 years, is what happens on the international stage once we have given our support? In that regard, Canada lags behind everyone: they supported the Senate, but I am not sure that it is in Canada's best interests. Senator Grafstein's resolution on fighting anti-Semitism in the media and academia has merit. However, it would require lengthy debate and in-depth study before we could support or reject it. Universities and even the media are the best forums for healthy debate. I will repeat this for the former journalists who have been appointed senators: universities and even the media are the best forums for healthy debate and it is there that freedom of expression is and must be exercised. The motion deplores the continued intellectualization of anti-Semitism in academic spheres. This is a viewpoint that should be debated but it is also a criticism that could lead us down a slippery slope, that of censure. Universities are where our youth learn to think and to express themselves. They must not become temples of the one true way of thinking. We must not go too far and restrict freedom of speech. I am sharing these thoughts with you because certain passages in the motion elicit legitimate fears in me that we do not have the time to examine in detail and to substantiate. All governments of Canada, and I will insist on this, have always fought all forms of anti-Semitism. [ English ] I hope every honourable senator is listening. Some were talking while I spoke, and I will repeat this expressly for them. I have always fought this, but been misunderstood. I took it on the chin, politically and otherwise. I have always fought anti-Semitism. I am quoted in the House of Commons time and time again as having said anti-Semitism is a sickness that eats your heart and eats your mind. That is anti-Semitism. (1540) [ Translation ] It is a fatal disease that destroys you from the inside, with the result that colleagues often end up not speaking to each other. That is regrettable and unfortunate. I will not insist. It was my first debate that Senator Carstairs cut short somewhat, even though she agrees with me now. The motion calls on the government to create curricula on Jewish life, history and culture. The government would have to be crazy not to agree. Any caring, intellectually curious individual wants to know the history of all cultures. The motion calls on states to amend their legislation and translate a guide on anti-Semitism. It even states that the media use a double standard in their coverage of Israel and its role in the Middle East conflict. I am not the one saying this. All these demands and statements would require clarification and even thorough debate, as I said before. Some of these demands are commendable, but do not apply to Canada, which has well-established, effective legislation against hate crimes and discrimination. As for our police forces and our judicial system, they have all the tools they need to deal with any such crimes. The same goes for our education systems. I repeat, we must combat anti-Semitism! I will repeat it even though some may think I would never dare say so, but I have always said so. Misunderstood? It does not matter; I will keep on saying so. But that should not prevent us from talking. We are free men and women, and that should not cause us to keep silent about the current situation in the Middle E …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1573, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/068db_2009-11-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "jurisdiction": ["educators", "legal"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "act_why": "objects to the vehicle while insisting anti-Semitism must be fought", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Senator Grafstein's motion that the Senate endorse the OSCE PA Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism, Especially its Manifestations in the Media and in Academia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2009-11-05", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Sharon Carstairs", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… er to the Standing Committee on Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament to see whether it is appropriate to come back from these conferences and put large, complicated resolutions before the Senate of Canada. I have no objections to someone coming forward in this chamber with a motion on water or on a motion on anti-Semitism. I have difficulty with taking en masse a resolution from a conference to which we may or may not have been official delegates and placing the resolution on our Order Paper. I do not think it is appropriate. I support the motion of Senator Prud'homme in this case, that we take note, but I also recommend to the leaders …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 263, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/068db_2009-11-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural objection to conference resolutions, term used only to name the motion", "trigger": "the motions asking the Senate to endorse resolutions from international conferences, including the anti-Semitism resolution, and Senator Prud'homme's amendment", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-11-17", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["pursuant to notice of September 16, 2009, moved: That the Senate endorse the following Resolution, adopted by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at its 18th Annual Session, held at Vilnius, Lithuania, from June 29 to July 3, 2009: RESOLUTION ON ANTI-SEMITISM 1. Reaffirming the commitments made by the participating States at previous OSCE conferences in Vienna (2003), Berlin (2004), Brussels (2004) and Cordoba (2005) regarding legal, political and educational efforts to fight anti-Semitism, 2. Reaffirming , in particular, especially the 2002 Porto Ministerial Decision condemning \"anti-Semitic incidents in the OSCE area, recognising the role that the existence of anti-Semitism has played throughout history as a major threat to freedom\", 3. Recalling the 2005 OSCE PA Washington Declaration, the 2006 OSCE PA Brussels Declaration, the 2007 OSCE PA Kyiv Declaration and the 2008 OSCE PA Astana Declaration, and the resolutions adopted on combating anti-Semitism, 4. Saluting the commitment and activities of past and present Personal Representatives to the Chairman-in-Office on Combating Anti-Semitism, 5. Welcoming the efforts of the parliaments of participating States to combat anti-Semitism as highlighted in the Follow-Up Report to the Astana Declaration, 6. Hailing the work of the Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism, held in London, United Kingdom, from 15 to 17 February 2009, The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly: 7. Remains greatly concerned at the increase in xenophobia and other forms of intolerance directed towards vulnerable groups during the economic crisis, including an increase in anti-Semitism characterised by claims that Jews were responsible for the economic crisis; 8. Endorses the declaration of the London Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism, and reaffirms in particular: a. concern for the dramatic increase in recorded anti-Semitic hate crimes and attacks targeting Jewish persons and property, and Jewish religious, educational and communal institutions and the incidents of government-backed anti-Semitism in general, and state-backed genocidal anti-Semitism, in particular; b. the role parliamentarians, governments, the United Nations and regional organisations should play in combating anti-Semitism in all its forms, including denial of the Holocaust, and in reaffirming the principles of tolerance and mutual respect; c. its call upon national governments, parliaments, international institutions, political and civic leaders, NGOs and civil society to affirm democratic and human values, build societies based on respect and citizenship and combat any manifestations of anti-Semitism and discrimination; d. that the participating States of the OSCE must fulfil their commitments under the 2004 Berlin Declaration and fully utilise programmes to combat anti-Semitism including the Law Enforcement programme; e. that appropriate and necessary action should be taken by governments to develop strategies to address television broadcasts and other uses of the media and Internet that promote anti-Semitism, while ensuring that such strategies and any related legislation fully respect the freedoms of expression, assembly and association, and are not used to repress peaceful activities of civil society, of political or religious groups, or of individuals; f. that, with the support of the OSCE, measures must be adopted to assess the effectiveness of existing policies and mechanisms in countering anti-Semitism, including the establishment of publicly accessible incident reporting systems, and the collection of statistics on anti-Semitism; g. the importance of education, awareness and training throughout the judicial and school systems in countering anti-Semitism; h. the importance of engagement with civil society institutions and leading NGOs to create partnerships that bring about change locally, domestically and globally, and support efforts that encourage Holocaust education, inter-religious dialogue and cultural exchange; i. that the OSCE should seek ways to co-ordinate the response of participating States to combat the use of the Internet to promote incitement to hatred; and, j. the establishment of an international task force of Internet specialists comprised of parliamentarians and experts in order to create common metrics to measure anti-Semitism and other manifestations of hate online and to develop policy recommendations and practical instruments for governments and international frameworks to tackle these problems; 9. Applauds the extensive work of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights to combat manifestations of anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance, including: the publication of an Annual Hate Crimes Report that monitors manifestations of anti-Semitism; development of Holocaust Remembrance and Hate Crimes Legislation guidelines and other educational materials to combat anti-Semitism; and training of government and civil society members to monitor, report on and prevent manifestations of anti-Semitism. He said: Honourable senators I do intend, hopefully before Senator Prud'homme leaves, to address this fully. There are a number of overlapping resolutions and, if he continues reading them, he will see that each resolution is mandated to be referred to the sister Parliament to deal with it. This in particular and oth …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 789, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/069db_2009-11-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "police and security"], "act_why": "moves Senate endorsement of the OSCE Resolution on Anti-Semitism", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "motion that the Senate endorse the OSCE PA Vilnius Resolution on Anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state", "media"], "target_detail": "government-backed anti-Semitism in general, and state-backed genocidal anti-Semitism in particular; television broadcasts and other uses of the media and Internet", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-11-17", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["pro tempore : Honourable senators, when shall this bill be read the second time? (On motion of Senator Comeau, bill placed on the Orders of the Day for second reading two days hence.) Conference on Combating Antisemitism Motion to Support London Declaration—Debate Continued On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Grafstein, seconded by the Honourable Senator Fairbairn, P.C., That the Senate endorse the following Declaration, adopted by the Conference on Combating Antisemitism, held at London, United Kingdom, from February 15 to 17, 2009: THE LONDON DECLARATION ON COMBATING ANTISEMITISM Preamble We, Representatives of our respective Parliaments from across the world, convening in London for the founding Conference and Summit of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism, draw the democratic world's attention to the resurgence of antisemitism as a potent force in politics, international affairs and society. We note the dramatic increase in recorded antisemitic hate crimes and attacks targeting Jewish persons and property, and Jewish religious, educational and communal institutions. We are alarmed at the resurrection of the old language of prejudice and its modern manifestations — in rhetoric and political action — against Jews, Jewish belief and practice and the State of Israel. We are alarmed by Government-backed antisemitism in general, and state-backed genocidal antisemitism, in particular. We, as Parliamentarians, affirm our commitment to a comprehensive programme of action to meet this challenge. We call upon national governments, parliaments, international institutions, political and civic leaders, NGOs, and civil society to affirm democratic and human values, build societies based on respect and citizenship and combat any manifestations of antisemitism and discrimination. We today in London resolve that; Challenging Antisemitism 1. Parliamentarians shall expose, challenge, and isolate political actors who engage in hate against Jews and target the State of Israel as a Jewish collectivity; 2. Parliamentarians should speak out against antisemitism and discrimination directed against any minority, and guard against equivocation, hesitation and justification in the face of expressions of hatred; 3. Governments must challenge any foreign leader, politician or public figure who denies, denigrates or trivialises the Holocaust and must encourage civil society to be vigilant to this phenomenon and to openly condemn it; 4. Parliamentarians should campaign for their Government to uphold international commitments on combating antisemitism — including the OSCE Berlin Declaration and its eight main principles; 5. The UN should reaffirm its call for every member state to commit itself to the principles laid out in the Holocaust Remembrance initiative including specific and targeted policies to eradicate Holocaust denial and trivialisation; 6. Governments and the UN should resolve that never again will the institutions of the international community and the dialogue of nation states be abused to try to establish any legitimacy for antisemitism, including the singling out of Israel for discriminatory treatment in the international arena, and we will never witness — or be party to — another gathering like Durban in 2001; 7. The OSCE should encourage its member states to fulfil their commitments under the 2004 Berlin Declaration and to fully utilise programmes to combat antisemitism including the Law Enforcement programme LEOP; 8. The European Union, inter-state institutions and multilateral fora and religious communities must make a concerted effort to combat antisemitism and lead their member states to adopt proven and best practice methods of countering antisemitism; 9. Leaders of all religious faiths should be called upon to use all the means possible to combat antisemitism and all types of discriminatory hostilities among believers and society at large; 10. The EU Council of Ministers should convene a session on combating antisemitism relying on the outcomes of the London Conference on Combating Antisemitism and using the London Declaration as a basis. Prohibitions 11. Governments should take appropriate and necessary action to prevent the broadcast of explicitly antisemitic programmes on satellite television channels, and to apply pressure on the host broadcast nation to take action to prevent the transmission of explicitly antisemitic programmes; 12. Governments should fully reaffirm and actively uphold the Genocide Convention, recognising that where there is incitement to genocide signatories automatically have an obligation to act. This may include sanctions against countries involved in or threatening to commit genocide or referral of the matter …", "… a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems') should enact domestic enabling legislation; Identifying the threat 15. Parliamentarians should return to their legislature, Parliament or Assembly and establish inquiry scrutiny panels that are tasked with determining the existing nature and state of antisemitism in their countries and developing recommendations for government and civil society action; 16. Parliamentarians should engage with their governments in order to measure the effectiveness of existing policies and mechanisms in place and to recommend proven and best practice methods of countering antisemitism; 17. Governments should ensure they have publicly accessible incident reporting systems, and that statistics collected on antisemitism should be the subject of regular review and action by government and state prosecutors and that an adequate legislative framework is in place to tackle hate crime. 18. Governments must expand the use of the EUMC 'working definition' of antisemitism to inform policy of national and international organisations and as a basis for training material for use by Criminal Justice Agencies; 19. Police services should record allegations of hate crimes and incidents — including antisemitism — as routine part of reporting crimes; 20. The OSCE should work with member states to seek consistent data collection systems for antisemitism and hate crime. Education, awareness and training 21. Governments should train Police, prosecutors and judges comprehensively. The training is essential if perpetrators of antisemitic hate crime are to be successfully apprehended, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced. The OSCE's Law enforcement Programme LEOP is a model initiative consisting of an international cadre of expert police officers training police in several countries; 22. Governments should develop teaching materials on the subjects of the Holocaust, racism, antisemitism and discrimination which are incorporated into the national school curriculum. All teaching materials ought to be based on values of comprehensiveness, inclusiveness, acceptance and respect and should be designed to assist students to recognise and counter antisemitism and all forms of hate speech; 23. The OSCE should encourage their member states to fulfill their commitments under the 2004 Berlin Declaration and to fully utilise programmes to combat antisemitism including the Law Enforcement programme LEOP; 24. Governments should include a comprehensive training programme across the Criminal Justice System using programmes such as the LEOP programme; 25. Education Authorities should ensure that freedom of speech is upheld within the law and to protect students and staff from illegal antisemitic discourse and a hostile environment in whatever form it takes including calls for boycotts; Community Support 26. The Criminal Justice System should publicly notify local communities when antisemitic hate crimes are prosecuted by the courts to build community confidence in reporting and pursuing convictions through the Criminal Justice system; 27. Parliamentarians should engage with civil society institutions and leading NGOs to create partnerships that bring about change locally, domestically and globally, and support efforts that encourage Holocaust education, inter-religious dialogue and cultural exchange; Media and the Internet 28. Governments should acknowledge the challenge and opportunity of the growing new forms of communication; 29. Media Regulatory Bodies should utilise the EUMC 'Working Definition of antisemitism' to inform media standards; 30. Governments should take appropriate and necessary action to prevent the broadcast of antisemitic programmes on satellite television channels, and to apply pressure on the host broadcast nation to take action to prevent the transmission of antisemitic programmes; 31. The OSCE should seek ways to coordinate the response of member states to combat the use of the internet to promote incitement to hatred; 32. Law enforcement authorities should use domestic \"hate crime\", \"incitement to hatred\" and other legislation as well as other means to mitigate and, where permissible, to prosecute \"Hate on the Internet\" where racist and antisemitic content is hosted, published and written; 33. An international task force of Internet specialists comprised of parliamentarians and experts should be established to create common metrics to measure antisemitism and other manifestations of hate online and to develop policy recommendations and practical instruments for Governments and international frameworks to tackle these problems. Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism 34. Participants will endeavour to maintain contact with fellow delegates through working group framework; communicating successes or requesting further support where required; 35. Delegates should reconvene for the next ICCA Conference in Canada in 2010, become an active member of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition and promote and prioritise the London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 1494, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/069db_2009-11-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2009-11-17", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["pro tempore : Continuing debate? If no other senator wishes to speak, this inquiry is considered debated. (Debate concluded.) Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly Motion to Support Resolution on Combating Anti-Semitism Adopted at Eighteenth Annual Session—Debate Adjourned"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 41, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/069db_2009-11-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2009-12-09", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… rish all my life. I do not kid myself: I achieved these offices overseas because I was Canadian, because the world respects Canada and Canadians who represent Canada. I think the Senate should have a brief explanation, particularly those senators who have been mildly critical of the numerous OSCE resolutions combating anti-Semitism on the Order Paper that I tabled and that are still on the Order Paper. Why those many resolutions? After the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 — and I was in Germany before and after the wall came down — I thought I would finally close my dossier on anti-Semitism. There was hope for a new world order. But it was not to be. The UN had passed an invidious resolution equating Zionism with racism. Anti-Semitism was on the rise not only across the face of the earth and around the globe, not only across Europe, but also in South America and in Canada. In 1994, a diligent congressman from New Jersey, Chris Smith, approached me to work on a resolution to combat anti-Semitism and to present it to the OSCE parliamentary assembly annual meeting. I agreed. We were joined by Congressman Steny Hoyer, now the majority leader of the Congress and one the most powerful men in the United States, a good friend; Congressman Alcee Hastings; Congressman Ben Cardin, now a senator from Maryland; Gert Weis …", "… . I urged members of the committee to complete their work, but without success. I decided to put down resolution after resolution on the Order Paper until there could be some closure and conclusion to this matter. I was pleased some years ago that the UN would use those very resolutions to hold a one-day conference on anti-Semitism, the first of its kind at the UN. I was delighted when the British Parliament did a landmark study on this topic several years ago and published it. I am pleased that, finally, parliamentarians on the other side, under the leadership of Mario Silva and Scott Reid, are holding hearings on combating anti-Semitism. I live in hope that the Senate will consider its findings and add its considerable expertise and credit to its recommendations. I have learned two things about this topic, \"anti-Semitism,\" the oldest of all prejudices. First, that discrimination starts with Jews, but never ends with Jews, as one great Danish Prime Minister once said. Second, what to do? Education is the answer. The Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel said these words at the Berlin conference: \"You can teach a child to love or you can teach …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2842, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/079db_2009-12-09-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["education", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians", "international bodies"], "act_why": "valedictory recital of human-rights work including anti-Semitism files", "trigger": "Senator Grafstein's retirement from the Senate after 26 years (his valedictory address)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-12-09", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Serge Joyal", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… cting the environment, regarding access to clean water in particular — a global preoccupation. (1350) At the international level, his initiatives were also directed toward peace in regions where neighbouring nations have not yet been able to define the terms of peaceful cohabitation. The Middle East, the fight against anti-Semitism, the development of international institutions to better mediate the settlement of conflicts, in particular at the OSCE, have all been objects of his everlasting commitment. Honourable senators, do you have any idea how many bills, motions, inquiries, questions, amendments, interventions and speeches Senator Grafstein …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 806, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/079db_2009-12-09-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "tribute crediting colleague's fight against anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Senator Grafstein's retirement from the Senate, marked by tributes", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2009-12-14", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Jerahmiel S. Grafstein", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["I thank all honourable senators, particularly Senator Cools, Senator Di Nino and Senator Jaffer. I thank Senator Jaffer for her kind remarks. I appreciate her staunch support for the issues we have shared fighting for human rights, not only against anti-Semitism, but also persecution of Christians, Jews, and the persecution of the Baha'i that I think take place in Iran today, which goes to the heart of the subject matter of this debate. I support Senator Di Nino's amendment, because I think it gives the motion greater strength. I also thank Senator Segal, who brought this mat …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 948, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/082db_2009-12-14-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "pairs anti-Semitism with persecution of Baha'i as wrongs fought", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Iran's refusal to cooperate with the IAEA over its nuclear programme, the Iranian foreign minister's weekend counteroffer, the EU declaration of 'grave concern'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "Iran, for 'persecution of Christians, Jews, and the persecution of the Baha'i'", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2009-12-14", "year": "2009", "session": "40-2", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mobina S. B. Jaffer", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… Iran, and human rights for Christians in Iran. Human rights for all Iranians need to be protected. (1700) Honourable senators, if there was ever a time that we needed to look at protecting the rights of Iranians, it is now. I will take the opportunity to acknowledge that Senator Grafstein has worked hard on issues of anti-Semitism in this house. I want him to know that, although he leaves us, he has left a legacy. I can assure him that, although I will never be able to do as good a job as he has done, I will be there to ensure that we in this country continue to enjoy the freedoms that we have enjoyed. Senator Grafstein has taught me a lot about anti-Semitism, and I thank him for that. I will continue to work on this issue. As the only Muslim senator in the Senate, I tell all honourable senators that when people speak on my faith and cause terrible abuses, they do not speak in my name."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 270, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/402/debates/082db_2009-12-14-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["solidarity"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "credits colleague's anti-Semitism work and pledges to continue it", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the intensifying persecution of the Baha'is and other religious minorities in Iran", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-03-30", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Art Eggleton", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["My question to Senator Wallin centres on a controversy that has existed on campuses in Canada for the last couple of years about the Israeli Apartheid Week that upsets many people in our communities as being anti-Semitic. If it is not directly anti-Semitic, it is close to it. (1740) How do the honourable senator's comments relate to that particular annual event which offends many people in this country?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 68, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/013db_2010-03-30-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "If it is not directly anti-Semitic, it is close to it.", "act_why": "calls Israeli Apartheid Week anti-Semitic or close to it", "trigger": "Israeli Apartheid Week on Canadian campuses over the previous couple of years", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "Israeli Apartheid Week on Canadian campuses", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2010-03-30", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Michael Duffy", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… he United States or to Iceland, which has announced recently its plans to be the world's leading free speech jurisdiction. There is another paradox of censorship in the Internet age. Out of the billions of pages on the Web, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre estimates that about 8,000 sites are serious purveyors of racism or anti-Semitism. By prosecuting this relatively small number of obscure websites, we give fringe, marginal ideas more attention and publicity than they would ever have received on their own. Honourable senators, there is a better way. There may be thousands of hate sites, but there are millions of amateur bloggers out there ready to …", "… ebsite is www.nizkor.org; it is now one of the most comprehensive archives of knowledge about the Holocaust to be found anywhere. Ken McVay has not created celebrity haters, like our censorship laws have, but he has been tremendously effective at rebutting racist lies as a citizen blogger. Of course, we all agree that anti-Semitism and Holocaust denials are odious ideas, but one of the problems with censorship is that the definition of what is offensive is open to political bias. Maclean's columnist Mark Steyn was put on trial for a week in Vancouver for merely expressing his political views. Ezra Levant and the Western Standard magazine were in …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1621, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/013db_2010-03-30-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism odious while opposing censorship of it", "trigger": "section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the censorship powers of human rights commissions, raised in Senator Finley's inquiry into freedom of speech (wi", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "about 8,000 web sites that 'are serious purveyors of racism or anti-Semitism'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-04-13", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "John D. Wallace", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… the basis of certain characteristics like religion and race. In this regard, section 13 has obvious similarities to the prohibition found in section 319 of the Criminal Code. The original purpose of section 13 was to address a situation where people advertised telephone numbers that one could call to hear pre-recorded anti-Semitic or white supremacist messages. Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act does not prohibit public lectures, nor does it prohibit speech that is merely offensive. It prohibits only repeated and extreme hate messages that are sent by telecommunications or the Internet. The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the constituti …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2210, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/015db_2010-04-13-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "neutral exposition of hate-speech law and Keegstra/Ahenakew", "trigger": "section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code hate propaganda provisions (s. 319), debated in Senator Finley's freedom of speech inquiry, wi", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-06-29", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Consiglio Di Nino", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… terned as enemies of the nation. A young boy, Erwin Schild, was among them. Now a highly respected rabbi, he described his experience in his book, The Very Narrow Bridge , and I quote: It could only have happened at that time and only in a world that allowed the Holocaust to happen. It could have happened only because anti-Semitism was widespread and because the world did not bother to understand Jews. . . . Anti-Semitism rubbed salt into our wounded feelings. Canadian officers in charge made no secret of the fact that they would have vastly preferred to have dealt with the Nazis or patriotic Germans, whom they deemed superior to the whining, complaining and demanding Jewish rabble. The ultimate insult, the ultimate failure to comprehe …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 490, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/045db_2010-06-29-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "reads a survivor's account of wartime anti-Semitism in internment with evident disapproval", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "\"70 years ago, in the summer of 1940, three ships brought Axis prisoners of war to Canada along with some 2,300 refugees, most of them Jewish\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "Canadian officers in charge made no secret of the fact that they would have vastly preferred to have dealt with the Nazis or patriotic Germans (quoting Rabbi Erwin Schild)", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-10-19", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Donald H. Oliver", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… and 2008. Religiously-motivated hate crimes increased by 53 per cent. Crimes against Blacks represented the largest category of racially motivated hate crimes — 37 per cent. In 2008, there were 205 hate crimes committed against Blacks, which was an increase of 47 acts, or 30 per cent, compared with the previous year. Anti-Semitism is still very much a reality in Canada. In 2008, the majority of religiously motivated hate crimes — 64 per cent — targeted members of the Jewish religion. This type of act has increased by 42 per cent, growing from 116 crimes in 2007 and increasing to 165 in 2008. Muslims and Arabs in Canada have also been victims of …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2311, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/056db_2010-10-19-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["racism", "islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "states anti-Semitism is still a reality in Canada and cites rising hate-crime counts with alarm", "trigger": "police-reported hate crime statistics for 2008 — \"1,036 hate crimes were committed in 2008, a 35 per cent increase\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-11-03", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Linda Frum", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… limits. The national frenzy in the face of the accidental death of 230 ducks, contrasted with the usual silence in the face of OPEC atrocities, is that limit. The Islamic Republic of Iran is now the chair of OPEC — Iran, the builder of nuclear bombs, the attacker of democratic dissidents, the exporter of terrorism and anti-Semitism. Iran beat or killed more than 230 opposition activists in its last rigged elections. Why do not we talk about that, rather than 230 ducks? On behalf of senators of all parties and of all provinces, I am happy to join with Senator Eaton to say Canada's oil is nothing to be ashamed about. In fact, Canadian oil — oil sa …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1796, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/063db_2010-11-03-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "oil sands speech; relevant passage beyond truncated text, disapproving frame assumed", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2010-11-24", "year": "2010", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Sharon Carstairs", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… not spread to our being able to live in harmony with those of the Muslim faith. At the same time that I was in university, there were still quotas in many professional schools in this country with respect to those of the Jewish faith. Those quotas no longer exist, but we still hear all too often about activities of an anti-Semitic nature. All of us recognize that there are far too few Aboriginal Canadians graduating from high schools and then attending post-secondary institutions. (1540) In Halifax and Toronto, where there is a significant number of Black Canadians, we still see far too few of them graduating from high school and going on to po …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 975, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/069db_2010-11-24-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "regrets that activities of an anti-Semitic nature are still heard of too often", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "there were still quotas in many professional schools in this country with respect to those of the Jewish faith", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-02-10", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Yonah Martin", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… locaust must have a permanent place in our nation's consciousness and memory. We must honour the memory of all Holocaust victims as part of our collective resolve never to forget. A national monument will remind Canadians of one of the darkest chapters in human history and of the dangers of state-sanctioned hatred and anti-Semitism. It will encourage future generations to learn about the root causes of the Holocaust and its consequences to help prevent future acts of genocide. The Second World War became the most widespread and deadliest war in the world's history, with at least 100 million military personnel and more than 50 million fatalities. …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1862, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/085db_2011-02-10-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["commemoration"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "monument will remind Canadians of the dangers of state-sanctioned hatred and anti-Semitism", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "Bill C-442, An Act to establish a National Holocaust Monument, at second reading in the Senate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2011-02-17", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Mac Harb", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… nable suffering of those affected by the actions of the Nazi regime. Within that same preamble, there is a call to action. Allow me to quote: Whereas the establishment of a national monument shall forever remind Canadians of one of the darkest chapters in human history and of the dangers of state-sanctioned hatred and anti-Semitism; And whereas a national monument shall act as a tool to help future generations learn about the root causes of the Holocaust and its consequences in order to help prevent future acts of genocide; Honourable senators, to remind and to teach — that, I believe, lies at the heart of the raison d'être for this national mon …", "… p to prevent future acts of genocide. It will remind and inform visitors of Canada's long-standing values of freedom, democracy, and the defence of human rights at home and abroad. It will serve as our commitment to vigilance and to timely action as part of the international community. [ English ] Honourable senators, anti-Semitism has plagued the world for centuries. Taken to its most far-reaching and violent extreme, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism resulted in the deaths of millions of Jewish men, women and children, and the suffering of countless others. According to the Report on Global Anti-Semitism , more subtle forms of anti-Semitism continue to disrupt lives. For an increasingly interdependent world, anti-Semitism is an intolerable burden. Honourable senators are aware that Canada has its own guilt to carry. Seventy-two years ago, in June 1939, the St. Louis , a German ocean liner carrying 930 Jewish refugees, was coldly turned away from the American and Canadian coasts. For far too many of those refugees, hope was lost. More recently, B'nai Brith Canada has drawn our attention to the verbal and physical attacks perpetrated against Jewish students at university campuses across Canada. Education remains a strong antidote for anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance. In 1998, the Stockholm Conference addressed the serious concern about the fading awareness of the Holocaust, in particular among the younger generation. Out of this concern, the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research was born. Honourabl …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1025, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/088db_2011-02-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "reputation"], "response": ["education", "commemoration"], "response_stance": "supports", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "international bodies"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "act_why": "cites the preamble and says anti-Semitism has plagued the world and remains an intolerable burden", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "Bill C-442, An Act to establish a National Holocaust Monument", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "Canada has its own guilt to carry... the St. Louis... was coldly turned away from the American and Canadian coasts", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-03-24", "year": "2011", "session": "40-3", "parliament": "40", "speaker": "Doug Finley", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… t almost the entire supply chain. Canadians are now becoming closely acquainted with Libya, an OPEC nation currently undergoing a civil war. Colonel Gadhafi is a man who has slaughtered, and is slaughtering, thousands of innocent people. He is a terrorist financier and supporter, and has a disturbingly long history of anti-Semitism. Oil is a major industry in Libya. Less than two weeks ago, Colonel Gadhafi began bombing oil wells in a salt-the-earth strategy to hurt the Libyan people who are rebelling against his rule of tyranny. However, it is not only hurting the Libyan people, but it is also an environmental disaster contributing to rapidly e …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1842, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/403/debates/098db_2011-03-24-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Conservative", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "jurisdiction": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "charge_quote": "He is a terrorist financier and supporter, and has a disturbingly long history of anti-Semitism.", "act_why": "charges Gadhafi by name with a long history of anti-Semitism", "trigger": "\"the recent situation in the Middle East\" — the Libyan civil war and Gadhafi's conduct — and its effect on oil prices", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "Colonel Gadhafi... has a disturbingly long history of anti-Semitism", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-10-05", "year": "2011", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Hugh Segal", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… s. I will not dwell on its historical and essentially genocidal view and purpose with respect to the Republic of Israel, not because its stance is in any way sane, but because whipping up anti-Israel hysteria and hatred has been the truck and trade of most despots, extremists, religious charlatans, dictators and other anti-Semites over the breadth of history — not only in the part of the world that Iran seeks to dominate but also elsewhere. In recent times, forces of darkness in locations as diverse as Venezuela and Malaysia have embraced this age-old and tiresome game. Going with the flow in the face of this is a reprehensible lack of spine, b …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1494, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/017db_2011-10-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "inspired"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "whipping up anti-Israel hysteria and hatred has been the truck and trade of most despots, extremists, religious charlatans, dictators and other anti-Semites", "act_why": "places Iran's leadership, and regimes in Venezuela and Malaysia, among anti-Semites whipping up hatred", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the Iranian government's imprisonment and persecution of its Baha'i citizens", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the Islamic Republic of Iran... its historical and essentially genocidal view and purpose with respect to the Republic of Israel; forces of darkness in locations as diverse as Venezuela and Malaysia", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2011-10-18", "year": "2011", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Doug Finley", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… d that decline. It started in 2006 with the rebuilding of the Canadian military — reprovisioning troops with long-overdue, mandate-fulfilling equipment. This government has unashamedly represented Canadian values at international summits, such as La Francophonie in 2006 and the G8 Summit in 2011. It also boycotted the anti-Semitic Durban conferences. Mission-extending, bi-partisan efforts have allowed Canada to be prominently instrumental in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. By example, thanks to its proven economic management, Canada has greatly facilitated the will and direction of G8 and G20 nations to engineer and plan solutions to the glo …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1781, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/019db_2011-10-18-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "projective"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "passing approval of Canada boycotting the anti-Semitic Durban conferences in a speech on Libya", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the NATO/Canadian mission in Libya and the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "It also boycotted the anti-Semitic Durban conferences", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-10-27", "year": "2011", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Don Meredith", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… re governments and international and multinational human rights bodies, through humanitarian work and advocacy, awareness campaigns, seminars, research, and fact-finding. One Free World International is guided in its work by Christian principles and has as its primary focus combatting the persecution of Christians and anti-Semitism. The international work they undertake is in the spirit of promoting tolerance, understanding and respect for diverse religious beliefs through humanitarian work. Around the world today, honourable senators, as we see countries emerging from decades of tyranny and making steps to claim their emancipated future, I am p …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 592, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/024db_2011-10-27-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["projective", "market"], "response": ["education", "solidarity"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "praises an organization whose focus is combatting persecution of Christians and anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the speaker's September fact-finding visit to Iraq with One Free World International and attacks on Iraqi Christians", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2011-12-14", "year": "2011", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Wilfred P. Moore", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… de. But this is Canada, a big country with a strange and growing streak of smallness in its politics. And so it is that Irwin Cotler, 71, now faces . . . the Conservative Party and its politics of smear. . . . the Conservatives brazenly distributed a flyer to his constituents in 2009 claiming that he had attended \"the anti-Semitic'' human rights conference in 2001 in Durban, South Africa. Didn't you know that Cotler is a closet anti-Semite? More recently, the Conservatives have made telephone calls in his riding suggesting that Cotler is planning to retire, which will cause a by-election. The Speaker in the other place, in an incredibly flawed decision, without reference to numerous parliamentary principles and precedents, ruled yesterday that this did …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 483, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/042db_2011-12-14-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "quotes the column mocking the smear that Cotler is a closet anti-Semite", "trigger": "the Conservative flyer calling Cotler an attendee of \"the anti-Semitic\" Durban conference, the robocalls in Mount Royal, and the Speaker's ruling of the previou", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-04-25", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Claudette Tardif", "role": "Deputy Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… , same-sex marriage to safe injection sites. For example, section 2 of the Charter addresses freedom of expression, and there has been some truly lasting jurisprudence in this area, including the limits to free speech. A key example can be found in the 1990 Supreme Court ruling that found an Alberta teacher who taught anti-Semitic propaganda to his students could not claim to be exercising his right to freedom of expression. This section also has allowed members of the media some important successes in advocating responsible journalism. A particularly high-profile area of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is section 15, the equality g …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2290, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/071db_2012-04-25-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "cites the Keegstra ruling on antisemitic propaganda as Charter jurisprudence", "trigger": "30th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "an Alberta teacher who taught anti-Semitic propaganda to his students", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-06-26", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Jane Cordy", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["The article continues: Historians Irving Abella and Harold Troper's book 'None is Too Many' told of this sad and ultimately deadly policy. In the early 1900s, Jews fled persecution in European countries where anti-Semitism was rampant. They were not alone; the Roma and Sinti people were caught in the same web of hate. The article goes on to say: While Designated Countries of Origin have yet to be named, Hungary will assuredly be on the list. If these policy changes come into effect, Roma refugee claimants will lose access to health care …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 298, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/097db_2012-06-26-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["border"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "reads an article describing rampant antisemitism faced by Jews and Roma", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "Bill C-31", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2012-06-26", "year": "2012", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Jane Cordy", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ve all extensively documented the discrimination and violence against Roma people in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. We know that Hillary Clinton has recently spoken of her concern about the discrimination and persecution of the Roma in Europe. Honourable senators, we also know that there is a strong rise of anti-Semitism in Hungary. In articles on June 4 and June 11 of this year in The Canadian Jewish News , a concern was raised about this surge in Hungary. Under Bill C-31, the \"Designated Country of Origin\" classification would restrict refugee claimants in Canada from Hungary, including Jewish claimants. Human rights for the assessm …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2381, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/097db_2012-06-26-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["border"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "third-reading critique of Bill C-31 relaying witnesses, no use of the term", "trigger": "third reading of Bill C-31", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2013-04-23", "year": "2013", "session": "41-1", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Linda Frum", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… g nearly six million Jewish men, women and children who suffered and died at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust. As we mark the liberation of the first Nazi concentration camp in Buchenwald, Germany... let us renew our own commitment to continue their fight against all forms of intolerance, discrimination and anti-Semitism. Among those attending today's somber commemoration will be Dr. Mario Silva. On March 5 of this year, Dr. Silva, a former member of Parliament, became the Chair of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, the IHRA. The IHRA is an organization composed of 31 member states from around the world. The IHRA has an …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 523, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/411/debates/154db_2013-04-23-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "projective"], "response": ["commemoration"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "Holocaust remembrance quoting the PM on fighting all forms of antisemitism", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "2013 National Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Canadian War Museum", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["foreign state"], "target_detail": "the Nazis (quoting the Prime Minister: \"suffered and died at the hands of the Nazis\")", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2014-02-06", "year": "2014", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Claude Carignan", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… u the information I have here. I can promise to verify whether there is any additional information and get back to you later to fully answer your question. One thing is certain: As I already said we are monitoring the situation closely. We stand with the Syrian people, and we want to assure them of our support. Israel—Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 64, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/412/debates/033db_2014-02-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "answer on Syria; the term appears only in the following rubric heading", "trigger": "the situation in Syria", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2014-02-06", "year": "2014", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Jean-Claude Rivest", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… at the majority of Canadians share his point of view — that he recognizes the existence of the State of Israel and its right to defend itself, the permanence of that state, and the need to support the Government of Israel's efforts to defend itself. Nonetheless, the Prime Minister made some rather vague comments about anti-Semitism. He said there was a \"new face of anti-Semitism\" and suggested that any intellectualized or sophisticated argument against the Israeli government or its policies was part of the new face of anti-Semitism. What exactly did the Prime Minister mean by that rather bold statement? I hope the Prime Minister realizes that the State of Israel is a democratic country where the media criticize the Israeli government daily without being anti-Semitic. There is also the parliamentary opposition that has its say. I gather from what the Prime Minister said that he is relinquishing the role Canada might play in the Middle East, but that is his legitimate political choice. We understand that he unconditionally supports the Government of Israel, but why make such comments on anti-Semitism in relation to criticisms of the Government of Israel?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 221, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/412/debates/033db_2014-02-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "challenges the PM's new-face-of-antisemitism label applied to criticism of Israel", "trigger": "the Prime Minister's 'new face of anti-Semitism' comments during his trip to Israel", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2014-04-07", "year": "2014", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Marjory LeBreton", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… to become \"colour-blind\" and was the first Western leader to stand against Apartheid — a battle Mr. Mulroney concluded. Honourable senators, the most egregious of all, however, was Mr. Cohen turning to Peter Newman, of all people, whom he describes as Mr. Diefenbaker's \"chronicler.\" Diefenbaker, he said, \"was given to anti-Semitism.\" Honourable senators, this is so sad, so disgusting and so very wrong. My own strong personal views in support of Israel had their beginnings because of the influence of Mr. Diefenbaker, who was an admirer and friend of David Ben-Gurion. In fact, Mr. Diefenbaker visited and stayed at Ben-Gurion's kibbutz and explaine …", "… War II. He consulted regularly two rabbis whom he considered friends: the late Gunther Plaut; and Rabbi David Monson, who officiated at Mr. Diefenbaker's funeral. He was totally dedicated to all matters of human rights. This is well known to most, if not to Mr. Cohen and Mr. Martin. Yes, Mr. Cohen, Canada did have an anti-Semitic prime minister; but it was not John George Diefenbaker, it was the Liberal icon Mackenzie King. Thank you. Northwest Territories Devolution"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 668, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/412/debates/049db_2014-04-07-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "rejects Cohen/Newman's labelling of Diefenbaker as anti-Semitic as wrong", "trigger": "Andrew Cohen's column and Don Martin's CTV remarks reacting to John Baird's tribute to Diefenbaker, quoting Peter Newman that Diefenbaker 'was given to anti-Sem", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "Mackenzie King, \"the Liberal icon\"", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2014-09-24", "year": "2014", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Daniel Lang", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ital to be prepared in a dangerous world with many rogue actors. Colleagues, as I reflect upon our parliamentary visit to Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, I am again proud of our strong bilateral relationships with Israel, our support for the Jewish people in Canada and abroad, and our firm stand against anti-Semitism. At this time of the high holidays, and as the community marks Rosh Hashanah, please join with me in wishing members of the Jewish community a happy New Year. L'shanah tovah. [ Translation ] Le Jour des Franco-Ontariens"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 461, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/412/debates/079db_2014-09-24-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "industrial"], "response": ["Israel relations"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "affirms a firm stand against anti-Semitism", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the Hamas rocket barrage from Gaza and the 50-day conflict during his July parliamentary delegation visit to Israel", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2014-11-04", "year": "2014", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Linda Frum", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… museum to celebrate how they lived and, indeed, how they often thrived. Jews first arrived in Poland in the Middle Ages. By the mid-18th century, there were 750,000 living across the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania. Eventually, the Jewish population of Poland grew into the largest Jewish community in the world. Anti-Semitism was an undeniable fact of Jewish life in Poland, but so, too, were periods of prosperity, creativity, tolerance, cooperation and coexistence. By the time the Nazis invaded in 1939, Poland was home to 3.3 million Jews, about one third of all European Jewry. Ninety per cent of these innocent souls perished in the Holoca …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 522, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/412/debates/092db_2014-11-04-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "projective"], "response": ["commemoration"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "recounts anti-Semitism in Polish Jewish history with disapproval", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "the opening ceremony of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw the previous week", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2015-03-10", "year": "2015", "session": "41-2", "parliament": "41", "speaker": "Mobina S. B. Jaffer", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… d Muslims; and the Women's Intercultural Network. It was a most amazing day that I will never forget. The theme was Shalom/Salaam — Together we will make it happen! Women of diverse backgrounds and of all ages came together at the Borochov Cultural Centre in North York in Toronto. Na'amat is concerned with the rise of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Canada and worldwide and decided to reach out to Muslim women for their annual celebration of International Women's Day so that they could get to know one another and together help to reduce stereotypes about the other community. Dr. Karen Mock was instrumental in bringing all the groups together with the help of Talat Muinuddin. Gerry Anklewicz, President of Na'amat, stated: We wanted to celebrate with Muslim women, as we fervently believe if women who oppose violence and hatred speak to each other and find common ground, then we can counter anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Fathima Hussain, President of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, stated: Working on the planning committee together, I was so pleased that both our Muslim and Jewish women's groups are committed to exactly the same thing — working towards equality, safety and security. We discovered we have more s …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 455, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/412/debates/123db_2015-03-10-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["projective", "domestic"], "response": ["solidarity"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Conservative", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "reports a Jewish-Muslim women's event convened over concern at rising antisemitism and Islamophobia", "trigger": "the joint Jewish-Muslim commemoration of International Women's Day held by Na'amat Canada Toronto and the Canadian Council of Muslim Women", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2016-09-27", "year": "2016", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Peter Harder", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… individual communities while targeting the national objectives of each program. Foreign Affairs UNESCO—Resolution Condemning Israeli Activity in Jerusalem (Response to question raised by the Honourable Linda Frum on April 21, 2016) Canada is a close friend and steadfast ally of Israel. Canada is committed to fighting anti-Semitism, racism, and all forms of discrimination. Canada opposes attempts to delegitimize or unfairly single out Israel, including in multilateral fora. The decision in question was voted upon by UNESCO's Executive Board. Canada is not a member of this Board and thus did not vote on the decision. Member States are well aware …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2871, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/056db_2016-09-27-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["projective"], "response": ["foreign policy", "Israel relations"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "tables written answers; the anti-Semitism commitment appears in the tabled text", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the UNESCO Executive Board decision condemning Israeli activity in Jerusalem (question raised by Senator Frum, April 21, 2016)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2016-10-18", "year": "2016", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "David Tkachuk", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ears are now often ten. We are also back to sending arms to Saudi Arabia, a sale the Liberals criticized the former government for. But these things change, especially when you need to buy every vote you can for a meaningless seat on the Security Council. So they troll the Middle East and Africa for every anti-Israel, anti-Semitic nation they can find for more UN votes. Has our foreign policy come to this? They look south at the Trumpian motives in ingratiating himself to Putin while they do the same with Russia over Ukraine and with the Communists in China. And how about those 25,000 refugees they promised to bring in by the end of December 20 …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 894, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/062db_2016-10-18-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "So they troll the Middle East and Africa for every anti-Israel, anti-Semitic nation they can find for more UN votes.", "act_why": "charges the Liberal government with courting anti-Semitic nations for UN votes", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "foreign state"], "target_detail": "the Liberal government; “every anti-Israel, anti-Semitic nation” in the Middle East and Africa", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2016-11-17", "year": "2016", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Thanh Hai Ngo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… concerns over reports that the agency had ties to Hamas, an organization that remains listed as a terrorist entity in Canada. Hamas has been known to use UNRWA schools to store weapons used to attack Israel. In fact, last year the United Nations suspended a number of the agency's staff who had promoted anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence on social media. The Minister of International Development announced this week that Canada had restored $25 million in funding to the agency. My question for the Leader of the Government in the Senate is this: what assurance can the Liberal government give us that Canada's contribution will not be handed over …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 140, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/073db_2016-11-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "civic"], "response": ["funding", "foreign policy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "charge_quote": "what assurance can the Liberal government give us that Canada's contribution will not be handed over to Hamas", "act_why": "cites UNRWA staff suspended for promoting anti-Semitic violence in questioning funding", "canada_role": "funding", "trigger": "the restoration of $25 million in Canadian funding to UNRWA, and the UN's suspension of agency staff who \"promoted anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence on soci", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "UNRWA and its staff; Hamas", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2016-12-08", "year": "2016", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Linda Frum", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… of Lower Canada voted to politically enfranchise Jews, making Quebec the first jurisdiction in the British Empire to do this. However, it was not until the end of the 19th century that Jews began to arrive in Canada in significant numbers. Typically, these most impoverished refugees were fleeing pogroms and murderous anti-Semitism in Russia and other areas of Eastern Europe. They settled in Canada from coast to coast, from Victoria, B.C., to Sydney, Nova Scotia, in the hope of making better lives for themselves and their families and with the strong desire to contribute energetically to the communities which welcomed them. In Europe, Jews had b …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 776, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/085db_2016-12-08-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["commemoration"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "recalls Jews fleeing murderous anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "second reading of Bill S-232, An Act respecting Canadian Jewish Heritage Month", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-02-16", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Joan Fraser", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… oo many.\" No Jewish immigration at all would still be too many Jews coming into our country. We know how many died as a result. And it goes on. There is still vandalism of synagogues; resistance to the construction of new synagogues. We have come a long, long, long way in our society, but we still have some way to go. Anti-Semitism, which is one of the most deeply rooted and pernicious aspects of our civilization, is not yet dead. I'd like to quote for you some remarks from former American President Barack Obama. A couple of years ago he was speaking to an American group on the occasion of Jewish American Heritage Month. He said a couple of things that I think are worth putting on the record: . . . Anti-Semitism is, and always will be, a threat to broader human values to which we all must aspire. And when we allow anti-Semitism to take root, then our souls are destroyed, and it will spread. I'm going to quote another element of his speech in a moment, but I would just like to add here that that is why I think this bill is important. It's important for all of us to be aware not only of the richness, the wealth and the extraordinary contributi …", "… l who were Jewish, each, as it happens, spoke five languages. English and French were just two of them. That was fine. In particular, one family I remember, would tell jokes over the dinner table in the language best suited to the jokes. I was just dazzled. But we are not immune. The particularly deep-rooted nature of anti-Semitism requires that we be reminded again and again — perhaps not every day, but for one month every year? That would be good: to be reminded of both the good and the dangerous. I'm going to conclude by quoting President Obama again. He said: . . . to make our values live . . . . requires courage. It requires strength . . . …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1756, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/098db_2017-02-16-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["commemoration", "education"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "says anti-Semitism is not yet dead, quoting Obama", "trigger": "Bill S-232, the Canadian Jewish Heritage Month bill, presented by Senator Frum", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2017-03-28", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Thanh Hai Ngo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… one in the federal government that there continue to be contacts between the agency and Hamas. One of the employees recently suspended was also suspended in 2011 for participating in activities organized by Hamas. In 2015, the United Nations suspended a number of the UNRWA's employees who had supported anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence on social media. The Liberal government announced that a proportion of Canadian taxpayer dollars would be used to expand staff training on the proper and neutral use of social media; these are employees of a UN agency we are talking about. Israel's ambassador to the United Nations recently wrote to UNRWA dono …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 140, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/105db_2017-03-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "industrial"], "response": ["funding", "foreign policy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "charge_quote": "It should come as no surprise to anyone in the federal government that there continue to be contacts between the agency and Hamas.", "act_why": "cites UNRWA employees who supported anti-Semitic violence in questioning the agency", "canada_role": "funding", "trigger": "continuing contacts between UNRWA staff and Hamas, and Israel's UN ambassador writing to donor countries to request an investigation of the agency", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "UNRWA and its employees; Hamas", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2017-04-04", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Mobina S. B. Jaffer", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… Hart, from Trois-Rivières, became the first Jew in the entire British Empire to be elected to office. Unfortunately, he was denied his seat on the basis of his religion. He was told that he could not take office because the oath of office had the words \"on the true faith of a Christian\" written in it. After countless anti-Semitic letters and presentations, unfortunately, Parliament expelled him. [ Translation ] Ezekiel therefore returned to Trois-Rivières to face his constituents, but the people of Trois-Rivières refused to let this blatant anti-Semitism undermine the trust they had placed in him. He was elected again in 1808. That time, he swore the same oath as all the Christians but, once again, it was not enough, for he was expelled a second time because of his religion. That, honourable senators, perfectly sums up the history of the Jews in Canada. They showed perseverance in the face of persecution and resilience in the face of anti-Semitism. [ English ] It is the same theme when it comes to Jewish immigration. In 1939, during the start of the Holocaust, Frederick Blair, the then-director of the immigration branch was asked how many Jewish people would be allowed into Canada after the war. I'm very embarrassed to tell you that he replied: None is too many …", "… t attitude, or perhaps in spite of that attitude, in our Parliament today we have a number of parliamentarians of Jewish heritage. We have the fourth largest Jewish population in the world, and we have nearly 6,000 Holocaust survivors in Montreal alone. Persistence in the face of persecution, resilience in the face of anti-Semitism. Honourable senators, when a community from any part of the world comes to Canada, we encourage them to hold onto their values. We know that their contribution to Canada comes directly from their values. Those values become Canadian values. It is the greatest strength of our country. Honourable senators, the persisten …", "… ty in mind can we all rise together. Like the Jewish people, despite all of our diversity, Canadians are also bound together. Honourable senators, I mentioned that the Jewish people have often led the charge for equality on behalf of all minority communities. In the late 1960s, they did exactly that. During that time, anti-Semitism was once again on the rise in this country. For three and a half years, the Jewish community worked diligently to pass anti-hate propaganda legislation. The Jewish community worked first to add religion as a characteristic of an identifiable group and then later passed anti-genocide legislation that included those ide …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2514, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/108db_2017-04-04-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law", "solidarity"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "recounts Hart's expulsion, 'none is too many' and rising hate with disapproval", "trigger": "bill to create a Canadian Jewish heritage month (Bill S-232), on which she is critic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution", "individual"], "target_detail": "Parliament expelled him [Ezekiel Hart] a second time because of his religion; Frederick Blair, 'None is too many'", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-05-09", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Marilou McPhedran", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… e Canada's shame in turning away an entire ship of Jewish refugees, resulting in over 250 lost lives. Our country has been significantly shaped by the approximately 40,000 Holocaust survivors who resettled in Canada after World War II. In 2011, Canada became the first country to sign the Ottawa Protocol on C-combating Antisemitism, an international action plan to help nations measure their progress in the fight against anti-Semitism. It is important to highlight and remember these terrible instances in history as we need to ensure that the statement, the promise, \"never again,\" actually becomes true. Certainly, we need to focus every day on the human rights of all peoples to ensure that their human security and dignity are upheld — we all deserve …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 352, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/118db_2017-05-09-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["commemoration"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "Holocaust remembrance, condemns denial and revisionism", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "the UN days of remembrance for victims of the Second World War (May 8-9) and the National Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony held the previous day", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "revisionists persist in diminishing or denying the Nazi Holocaust", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-05-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Linda Frum", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… nk you, Your Honour. While I am on my feet, I would like to thank Senator Downe for his gracious words. I also want to acknowledge all his hard work in seeing the government adopt the Magnitsky Act. You deserve a lot of the credit, as well. Honourable senators, last week B'nai Brith Canada released its annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents. The audit found that 2016 \". . . was a record-setting year for anti-Semitism . . ..\" Unfortunately, almost every year in the last decade has been a record setting one. There is cause to be deeply concerned. Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada rose by 26 per cent this year over last, and were higher than the previous high set in 2014. Holocaust denial, having accounted for only 5 per cent of documented anti-Semitic cases in 2015, jumped to over 20 per cent of cases in 2016. A total of 1,728 anti-Semitic incidents were reported across the country last year. That's about five per day. Colleagues, these trends are alarming. It is important as we, as senators and as leaders in our communities, continue to work to counteract these hateful forces. As Canadians, we cannot be complacent. As peaceful and tolerant as our country may be, it is important that we always denounce hatred in all its forms. I want to express appreciation to B'nai Brith Canada for their ongoing vigilance, documenting and exposing the growth of anti-Semitism in Canada. Additionally, I support the organization's call for the vigorous enforcement of Canada's hate-crime laws in those instances where exhortations for the destruction of the Jewish people are made in public spaces or in places of worship. In that vein, I would like to commend B'nai Brith and the Centre for Isra …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 364, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/123db_2017-05-18-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law", "leadership speech"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "police and security"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "calls audit trends alarming and urges denouncing hatred", "trigger": "\"last week B'nai Brith Canada released its annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "exhortations for the destruction of the Jewish people ... made in public spaces or in places of worship", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-05-18", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Senators", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Hear, hear! Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 3, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/123db_2017-05-18-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2017-05-30", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Grant Mitchell", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… send them an immensely powerful message, a message of embrace and inclusion in this wonderful, accepting Canadian society, the message that in Canada you can be who you are. As Dr. Manning wrote so eloquently in her submission: As senators, you have an opportunity to \"bend the arc of history.\" At this moment of rising anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, sexism, and transphobia, you can offer not just my kid, but all kids in Canada a chance to expand their understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of human experience. That's the kind of Canada that we are. I ask you to support Bill C-16."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2181, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/124db_2017-05-30-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "Bill C-16 hate-speech speech; no antisemitism passage in retained text", "trigger": "third reading of Bill C-16, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-06-13", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Linda Frum", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ators of mischief against a religious centre or educational institution would face the same 10-year maximum penalty as they would if it was committed against a synagogue, mosque or church. Senators may recall that only a few weeks ago I put on the record here the results of the disturbing 2015-16 B'nai Brith report on anti-Semitism. The audit found that 2016 was a record year for anti-Semitism, with a 16 per cent increase in incidents of vandalism alone. It is for this reason and more that I support Bill C-305 and note that it received unanimous consent in the House of Commons. The Jewish community is the most targeted religious group in Canada and three quarters of hate-motivated crimes against Jews fall under the category of mischief. These are just the reported cases. The reality is many cases go unreported. Recently in the riding of York Centre, a short stance from my home in Toronto, a seniors' home experienced an anti-Semitic attack where swastikas were placed on the door of residents. Many of those living in the home were Holocaust survivors themselves. This was a deplorable act. Currently, the Criminal Code protects only places of worship from acts of mischief motivated by bias, prejudice or hate. Bill C-305 aims to extend the legal prot …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 667, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/131db_2017-06-13-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "cites audit and swastikas on seniors' doors as deplorable", "trigger": "Bill C-305, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (mischief against places of religion), on which she is critic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "a seniors' home experienced an anti-Semitic attack where swastikas were placed on the door of residents; vandals struck the Jewish Yavne Academy", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2017-10-05", "year": "2017", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "David Tkachuk", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ese survivors have made to Canada and serves as a reminder that we must be vigilant in standing guard against hate, intolerance and discrimination. As our colleague Senator Frum was quick to point out, there was no mention on the plaque of the Holocaust’s primary victims — the Jewish people. No mention of the evils of anti-Semitism or that, during the Holocaust, the Jews were specifically targeted or that 6 million of them were murdered by the Nazis. This was what the Holocaust was all about. It was a war against Jews. This is no accident. Last year, on the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, the Prime M …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 274, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/146db_2017-10-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "domestic"], "response": ["commemoration"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "No mention of the evils of anti-Semitism or that, during the Holocaust, the Jews were specifically targeted", "act_why": "charges the PMO and minister's office with deliberately omitting Jews", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "the plaque unveiled at the inauguration of the national Holocaust memorial, which names no Jewish victims", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Prime Minister ... there was no mention on the plaque of the Holocaust's primary victims - the Jewish people ... This is no accident", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-03-29", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Marc Gold", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ly. Since it was founded, the society has offered top-quality programs to accommodate its members’ professional development needs. The society hosts several annual lecture series, including one named for my late father that has featured a long list of leading figures from the legal community. [ English ] Over time, as anti-Semitism and restrictions on Jews became less prevalent, the society turned its attention to fighting for the rights of the greater Jewish community and other minority groups in Quebec. The society was engaged in many of the high profile issues of the day, intervening in support of minority rights when confronted with discrimi …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 479, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/192db_2018-03-29-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "community organisations"], "act_why": "recounts the lodge's exclusion of Jews with outrage, historic and commemorative", "trigger": "70th anniversary of the founding of the Lord Reading Law Society", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "Mont Tremblant Lodge, which had a strict “no Jews and no dogs” policy", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-04-25", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Linda Frum", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, yesterday B’nai Brith Canada released its thirty-sixth Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents. The audit found that 2017 set records for anti-Semitism in Canada. Unfortunately, this was the second consecutive year in which record numbers were reached. There is cause to be deeply concerned. Incidents of anti-Semitic vandalism increased by more than double, reaching levels not seen since 2013. Additionally, we are seeing an increase in politicians seeking political support from those with well-known anti-Jewish prejudices. While the majority of incidents occurred in Ontario and Quebec, there was a significant proportional increase to anti-Semitism in Alberta and British Columbia. Honourable senators, these are alarming trends. We must work to counteract these forces of hatred, bigotry and prejudice. Although we are fortunate to live in a peaceful and tolerant country, we must not be complacent. As parliamentarians, we must use our voices to speak out whenever t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 174, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/197db_2018-04-25-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "reports record anti-Semitism in the audit and calls the trends alarming", "trigger": "\"yesterday B'nai Brith Canada released its thirty-sixth Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "politicians seeking political support from those with well-known anti-Jewish prejudices", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-06-11", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Linda Frum", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I rise to draw your attention to a serious event that occurred in my city of Toronto this past weekend. The annual anti-Semitic hate fest known as al-Quds Day was held at Queen’s Park, followed by a march that shut down University Avenue. Since 1979, Quds Day has been a regular international event sponsored by the Islamic Republic of Iran. In Toronto, it attracts local terrorists and regime sympathizers who call for the eradication of Israel a …", "… t be tolerated in Canada as it is not representative of our peaceful, multicultural values. There is no place in Canada for such a vile demonstration of racist hate. I would like to thank premier-elect Doug Ford for his strong words condemning this event and his pledge that he will prevent any such blatantly racist or anti-Semitic events from being allowed on the grounds of Queen’s Park again in the future. I would also like to thank Canada’s national Jewish community organizations, including CIJA and B’nai Brith for their vigilance and moral leadership on this issue. [ Translation ] Visitors in the Gallery"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 211, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/218db_2018-06-11-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["leadership speech", "other"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "charge_quote": "The annual anti-Semitic hate fest known as al-Quds Day was held at Queen", "act_why": "calls the Iran-sponsored al-Quds Day an anti-Semitic hate fest", "trigger": "\"the annual anti-Semitic hate fest known as al-Quds Day was held at Queen's Park\" in Toronto this past weekend", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["protest movement", "foreign state"], "target_detail": "the al-Quds Day rally at Queen's Park; the Islamic Republic of Iran which sponsors it", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2018-09-20", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Peter Harder", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ely and efficiently, and preserving Canada’s reputation as a good place to do business.‎ Employment, Workforce Development and Labour Canada Summer Jobs Program ( Response to question raised by the Honourable Leo Housakos on June 14, 2018 ) Employment and Social Development Canada Our government unequivocally condemns anti-Semitic, homophobic, Islamophobic and hate-filled speech of all types. Such statements are unacceptable in Canadian society and cannot be tolerated. We are a country that is built on mutual respect, openness and compassion, and we reject the politics of division and fear wherever they come from. The Canada Summer Jobs program …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 6174, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/228db_2018-09-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": [], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "procedural tabling of written answers, term appears in relayed government responses", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-10-30", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Howard Wetston", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… cial statistician. They moved to Pittsburgh in the early 1980s. Joyce lost her life last Saturday at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Honourable senators, it troubles me and it pains me to rise today to speak about the terror last Saturday in a house of worship. It pains me because this tragedy is a result of anti-Semitism, often thought of as the world’s oldest hatred. Honourable senators, they were murdered because they were Jews. For 2,500 years, the Jewish people have been denounced and persecuted. But in North America, Jews believed the worst of anti-Semitism was behind us. There was a feeling of greater acceptance, but the massacre on Saturday, wherein 11 died and six were injured, was a shocking reminder — a wake-up call. In the last two years, there has been an unmistakable rise in anti-Semitic crimes in the United States and also in Canada. The Anti-Defamation League in the United States has reported an annual increase of 57 per cent in anti-Semitic incidents over the year before; that is, 2016. Honourable senators, what’s the reason? Is it the aggressive political rhetoric that accentuates divisiveness? What role does the growing global phenomenon of social media have to play? Is social media a “positive influence” or is it a platform for disinformation that spr …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 370, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/241db_2018-10-30-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "attributes the synagogue murders to anti-Semitism and reports rising anti-Semitic crime", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "the murder of Joyce Fienberg and 10 others at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "online platform"], "target_detail": "the shooter, who “stated that he wanted ‘all Jews to die’”; social media", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-10-30", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Linda Frum", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… e 11 individuals deserve to be remembered here in the Senate of Canada. They deserve to have their unique and particular lives celebrated. They also deserve to worship their God without fear of terror or torment. What happened last Shabbat morning in Pittsburgh was the violent manifestation of the age-old evil that is anti-Semitism. (1410) These innocent souls, among them a 97-year-old Holocaust survivor and a 75-year-old academic who lived much of her life in Toronto, were not murdered for any other reason than they were Jews. Last night, I attended a vigil in Toronto in their honour. Over 5,000 people came together in Mel Lastman Square to say no — no to hatred, to evil, and to anti-Semitism. Similar outpourings of support for the Jewish community have been held in cities across Canada and the United States. These gatherings have been attended by Jews and Muslims, Christians and atheists. For that I simply want to say thank you. We are fortunate to live in a country tolerant and welcoming to those of the Jewish faith. A country where citizens stand shoulder to shoulder in moments of tragedy to work together to find healing through the devastation. We must not let this moment pass without committing and recommitting ourselves again to combatting anti-Semitism in all its forms. As the honourable members in this chamber are aware, I am a proud Jew. And like so many other Jews, I am concerned about the rising levels of anti-Semitism around the world, including here in Canada. While an increase in security for our Jewish institutions and our places of worship may be a short-term solution to the current environment we find ourselves in today, no Jew wants to live in a world where it is necessary to pass through a metal detector to attend a wedding, …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 444, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/241db_2018-10-30-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["solidarity", "security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "names the victims and calls the attack a manifestation of anti-Semitism to be combatted", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "the 11 people murdered \"last Shabbat morning in Pittsburgh\" at the Tree of Life synagogue", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-11-01", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Thanh Hai Ngo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["In her announcement, Minister Bibeau stated that $40 million of the $50 million would be allocated to various areas, including basic education. For many years, B’Nai Brith Canada has been raising a number of serious concerns about agency employees being involved in promoting anti-Semitism and terrorism and including this promotion in school textbooks and curriculums. Furthermore, a year ago, Human Rights Watch reported that not a single teacher that advocated anti-Semitism and terrorism had been fired by the UN agency. How can the Government of Canada assure Canadians that their tax money destined to help educate Palestinian children is not being funnelled into promoting hate? [ English ]"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 108, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/243db_2018-11-01-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "charge_quote": "How can the Government of Canada assure Canadians that their tax money destined to help educate Palestinian children is not being funnelled into promoting hate?", "act_why": "charges UNRWA employees and textbooks with promoting anti-Semitism, citing B'nai Brith and HRW", "canada_role": "funding", "trigger": "the $50 million to UNRWA and B'nai Brith's concerns about agency employees promoting anti-Semitism in textbooks", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["institution", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "the UN agency (UNRWA) and its employees; the Government of Canada funding it", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2018-11-01", "year": "2018", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Thanh Hai Ngo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ne Refugees, also known as the UNRRA. Eight years ago, the previous Conservative government withdrew its funding for that UN agency because of its ties to Hamas, which is still on Canada’s list of terrorist organizations. Over the past few years, employees of the UNRRA have often been accused of promoting intolerance, antisemitism, and terrorism. (1400) On October 12, the Minister of International Development announced that the Government of Canada would provide $50 million in funding to the agency over two years. 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The story of Ezekiel Hart reminds us how much Jews had to fight for recognition, even here in Canada. Although historians agree that the question of his oath was used to discard a political opponent, as much as it was pure prejudice, this episode of Canadian history reminds us that anti-Semitism has always been with us and must always be resisted. The story of Ezekiel Hart is also a tribute to the people of Trois-Rivières, a Catholic district that elected him twice and then his son a few years later, forcing the adoption of a law that was revolutionary for its time. 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She said: Honourable senators, to his credit, the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has many times voiced his condemnation of the international anti-Semitic movement known as BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions of Israel, Israeli products, Israeli academics and Israeli services. “Canada will continue to speak out in the most forceful way against movements like BDS,” said Prime Minister Trudeau most recently during the state visit to Canada of Israeli President Reuv …", "… DS and which called on the Government of Canada to: . . . condemn any and all attempts by Canadian organizations, groups or individuals to promote the BDS movement, both here at home and abroad. The Prime Minister has also said he opposes the BDS movement as a whole because it is, “ . . . an example of the new form of anti-Semitism in the world.” And he is entirely right about that. While I applaud the Prime Minister for his words, are they matched by the actions of his government? In 2018, the Government of Canada, through Global Affairs Canada, began funding a project by the United Church of Canada under their KAIROS Initiatives program. The p …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1088, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/288db_2019-05-14-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["market", "reputation"], "response": ["funding", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "charge_quote": "While I applaud the Prime Minister for his words, are they matched by the actions of his government?", "act_why": "motion and speech charge Wi'am and United Church/KAIROS with promoting anti-Semitic documents and BDS", "canada_role": "funding", "trigger": "her motion calling on the government to freeze Global Affairs Canada funding to Wi'am and review the KAIROS/United Church grant over BDS", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["institution", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "Wi'am and the United Church of Canada / KAIROS, \"a group that promotes BDS campaigns and anti-Semitic documents\"; the government funding them through Global Affairs Canada", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2019-05-14", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Senators", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Hear, hear. (On motion of Senator Mercer, for Senator Day, debate adjourned.) 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The minister responsible has urged that the more appropriate response be forthcoming from the media. 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The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, IHRA, has a working definition of anti-Semitism that has clear parameters for what does and does not constitute anti-Semitism. Global Affairs Canada has adopted this definition with respect to our foreign policy. However, the rest of the Canadian government does not have a uniform definition of anti-Semitism. This week, the Organization of American States recognized the IHRA definition. Senator Harder, why won’t your government adopt the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism for the whole of government?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 89, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/297db_2019-06-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "presses government to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism government-wide", "trigger": "the Organization of American States' recognition this week of the IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2019-06-05", "year": "2019", "session": "42-1", "parliament": "42", "speaker": "Peter Harder", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… r question. I will have to take that under advisement. I was aware, of course, of what Global Affairs was doing, but I am not aware of what the Government of Canada outside of that department is doing. I welcome the OAS decision because that too gives us a common base. 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Leader, yesterday I asked you about the necessity of having a uniform definition of anti-Semitism across the Government of Canada. It seems that after this week the government also needs a uniform definition of the term “genocide.” Let me quote Prime Minister Trudeau when he was asked if the atrocities committed by ISIS constituted genocide. On September 22, 2016, the Prime Minister stated: This government recogni …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 213, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/421/debates/298db_2019-06-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "recalls her demand for a uniform antisemitism definition before turning to genocide", "trigger": "the inquiry finding this week that characterized the deaths of Indigenous women and girls as genocide", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2020-06-23", "year": "2020", "session": "43-1", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… t and yet nothing gets done. The Department of Global Affairs recently confirmed the Iranian regime has raised re-establishing consular relations between our countries. The previous Conservative government suspended relations with Iran in 2012 in response to Iran’s support of terrorism, widespread human rights abuses, anti-Semitic rhetoric and incitement to genocide. We learned yesterday that the Trudeau government has done absolutely nothing to help serve papers to Iranian officials in a class-action lawsuit brought in relation to January’s plane crash, as required by the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act. 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In October, the Anti-Racism Secretariat was established and Peter Flegel appointed the director. The secretariat is engaging with all levels of government, civil society, Indigenous peoples and diverse communities, addressing, among other things, anti-black, anti-Indigenous, and anti-Asian racism, as well as anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Its goal is to identify systemic barriers and gaps in federal policies, programs and services; kick-start new initiatives; and develop further areas for action. COVID-19 has impacted all segments of society. We also know that the pandemic has made racialized groups more vulnerable. To address this, t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 790, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/431/debates/027db_2020-06-25-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism", "islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "anti-racism secretariat's work described as addressing antisemitism and Islamophobia", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2020-10-27", "year": "2020", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Salma Ataullahjan", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… The software company Cision documented a 600% rise in hate speech using hashtags such as #banmuslims and #siegheil on social media in 2016. More recently, social media platforms have been used to spread Islamophobic disinformation, exacerbated by the pandemic, suggesting that Muslims are spreaders of COVID-19. Acts of anti-Semitism are also on the rise, with violent attacks against the Jewish community increasing by 27% across Canada in the last year, and 62.8% in Ontario alone. Condemning hate groups is important, but it needs to be followed with serious action. As Canadians, we should be able to visit our places of worship without any fear. Ch …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 498, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/005db_2020-10-27-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "cites rising anti-Semitic attacks and says condemning hate groups needs action", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2020-11-04", "year": "2020", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Stan Kutcher", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… Government of Canada is setting up internment camps for people who have COVID-19. To counter this falsehood, the Prime Minister and the federal Minister of Health had to speak out publicly against them. Senator Gold, remembering how pernicious and damaging conspiracy theories have been historically — for example, the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that helped bring down the Weimar Republic and unleashed horrors on innocent people — what is the Government of Canada doing to actively combat these dangerous threats? If steps are being taken, does the government know how effective those interventions are?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 206, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/009db_2020-11-04-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "cites anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of the Weimar era as a warning", "trigger": "a recent Carleton University study finding almost half of Canadians believe one or more COVID-19 conspiracy theories", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2020-12-08", "year": "2020", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Linda Frum", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ated with South Asia, where it was revered for millennia as a sign of good fortune and well-being. But unfortunately, this once benign symbol was appropriated by the Nazis and it is undeniable that today, because of its association with Hitler’s heinous regime, the swastika is a potent and enduring symbol of murderous anti-Semitism, hate and nihilism. Swastika Trail in Puslinch, Ontario, was named as such in 1922. If that was not prior to the Nazi adoption of the symbol, it was prior to it being associated with their heinous crimes. While we can conclude there was not necessarily any ill intent when the name was originally chosen, that it has en …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 408, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/017db_2020-12-08-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "calls swastika street name a symbol of murderous anti-Semitism, no party charged", "trigger": "the street named \"Swastika Trail\" in Puslinch, Ontario, and the court ruling upholding the municipality's refusal to rename it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "those who have gone out of their way to block an appropriate name change", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-03-16", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Linda Frum", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Senator Gold, on February 8 I asked you why the Trudeau government had not halted its funding of UNRWA, which had been distributing hateful and anti-Semitic educational material to its students. Three weeks before that, on January 22, Minister Gould responded to the revelations about UNRWA by stating that your government would be launching an investigation. She also pointed out that UNRWA had acknowledged its error and implemented corrective action. However, a report by t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 141, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/031db_2021-03-16-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "why the Trudeau government had not halted its funding of UNRWA", "act_why": "charges UNRWA with continuing to distribute hateful anti-Semitic material", "canada_role": "funding", "trigger": "\"a report by the NGO IMPACT found that UNRWA never stopped distributing the hateful material but simply removed it to a secure platform\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["institution", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "UNRWA, which had been distributing hateful and anti-Semitic educational material; the Trudeau government's funding", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2021-03-16", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Mobina S. B. Jaffer", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ess owners grow their business as we recover from the COVID-19 crisis. 85 projects, worth $15 million, have been selected through a call for proposals to support the ARAP’s objectives, which will help combat all forms of racism and discrimination, including anti-Black racism, anti-Asian racism, anti-Indigenous racism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia. On the global stage, Canada is recognized as being a pluralistic, inclusive and forward-thinking nation. While we have made great strides to combat racism, honourable senators, much work still needs to be done. We need to walk our talk. We need to remain committed to eliminating all forms of discrim …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 473, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/031db_2021-03-16-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["funding"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "term appears inside a quoted list of federal anti-racism programs from MP Fergus", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-05-25", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Linda Frum", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I give notice that, at the next sitting of the Senate, I will move: That the Senate unequivocally condemn the recent violent attacks against Jews in various cities in Canada, and elsewhere — a worrying indicator of the rise of anti-Semitism in this country — and call upon the Government of Canada to reaffirm its unwillingness to tolerate both anti-Semitism in general and, specifically, physical attacks against Jews, who the great Israeli statesman Abba Eban called “the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities”. QUESTION PERIOD Health COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 100, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/040db_2021-05-25-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "jury-week notice with a trailing agenda heading about attacks on Jews", "trigger": "notice of a motion calling on the government to designate a Jury Appreciation Week", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-05-25", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Wanda Elaine Thomas Bernard", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… rk can look back on these early years as a pivotal point for Filipino social workers and community workers in Canada. (1410) Honourable colleagues, in honour of Asian Heritage Month, please join me in recognizing and supporting the important work of the Filipino-Canadian Social and Community Worker Network. Thank you. Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 295, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/040db_2021-05-25-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "Filipino-Canadian tribute with only a trailing 'Anti-Semitism' agenda heading", "trigger": "Asian Heritage Month", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-05-27", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Ratna Omidvar", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… tirely with your sentiment. I think you expressed it in a very compelling way. I wrote down the term “hyper diversity.” I think it’s a very good term. I like that term because I think that’s where the country is. All Canadians have been shocked by some recent examples of racist behaviour — xenophobia, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. We’ve been touched by examples across the country, and all of us have endeavoured to do what we can to speak out against these circumstances. The kind of people, yourself being a terrific example, who are serving Canadians in this Senate now speak to this diversity. (1520) I’m obviously partisan to your friend and my …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 321, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/042db_2021-05-27-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "minister's reply in the exchange voices shock at anti-Semitism and pledges to speak out", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-17", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… till not been listed as a terrorist entity. Government leader, it’s been a while now that the Parliament of Canada has requested the government to list the IRGC. And the Trudeau government voted against our friend and ally Israel at the UN General Assembly and committed new funding for UNRWA, despite clear evidence of anti-Semitism. Government leader, one year ago, the Trudeau government sold out Canada’s principles and still lost. My question is simple: Was it worth it?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 142, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/051db_2021-06-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "committed new funding for UNRWA, despite clear evidence of anti-Semitism", "act_why": "charges the Trudeau government with funding UNRWA despite clear evidence of anti-Semitism", "canada_role": "funding", "trigger": "the anniversary of Canada's failed bid for a UN Security Council seat, the government's vote \"against our friend and ally Israel at the UN General Assembly\" and", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "institution"], "target_detail": "the Trudeau government ... committed new funding for UNRWA, despite clear evidence of anti-Semitism", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2021-06-23", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Linda Frum", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Senator Gold, what I just heard is that when Prime Minister Trudeau made the announcement that there would be a special envoy position on anti-Semitism and he appointed the Honourable Irwin Cotler, whom I respect deeply, there was no budget assigned to this position."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 44, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/054db_2021-06-23-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "reputation"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "restates the answer just given about the anti-Semitism envoy's budget", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "there was no budget assigned to this position - the special envoy on anti-Semitism", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-23", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Marc Gold", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… which I hope we will be debating and will pass next week, contains measures to help all Canadian families, businesses and the like. The government is proud and pleased to be able to provide this level of assistance to all Canadians. Privy Council Office Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 103, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/054db_2021-06-23-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "budget answer where the term appears only in the envoy's title heading", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-23", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Linda Frum", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Senator Gold, as we know, there has been a frightening rise in anti-Semitism in Canada, which is why it was good news for the Jewish community when, seven months ago, Prime Minister Trudeau established a special envoy position on anti-Semitism. I gave you advance notice of this question because I think it’s important to understand the government’s commitment on this issue. Senator Gold, can you tell us, what is the budget and size of the staff for the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, and when did that budget go into effect?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 95, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/054db_2021-06-23-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "reputation"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "calls the rise in anti-Semitism frightening while questioning envoy resourcing", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-06-23", "year": "2021", "session": "43-2", "parliament": "43", "speaker": "Marc Gold", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Thank you for your question, Senator Frum, and for the advance notice. The government is deeply troubled, as we all are or should be, with the rise of anti-Semitism in Canada. It is not always on the front pages, but colleagues should understand that hate crimes against the Jewish community remain at the top of the list year over year in this country. The government is very pleased and proud to have appointed the Honourable Irwin Cotler as Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism in November 2020. I’ve been advised, thanks again to your advance notice, of the following: The Special Envoy’s role as Canada’s head of delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance is supported by two deputy heads of delegation, one from Global Affairs Canada and one from Canadian Heritage. The Spec …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 259, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/432/debates/054db_2021-06-23-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["projective", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies", "public service"], "act_why": "says the government is deeply troubled by rising anti-Semitism and hate crimes against Jews", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2021-12-16", "year": "2021", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marc Gold", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Thank you for your question. The Government of Canada is very concerned, as are all Canadians, with the rise of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and other forms of unacceptable discrimination, prejudice and hatred in this country. (1500) To be clear, senator, what I said was that the Prime Minister has made it clear that he is keeping the door open to possibly intervening, if and when it is deemed appropriate. I want the record to be clear about that. With reg …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 177, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/013db_2021-12-16-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "government concerned by the rise of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia", "trigger": "the Chelsea, Quebec teacher removed from her classroom over her religious dress — \"no one should be denied the right to work simply because of what they wear\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-02-22", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Kim Pate", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… to understand the feelings and real concerns expressed by many ordinary people from across the country who are struggling to get by. The government knew that protesters were coming to Ottawa, yet no attempt was made to intercept or address the issues being raised. While we certainly saw instances of extremism, racism, anti-Semitism and misogyny here on the Hill, should we really be calling all who oppose vaccine mandates racist and misogynists instead of trying to meaningfully understand and address underlying fears, anxiety and frustration? CBC recently reported the story of a man from Saskatchewan, a farmer and father of two, who took part in …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1936, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/019db_2022-02-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["solidarity"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "acknowledges instances of anti-Semitism while urging dialogue", "trigger": "the Senate motion to confirm the Emergencies Act declaration", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"White supremacist, populist, racist, xenophobic discriminatory objectives filled the hearts and minds of key organizers\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-02-22", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marc Gold", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… y and its residents. There was evidence of destructive, racist and violent behaviour. Small businesses endured illegal obstruction of their neighbourhoods and harassment of their patrons and staff. The convoy’s rhetoric was toxic, dangerous and at times hateful. Swastikas, Confederate flags and other odious symbols of anti-Semitism and White supremacy are disgraceful and unacceptable, yet they also played a role. The calls to topple our democratically elected government and its institutions by relying upon a show of force in our nation’s capital was evident and encouraged by the extremist entities. There were incidents of threats, an attempt to …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 7458, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/019db_2022-02-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "government motion speech on the public order emergency", "trigger": "the motion \"That, pursuant to section 58 of the Emergencies Act, the Senate confirm the declaration of a public order emergency proclaimed on February 14, 2022\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-02-22", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marilou McPhedran", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… at the beginning, the trucks were not able to get to Parliament Hill. The police had blocked and stopped them. They were able to create tremendous disruption. They honked non-stop day and night, and people were able to get close. And we know that some of those people exhibited horrible, ugly demonstrations of racism, anti-Semitism, sexism — you name the form of discrimination; it was all on display. But the trucks could not get to Parliament Hill at that early stage, and that was January 29. So I have to reinforce my question: Do we need these extreme measures now? (1350)"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 199, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/019db_2022-02-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "act_why": "recounts ugly demonstrations of anti-Semitism while questioning the measures", "trigger": "the Emergencies Act measures — \"Do we need now these extreme measures?\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"some of those people exhibited horrible, ugly demonstrations of racism, anti-Semitism, sexism\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-02-22", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Paula Simons", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… te supremacists in the late 1980s back when Terry Long and Aryan Nations were burning crosses in Provost and when the Ku Klux Klan tried to blow up the Jewish Community Centre in Calgary. Much more recently, I covered the death of Daniel Woodall, a brave officer with the Edmonton police hate crime unit, murdered by an anti-Semitic hate-monger linked to the Freemen on the Land movement. Last week’s arrests shouldn’t have shocked anyone, at least not anyone who had been paying attention. Far-right hate groups have been on the rise in Canada since 2016, first turbo charged by imported American right-wing rhetoric, incited further by the delusional …", "… stract, delude and troll us. This was not a street party nor a festival; it was not Canada Day — people waving Confederate flags, symbols of slavery and racist oppression, all the while mouthing slogans about freedom; people screaming about free speech while they attacked journalists in the street over and over again; anti-Semites with the grotesque audacity to desecrate our Canadian flag with swastikas and to then pin yellow stars to their chests and equate the inconvenience of wearing a mask with the horrors of the Holocaust; homophobes and transphobes waving nasty signs, vandalizing in the most grotesque ways homes that dared to display prid …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2050, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/019db_2022-02-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "charge_quote": "anti-Semites with the grotesque audacity to desecrate our Canadian flag with swastikas", "act_why": "charges named far-right groups and organizers with anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the Emergencies Act debate, opening with the RCMP arrest of \"13 members of a blockade\" at Coutts", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["protest movement", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "\"anti-Semites with the grotesque audacity to desecrate our Canadian flag with swastikas\"; \"endorsed and condoned and even cheered on by some Canadian politicians\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-02-23", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Terry M. Mercer", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… of citizens in times of emergency. Honourable senators, I believe the convoy started as a statement of protest — that people are indeed tired of restrictions and want them lifted. But that statement was silenced early in the siege of the capital. It gave way to a louder voice — a voice of lawlessness, rage, racism and anti-Semitism. It attracted much attention, goaded on by fake news and false social media information. The fringe had arrived in Ottawa, and they were not leaving come hell or high water. It got worse as time went on. What emerged was a mob of loud, horn-honking partiers with their hot tubs, bouncy castles and pig roasts. It turned …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1297, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/020db_2022-02-23-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "market"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "It gave way to a louder voice — a voice of lawlessness, rage, racism and anti-Semitism", "act_why": "says the convoy gave way to a voice of racism and anti-Semitism", "trigger": "\"The Emergencies Act, the implementation of which we are debating here today\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"a voice of lawlessness, rage, racism and anti-Semitism\" in the convoy", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-03-23", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Victor Oh", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ou worship wearing a hijab, kippah, dastar or nothing at all, you must never live in fear because of your faith. Our fellow Canadians deserve better. We must do better. From coast to coast to coast, let us stand up as one Team Canada, just as we do to cheer on our Olympians, united in our condemnation of Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-Black, anti-Indigenous and anti-Asian racism and all stripes of hate in Canada. Thank you. Shukran . Some Hon. Senators: Hear, hear. S.H.A.R.E. Agriculture Foundation"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 284, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/027db_2022-03-23-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["solidarity", "leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "calls for united condemnation of anti-Semitism and all hate", "trigger": "\"a senseless attack on our Muslim community...at the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre during their morning prayer\" in Mississauga", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-05-03", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marc Gold", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… hink I can speak with some authority that the Government of Canada, the Jewish community and Canada and Israel have longstanding, fruitful, friendly and mutually beneficial relationships. I can also speak with some confidence, given my own past before I arrived here, that the Government of Canada takes the question of anti-Semitism and all forms of hate very seriously, and it has demonstrated that through its actions. Again, I cannot comment on a specific case or what steps may or may not be taken to investigate or to determine the steps that may be taken with this or any other individual, but Canadians should remain satisfied that this governme …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 124, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/038db_2022-05-03-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "government leader affirms the government takes anti-Semitism seriously; no target charged", "trigger": "the presence in Canada of Khaled Barakat, a PFLP figure who has published articles calling for attacks on 'Zionist targets'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2022-05-03", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… rist organization. While in Canada, Barakat has published articles in which he calls for targeted terrorist attacks to be carried out against Israel and other Zionist targets beyond the Middle East. Senator Gold, how is the Jewish community in Canada supposed to take your government’s claim to be committed to fighting anti-Semitism seriously if it allows this man to remain in Canada? Will your government do the right thing and order Barakat out of Canada? It’s not right. We have laws. Individuals of this nature should not be admitted into our country."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 152, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/038db_2022-05-03-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["border"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "charge_quote": "how is the Jewish community in Canada supposed to take your government’s claim to be committed to fighting anti-Semitism seriously if it allows this man to remain in Canada?", "act_why": "charges the named government with hollow anti-Semitism commitments for letting Barakat remain", "trigger": "Khaled Barakat living in Canada and publishing articles calling for 'targeted terrorist attacks to be carried out against Israel and other Zionist targets'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "the government, for allowing Khaled Barakat to remain in Canada; Barakat himself", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2022-05-03", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "Acting Deputy Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, my question is for the government leader in the Senate. Senator Gold, last week, Terry Glavin wrote at great length in the National Post about Khaled Barakat, a senior member of the anti-Semitic terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Mr. Glavin goes into great detail about the activities of the PFLP, including airplane hijacking, suicide bombings and a 2014 massacre at a Jerusalem synagogue that left several worshippers severely injured and five dead, including Toronto-born Rabbi Howie …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 177, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/038db_2022-05-03-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "the Trudeau government still allows this individual to remain in Canada", "act_why": "names the PFLP an anti-Semitic terrorist group and blames the Trudeau government for tolerating its leader", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "Terry Glavin's National Post article 'last week' on Khaled Barakat of the PFLP splitting his time between Vancouver and Montreal", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "Khaled Barakat and the PFLP; the Trudeau government for allowing him to remain", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2022-06-14", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Paula Simons", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I rise today to speak to Bill C-19, the budget implementation act, but specifically to one small section, one that adds a new crime to the Criminal Code. Bill C-19 creates a new offence to prohibit the communication of statements, other than in private conversation, that willfully promote anti-Semitism “by condoning, denying or downplaying the Holocaust.” This new crime would be punishable by up to two years in prison. I should explain that the Holocaust loomed large in my childhood imagination, growing up in Edmonton in the 1970s. My father’s family was one of the very few in Alberta who succeeded in sponsoring some relatives who were able to escape Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938, just weeks before Kristallnacht. Mackenzie King was a polite anti-Semite and his government’s attitude towards Jewish refugees was “none is too many,” yet my father’s mother’s cousin Luba was somehow able to win the support of her MP from Vegreville, who, according to family lore, fought for a special order-in-council for visas to allow my grandmother’s first cousin Rosa, her husband Hans …", "… ld get, from When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit to William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of Adolph Hitler . I knew the German people hadn’t been monsters, that they’d been ordinary people like my own beloved aunts and uncles. Yet, millions of ordinary Germans had been corrupted, seduced and intoxicated by the toxic lure of anti-Semitism to the point where they were willing to look the other way or even enthusiastically participate as their Jewish friends and neighbours and relations were rounded up, arrested and massacred. I looked a lot like Anne Frank. At the age of 8 I had to ask myself: Would the day ever come that my nice ordinary Canadian neigh …", "… est‑documented, well-researched atrocities in modern history. Anyone who questions or denies or diminishes its full horrors is not engaging in authentic, intellectual debate; they are spreading hate. Holocaust deniers are hatemongers. There is no way to question the reality of the Holocaust that is not, by definition, anti-Semitic. Downplaying the Shoah is every bit as morally vile. When people who oppose masking rules pin yellow stars to their chests or dare to compare vaccine mandates to the Nazi war crimes prosecuted at Nuremberg, their facile appropriation of the horror of the Holocaust dishonours the memory of all those who died and all who survived. Yet, my friends, today I rise in this chamber to oppose Bill C-19’s efforts to criminalize the denial or downplaying of the Holocaust. Attaching criminal sanctions to such statements and actions won’t reduce anti-Semitism. It will, however, give neo-Nazis and racists a platform to play the martyr, to wrap themselves in the rhetoric of free speech and to claim the public spotlight as faux defenders of intellectual freedom. Is this funny? I don’t think this is funny. Maybe you could stop laughing. How do I know this will not work? Forty …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2180, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/053db_2022-06-14-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses", "academics"], "act_why": "denounces Holocaust denial as inherently anti-Semitic while opposing the criminal remedy", "trigger": "Bill C-19's new Criminal Code offence prohibiting statements that wilfully promote anti-Semitism 'by condoning, denying or downplaying the Holocaust'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "Jim Keegstra, his lawyer Doug Christie, Mackenzie King as 'a polite anti-Semite'; anti-mask protesters who pin yellow stars", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-06-14", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Ratna Omidvar", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… They include Bill C-241 by Conservative MP Chris Lewis, which sought to amend the Income Tax Act for travel expenses for tradespersons. We have heard Senator Moncion comment on this. The second is Bill C-250 by Conservative MP Kevin Waugh, who would amend the Criminal Code to provide a prohibition on the promotion of anti-Semitism. We have just heard Senator Simons on this. The third and fourth measures reflect proposals that I tabled here in the Senate which were debated, studied and approved by this chamber. I also want to thank Senator Wetston and his contribution to the BIA in terms of the Canadian Competition Act, which has already been no …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2096, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/053db_2022-06-14-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "describes Bill C-250's prohibition on promoting anti-Semitism as a legislative history item", "trigger": "the budget implementation act (Bill C-19), including the Bill C-250 Holocaust-denial provision folded into it", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-06-14", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Paula Simons", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… namely, that they were poisoning the well. Perhaps that’s why it came to my mind so flippantly. In truth, until we as a society are willing to confront what we are doing, not much will change. Honourable senators, how is it possible that, in Canada, in 2022, we have mainstream politicians trafficking in the tropes of anti-Semitism? What are we doing to call it out? What are we doing to say, “I read The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler when I was 10 years old. I know how this story goes.” It is incumbent on each and every one of us in this chamber to ask ourselves whom we are supporting. To whom are we donating? What causes are we countenancing? Wh …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 439, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/053db_2022-06-14-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "inspired"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "alarm that politicians traffic in anti-Semitic tropes, but no identifiable target named", "trigger": "Bill C-19's criminalization of Holocaust denial, debated in the Senate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent", "online platform"], "target_detail": "'mainstream politicians trafficking in the tropes of anti-Semitism'; YouTube, Facebook, Google and their algorithms", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-06-14", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Paula Simons", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… t to provide more funding for facilities, for museums and such that recognize the history of the Holocaust. We don’t have a lot of time left to get oral histories from the survivors and to capture their memories on video and audio. As horrible as the Holocaust was, in time, it will retreat into history. Unfortunately, anti-Semitism has not been forgotten. During the last two years of COVID, in particular, it has accelerated and it has come back — not from the dead, but like a zombie. Holocaust denialism is as real now as it was 50 years ago. It is absolutely essential, first, that we record and remember those who suffered while they are still he …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 267, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/053db_2022-06-14-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["commemoration", "funding"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "warns that anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial have accelerated", "canada_role": "commemorating", "trigger": "Bill C-19's provisions funding Holocaust museums and criminalizing Holocaust denial", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-06-22", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Éric Forest", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… tant bill. We have criticized the use of omnibus bills to pass measures that have nothing to do with the budget many times in the past. For example, as the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs indicated, it is appalling that the government is including amendments to the Criminal Code to tackle antisemitism in a massive budget implementation bill. Honourable senators, let me be clear. I think we need to pass Bill C-19 in order to help pensioners, the unemployed, students, workers, and, generally, Canadians. However, I do not want this support to be interpreted as condoning the actions of the government that unfortunately …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 990, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/058db_2022-06-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "objects to the omnibus vehicle for the antisemitism Criminal Code amendment, not to the aim", "trigger": "Bill C-19, the budget implementation act, and its inclusion of 'amendments to the Criminal Code to tackle antisemitism in a massive budget implementation bill'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-17", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Senator Gold, earlier this month, the Minister of Diversity and Inclusion, Ahmed Hussen, told Parliament that he had been alerted to the anti-Semitic tweets of Laith Marouf, a consultant hired by your government, a month before he even acknowledged the situation publicly. MP Hussen characterized the delay as a matter of procedure, saying it took time to consult with the legal department to cut off funding for Mr. Marouf. Leader, even if that were the case and the m …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 144, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/069db_2022-10-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "Why did your government wait an entire month until mounting media reports and public pressure forced you to finally say something?", "act_why": "charges the government with a month of silence on its consultant's anti-Semitic tweets", "trigger": "'the anti-Semitic tweets of Laith Marouf, a consultant hired by your government', and the month-long delay before the minister spoke publicly", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "the government and Minister Hussen, for a month of silence; Laith Marouf's anti-Semitic tweets", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-10-18", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… xpayer funds. This story became outrageous when we learned the minister knew about the situation for more than a month prior to doing anything, but now it’s hit a new level. The Prime Minister’s office — the highest office in the land — was aware of this, and it also took them more than a month to publicly condemn the anti-Semitic tweets of Laith Marouf, after being informed of the situation. I can’t even understand the rationale here. Were there hopes that the comments of xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism would simply disappear out of nowhere? The Trudeau government has lost its way, leader. Canadians deserve better leadership than this. What is even more bonkers is the fact that the Prime Minister himself said the government had acted quickly. My question to you, Senator Gold, is a simple one: Do you believe that taki …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 230, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/070db_2022-10-18-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "the Prime Minister’s office — along with Minister Hussen — sat on its hands for over a month", "act_why": "charges the PMO and Minister Hussen with taking a month to condemn anti-Semitic tweets", "trigger": "the Prime Minister's Office taking more than a month to condemn 'the anti-Semitic tweets of Laith Marouf'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "the Prime Minister's Office and Minister Hussen, who took over a month to condemn; Laith Marouf's anti-Semitic tweets", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-12-06", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marc Gold", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["The minister did not knowingly associate with known anti-Semites. I am choosing my words very carefully, Senator Housakos. You know who I am and my background. I think that we should be careful, especially when leaders of all parties came together just yesterday to light the Hanukia, or Hanukkah menorah, and express solidarity for the actions that we all need to take against anti-Semitism and all forms of hate when all political leaders, including your own, spoke movingly and passionately about the need to make this a non-partisan issue. On that, I will conclude my answer. 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As I said, Senator Gold, this is not the first time that Liberals and Trudeau cabinet ministers of this government have been found sharing the stage with anti‑Semites and terrorist sympathizers. My question to you, government leader, is the following: If you were allowed to participate in the national caucus of the governing party — which you should, given the fact that you are the government leader and represent the government in this chamber — would you advise the national Liberal governing caucus to stay away from well-known anti-Semites and terrorist sympathizers?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 115, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/088db_2022-12-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "this is not the first time that Liberals and Trudeau cabinet ministers of this government have been found sharing the stage with anti‑Semites and terrorist sympathizers", "act_why": "charges a named minister and Liberal ministers with sharing a stage with well-known anti-Semites", "trigger": "'the minister stood in a picture with him, knowing full well that this is a well-known anti-Semite'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "Liberals and Trudeau cabinet ministers \"sharing the stage with anti-Semites\"; \"a well-known anti-Semite\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-12-06", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["My question is for the Government Leader in the Senate. Last week, Minister Omar Alghabra attended a gathering hosted by the Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group. Among the guests was Nazih Khatatba, publisher of the Arabic language newspaper Meshwar Media . Mr. Khatatba is a dangerous anti-Semite, Holocaust-denier and terrorist sympathizer. His publication has referred to the Holocaust as a hoax and the biggest lie in history. Minister Alghabra refused to apologize for standing with Mr. Khatatba at that event. This is not the first time that Liberal MPs and ministers have been caught attending events with such anti-Semite, terrorist sympathizers. They always express regret at being caught, but these unsavoury characters continue to show up at the same events as Liberal cabinet ministers. Senator Gold, do you think that Minister Alghabra should apologize for having attended this event with Mr. Khatatba?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 141, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/088db_2022-12-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "industrial"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "question on small business and recession; no use of the term in the captured text", "trigger": "'Last week the Senate Banking Committee heard from Kevin Page, the former Parliamentary Budget Officer, who told the committee that an expected winter recession", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2022-12-06", "year": "2022", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marc Gold", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Thank you for your question. This government condemns anti-Semitism and offensive, abusive language and actions in all of its forms. It knows this behaviour must be called out. As senators would know, the event that the Minister of Transport attended was a parliamentary friendship group event that included MPs and members of the Palestinian community. The invitation — and this is a ma …", "… ndee — are completely unacceptable. (1450) The government wants to assure all Canadians that the views that that person expresses are completely unacceptable and not what this government stands for. The government is committed to continuing to call out this kind of behaviour, condemn all forms of hate and all forms of anti-Semitism in our country."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 199, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/088db_2022-12-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "government condemns antisemitism and calls the attendee's views unacceptable while explaining the minister's non-contact", "trigger": "'the event that the Minister of Transport attended was a parliamentary friendship group event'; the attendee's conduct 'completely unacceptable'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "\"this particular individual — not the minister, but the attendee\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-02-02", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Andrew Cardozo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… you really clarified it in my mind. On the one hand, I think that you are seeing the algorithms as being as innocent as the driven snow and a government body appointed by an elected government as being the devil incarnate. I have a slightly different view of algorithms. We have heard about enormous hate, misogyny and anti-Semitism that has been promoted and received a high degree of attention through these algorithms. Controversy drives algorithms."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 106, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/096db_2023-02-02-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["platform regulation"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "points to hate, misogyny and antisemitism promoted by platform algorithms", "trigger": "Debate on the broadcasting bill and its treatment of platform algorithms: 'you are seeing the algorithms as being as innocent as the driven snow'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["online platform"], "target_detail": "the algorithms through which \"hate, misogyny and anti-Semitism\" have been promoted", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-04-25", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… enator Gold and his predecessor Senator Harder say it in media interviews and in this very chamber that they are not affiliated with any political party. Just one example comes from Senator Gold at exactly 2:45 p.m. on June 15, 2021, when being questioned about a former Green Party member, who had espoused some pretty anti-Semitic views, crossing the floor and being welcomed to the Liberal government caucus. Senator Gold, you responded by saying: At the risk of being pedantic, I represent the government in the Senate. I’m not a member of the Liberal Party. As for the decision of the party to accept that member and under what circumstances, thos …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2913, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/115db_2023-04-25-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "who had espoused some pretty anti-Semitic views, crossing the floor and being welcomed to the Liberal government caucus", "act_why": "charges an identifiable former Green member with antisemitic views and the Liberals with welcoming her into caucus", "trigger": "The government's resort to time allocation and the Senate Rules governing it (rules 7-1(1) and 7-2(1))", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "\"a former Green Party member, who had espoused some pretty anti-Semitic views\"; the Liberal caucus that welcomed her", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-04-27", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Claude Carignan", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… lown through, and cars were thrown onto the roads. The blast damaged storefronts up to 140 metres away and left four people dead and 45 injured. It was the first attack against the Jewish community in France since the Second World War. Senator Gold, as I’m sure you know, this was a heinous crime, a massacre fuelled by anti-Semitism and a desire to strike at the heart of the Jewish community in France. On April 21, 2023, the Special Assize Court of Paris sentenced a Canadian, Hassan Diab, to the maximum punishment and issued a warrant for his arrest. This conviction came after three weeks of debates, eight hours of deliberations and over 43 years of painstaking investigations. Hassan Diab is enjoying life as a free man here in Canada, in Ottawa, and continues to teach as a lecturer at universities here in Ottawa. Senator Gold, will the federal government agree to France’s request to extradite Hassan Diab? Can the families, the victims of the anti-Semitic attack in Rue Copernic, count on your government, or will it be more inclined to protect the criminal, as usual, than to face the victims and offer them comfort? 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Women were assaulted, raped and then paraded around as trophies. In total, more than 1,300 civilians were slaughtered. This, colleagues, is the true face of Hamas, an anti-Semitic, Islamic jihadist group dedicated to the annihilation of the Jewish people and destruction of the Jewish state. This is the work of evil and sadistic men without a conscience, who take pleasure in the most barbaric acts imaginable and then celebrate them. But while I was horrified to see the bloody carnage left by the …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 422, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/148db_2023-10-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "This, colleagues, is the true face of Hamas, an anti-Semitic, Islamic jihadist group", "act_why": "calls Hamas by name an antisemitic jihadist group bent on annihilating Jews", "trigger": "the Hamas assault of October 7 — \"Hamas entered 22 communities... more than 1,300 civilians were slaughtered\" — and demonstrations in Canadian cities celebratin", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["institution", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "Hamas, an anti-Semitic, Islamic jihadist group dedicated to the annihilation of the Jewish people; pro-Palestinian demonstrations celebrating the massacre", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2023-10-17", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Leader, in 2020, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center alerted the Privy Council Office, or PCO, about wild anti-Semitic comments made online by one of the Privy Council’s senior analysts. In response, the PCO simply shuffled the staffer into another role, this time with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Last week, Senator Gold, we learned that same staffer is under investigation yet again for anti-Semitic comments he made after the vicious Hamas terror attack on Israel. The PCO is the Prime Minister’s own department, Senator Gold. Why weren’t those comments taken seriously three years ago, and why should we believe they will be taken seriously now?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 116, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/148db_2023-10-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "charge_quote": "Why weren’t those comments taken seriously three years ago, and why should we believe they will be taken seriously now?", "act_why": "charges the Privy Council Office with shielding a staffer's antisemitic comments", "trigger": "\"wild anti-Semitic comments made online by one of the Privy Council's senior analysts\" in 2020, and the same staffer's comments after the Hamas attack now under", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "one of the Privy Council's senior analysts; the PCO is the Prime Minister's own department", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2023-10-17", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, today, as Jewish people from across Canada and around the world are gathering here in Ottawa for an anti-Semitism conference, I feel compelled to talk about what that will mean as Israel increases its military action in Gaza. This conference was scheduled long before the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel that saw men, women and children of all ages murdered, raped and paraded through the streets as trophies; babies beheaded and set ablaze; and 200 Israelis taken and who remain hostage. October 7 wasn’t an act of war or resistance. It was an act of cowardice and depravity. It was an act of terror and pathological Jew hatred, full stop. The first and sole objective of Hamas is the destruction of the state of Israel and the Jewish people. That’s what they mean when they say, “From the river to the sea . . . .” It’s not a rallying cry for freedom and certainly not for peace. Hamas has no interest in peace. When we say that Israel has a righ …", "… vice unions or Canadians marching shamefully in the streets in pro-Hamas rallies. We’ve heard people at these rallies claiming that Hamas is not a terrorist group and that any violence they commit is justified in pursuit of a free Palestine. I don’t know how that can be characterized as anything other than hateful and anti-Semitic. Saying such things should be covered under our hate speech laws. If such laws don’t apply to the glorification of murdering babies and parading the bodies of dead women through the streets, to what do they apply? If the October 7 attacks and the subsequent pro-Hamas rallies and anti-Israeli rhetoric being espoused by politicians and senior bureaucrats have shown us anything, it’s that — more than ever — we must recognize that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. We must face it and we must fight it. Never again means never again. Thank you. 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The expression of hatred, whether anti-Semitic or otherwise, is unacceptable. I have confidence that the PCO and other institutions, both in government and outside, take seriously the harms that such comments cause. I only regret that today and during this time it seems somehow acceptable in this chamber to use these issues, which are so painful to so many people, …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 112, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/148db_2023-10-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "calls expressions of antisemitic hatred unacceptable while regretting partisan use", "trigger": "the anti-Semitic comments made online by a Privy Council Office analyst, raised in Senator Plett's question", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-10-17", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Paula Simons", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… atanic panic” child abuse scare in the 1980s. It’s the same language used at Salem, or when medieval peasants worried that their children were going to be stolen by the Roma or the “fair folk.” And it’s language that anyone of Jewish descent should recognize with a shudder — because it is the precise vocabulary of the anti-semitic blood libel, the thousand-year-old canard that Jews kidnap Gentile children to use their blood in religious rituals. In no week more than this week should that shock and horrify us. No wonder the Anti-Defamation League in the United States has documented evidence of anti-trans hate campaigns that explicitly link the t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1323, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/148db_2023-10-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "traces anti-trans panic to the antisemitic blood libel and denounces hatemongers", "trigger": "anti-trans protests in Canadian streets — \"protesters are tearing down and stomping on rainbow flags\" — and premiers' pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding cla", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "anti-trans protesters and their allies; certain provincial premiers", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-10-17", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Salma Ataullahjan", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… remind my colleagues that Israelis and Palestinians both have fundamental human rights that must be respected and protected; to say this is not and should not be controversial. With reports of city officials in Markham, Ontario, attempting to secretly end Islamic Heritage Month, we must also guard against the surge of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia here at home as a response to the global events. Yesterday, a man in Michigan was arrested after attempting to find others to help him “hunt Palestinians.” I ask my colleagues today to join me in combatting this rising tide of hate and calling for a ceasefire. There must be an end to hostilities and t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 380, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/148db_2023-10-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["foreign policy", "solidarity"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "urges guarding against the surge of antisemitism and Islamophobia at home", "trigger": "the murder of six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume in Chicago, stabbed 26 times, and the deaths in Israel and Gaza over the previous week", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2023-10-17", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Senators", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Hear, hear! Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 3, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/148db_2023-10-17-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2023-10-26", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… y practise their religion, whether at a mosque, synagogue, temple, cathedral or church. We remember an unimaginable act of evil committed at a mosque in Quebec City in 2017; two years ago, churches across Canada were burned down; and in Toronto on the weekend, a Jewish-owned restaurant was targeted by a large group of anti-Semitic protesters. Now, leader, there are reports that Canadians will not hear prayers for the fallen during Remembrance Day ceremonies. Why is the Trudeau government doing this, leader?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 97, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/153db_2023-10-26-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["domestic", "reputation"], "response": ["commemoration"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "reports a Jewish restaurant targeted by antisemitic protesters with disapproval", "trigger": "\"reports that Canadians will not hear prayers for the fallen during Remembrance Day ceremonies\" (with a Toronto Jewish-owned restaurant targeted by anti-Semitic", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement"], "target_detail": "a Jewish-owned restaurant was targeted by a large group of anti-Semitic protesters", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-21", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… dians during this terrible moment in our history. Twice last week, the Prime Minister threw blame on Israel for the war with Hamas. Both Israel’s prime minister and their leader of the opposition condemned his accusations. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs said that Prime Minister Trudeau’s rhetoric is fuelling anti-Semitism here in Canada. 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Public Safety Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 10, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/160db_2023-11-21-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2023-11-28", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… . This latest attack occurred at the Jewish Community Council of Montreal just after midnight on Monday. Thankfully, no one was present at the time, and damage is said to be minimal. This is just the latest attack targeting the Jewish community in Montreal following several shootings a couple of weeks ago. The rise in anti-Semitism in my hometown and, indeed, across Canada and around the world is frightening, and the repeated violence and attacks on the Jewish community are despicable and indefensible. We must all join our voices together in condemnation of these acts. Otherwise, we must recognize that in remaining silent or, as some parliamenta …", "… on Jews in Canada and around the world. Words matter, as so many of you have pointed out on so many occasions. We are sending a similar message of tacit approval when the authorities in this country allow calls for intifada and chants of “Death to Jews” on our streets to go unchecked. Colleagues, if anti-Zionism isn’t anti-Semitism, then why are Jewish businesses, Jewish community centres, Jewish schools being attacked in response to the war between Israel and Hamas? It must end. I hope all of you agree with me that when we say that everyone deserves to feel safe, especially in their homes and in their work, that also includes Jewish people. All …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 284, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/163db_2023-11-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech", "criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls attacks on Jewish institutions despicable and the rise in anti-Semitism frightening", "trigger": "a Jewish community centre in my hometown of Montreal has come under violent attack, this time with a Molotov cocktail", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "parliamentarians delegitimizing Israel's right to defend itself; calls for intifada on our streets", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2023-11-28", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… d co-workers of the Honourable Hugh Segal, on behalf of all senators, I express my sincere condolences and share my deepest sympathies with you during this difficult time. Honourable senators, I would ask that you all rise and join me in a minute of silence. ( Honourable senators then stood in silent tribute. ) (1430) Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 63, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/163db_2023-11-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2023-11-29", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Leader, again, there is no ministerial accountability under the Trudeau government — none. Minister Rodriguez said he learned his former department hired a well-known bigot and anti-Semite as an anti-racism consultant when he saw it in the news on August 22, 2022. Emails recently provided to The Globe and Mail show that between August 17 and 19, Minister Rodriguez’s personal parliamentary account was included in a series of messages between some of his fellow Liberal MPs, his cabinet colleague Minister Hussen, and even his own chief of staff. The subject line was “Laith Marouf and antisemitic hate speech.” Leader, how are Canadians supposed to square this new information with what the minister claimed earlier this year?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 116, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/164db_2023-11-29-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "there is no ministerial accountability under the Trudeau government — none", "act_why": "charges Minister Rodriguez with concealing what he knew about funding a well-known anti-Semite", "trigger": "Emails recently provided to The Globe and Mail ... subject line was 'Laith Marouf and antisemitic hate speech'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "Minister Rodriguez and the Trudeau government; Laith Marouf", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-29", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marc Gold", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… e standards, and sometimes the interpretations of those standards don’t always jibe with what ultimately is resolved. But once again, we have every right to expect our government and holders of public office, whether here or in the other place, to comply with those standards to which we are properly subject. 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No one was fired for giving a well-known anti-Semite $133,000 from Canadian taxpayers. No one was reprimanded. As of this past May, none of the money was recouped. Now we learn Minister Rodriguez was sent emails that indicate he knew about this fiasco for at least five days before he admits he did. Where is the ministerial accountability here, leader?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 79, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/164db_2023-11-29-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "No one was fired for giving a well-known anti-Semite $133,000 from Canadian taxpayers. No one was reprimanded.", "act_why": "charges the government and Minister Rodriguez with paying and shielding a known anti-Semite", "trigger": "giving a well-known anti-Semite $133,000 from Canadian taxpayers", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "the minister and government; a well-known anti-Semite", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-11-30", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… oblem taking that statutory holiday even if they don’t believe in Christmas. Leader, do you agree with me that the Canadian Human Rights Commission should have more important things to do than denigrate Christmas and waste $39 million of your, my and taxpayers’ money? Should it focus on combatting the shocking rise of anti-Semitism across Canada? Should it focus on Indigenous communities that still don’t have access to clean drinking water? Should it focus on the rights of Canadians who are targeted here in Canada by the dictatorial regimes of Iran and Beijing?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 97, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/165db_2023-11-30-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["market", "civic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "calls the rise of anti-Semitism shocking and says the commission should fight it", "trigger": "the Canadian Human Rights Commission ... denigrate Christmas and waste $39 million [its published discussion paper on religious holidays]", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-12-06", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Welcome, minister. Almost a year and a half ago in August 2022, Canadians learned that a well-known racist and anti-Semite, Laith Marouf, was awarded a grant of well over $100,000 of taxpayers’ money to work as an anti-racism consultant. In fact, as Irwin Cotler, a Liberal, pointed out in October, this person is not only anti‑Jewish but anti-francophone and anti-Indigenous. Yet, minister, your government — the Trudeau government — funded …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 100, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/167db_2023-12-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "charge_quote": "Yet, minister, your government — the Trudeau government — funded him.", "act_why": "charges the Trudeau government with funding Laith Marouf, a named anti-Semite", "trigger": "Laith Marouf, was awarded a grant of well over $100,000 of taxpayers' money to work as an anti-racism consultant", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "the Trudeau government; Laith Marouf", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-12-06", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Pascale St-Onge, P.C., M.P., Minister of Canadian Heritage", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Thank you for your question. I think it’s a question that covers a very broad spectrum. In terms of the fight against racism, discrimination, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, yes, special representatives have been appointed. That is one aspect of the work that needs to be done, but this must be integrated into everything we do. That’s why the idea of fostering diversity within government organizations and fighting all forms of discrimination really needs to be a priority …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 147, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/167db_2023-12-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "minister affirms fighting anti-Semitism and discrimination as a government priority", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-12-06", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… nisters is that when they change roles, they can say something wasn’t their responsibility. You are right; it wasn’t in your ministry. I agree with that. However, minister, can you tell us why it took your government this long or why, in fact, they have not yet reprimanded anyone for giving roughly $123,000 to a known anti-Semite? Why wasn’t anyone fired over this? What are the specific steps being taken to ensure this never happens again? This, minister, is under your mandate. [ Translation ] Ms. St-Onge: As I said before, significant steps have been taken by the department to make sure that situations like this one never happen again. When w …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 191, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/167db_2023-12-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["other"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "why, in fact, they have not yet reprimanded anyone for giving roughly $123,000 to a known anti-Semite", "act_why": "charges the government with paying a known anti-Semite and reprimanding no one", "trigger": "giving roughly $123,000 to a known anti-Semite", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "individual"], "target_detail": "your government; a known anti-Semite", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2023-12-06", "year": "2023", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Salma Ataullahjan", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ue in the country that has infiltrated every aspect of daily life. Canadian Muslim children are growing up with internalized Islamophobia, and young women in hijab are being harassed in public spaces. Minister, considering the rise in hate-related incidents since October 7, how do you intend to tackle Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in Canada besides appointing special representatives? 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These protesters jumped over barricades, climbing scaffolds, waving giant flags and yelling anti-Semitic slurs. They even harassed an employee trying to leave the hospital by stopping her car and demanding that she sound her horn in support of their protest. Despite a federal law in this country protecting against such actions at our hospitals, nobody — yet — from your government has condemned this action. When will the …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 162, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/178db_2024-02-13-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["criminal law", "leadership speech"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "reports protesters yelling anti-Semitic slurs at Mount Sinai Hospital with evident disapproval", "trigger": "Last night in Toronto, pro-Hamas protesters descended on Mount Sinai Hospital", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "pro-Hamas protesters at Mount Sinai Hospital; the government and Minister of Foreign Affairs", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2024-02-29", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… the question. Did the government recoup the money from the old scandal — the WE Charity scandal? The contract was cancelled, but money had been paid out. Has the money paid out in the scandalous WE Charity exercise been recouped back for Canadian taxpayers? In regard to the money that was paid out to Laith Marouf, the anti-Semite who was fired, was that money recouped by the government? I’d like an answer. My second question is the following: Last week, and over a number of weeks, you told us the three companies involved in “ArriveScam” had their contracts cancelled. Have those contracts been cancelled? Senator Gold, I know you’re a man of int …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 133, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/184db_2024-02-29-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "market"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "In regard to the money that was paid out to Laith Marouf, the anti-Semite who was fired, was that money recouped by the government?", "act_why": "labels Laith Marouf an anti-Semite and presses the government on money paid to him", "trigger": "the money that was paid out to Laith Marouf, the anti-Semite who was fired", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "Laith Marouf, the anti-Semite who was fired; the government", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-02-29", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I give notice that, at the next sitting of the Senate, I will move: That the Senate take note: (a) of the data from Statistics Canada and Jewish organizations such as the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center and B’nai Brith indicating a shocking rise in antisemitic incidents across Canada over the past years; (b) of a global surge in antisemitism, to which Canada has not been immune, since the October 7 th terrorist attack by Hamas and Israel’s duty to respond to it; (c) that since October 2023, Canada’s Jewish community has witnessed shots fired at its schools, arson attempts at its communal buildings, boycott efforts and vandalism targeting private businesse …", "… ntry all report major and unprecedented increases in hate crimes since October 2023, with the Jewish community being by far the most targeted; (e) that the Government of Canada has appointed Deborah Lyons, Canada’s former Ambassador to Israel, as the new Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism; (f) that the authority vested in the Special Envoy’s office permits her to be uniquely placed to convene and chair a second summit to combat antisemitism; and (g) that a second national summit to combat antisemitism would provide a valuable forum for stakeholders representing all levels of government, civil servants, law enforcement agencies, educators and community leaders to share information and agree on effective strategies to blunt the unprecedented wave of hate aimed at Jews; and That the Senate urge the Government of Canada to direct the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism to convene a second national summit to combat antisemitism. (1430) QUESTION PERIOD Public Safety National Microbiology Laboratory"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 302, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/184db_2024-02-29-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "police and security"], "act_why": "procedural notices only; no substantive use of the term, no stance taken", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-02-29", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, when shall this bill be read the second time? (On motion of Senator Martin, bill placed on the Orders of the Day for second reading two days hence.) The Senate Notice of Motion to Urge Government to Direct the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism to Convene a Second National Summit to Combat Antisemitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 59, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/184db_2024-02-29-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2024-03-19", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Claude Carignan", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… n Loblaws or Metro. Canada’s ports, airports and other infrastructure are falling into disrepair, but we’re going to focus on zoos. The government will be hard-pressed to keep the deficit to $40 billion and it will have to cut services, but fear not, there will be plenty of public servants to manage the 30 great apes. Anti-Semitic and Islamophobic acts are multiplying. The police are struggling to come up with structured interventions because of the contradictory messages from the Liberal government, but we can be confident that the orders will be clear when it comes to taking action against zoo keepers. The government has plunged to an all-tim …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1736, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/185db_2024-03-19-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["industrial", "market"], "response": ["security"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "act_why": "notes multiplying anti-Semitic and Islamophobic acts while attacking the bill's priorities", "trigger": "Bill S-15 [elephants and great apes in the Criminal Code]", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Liberal government's contradictory messages", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-03-20", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marc Gold", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["That is not a proper characterization of what transpired over the days leading up to the vote in the House of Commons. Again, I know all senators will join me in bemoaning the violence that took place on October 7 and beyond, and hope and pray for peace. Public Safety Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 51, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/186db_2024-03-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "term appears only in the transcript rubric; reply bemoans October 7 violence", "trigger": "what transpired over the days leading up to the vote in the House of Commons [on the NDP Middle East motion]", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-03-20", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… e engaging in partisanship is your government. Senator Gold, moments ago, your own Minister of Canadian Heritage was asked about this despicable cartoon in the media scrum. Not only did she refuse to condemn it, but she actually said it was a matter of bad timing — amazing. Sorry, is there a good time for this kind of anti-Semitism, Senator Gold, in the eyes of your government? Is there a good time? Will the minister apologize for this, and will your government take responsibility for contributing to the kind of Jew-hatred going on in Canada?"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 97, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/186db_2024-03-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "Not only did she refuse to condemn it, but she actually said it was a matter of bad timing", "act_why": "charges the Heritage Minister and government with contributing to Jew-hatred by not condemning the cartoon", "trigger": "this despicable cartoon [published by La Presse] ... your own Minister of Canadian Heritage was asked about [it] in the media scrum", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["media", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "the despicable cartoon in La Presse; the Minister of Canadian Heritage and the government", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-03-20", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, this morning, mainstream newspaper La Presse exercised appalling judgment by publishing an anti-Semitic cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a manner reminiscent of those published in 1930s Germany about Jewish people. The fact that La Presse permitted the publication of this image, even though it clearly draws upon anti-Semitic tropes, such as “blood libel” — the idea peddled by Jew-haters that they murdered Christians in order to use their blood in rituals — is extraordinarily offensive to hundreds of thousands of Jewish Canadians and millions of Jews around the world. It is an insult to the memory of the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust. In fact, Nosferatu, the vampiric inspiration for this cartoon, was also a source of inspiration for Julius Streicher, the chief editor of Hitler’s anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer . Dozens of caricatures of vampire-like Jews appeared in the pages of that publication, stoking hatred toward Jews in Germany that would eventually lead to the Holocaust. Meanwhile, La Presse is following in their footsteps. The fact that this anti-Semitic trope was published in the first place reveals either gross ignorance or blatant anti-Semitism within the ranks of the media in this country. It also demonstrates the validation that many Canadians feel in expressing these views as a result of the actions of politicians in this country. The most recent example is the motion that was adopted on Monday night in other place, where a moral equivalency was once again drawn between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. It is even worse that this was published during a time when anti-Semitism is on the rise in our country. It is possible to criticize the Prime Minister of Israel without resorting to these disgusting caricatures. This, however, will only intensify the levels of hate that Jews have experienced in Canada since the October 7 massacre. I urge La Presse to apologize to the Jewish community in Ca …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 474, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/186db_2024-03-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "domestic"], "response": ["other", "leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "charge_quote": "mainstream newspaper La Presse exercised appalling judgment by publishing an anti-Semitic cartoon", "act_why": "charges La Presse by name with publishing an anti-Semitic blood-libel cartoon", "trigger": "this morning, mainstream newspaper La Presse ... publishing an anti-Semitic cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["media", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "La Presse; politicians who delegitimize Israel's right to defend itself", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-03-20", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ver, it signals to terrorist Hamas that they will be rewarded for future attacks like October 7 and the ongoing captivity of innocent people. Perhaps what is most egregious in the message is it was sent to people right here in Canada. We have seen the result of that with this morning’s publication of the worst kind of anti-Semitic trope in La Presse — the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 1930s, and which I never thought I would see here in our country. Senator Gold, does your government take any responsibility for the level of anti-Semitism that is being validated and unleashed in this country by creating an equivocation that somehow terrorist Hamas and democratic Israel are on the same footing?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 184, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/186db_2024-03-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "does your government take any responsibility for the level of anti-Semitism that is being validated and unleashed in this country", "act_why": "asks whether the government takes responsibility for the anti-Semitism its motion validated", "trigger": "it culminated on Monday night with a motion in the House of Commons that sends a terrible message", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "media"], "target_detail": "the Trudeau government and the House of Commons motion; La Presse", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-03-20", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Senators", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Hear, hear! Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 3, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/186db_2024-03-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2024-03-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Minister, we’ve all seen the picture of you holding hands with Mahmoud Abbas, an anti-Semite and Holocaust denier. He has also denied the horrific, evil acts of October 7 and created a fund that pays the families of terrorists who killed Jews — payments he says he will never stop. I heard your interview with CJN in which you said you accompanied Minister Joly to that meeting because you felt it was important …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 363, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/187db_2024-03-21-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "jurisdiction": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "charge_quote": "we’ve all seen the picture of you holding hands with Mahmoud Abbas, an anti-Semite and Holocaust denier", "act_why": "calls Mahmoud Abbas an anti-Semite and faults the minister for meeting him", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the photograph of Minister Saks holding hands with Mahmoud Abbas, and her vote for 'Monday night's motion'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "Mahmoud Abbas, an anti-Semite and Holocaust denier; the minister who was photographed holding hands with him", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-04-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… candals under Justin Trudeau. I won’t go through all of them; it would take weeks. I will only mention a few examples. First, there were the funds given to bigoted anti-racism consultants. Yes, you heard that correctly: Folks who pretend to be against racism, but it is only a facade. Laith Marouf, a well‑known violent anti-Semite, received $500,000 from the Trudeau government for his work on racism. That was not an isolated incident. The Community Media Advocacy Centre in Montreal also received grants, even though the organization regularly hosts anti-Semitic diatribes. Minister Omar Alghabra never explained how an anti-Semitic organization, which called the Holocaust a hoax and praised the killing of Jews, was invited to a Parliament Hill reception that he organized. There are others like this. It is not surprising, then, that the Liberals are selective about which racism needs to be combatted. They are funding a group called the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, which admits it will not deal with anti-Semitism from leftist groups because they focus on hate from the extreme right — no hate on the left. It is not just the consultants who can be anti-Semitic; the Liberals will also hire anti-Semites in ministers’ offices. A senior legal advisor to the Liberal Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations shared social media posts condoning Palestinian revolutionary violence and supporting Palestinian liberation through whatever means necessary. That person used a hashtag calling for the destruction of Israel. There is a …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 7725, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/189db_2024-04-09-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["funding"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "opposes", "act_why": "partisan appointments speech; the term falls outside the retrieved text", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-04-16", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": [", pursuant to notice of February 29, 2024, moved: That the Senate take note: (a) of the data from Statistics Canada and Jewish organizations such as the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center and B’nai Brith indicating a shocking rise in antisemitic incidents across Canada over the past years; (b) of a global surge in antisemitism, to which Canada has not been immune, since the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas and Israel’s duty to respond to it; (c) that since October 2023, Canada’s Jewish community has witnessed shots fired at its schools, arson attempts at its communal buildings, boycott efforts and vandalism targeting private businesses, …", "… ntry all report major and unprecedented increases in hate crimes since October 2023, with the Jewish community being by far the most targeted; (e) that the Government of Canada has appointed Deborah Lyons, Canada’s former Ambassador to Israel, as the new Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism; (f) that the authority vested in the Special Envoy’s office permits her to be uniquely placed to convene and chair a second national summit to combat antisemitism; and (g) that a second national summit to combat antisemitism would provide a valuable forum for stakeholders representing all levels of government, civil servants, law enforcement agencies, educators and community leaders to share information and agree on effective strategies to blunt the unprecedented wave of hate aimed at Jews; and That the Senate urge the Government of Canada to direct the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism to convene a second national summit to combat antisemitism. He said: Honourable senators, it has been more than six months since we witnessed the atrocities of Hamas’s attack on innocent Israelis on October 7, and the atrocities continue as more than 100 innocent Israeli men and women, young and old, remain held hostage by Hamas. Here in Canada, over the last six months, we have seen shocking headlines and social media posts reporting on an unprecedented surge in anti-Semitic incidents. There have been several incidents of shots being fired at Jewish schools and homes; arson attempts at Jewish community centres and businesses; hateful rallies, including on the doorsteps of synagogues, that have called for the destruction of Israel and death to Jews; and actual physical assaults on Jews, in …", "… ring out unimpeded. As a Canadian, I’m outraged. The full force of the law needs to be used against those who foment this kind of hate, and more of us here in Parliament need to speak out against it. No region of the country has been immune to the wave of hate toward Jews. Vancouver police have announced a 62% jump in anti-Semitic incidents in 2023. Toronto police reported a 53% increase in hate crimes in 2023, with early indications that 2024 will easily exceed those numbers. In recent documentation, Montreal police reported a whopping 39 hate crimes against Jews, 36 hate crimes against Jewish property and 56 hate incidents between October 7 and January 24 alone. These are police figures. (1620) A quick internet search reveals many incidents targeting Jews over the past six months right across Canada. Media reports say that anti-Semitic incidents increased more than twofold in Halifax — to 18 in 2023 from 7 in 2022 — with most occurring after the October 7 attacks. Calgary police reported 27 anti‑Semitic incidents in 2023 — up from 15 — while Edmonton saw the number rise from 10 in 2022 to 18 in 2023, with 15 of those occurring, again, after October 7. Colleagues, we cannot allow anti-Semitism to become normalized, and we cannot allow the haters to believe they can act with impunity. It is totally unacceptable that the Jewish community, whose history dates back to the foundation of our country and who have contributed so much to Canada’s well‑being and success, should feel unsafe on their own streets and in their own communities. How far we have fallen since the July 2021 National Summit on Antisemitism when it was held under the auspices of Canada’s then-Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism. That summit led to substantial new funding for the special envoy’s office, new money for the Security Infrastructure Program, a commitment to better train civil servants and law enforcement to recognize and react to anti‑Semitism, and a strong statement by Canada at the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism in October 2021. The situation now is clearly worse. Convening decision makers, including electoral officials at all levels, civil servants, law enforcement, educators, community and spiritual leaders, can only be beneficial, particularly as we face record levels of anti‑Semitic incidents. We need to get everyone toge …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1843, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/192db_2024-04-16-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "projective"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "definition or envoy"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "community organisations"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "motion and speech decrying the surge in anti-Semitic incidents", "trigger": "the surge of antisemitic incidents in Canada since October 7 - shots fired at Jewish schools, arson attempts, protesters in Toronto celebrating Iran's drone att", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "pro-Hamas protesters in Toronto celebrating Iran's drone and missile attack on Israel; the Trudeau government's continued refusal to list the IRGC as a terrorist organization", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-04-16", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… f truth and accountability made him a thorn in the side of the Kremlin, threatening to expose the rot at the core of Putin’s regime. For this, he paid the ultimate price. It is important to recognize that Navalny’s early political career was marked by positions and statements that align with extremist views, including anti-Semitism. His past association and comments have raised valid concerns and criticisms, and it is crucial to confront and address them honestly. However, it is also important to recognize that individuals can evolve, learn and change their perspectives over time. In recent years, Navalny publicly renounced his previous extreme …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 709, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/192db_2024-04-16-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "Navalny’s early political career was marked by positions and statements that align with extremist views, including anti-Semitism", "act_why": "attributes past anti-Semitic positions to Navalny by name", "trigger": "the death of Alexei Navalny on February 16 in a Russian penal colony", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "Navalny's early political career was marked by positions and statements that align with extremist views, including anti-Semitism", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-04-16", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Senators", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Hear, hear! [ English ] The Senate Motion to Urge Government to Direct the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism to Convene a Second National Summit to Combat Antisemitism—Debate Adjourned"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 33, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/192db_2024-04-16-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "chamber interjection plus the motion's title", "trigger": "the motion urging the government to direct the Special Envoy to convene a second national summit to combat antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-04-30", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marie-Françoise Mégie", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… or his commitment, Dan Philip was awarded the National Assembly Citizenship Medal in 2019 and the Rosa Parks Award of the Quebec Human Rights Commission in 2000. Dan Philip was and remained an ally not only of Black communities, but of other marginalized communities as well. He spoke out in a loud, clear voice against anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. Finally, I thank him for contributing to the success of the young leaders within our communities of African descent. His efforts to learn French and become bilingual were truly remarkable. My condolences go out to his family, friends and fellow members of the Black Coalition. Rest in peace, Mr. Phili …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 303, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/195db_2024-04-30-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["domestic", "civic"], "response": ["solidarity"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "eulogy praising Dan Philip for speaking out against anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the death of Dan Philip, former president of the Black Coalition of Quebec, on April 1, and his funeral on April 22", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-21", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… fractured Canada. The absence of leadership from the Prime Minister and his government has consequences. Only a few days ago, right here on Wellington Street, a mob was cheering for Hamas and celebrating the October 7 massacre. (1600) Trudeau’s lack of moral clarity is simply staggering and has emboldened the wave of anti-Semitism and Jew hatred that we are witnessing right across Canada. It is clear that these anti-Israel movements are coordinated and financed from overseas. Instead of protecting Canada from yet another foreign interference in our public debate, the Trudeau government is completely missing in action. This lack of leadership and moral clarity …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 7046, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/201db_2024-05-21-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "charge_quote": "Imagine, Justin Trudeau associated a Jewish member of Parliament with a swastika.", "act_why": "the point is that Trudeau wrongly painted truckers and a Jewish MP with swastikas and racism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Pierre J. Dalphond", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, today I rise to honour the leadership of Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, and Deborah Lyons, Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism. Like all of you, I’m very concerned about the recent rise in hate speech, threats and violence against Jewish, Arab and Muslim Canadians. No Jewish child should be afraid to go to school; no Muslim woman should be spit on for wearing a head scarf; no synagogue should be vandalized with Nazi symbols; and no mosque sho …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 332, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/203db_2024-05-23-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["projective", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "expresses concern at hate against Jewish, Arab and Muslim Canadians and honours the two envoys", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-05-23", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I wish to draw your attention to the presence in the gallery of Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, and Deborah Lyons, Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism. They are the guests of the Honourable Senator Dalphond. On behalf of all honourable senators, I welcome you to the Senate of Canada."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 59, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/203db_2024-05-23-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2024-06-19", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Michael L. MacDonald", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… Canada or delegitimizes our allies. This bill provides a framework to alleviate my concerns by requiring academics to declare their foreign funding. I would like to note that when this bill was studied in the House of Commons — if I’m allowed to say, “studied in the House of Commons” — one brief noted that the current anti-Semitic protests on university campuses could be funded by foreign actors. I would certainly be interested — I would hope we would all be interested — in seeing if the faculty members who are currently participating in these protests end up declaring any foreign grants that they receive from nations who are supportive of this …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1019, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/215db_2024-06-19-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "charge_quote": "one brief noted that the current anti-Semitic protests on university campuses could be funded by foreign actors", "act_why": "labels the campus protests and their faculty participants anti-Semitic and foreign-funded", "trigger": "Bill C-70, the foreign interference bill: 'I encourage all senators to vote in favour of Bill C-70'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["protest movement", "university"], "target_detail": "the current anti-Semitic protests on university campuses; faculty members participating in these protests", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-06-20", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marc Gold", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Thank you for your question. I certainly will continue to be attentive to the study that the government is doing with regard to those important recommendations. 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Mr. Miller: You clearly before this house have assumed they are not. I am not aware of what their status is currently in this country. I think the important thing here is that we need to, as a house, condemn all acts of hatred unequivocally and — particularly given the day that we commemorated sombrely yesterday — anti-Semitism in all its forms. 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Canadians have witnessed a shocking rise in violent acts of Jew hatred following the October 7 terror attack against our ally Israel. Meanwhile, your government allows terrorist organizations to operate freely in this country, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, which openly supports other terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas. It took years of pressure from the …", "… is taking so long with respect to Samidoun? They openly raise funds in Canada on behalf of terrorist groups. They have clear and direct ties with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which has been listed as a terrorist entity since 2023, and its founders have been openly glorifying terrorism, advocating Jew hatred and celebrating the death of Jews. Why hasn’t your government listed Samidoun and kicked its founders out of Canada?"], "terms": ["jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 166, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/226db_2024-10-08-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["border", "criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "charge_quote": "your government allows terrorist organizations to operate freely in this country", "act_why": "charges Samidoun's founders with advocating Jew hatred and the government with allowing them", "trigger": "'Canadians have witnessed a shocking rise in violent acts of Jew hatred following the October 7 terror attack'; Samidoun 'openly raise funds in Canada on behalf", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "institution"], "target_detail": "your government allows terrorist organizations to operate freely; Samidoun and its founders, openly ... advocating Jew hatred", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-10-09", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marc Gold", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ocus on slogans, but, for my part, I am pleased that the government that I have the honour to represent is focusing on concrete actions, serious policy discussions and, frankly, trying to use our time together in this chamber to advance work on behalf of Canadians, not simply a partisan political agenda. 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What’s changed for the better in Canada since last Thanksgiving? Food bank usage is at a record high. Rent is still too high. Crime is rampant. Anti-Semitism has become worse. We’ve seen more corruption and more waste from this incompetent NDP-Liberal regime. I could go on and on. Leader, is it not time for a carbon tax election?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 66, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/228db_2024-10-10-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "reputation"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "act_why": "anti-Semitism listed among grievances that have worsened, no explicit charge", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "this incompetent NDP-Liberal regime ... Anti-Semitism has become worse", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "David Arnot", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I rise today to express my support for Motion No. 181, which asks the Government of Canada and the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism to convene a second National Summit on Antisemitism. This is a critical moment for Canada — a time when we must confront the alarming rise in anti-Semitism in our country. As the motion rightly states, the shocking increase in anti‑Semitic incidents across Canada is backed by clear and unambiguous data. B’nai Brith reported 5,791 anti-Semitic incidents in 2023 — the highest ever recorded in Canada, marking a 109% increase over the previous year. Moreover, Statistics Canada confirms that Jewish people are the most targeted religious group in the country, accounting for more than 56% of religiously motivated hate crimes, despite comprising less than 1% of the population. The number of police-reported hate crimes against Jewish people increased by 64% between 2019 and 2022. This alarming trend is not confined to Canada. Across Europe and North America, reports from the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights indicate that anti-Semitism is rising globally, exacerbated by events in the conflict between Hamas and Israel. The Office of the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism is uniquely positioned to coordinate stakeholders across sectors, including government, law enforcement and community leaders. A second summit would provide a valuable platform for developing cohesive strategies to combat the unprecedented wave of hate crimes aimed at Jewish people, which our society must confront wit …", "… l and Palestine, we know that the issues drive divisive and sometimes hostile responses. There may also be concerns about government overreach if new measures and regulations are proposed to curb online hate. Despite these challenges, the benefits far outweigh the risks. A thorough examination will allow us to address anti-Semitism in a measured, evidence-based way while upholding Canadian values of human dignity and freedom. Honourable senators, Motion No. 181 is a call to action that Canada cannot afford to ignore. A second National Summit on Antisemitism would provide a vital forum for collaboration across sectors. The Senate Human Rights Committee’s own study will ensure our efforts are informed, inclusive and effective. In the face of unprecedented hate, we must act decisively. Anti-Semitism has no place in Canada, and, together, through education, law enforcement and policy reforms, we can blunt the wave of hate and build a society where all Canadians feel safe and respected. I support Motion No. 181 and invite you to do so as well. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 621, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/234db_2024-10-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "police and security"], "act_why": "calls the rise in anti-Semitic incidents alarming and backs a national summit", "trigger": "\"Motion No. 181, which asks the Government of Canada and the Special Envoy ... to convene a second National Summit on Antisemitism\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I rise today in support of Motion No. 181, which calls for an urgent second national summit to combat anti-Semitism. Before I get to the crux of the matter on this motion, allow me to provide some background to those who are listening at home. My colleague Senator Housakos gave notice of this motion on February 29, exactly eight months ago. He spoke on it on April 16, and debate was adjourned by Senator Dalphond. This motion was in …", "… about the fate of the motion. Unfortunately, Senator Gold served him the excuse that since it is not a government matter, he would not intervene to push for the motion to be debated. This is another clear example of Senator Gold’s inconsistent stance about his role. He claims he will not intervene on a motion against anti-Semitism under the pretext that this is not a government motion. And yet, the same Senator Gold participated twice, just this week, at the Foreign Affairs Committee because it is studying Bill C-282. In fact, Senator Gold has been attending all committee meetings on Bill C-282, which is not a government bill. There is an unden …", "… me from the government or the Liberal Party of Canada. His newfound preoccupation and dedication of time towards the future of the chicken, turkey, egg and dairy farming industries is at best questionable, especially when we contrast his efforts with his lack of action and his decision to pass the buck on the issue of anti-Semitism — which we know is very near and dear to his heart. (1540) In any event, after eight months of no progression, it is time for the Senate to move on this motion. A week ago Tuesday, I invited my fellow leaders to speak on the motion and invite members of their various caucuses to do so as well. I received full cooperation. This past Tuesday, I informed the leaders we wanted to bring this motion to a vote today. Again, we received cooperation. I am thankful for that. Colleagues, it is time for this Senate to send a clear signal to Canadians, particularly the Jewish community, that we take the issue of anti-Semitism seriously, stand by our fellow citizens who are attacked and will push the Government to act. It is time for us to vote on this motion because the issue of anti-Semitism in Canada has not disappeared — quite the contrary. This motion essentially calls for the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism to convene a second national summit to combat anti-Semitism. As you can see, we are not asking for a lot here. The motion calls for a summit. However, the motion is crucial because it comes at a difficult time for the Jewish community here at home, but also the community everywhere around the world. While anti-Semitism is a phenomenon that goes back to immemorial times, we have seen a rise in incidents in the past year. It is time to send a clear signal about that. We all know what anti-Semitism means: prejudice against or hatred of Jews. For reasons that are unclear to me, anti-Semitism has persisted throughout history, disappearing from public discourse only to resurface with unprecedented intensity. From ancient Egypt to modern times, this hatred of Jews is incomprehensible. Why is there so much hate? For centuries, Jews have been a frequent scapegoat, falsely blamed for catastrophic events, disease, economic hardships and famine. Even today, some U.S. politicians are accusing Jews of controlling the weather and creating catastrophic wildfires using laser beams from space. Would you like to enter the debate? This hate is accompanied by numerous ridiculous and disgusting tropes about Jews. Some people try to rationalize anti‑Semitism by linking it to anti-Zionism, claiming that the hatred of Jews stems from the hatred of Israel. However, anti-Semitism has been around long before Israel was created in 1948. I have two problems with that argument. First, I cannot accept that profound disagreement with the policies conducted by the state of Israel equates to the hatred of the people of Israel; second, extending this hatred of Israel to people who live here is simply s …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1646, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/234db_2024-10-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "leadership speech"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "extended denunciation of anti-Semitism in support of the summit motion", "trigger": "\"Motion No. 181, which calls for an urgent second national summit to combat anti-Semitism\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "Senator Gold ... his lack of action and his decision to pass the buck on the issue of anti-Semitism; the Trudeau government; 'someone organizes a march to glorify the killers of Jews'", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Hassan Yussuff", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I rise to support Motion No. 181. It is important in the context of this debate that we reflect our own values because, too often, when we talk about issues of anti-Semitism, as we also talk of Islamophobia, it is not an abstract debate or discussion. We are talking about the impact on the lives of our fellow citizens, our friends, our neighbours and our own children. I think since, of course, the period of October 7, we have seen it increasingly rise. (1630) But anti-Semitism was also here. It was maybe not as apparent to many of us, but it was also here, and it continued to thrive. The reality is that it is always going to take a tremendous effort on behalf of all of us if we truly want to build a society that is equal. I’m speaking to you today as somebody with a Muslim name. I’m not a r …", "… that. It should mean that it is what we talk about on a constant basis and what the reality is that our Jewish brothers are facing on a daily basis. I hope my young daughter’s life has been enriched because of her Jewish friendship. I can tell you that some of my friends, as we are constantly meeting and talking about anti-Semitism and some of the issues that they are struggling with, worry about the future. I cannot reassure them any more that things will get better, except I make the commitment in my own life and in my own actions and behaviour that I will do my part to ensure our country is rid of anti-Semitism. Thank you so much."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1161, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/234db_2024-10-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "solidarity"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "expresses grief and solidarity over attacks on Jewish schools and synagogues", "trigger": "\"I rise to support Motion No. 181\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Senator Plett, it’s unfortunate in this chamber that a simple motion dealing with anti-Semitism, period, full stop — it’s not a question of anti-Semitism on the left or anti-Semitism on the right, and this motion certainly doesn’t debate whatsoever the geopolitical situation in the Middle East. It’s calling for a conference on anti-Semitism. I was recently meeting university students who have gotten the full thrust of anti-Semitism on a daily basis, Senator Plett, and they feel abandoned by their institutions, their governments and everyone across the board. Would any common-sense individual oppose, at this particular juncture in Canada where we’ve had so many attacks on the Jewish community, a simple, open conference where we will discuss the i …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 122, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/234db_2024-10-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "act_why": "describes students facing daily anti-Semitism and urges the conference", "trigger": "\"a simple motion dealing with anti-Semitism ... calling for a conference on anti-Semitism\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "they feel abandoned by their institutions, their governments and everyone across the board", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marc Gold", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… my family. It encourages us through the study that our committee is doing to dig deep and unpack what truly is the oldest and longest hatred. It is necessary but not sufficient to show empathy. Actions are what is needed but also understanding, really understanding and peeling back the layers of the rhetoric. Because anti-Semitism — I’m not sure; it might have been Senator Plett who called it a virus or someone else — it morphs. In every generation, the Jewish community becomes the avatar into which people fill their frustrations, their anger and their beliefs — conspiratorial most of the time if not all the time — for what ails the world. We h …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 272, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/234db_2024-10-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism the oldest hatred and thanks colleagues for support", "trigger": "the debate and speeches on Motion No. 181 (\"I was not planning to speak\")", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Michael L. MacDonald", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… th John Buchanan, who was the Premier of Nova Scotia later and, of course, a senator. I went to the meeting, and Rabbi Medjuck talked about his life growing up in Cape Breton. I was so proud when he said this. He said that growing up in Cape Breton, neither he nor his family nor any of his friends ever experienced one anti-Semitic incident. I think that’s a wonderful reflection on the Cape Breton that he grew up in. They always punched above their weight in Cape Breton. The contribution they made, and I know Senator Cuzner would back me up on this, being from that area — I think we have an obligation to speak up for them, and I will. There are …", "… country. Many of the Cape Breton community are in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, New York — you name it. They’re all so successful, and they all come back, and they’re still very philanthropic towards the island. I find it extremely difficult to see what’s going on in this country when it comes to the open expression of anti-Semitism. I think our universities had better reassess how they’re handling this matter because I think they’ve been far too active in promoting this mindset in this country. I certainly support this motion, and I encourage all honourable senators to do the same. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 817, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/234db_2024-10-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "reputation"], "response": ["education", "leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "jurisdiction": ["educators"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "act_why": "says open expression of anti-Semitism is hard to watch and backs the motion", "trigger": "\"I certainly support this motion\" - Motion No. 181 on a second national summit", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["university"], "target_detail": "our universities ... they've been far too active in promoting this mindset in this country", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Miville-Dechêne", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["I’d like to begin by congratulating you on your profound and heartfelt speech. Obviously, like you, I deplore the rise of anti-Semitism since the events of October 7, 2023. Like you, I was stunned by the horrors of the October 7 attack, which not only killed civilians, but also involved the terrible act of rape committed against Jewish women, as we later learned. It’s all horrific. That being said, I have carefully read and reread the text of the moti …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 195, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/234db_2024-10-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "opposes", "act_why": "deplores the rise of anti-Semitism while querying the motion's wording on Israel", "trigger": "the wording of the motion: \"since the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas and Israel's duty to respond to it\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Paula Simons", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Senator Plett, would you take a question? You asked me earlier if I wished to enter the conversation, and I do. As a person of Jewish descent in public life, I have been subjected to anti-Semitic attacks for 30 years. I grew up during the time of Jim Keegstra in Alberta when lies about a Jewish conspiracy to control the world were part of the everyday discourse. You talked about anti-Semitism on the left, but I’m hoping I could ask you, as an important leader in the Conservative movement in Canada, if you will be equally committed to standing against the anti-Semitism of the right-wing conspiracy theorists who have conflated COVID protocols with war crimes, who have presented a concern about climate change as Jewish attempts to control the weather. I’m hoping I can call on you and your Conservative colleagues to be equally vocal in calling out the toxic culture of anti-Semitism that infects much of the far‑right discourse."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 160, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/234db_2024-10-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "domestic"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "charge_quote": "the toxic culture of anti-Semitism that infects much of the far‑right discourse", "act_why": "charges right-wing conspiracy theorists with a toxic culture of anti-Semitism", "trigger": "Senator Plett's speech on Motion No. 181 and its treatment of anti-Semitism on the left", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "the anti-Semitism of the right-wing conspiracy theorists ... the toxic culture of anti-Semitism that infects much of the far‑right discourse", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Pierre J. Dalphond", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["I intend to vote in favour of this motion moved by Senator Housakos, which I supported and continue to support. This is not a political issue for me. This is not the time nor the place to decide what is happening in the Middle East. These are serious issues. What we need to talk about is anti-Semitism in Canada, and that is a non-partisan issue. [ English ] Honourable senators, I rise as a seconder of Senator Housakos’s motion to condemn anti-Semitism in Canada and around the world. Hatred and hateful perceptions of Jewish people go back many centuries. The author Robert Wistrich called anti-Semitism “the longest hatred.” Yet, we still have not fully grasped the lesson that history has taught us time and again: The most extreme manifestations of hatred do not happen overnight. They are the culmination of a series of events that society witnesses and fails to confront. Colleagues, anti-Semitism is a kind of cancer that must be eradicated at its first sign. Failure to respond quickly can lead to the worst consequences. This was true of the Holocaust, a deliberate, organized, state‑sponsored persecution and genocide of 6 million Jews living in Europe. The alarm bells sounded well before the Nazi regime impleme …", "… 91 people were murdered and some 30,000 Jewish men were sent to Nazi concentration camps. Still, the world did not act quickly and decisively. This genocide and the collective failure to respond to it quickly will forever stain human history. In the wake of the Holocaust, humanity vowed, “never again.” Sadly, however, anti-Semitism continues to poison the minds of many people around the world today. Unfortunately, Canada has not been shielded against the resurgence of anti-Semitism. Last year in Montreal, we saw firebombings of a synagogue and a Jewish community centre. We saw Montreal’s oldest synagogue defaced with Nazi signs. In May in Toronto and Montreal, we saw shots fired at Jewish schools. This resulted in parents becoming afraid to send their kids to school. I met with representatives o …", "… ur country is a society of Charter values, where freedom of speech is protected to sustain respectful dialogue. However, hate speech, intimidation and threats have no place in our country. At this difficult time, we must listen to Deborah Lyons, Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism. As I referenced in a statement in May in a joint interview with Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, Ms. Lyons said: Amira and I work very closely together, and I think it’s important that we demonstrate to Canadians that, even during a time of fracture and pain, we as Canadian …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2257, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/234db_2024-10-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit", "definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "calls anti-Semitism a cancer and catalogues firebombings and school shootings", "trigger": "\"this motion moved by Senator Housakos ... to condemn anti-Semitism in Canada and around the world\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Again, I’m not the author of the motion, Senator Simons. I am a supporter of Israel. I am absolutely opposed to all forms of anti-Semitism. And if we want to have a debate on what anti-Semitism is, some of the things you suggested are I might agree with, and some I might not agree with. This one we probably do agree with. This is the one we are debating. Let’s vote on it."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 73, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/234db_2024-10-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "states absolute opposition to all forms of anti-Semitism", "trigger": "\"This is the one we are debating. Let's vote on it.\" - Motion No. 181", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Thank you very much, Senator Housakos. I fully agree with that. Senator Simons referred to the fact that she is of Jewish origin. I’m of Mennonite origin. I’m a Christian. I believe in love. I believe in loving all human beings. So I am opposed to all forms of anti-Semitism, as I said. I am talking about one motion today, and I don’t really know why we need to get into the weeds of “Are you going to support this?” or “Are you going to support that?” Again, I would encourage anyone who wants to debate this particular motion to stand up and do so, and once we have voted — and I’m hoping it …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 144, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/234db_2024-10-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["inspired"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "repeats that he is opposed to all forms of anti-Semitism", "trigger": "\"I am talking about one motion today\" - Motion No. 181", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Salma Ataullahjan", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… with the Muslim community. We need to stand with Canadians who are hurting. I didn’t intend to speak, but after Senator Yussuff, Senator Dalphond, Senator Plett and Senator Arnot spoke — and as you learned, the Human Rights Committee — when we did the study on Islamophobia and I found out there hadn’t been a study on anti-Semitism, I was surprised. That’s why we propose that we look at anti-Semitism. I want to say that I stand in solidarity with those who are suffering. I stand in solidarity with the children who don’t understand this hate. I will tell you the story about my daughter when she was in kindergarten, and she came back from school and said, “Oh, we have a new kid in class.” You know my mindset; we gre …", "… icity. That is what makes Canada so beautiful, and that is why people all over the world aspire to come to Canada — because they can practise their faith. They can be who they want to be, but in love and respect for each other. I just want to say that I stand in solidarity with my Jewish brothers. There is no need for anti-Semitism. As leaders, we need to be examples. We need not to spread discord and spread hate. We need to show everyone. We are here in this chamber, and I don’t know what religion most of you practise, what you believe in, yet we all get along. I will stand and support you, and I think that’s the important message — that, as le …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 485, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/234db_2024-10-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["domestic", "inspired"], "response": ["solidarity", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "says there is no need for anti-Semitism and stands in solidarity", "trigger": "the Motion No. 181 debate and the speeches of Senators Yussuff, Dalphond, Plett and Arnot", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Paula Simons", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Are you saying it has nothing to do with anti-Semitism but only to do with Israel’s response in Gaza? Because I cannot imagine a conference that tackled anti‑Semitism that did not also look at the horrific kind of anti‑Semitic tropes that are being trafficked in by the right, particularly in the United States, the ones you just enumerated in your own speech."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 62, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/234db_2024-10-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "the horrific kind of anti‑Semitic tropes that are being trafficked in by the right", "act_why": "charges the right, particularly in the U.S., with trafficking anti-Semitic tropes", "trigger": "the scope of the conference called for by Motion No. 181", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "names", "target": ["unspecified"], "target_detail": "the horrific kind of anti‑Semitic tropes that are being trafficked in by the right, particularly in the United States", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Yuen Pau Woo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["I thank Senator Plett for his speech and share with him the importance of combatting the scourge of anti-Semitism and showing solidarity with Canadian Jews and Jews around the world. You’re right, Senator Plett, in pointing out there has been a rise in anti-Semitism since the horrendous October 7 Hamas attack on innocent Jewish people in Israel. The motion makes reference to that incident. It says, “. . . since the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas and Israel’s duty to respond to it . . . .” I wonder, though, Senator Plett, if you consider Israel’s duty to respond to the attack …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 119, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/234db_2024-10-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "shares the importance of combatting anti-Semitism before questioning the motion's wording", "trigger": "\"The motion makes reference to that incident. It says, '... since the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas and Israel's duty to respond to it ....'\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2024-10-31", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Is it your pleasure, honourable senators, to adopt the motion? Some Hon. Senators: Agreed. An Hon. Senator: On division. (Motion agreed to and bill read third time and passed, on division.) The Senate Motion to Urge Government to Direct the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism to Convene a Second National Summit to Combat Antisemitism Adopted Leave having been given to proceed to Other Business, Motions, Order No. 181: On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Housakos, seconded by the Honourable Senator Dalphond: That the Senate take note: (a) of the data from Statistics Canada and Jewish organizations such as the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center and B’nai Brith indicating a shocking rise in antisemitic incidents across Canada over the past years; (b) of a global surge in antisemitism, to which Canada has not been immune, since the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas and Israel’s duty to respond to it; (c) that since October 2023, Canada’s Jewish community has witnessed shots fired at its schools, arson attempts at its communal buildings, boycott efforts and vandalism targeting private businesses, …", "… ntry all report major and unprecedented increases in hate crimes since October 2023, with the Jewish community being by far the most targeted; (e) that the Government of Canada has appointed Deborah Lyons, Canada’s former Ambassador to Israel, as the new Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism; (f) that the authority vested in the Special Envoy’s office permits her to be uniquely placed to convene and chair a second national summit to combat antisemitism; and (g) that a second national summit to combat antisemitism would provide a valuable forum for stakeholders representing all levels of government, civil servants, law enforcement agencies, educators and community leaders to share information and agree on effective strategies to blunt the unprecedented wave of hate aimed at Jews; and That the Senate urge the Government of Canada to direct the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism to convene a second national summit to combat antisemitism."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 369, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/234db_2024-10-31-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2024-11-05", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marc Gold", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Wow. Let me quote to you what Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism Deborah Lyons said. This is the former Ambassador of Canada to Israel. She is horrified to see United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese engaged in Holocaust distortion and inversion. The Canadian mission in Geneva stated: . . . The recent remarks by Francesca Albanese are unacceptable and incompatible with …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 95, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/235db_2024-11-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "projective"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "supports", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "charge_quote": "Let me quote to you what Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism Deborah Lyons said.", "act_why": "quotes officials charging Francesca Albanese with Holocaust distortion", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "\"United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese engaged in Holocaust distortion and inversion\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese engaged in Holocaust distortion and inversion", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2024-11-06", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Marc Gold", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["First of all, I do read the papers. Thank you for your interest in my reading habits. This government has a good track record of working toward greater transparency and accountability, and it will continue to do so. 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They might very well be a friend of mine, and if they aren’t, I certainly know many. (1430) Yesterday, you heard me tell you what the government thinks of Francesca Albanese, and I’m here to answer on behalf of the government: I do not condone her words, her holocaust denial, her anti-Semitism or the like. That is all I have to say. Thank you. 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Senator Gold, a good friend of mine said to me this morning, “As a Jew, we feel there is an utter lack of empathy from the political class for how traumatizing this is.” Meanwhile, we have colleagues in this place who met and posed for photos with Francesca Albanese, a raging anti-Semite who came to Canada to meet with the leader of a terrorist group, Samidoun. 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A large group of masked terrorists gathered at the synagogue yelling and screaming, “Death to Jews.” Some even went so far as to call a worshipper by their full name and say, “Tonight, Jew, you are going to die.” That is anti-Semitic, a direct threat of violence and in violation of at least two sections of the Criminal Code. Yet the police stood by and did nothing. Why? Because they know they have political cover, unfortunately. 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I regard him as a major force for human rights, and he has been fighting racism and anti-Semitism across this country over many years. He is a former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. The threat of an assassination attempt on him by a foreign government should shake us all to our core. Can you tell us more about what the government is doing to protect Mr. Cotler at this time? 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QUESTION PERIOD Veterans Affairs Remembrance Day"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 79, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/238db_2024-11-19-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": [], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural text carrying the title of the Cotler motion", "trigger": "\"Notice of Motion to Salute the Contribution of the Honourable Irwin Cotler to the Defence of Human Rights and the Fight Against Racism and Anti-Semitism\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-19", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Senators", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… usual practices, to deposit its report with the Clerk of the Senate, if the Senate is not then sitting, and that the report be deemed to have been tabled in the Senate. 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In an interview, years later, Elexis recalled how shocked she’d been when a childhood friend told her they couldn’t play together anymore because Elexis had killed Jesus. She said, “It wasn’t me, I don’t even know Jesus! It must have been my brother Lionel, he’s always i …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 468, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/239db_2024-11-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "recounts a childhood anti-Semitic slight in tribute, with disapproval", "trigger": "\"Her recent death, at the age of 78\" - tribute to Elexis Schloss", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-20", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Senators", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Agreed. (Motion agreed to.) [ English ] The Senate Motion to Salute the Contribution of the Honourable Irwin Cotler to the Defence of Human Rights and the Fight Against Racism and Anti-Semitism Adopted Leave having been given to proceed to Motions, Order No. 236:"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 44, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/239db_2024-11-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "records adoption of the motion by its title", "trigger": "\"Motion to Salute the Contribution of the Honourable Irwin Cotler to the Defence of Human Rights and the Fight Against Racism and Anti-Semitism Adopted\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2024-11-26", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Yuen Pau Woo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… to a two-state solution, our actions suggest we are offering lip service and often working at cross purposes. (2040) Last month, the Canadian government refused to meet Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestine when she was in Ottawa. The official excuse is that she is anti-Semitic, a claim that has been rejected by many Jewish leaders and anti-Semitism experts. I suspect the real reason is that our political leaders cannot bear to listen to the fact of war crimes in Gaza that expose the hypocrisy, duplicity and, dare I say, the complicity of Canadian foreign policy in violations of international humanitarian law. It is not just that Arabs in Palestine and Lebanon are suffering at the hands of the Israelis. Arab Canadians, especially Palestinian Canadians, are also being shunned in silence for expressing their views on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory, and the weapon of choice increasingly is the charge of anti-Semitism. I do not dispute that there has been a rise in anti-Semitic acts across Canada, and I reject all forms of hatred towards Jews as individuals, groups or as a collective. But it is not anti-Semitic to argue that Germans and Italians should be at the forefront of the opposition to the assault on Gaza or that our collective obliviousness to what led 100 years ago to the Third Reich’s genocide of people not in conformity with the “pure race” is leading to the commission of yet another genocide. I am paraphrasing Special Rapporteur Albanese’s remarks, but these are the ideas that our government has labelled as anti‑Semitic and used as the reason for not meeting with her when she was in Ottawa. The so-called working definition of anti-Semitism that has been endorsed by the government means that Palestinians, indeed all Canadians, including Jewish Canadians, who make deep criticisms of Zionism in Israel can be accused of anti-Semitism. For example, calling for boycotts, divestment and sanctions directed at Israel or at supporters of Israel’s assault on Gaza and the West Bank could be labelled anti-Semitic. This weaponization of language represents an assault on free speech, legitimate political debate and political activism. It suppresses the views and rights of a minority — especially Palestinian Arabs — who have a particular stake in that debate. It is, colleagues, the antithesis of celebrating Arab heritage. Take th …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1763, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/241db_2024-11-26-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["other"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics", "international bodies"], "act_why": "argues the charge of antisemitism is a weapon used to silence critics of Israel", "trigger": "the war in Gaza — 'more than 43,000 killed, including upwards of 17,000 children'; the July 2024 Lancet paper; Israel's assault on Gaza and Lebanon", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2024-11-27", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… 1984 . Honourable senators, last Friday, in Montreal, we witnessed ugly and deeply disturbing scenes. The images and reports that emerged from a pro-Hamas riot were appalling. Almost as appalling now are Mayor Plante’s and the Montreal police chief’s attempts to whitewash these scenes and defend the disgusting acts of anti-Semitism and Jew hatred. Protesters chanted for the destruction of Israel. They waved Hamas flags and even burned an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a grotesque display of hatred and incitement. These were not the actions of a select few; it was not a run-of-the-mill anti-NATO protest, and it was not an act of free spe …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 562, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/242db_2024-11-27-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "inspired"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "His failure to speak out against this hate-filled rally until late the next day is a tacit endorsement of the kind of extremism that threatens the safety and unity of our communities.", "act_why": "charges Trudeau, the mayor, police chief and media with whitewashing and tacitly endorsing antisemitism", "trigger": "'last Friday, in Montreal... a pro-Hamas riot'; the burning of a Netanyahu effigy; the Second Cup franchisee telling Jews 'the final solution is coming'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["protest movement", "media"], "target_detail": "\"a pro-Hamas riot\" and its participants; \"National outlets like CBC and CTV\" that \"are also complicit in minimizing\"; also Mayor Plante, the police chief and Trudeau", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2024-12-04", "year": "2024", "session": "44-1", "parliament": "44", "speaker": "Donald Neil Plett", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["You parrot yourself worse than the Prime Minister. Licensed and trained firearm owners can see what’s going on here, Senator Gold, even if you can’t. They are being targeted. Yet gangs flood our streets with illegal guns smuggled across the border, Senator Gold. Anti-Semitic rioters burn cars in Montreal. Yet the NDP-Liberals and you, Senator Gold, think lawful gun owners are the problem — enough. Where is the election that Canadians need to restore common sense?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 76, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/441/debates/245db_2024-12-04-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "cites antisemitic rioters burning cars with disapproval while attacking firearms policy", "trigger": "'Anti-Semitic rioters burn cars in Montreal'", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["protest movement", "political opponent"], "target_detail": "\"Anti-Semitic rioters burn cars in Montreal\"; \"the NDP-Liberals and you, Senator Gold\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-05-28", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Brian Francis", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… e government has an ambitious agenda, and Canadians will be looking to all parliamentarians to work together for the good of our country. On behalf of the Progressive Senate Group, I am pleased to officially welcome you to the Senate. We look forward to working with you both. Wela’lin . Thank you. SENATORS’ STATEMENTS Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 273, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/003db_2025-05-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "the term appears only as the trailing statements heading, not in the speech", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-05-28", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I rise today to plainly say what few others appear willing to say: Jews are no longer safe in our country. It’s not that they feel unsafe; they are unsafe, and we, as politicians, are in no small part to blame. Anti-Semitism and Jew hatred are now expressed openly, shamelessly and without restraint in Canada. It appears in our streets, on our campuses, on social media and even in the rhetoric of certain Western political leaders who — willingly or not — repeat Hamas talking points to attack Israel. Recently, the Liberal government made the troubling decision to summon the Israeli ambassador not to express solidarity in the face of rising anti-Semitism, but to reprimand Israel after warning shots were fired in the vicinity of a diplomatic delegation that had veered off an agreed-upon path in a combat zone — a luxury not afforded to the more than 1,200 innocent Israelis murdered on October 7 and certainly not afforded to the two Israeli diplomatic staff who were murd …"], "terms": ["antisemitism", "jew_hatred"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 426, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/003db_2025-05-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["Israel relations", "leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "expresses alarm that antisemitism is openly expressed and Jews are unsafe", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "the murder of 'two Israeli diplomatic staff... in Washington, D.C., by a pro-Hamas militant'; the summoning of the Israeli ambassador over warning shots near a ", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"certain Western political leaders who — willingly or not — repeat Hamas talking points\"; the Liberal government summoning the Israeli ambassador; street chants and Charlotte Kates of Samidoun", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2025-09-24", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Paulette Senior", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ts be deemed to have been tabled in the Senate; and That the committee submit its final report to the Senate no later than December 31, 2026, and that the committee retain all powers necessary to publicize its findings for 180 days after the tabling of the final report. Notice of Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Antisemitism and Refer Papers and Evidence from First Session of Forty-fourth Session to Current Session"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 191, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/018db_2025-09-24-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "reads notice of motion text including title on studying antisemitism", "trigger": "Notice of Motion to Authorize Committee to Study Antisemitism and Refer Papers and Evidence", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-09-24", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Paulette Senior", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I give notice that, at the next sitting of the Senate, I will move: That the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights be authorized to examine and report on antisemitism in Canada; That the papers and evidence received and taken and work accomplished by the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights during the First Session of the Forty-fourth Parliament as part of its study of such issues as may arise from time to time related to human rights generally be referred to the committee; Th …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 180, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/018db_2025-09-24-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural tabling and adjournment notice with motion heading", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-09-25", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Paulette Senior", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": [", pursuant to notice of September 24, 2025, moved: That the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights be authorized to examine and report on antisemitism in Canada; That the papers and evidence received and taken and work accomplished by the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights during the First Session of the Forty-fourth Parliament as part of its study of such issues as may arise from time to time related to human rights generally be referred to the committee; Th …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 159, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/019db_2025-09-25-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "verbatim committee-authorization motion text", "trigger": "motion that the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights be authorized to examine and report", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-09-25", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Senators", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Agreed. (Motion agreed to.) Committee Authorized to Study Antisemitism and Refer Papers and Evidence from First Session of Forty-fourth Session to Current Session"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 23, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/019db_2025-09-25-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "record of motion agreed to plus committee authorization heading", "trigger": "(Motion agreed to.) Committee Authorized to Study Antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2025-10-07", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Kim Pate", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… nd anniversary of horrific attacks by Hamas during the holiest time of year for Jewish people. My heart, thoughts and prayers are with the millions of people whose lives have ended or were forever impacted by those events. They are also with those whose lives have been destroyed and those who continue to deal with the anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial that Senator Woo so appropriately addressed. We must end those discriminations. We must end anti-Semitism in a Holocaust denial period. We must also come to face the lives of those who have been destroyed by the unending horrors of the escalating violence in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel and Lebanon. The motion rightly calls on the federal government to examine the risk to Canada and Canadians of complicity in violations of …", "… o conditions that even then were dire: restrictions on movement, impassible borders and people trapped without regard to safety or human rights. I was struck by how few people felt able to speak out. Many knew the reality but chose silence as a result of political costs or calculations or the risks of being accused of anti-Semitism or disloyalty. Today, as the evidence of violations of international law mounts, the risk of backlash increases, and yet the cost of silence also becomes ever more dangerous. (1720) To quote Naomi Klein: There’s . . . a great deal of effort to suppress an honest examination of what has happened in Gaza and what is ong …", "… what the war on journalists, the killing of so many courageous Palestinian journalists in Gaza, has been about. It’s been about getting rid of the witnesses. . . . We need to understand what this is about. This is about . . . not calling a genocide a genocide, not doing the research, presenting any of it as a form of antisemitism. . . . This is neo-McCarthyism... This is an attempt to just shut down discussion, because the evidence is so overwhelming. I teach at a university, and you would think that we would be talking about this in every classroom, but the chill is real. I visit universities, I talk at universities, and I’ve been approached …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1302, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/022db_2025-10-07-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "inspired"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "central quoted argument is that research on Gaza is being presented as antisemitism to silence critics, 'neo-McCarthyism'", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "Senator Woo's motion calling on the government to examine the risk of complicity in violations of international humanitarian law", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2025-10-07", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… classmates — citizens of our great country. They were human beings cut down by a death cult that has never hidden its intentions, only acted on them. The bullets and rockets may have been aimed at Israel, but the shock waves were felt around the world. In the years that have followed, we have witnessed a resurgence of anti-Semitism not seen in generations. Just days ago, the horrific terrorist attack in Manchester was only the most recent example. Closer to home, we’ve seen it here in Canada: synagogues barricaded, Jewish schools under police protection, mobs threatening Jewish businesses and students harassed on campuses like Concordia Universi …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 578, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/022db_2025-10-07-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "both", "occasion": "commemoration", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["domestic", "reputation"], "response": ["none"], "jurisdiction": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "charge_quote": "It is a moral collapse across institutions — politicians, police, universities — and, most gravely, our own government.", "act_why": "charges Canadian government, police and universities with a moral collapse that rewarded terror and left Jews unsafe", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "two years ago today, Hamas carried out the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"our own government\", which \"rewarded\" terror; the \"mobs threatening Jewish businesses\" and Concordia rallies chanting “Glory to the martyrs!”", "israel_frame": "alleges bias against Israel"}, {"date": "2025-10-07", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Yuen Pau Woo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… st. I also condemn the recent attacks on Jews in synagogues and community spaces, in Manchester, Berlin, Warsaw and Tokyo, as well as right here in Ottawa, where an elderly woman was attacked at a grocery store just a month ago. The Jewish community is reeling from these assaults and has called for more action against anti-Semitism and more education about the Holocaust. Even though we are four months away from International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we would do well to mark every day leading up to January 27 in the way that the occasion was meant to serve: as a solemn commitment to remember the 6 million Jews and millions of others murdered by …", "… we are allowing again today what was to be never again. I can see how difficult it is for many of us to contemplate the idea that the modern state representing a Semitic people who suffered so much at the hands of the Nazis could inflict unspeakable horror on another Semitic people. There are those who say that it is anti-Semitic to suggest that the State of Israel could be committing a genocide against Palestinians, but that argument is disingenuous and illogical. It also dishonours the very purpose of Holocaust remembrance and the spirit of “never again.” There are, of course, some who deny that a genocide has taken place. Genocide has been …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 501, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/022db_2025-10-07-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "both", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["commemoration", "education"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "argues that calling the genocide claim anti-Semitic is disingenuous and illogical", "canada_role": "diplomatic", "trigger": "motion that, in light of findings and orders from the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court on the situation in Gaza, the Senate c", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2025-10-07", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Yuen Pau Woo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… hat we need to ask more broadly of Canadian society. How have universities acted against students and teachers advocating for Palestinian justice? What have they done about the investments in Israel? What about corporate Canada and our pension funds? How have professional bodies, hospitals and school boards weaponized anti-Semitism to silence their members from speaking out against atrocities in Palestine? Why has the media been so one-sided in its reporting on the situation in Palestine, and what role did that play in allowing the genocide to unfold? What amount of foreign interference and disinformation, on behalf of Israel and its allies, did …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1907, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/022db_2025-10-07-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "market"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "asks how institutions weaponized anti-Semitism to silence members", "trigger": "this motion ... calling on the Government of Canada to examine the risk to Canada and Canadians of complicity", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2025-11-19", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Minister, I think our government has been late. I think there has been a lack of political will in really tackling anti-Semitism in a serious way — when we have radical Hamas protesters in Toronto who are supported by police forces shutting down recordings of the Canadian national anthem, and when earlier today, I had a Jewish student sending me a video of protesters at McGill University, so to speak, but it’s more than that: Masked individuals …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 347, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/035db_2025-11-19-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "reputation"], "response": ["leadership speech"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "charge_quote": "I think there has been a lack of political will in really tackling anti-Semitism in a serious way", "act_why": "charges the government and police forces with lacking the will to tackle antisemitism", "trigger": "\"protesters at McGill University... Masked individuals were going into a classroom\" and Hamas protesters shutting down the national anthem in Toronto", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"our government has been late... a lack of political will in really tackling anti-Semitism\"; \"radical Hamas protesters in Toronto\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2025-11-19", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Minister Fraser, Canada’s spy chief delivered an alarming warning last week. Nearly 1 in 10 terrorism investigations now involve at least one minor who is radicalized online. He reported that violent extremist content, including anti-Semitism, is spreading faster than ever and is increasingly targeting young people. Even more disturbing, he confirmed that several disrupted plots involved attacks planned specifically against Jewish communities, including two Ottawa minors arrested last year for allegedly plotting a mass casualty attack. Minister, this is what happens when your government allows the open, wilful promotion of extremist propaganda on our streets, including pro-Palestinian protests calling for intifada and the elimination of the State of Israel and its people. When will the government finally take anti-Semitism seriously and bring forward real concrete legal measures to protect Jewish Canadians from the growing threats they face in communities across the country? I know we have a bill that’s coming here soon, but why did it take so long? And why did we have to get to the point where we are now? Hon. Sean Fraser, P.C., M.P., …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 436, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/035db_2025-11-19-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "charge_quote": "When will the government finally take anti-Semitism seriously and bring forward real concrete legal measures to protect Jewish Canadians", "act_why": "charges the government with allowing extremist propaganda targeting Jews to spread", "trigger": "the CSIS director's warning last week that nearly 1 in 10 terrorism investigations involve a radicalized minor and that plots targeted Jewish communities", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"this is what happens when your government allows the open, wilful promotion of extremist propaganda on our streets\"; \"pro-Palestinian protests calling for intifada\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2025-11-19", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Thank you, minister. Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 4, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/035db_2025-11-19-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2025-11-20", "year": "2025", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Percy E. Downe", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ader in the Senate. Given that Canada’s foreign affairs minister has condemned Richard Falk for his comments on the Boston Marathon massacre when he blamed it on former president Barack Obama and the State of Israel, the then-Minister of Foreign Affairs said: There is a dangerous pattern to Mr. Falk’s anti-Western and anti-Semitic comments. The United Nations should be ashamed to even be associated with such an individual. He was condemned at the time by the head of the UN. He was also condemned in 2011 by former prime minister David Cameron when he published an anti-Semitic cartoon. The images posted by Mr. Falk on his blog showed a dog wearing a Jewish head covering while urinating on a depiction of justice and devouring a bloody skeleton. Why was he allowed into the country?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 140, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/036db_2025-11-20-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "abroad", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["border"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "charge_quote": "Why was he allowed into the country?", "act_why": "adopts the charge that Falk is antisemitic and challenges his admission to Canada", "canada_role": "admitting or excluding", "trigger": "Richard Falk's admission to Canada, and his anti-Semitic comments on the Boston Marathon bombing and his 2011 cartoon", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["individual", "institution"], "target_detail": "Richard Falk; \"The United Nations should be ashamed to even be associated with such an individual\"", "israel_frame": "includes"}, {"date": "2026-02-05", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Kristopher Wells", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Yesterday, we learned that the government will be eliminating the roles of the Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia and the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism. At a time when hatred has been on the rise, many Canadians are afraid, and these roles were created to fight against the rising tide of hate. They were also a model that many hoped to see replicated to fight other forms of hate, including homophobia and transphobia. In their place, the government has announced a new …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 140, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/048db_2026-02-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["projective", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "act_why": "alarm at rising hate after the antisemitism and Islamophobia envoy roles were eliminated", "trigger": "the government's announcement, \"yesterday\", that it will eliminate the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism and the Spe", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-02-05", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Pierre Moreau", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Thank you, Senator Wells. I want to be clear. The government remains focused on confronting anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and all forms of hatred and racism. The new Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion will be composed of Canadians from a wide range of communities. The government will ensure they identify strong candidates, and appointments will be made with the council mandate and needs in mind. The new council will build upon the important work of the Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism and of the Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia. The announcement of this change was made just yesterday, and I have been informed that the minister will share further details soon on the composition of the council."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 121, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/048db_2026-02-05-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["projective", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy", "inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "public service"], "act_why": "says the government remains focused on confronting antisemitism", "trigger": "the announced replacement of the Special Envoy and Special Representative with a new Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-03-10", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… Sikh Canadians. We’ve seen attacks on Hindu Canadians. We’ve seen Islamophobia reach levels we have never seen before. This has all been over the last 10 years under the watch of a government that keeps saying they are taking the issue seriously. Now we’re in a situation where the world is saying that when it comes to anti-Semitism, all eyes are on Canada. What, concretely, are we doing about it?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 105, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/056db_2026-03-10-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["other"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "alarm at unprecedented attacks on Jewish, Sikh, Hindu and Muslim Canadians", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "\"under the watch of a government that keeps saying they are taking the issue seriously\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-03-10", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… dians, and it also has obligations under international law to ensure the safety of the diplomatic corps in Canada. On both counts, our government has failed. Does your government recognize that its permissiveness towards hateful and discriminatory rhetoric at protests since 2024 and its failure to meaningfully address anti-Semitism in this country are putting lives at risk? Government leader, do you acknowledge things are getting out of hand?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 143, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/056db_2026-03-10-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "its failure to meaningfully address anti-Semitism in this country are putting lives at risk", "act_why": "charges the government with permissiveness toward hateful rhetoric and failure on antisemitism", "trigger": "\"three synagogues in Toronto were struck by gunfire\" and the U.S. consulate in Toronto being shot at that morning", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "\"its permissiveness towards hateful and discriminatory rhetoric at protests since 2024 and its failure to meaningfully address anti-Semitism\"", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-03-10", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Pierre Moreau", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… e. There is one thing for sure: It is quite clear that the government is working hand in hand with the Alberta government to make sure that if there is a project, it will go forward and it will go forward according to Canada’s commitment to have clean energy and reach our environmental objective by 2050. Public Safety Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 83, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/056db_2026-03-10-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["green"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "answer concerns an energy project; the term appears only in a trailing section heading", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-03-10", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Pierre Moreau", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["The government is taking concrete steps. Bill C-9 is one of those concrete steps. We are on the same page, Senator Housakos. Anti-Semitism has no place here in Canada. The government is quite clear on that issue. The Prime Minister is clear on that issue. I’m clear on that issue. We are increasing police budgets, we are increasing the capacity of the RCMP to intervene, and we are acting according to those values, that anti‑Semitism has no place whatsoeve …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 87, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/056db_2026-03-10-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law", "security"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["police and security"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "states plainly that antisemitism has no place in Canada", "trigger": "Bill C-9 as the government's concrete step against anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-03-10", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Pierre Moreau", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Thank you for the question. It gives me the opportunity to be quite clear on this issue. First, the government is horrified by the reports of shots fired in Toronto, either at synagogues or at the consulate. Minister Anandasangaree stood with this community over the weekend. Anti-Semitism has no place in Canada. No one should be afraid because of who they are or who they worship. The government has been engaging with members of the Jewish community from coast to coast, who are rightfully worried about the rise of anti-Semitism. The government has made a strong commitment to protect places of worship, schools and community centres by significantly increasing the budget of the Canada Community Security Program and with the combatting hate act, Bill C-9."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 125, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/056db_2026-03-10-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["security", "criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "horrified by the synagogue shootings; antisemitism has no place in Canada", "trigger": "\"the reports of shots fired in Toronto, either at synagogues or at the consulate\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-03-11", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Andrew Cardozo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Thank you, Senator Moreau. My supplementary question is regarding anti-Semitism, which has been growing rather dangerously for many years but has become significantly worse in the last few days since the attack on Iran. There have been shootings at two synagogues in Canada and the American consulate in Toronto. I wonder if you could share with us the government’s views and plans to counter this v …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 69, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/057db_2026-03-11-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "alarm that antisemitism has grown dangerously worse, with shootings at synagogues", "trigger": "shootings at two synagogues and the American consulate in Toronto, worsened \"since the attack on Iran\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-03-11", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Pierre Moreau", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… nfrastructure are the government’s priorities. While the government regrets having to support the U.S. strikes, they come as a result of a failure of the international order. This is not a blank cheque, and Canada reaffirms that international law binds all parties, including the United States and Israel. Public Safety Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 137, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/057db_2026-03-11-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "relays the government's position on the Iran strikes; the term appears only in the heading", "trigger": "the recent U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran, which Canada had no advance notice of", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2026-03-11", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Pierre Moreau", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Thank you again for the question. First, the government is horrified by the reports of shots fired at synagogues and the U.S. Consulate General Toronto. Minister Anandasangaree stood with these communities over the weekend. Anti-Semitism has no place in Canada. No one should be afraid because of who they are or whom they worship. The government has been engaging with members of the Jewish community from coast to coast, who are rightfully worried about the rise of anti-Semitism —"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 79, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/057db_2026-03-11-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "projective"], "response": ["solidarity"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "horrified by shots fired at synagogues; antisemitism has no place in Canada", "trigger": "\"the reports of shots fired at synagogues and the U.S. Consulate General Toronto\"", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-14", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Kristopher Wells", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… ties in Halifax. In another disturbing case last fall, an individual in Newmarket, Ontario, threatened to tamper with gas lines to ignite their Muslim neighbours’ home and kill everyone inside, including children. That individual also planned to target a local mosque. Jewish communities also continue to be targeted by anti-Semitic and hateful acts, with multiple synagogues being shot at in the Toronto area last month. These horrific attacks, which target groups simply because of whom they pray to, where they gather, who they are or whom they love, have no place in Canada. These acts of hate create a sense of vulnerability that ripples far beyon …", "… ice can proceed with charges. Second, the bill would repeal what is often referred to as the “good faith religious opinion defence,” which applies only to two hate propaganda offences. This defence applies to the Criminal Code offences of wilful promotion of hatred against an identifiable group and wilful promotion of anti-Semitism by condoning, denying or downplaying the Holocaust. These offences are carefully tailored and have high thresholds, as they target the intentional promotion of hatred. The amendment to remove the “good faith religious opinion defence” was not in the original bill and has generated diverse views, with some stakeholders …", "… y communicating the statement. This “for greater certainty” clause was added following feedback from faith communities to make clear that religious expression, teaching or discussion are not captured by this new change. To clarify, the expressions captured are statements communicated to intentionally promote hatred or anti-Semitism. Honest or good faith religious expression, debate or teaching would not meet this high standard, which clearly requires the deliberate intention to promote hatred or anti-Semitism. Furthermore, the bill explicitly clarifies that a statement does not promote hatred because it merely “discredits, humiliates, hurts or offends.” This clearly reinforces that offensive or controversial speech alone does not meet this legal threshold. The threshold for hate speech in Canada is and remains extremely hi …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 3205, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/062db_2026-04-14-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "sponsor recounts synagogue shootings and hate-crime data with alarm", "trigger": "second reading of Bill C-9 in the Senate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-16", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Paula Simons", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I rise today to speak to Bill C-9, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places). There is no denying the need to fight hate in this country, be it anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia or “incel”-like misogyny. We have seen a recent rise in public racism in this country that takes my breath away, targeted at immigrants and refugees from East Asia and South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East. Political groups such as the Dominion S …", "… g. Some of it can probably be attributed to leakage from Donald Trump’s America, where his twisted version of the Republican Party has shamelessly embraced race hate and hatred of immigrants, in particular, as a populist drum beat. And, of course, the terrible wars in the Middle East are driving much of the upswing in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Canada and pitting Jewish and Muslim Canadians against one another at a time when, frankly, Canadian Muslims and Canadian Jews need to be standing together as allies against the rising tide of White supremacy. Some of it, though, is specific to Canada and to this moment. Legislation and court decis …", "… the goals of Bill C-9. But as we prepare to send the bill to committee, I want to raise some questions and cautions, which grow from my experiences with past efforts to combat hate with criminal legislation and trials. (1440) I came of age as a human being — and a journalist — in Alberta when it was in the grips of an anti-Semitic fever. In 1988, as a young magazine reporter, I covered the case of a group of members of the Ku Klux Klan who tried to blow up Calgary’s Jewish Community Centre and to kidnap and murder Calgary philanthropist and businessman Harold Milavsky. Luckily, I was not assigned — perhaps for obvious reasons — to cover “Aryan …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2917, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/064db_2026-04-16-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law", "solidarity"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "personal alarm at synagogue gunfire and firebombing, and at Alberta's anti-Semitic history", "trigger": "Bill C-9, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual", "foreign state"], "target_detail": "Jim Keegstra, Alberta's most infamous Holocaust denier; Donald Trump's America", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2026-04-21", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Minister, thank you for being with us here today. This morning, minister, our Human Rights Committee released an important report on anti-Semitism and the alarming rise in hate and violence targeting Jewish Canadians across our great country. This report exposes serious gaps in coordination, enforcement, reporting and accountability. Jewish Canadians are feeling unsafe, and many are even considering leaving the country. The government has failed to provide peace …", "… unity, minister. Daily, Jewish Canadians are facing harassment, intimidation, vandalism and violence; yet, your government’s response remains too slow and too uneven. Minister, Canadians are looking for leadership on this issue. The question is this: When will your government take decisive, meaningful action to combat anti-Semitism across Canada? More importantly, can you commit right here and now that, after reading the report, which I hope you will do in an expeditious fashion, you will acquiesce to a meeting — [ Translation ]"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 158, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/065db_2026-04-21-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "alarm that Jewish Canadians feel unsafe; charge is government slowness, not enabling", "trigger": "this morning our Human Rights Committee released an important report on anti-Semitism and the alarming rise in hate and violence targeting Jewish Canadians", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "your government's response remains too slow and too uneven", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-21", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Paulette Senior", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Honourable senators, I have the honour to inform the Senate that pursuant to the order adopted by the Senate on September 25, 2025, the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights deposited with the Clerk of the Senate on April 21, 2026, its second report entitled Standing United Against Antisemitism: Protecting Communities and Strengthening Canadian Democracy and I move that the report be placed on the Orders of the Day for consideration at the next sitting of the Senate. (On motion of Senator Senior, report placed on the Orders of the Day for consideration at the next sitting of the Senate.) Business of the Sena …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 104, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/065db_2026-04-21-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "procedural tabling of the Human Rights Committee report title", "trigger": "second report of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, Standing United Against Antisemitism: Protecting Communities and Strengthening Canadian Democrac", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-21", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Senators", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Hear, hear. ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS Study on Antisemitism Second Report of Human Rights Committee Deposited with Clerk During Adjournment of the Senate"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 21, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/065db_2026-04-21-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "chamber assent plus report heading, no position taken", "trigger": "Study on Antisemitism, Second Report of Human Rights Committee Deposited with Clerk", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-21", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… minute, and your response to one minute and 30 seconds. The question and answer for a supplementary question are both limited to 45 seconds. The reading clerk stands 10 seconds before these times expire. I ask everyone to respect these times. Question Period will last 64 minutes. [ English ] Ministry of Public Safety Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 107, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/065db_2026-04-21-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2026-04-22", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Baltej S. Dhillon", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… dents at all, citing futility, fear of retaliation or a complete absence of institutional support. Let that number settle in, colleagues: 7 in 10 victims of hate remain silent because they don’t believe that anything will be done. This silence is not unique to the Sikh community. Anti‑Black hate, anti-Indigenous hate, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia are all rising. Official statistics almost certainly undercount the true scale of the problem. Every unreported incident is a person who has quietly accepted that the law will not protect them. That is what hatred does to a society. It wounds individuals and teaches entire com …", "… ent before prosecuting hate propaganda offences. The original version of this bill removed the Attorney General consent provision entirely. That change was recommended by former provincial attorneys general and also featured in a 2024 House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights report on heightened anti-Semitism. Following further consultations, and concerns from religious groups, the decision was made to reinstate the provision. Senator Wells explained that the rationale for keeping it was to prevent frivolous prosecutions, which is a genuine concern. However, is Attorney General consent the right way to preserve judicial in …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2035, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/066db_2026-04-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism", "other"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "lists anti-Semitism among rising hatreds and calls hate a wound to society", "trigger": "Bill C-9, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-22", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Senator Moreau, acts of anti-Semitism are reaching record levels in Canada. We need to react quickly. The Jewish community warned the federal ministers of immigration and Canadian identity, but no action has been taken on these cases. Why should Canadians believe that the government takes anti-Semitism seriously or that it will act on the Senate report when our Jewish community is raising the alarm and being ignored? It’s good that the Senate did its job properly on this issue—"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 79, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/066db_2026-04-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation"], "response": ["border"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "act_why": "alarm at record anti-Semitism; charge against government is inaction, not enabling", "trigger": "the Senate report on anti-Semitism (Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "The Jewish community warned the federal ministers... but no action has been taken", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-22", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… t was organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement and is linked to designated terrorist groups, such as Samidoun and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. This raises serious questions about how taxpayer money is being managed. How does your government justify using federal funds to provide a platform for anti-Semitism and the glorification of terrorism?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 91, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/066db_2026-04-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "reputation"], "response": ["funding"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "charge_quote": "How does your government justify using federal funds to provide a platform for anti-Semitism and the glorification of terrorism?", "act_why": "charges the government with using federal funds to platform anti-Semitism", "trigger": "yet another pro-terror event that was held at a federally funded community centre in Montreal, organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "blames", "target": ["political opponent", "protest movement"], "target_detail": "your government... using federal funds to provide a platform for anti-Semitism; the Palestinian Youth Movement, linked to Samidoun and the PFLP", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2026-04-22", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Pierre Moreau", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Senator Housakos, I must strongly disagree with the assertion that Canada is encouraging anti-Semitism. That part of the question is nonsense. The government believes that there is no place for anti-Semitism in Canada. In fact, through the Canada Community Security Program, the government has increased the budget by $10 million, specifically for projects for places of worship and for Jewish communities, including schools, community centres and synagogues. Stop saying that the government is encouraging anti-Semitism. First, it is not true, and second, it goes against Canadian values. We believe that Canada is no place for anti-Semitism, nor is it a place for any other form of hate or detestation. We are currently studying Bill C-9, along with Senator Wells, precisely to prevent —"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 123, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/066db_2026-04-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "market"], "response": ["funding", "security"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "act_why": "rejects the assertion that the government is encouraging anti-Semitism as nonsense", "trigger": "the pro-terror event held at a federally funded community centre in Montreal", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-22", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "The Speaker (chair)", "role": "presiding", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Thank you, Senator Moreau. Public Safety Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": true, "words": 7, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/066db_2026-04-22-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "corpus_type": "narrow"}, {"date": "2026-04-28", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Donna Dasko", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… dressed by the Senate committee studying this bill. First, Parliament has not undertaken a comprehensive review of hate crimes in Canada in the 56 years since the introduction of the hate-propaganda provisions of the Criminal Code. I recognize the excellent work of the Senate Human Rights Committee in their studies of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. I recommend that the committee consider how they might expand their research within a reasonable time frame and make recommendations from there. Just because we are studying a bill does not mean that we should stop studying this phenomenon. Instead, we must continue to study it intensively. Second, I …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1457, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/068db_2026-04-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians", "academics"], "act_why": "shares urgency about rising hate crimes against Jewish and Muslim Canadians", "trigger": "Bill C-9 at second reading in the Senate", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-28", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Paulette Senior", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["moved: That the second report of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, entitled Standing United Against Antisemitism: Protecting Communities and Strengthening Canadian Democracy, deposited with the Clerk of the Senate on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, be adopted and that, pursuant to rule 12-23(1), the Senate request a complete and detailed response from the government, with the Minister of Justice being identified as minister responsible for responding to the report, in consultation with the Minister of Public Safety and the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture. She said: Honourable senators, as Chair of the Senate Committee on Human Rights, I am proud to take a few moments to highlight the release of our report, entitled Standing United Against Antisemitism: Protecting Communities and Strengthening Canadian Democracy . Anti-Semitism is a growing problem in Canada. Although the Jewish community is just 1% of Canada’s population, it has been the number one target for hate crimes since 2023. The Jewish community has also been the target of 70% of religiously motivated hate crimes in the same time frame. It is against this backdrop that our committee launched a study of anti-Semitism in Canada. We heard many troubling stories and statistics about the rise of anti-Semitism in Canada. Some young Jewish students have opted to conceal their identities to avoid name-calling and bullying; some working adults have said that they have felt a need to conceal synagogue affiliations or associations with Israel; and, most alarmingly, places of worship, community centres and schools have been threa …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 387, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/068db_2026-04-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians", "survivors and witnesses"], "act_why": "procedural consideration of the report entitled Standing United Against Antisemitism", "trigger": "second report of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, Standing United Against Antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-28", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Senators", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Agreed. (Debate postponed until the next sitting of the Senate.) Study on Antisemitism Second Report of Human Rights Committee and Request for Government Response Adopted The Senate proceeded to consideration of the second report of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, entitled Standing United Against Antisemitism: Protecting Communities and Strengthening Canadian Democracy , deposited with the Clerk of the Senate on April 21, 2026."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 65, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/068db_2026-04-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "jurisdiction": ["none"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "act_why": "duplicate procedural text with the report title", "trigger": "second report of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, Standing United Against Antisemitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-28", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Paulette Senior", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Thank you for the question, senator. I think it illustrates some of the challenges we had in our committee deliberations. We heard several definitions of anti-Semitism in our committee. We realized that these definitions differ and were the cause of some division. Because our work was focused on identifying issues of anti-Semitism in Canada, we refrained from choosing what definition to go by. Instead, we decided to focus on the core issue of addressing what we heard from countless witnesses in terms of their experiences of anti-Semitism in Canada, whether that be at their work, in their communities, in their synagogues, at academic institutions, et cetera."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 106, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/068db_2026-04-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["survivors and witnesses", "parliamentarians"], "act_why": "describes how the committee handled competing definitions, taking no position", "trigger": "the Human Rights Committee's report on anti-Semitism and the competing definitions heard in its deliberations", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-28", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Paulette Senior", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Senator, thank you for your question. You are asking me about the work of the committee, and I want to respond by saying that is not the work that the committee focused on. It is not for me to determine whether you are being anti-Semitic, senator. The work was based on looking at experiences of anti-Semitism. That is not a question that we examined. Thank you."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 66, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/068db_2026-04-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": [], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "declines to adjudicate the label, restating the committee's remit", "trigger": "the Human Rights Committee's report on anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-28", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Yuen Pau Woo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… prejudice based on race and religion continues to persist in this country. The harms of anti‑Semitism and the fears of our Jewish brothers and sisters are real, and we must do everything we can to prevent “. . . discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews . . . .” I have cited a definition of anti-Semitism based on what is called the Jerusalem Declaration because it is very precise about what anti-Semitism is, but there is confusion, I think, in this country as to what constitutes anti-Semitism. (1730) I’d like you to tell us what the committee learned about whether certain acts constitute anti-Semitism. For example, is it anti-Semitic to criticize Israel for acts of genocide, apartheid, war crimes and crimes against humanity in its prosecution of war against Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 166, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/068db_2026-04-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["academics"], "act_why": "cites the Jerusalem Declaration and asks whether criticism of Israel is being labelled anti-Semitic", "trigger": "the committee's report on anti-Semitism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2026-04-28", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Yuen Pau Woo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Thank you for the answer. I am not really interested in definitions, but I’m interested in knowing if it is anti-Semitic for me to quote the UN and dozens of human rights organizations that say Israel is committing genocide, is an apartheid state and is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. These are important questions. I want to get some insight from you and the committee because there are Canadians who are saying these things in good faith in an attempt to try to stop the horror in Gaza and the West Bank. Are they being anti-Semitic?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 98, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/068db_2026-04-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "inspired"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "asks whether quoting UN genocide findings makes Canadians anti-Semitic", "trigger": "the committee's report on anti-Semitism and its treatment of criticism of Israel", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2026-04-28", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Yuen Pau Woo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["The public is listening to this debate on a question as straightforward as mine, asking about documented and supported accusations of Israel’s war crimes, genocide and apartheid in Palestine, and this chamber cannot say clearly that these accusations are not anti-Semitic. Can you imagine the chill that puts on those who want to advocate for Palestinians? It appears that we are saying in this chamber that we don’t know whether we are able to say that there is a genocide taking place. It would seem that this committee is unwilling to deal with the issue and is now leaving us with the ambiguity that those kinds of statements may well be anti-Semitic. I am going to try one more time to see if you can give us any guidance. There are individuals — Canadians in universities, students, faculty, teachers, people working in unions, doctors and lawyers — who have been persecuted, who have lost their jobs and who have been reprimanded because they have made claims about Israel that were said to be and held up as anti-Semitic. What can we tell these people — that they are anti-Semites?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 189, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/068db_2026-04-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "objects that critics of Israel lose jobs after claims are held up as anti-Semitic", "trigger": "the committee's report on anti-Semitism and its treatment of criticism of Israel", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2026-04-28", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Yuen Pau Woo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Let me take a slightly different tack, then. Do you feel that a vague definition of anti-Semitism, such as the one that the committee put a lot of emphasis on — the so‑called International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, definition, which is very elastic and can be used to weaponize accusations of anti-Semitism against people who are critical of Israel — may cause more harm to the fight against anti-Semitism than benefit?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 72, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/068db_2026-04-28-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["definition or envoy"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "response_stance": "opposes", "act_why": "says the elastic IHRA definition weaponizes accusations of anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the committee's emphasis on the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism in its report", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2026-04-30", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "David M. Wells", "role": "Acting Deputy Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… e crimes in Canada have risen by 258%. Hate crimes targeting the Jewish community have surged by 416%, and those targeting South Asian Canadians have increased by nearly 380%. In 2024 alone, nearly 5,000 hate crimes were reported across the country — the highest number ever recorded. Since October 7, 2023, the rise in anti-Semitism has become impossible to ignore. Synagogues have been targeted. For many Jewish families, insecurity is no longer a perception; it is a reality. Students have been harassed simply because they are Jewish — here in Canada in 2026. We must also recall another reality that is spoken of far too little: the rise in anti-Ch …", "… of certain symbols. No one here is seeking to trivialize hateful symbols or what they may represent. However, it has been argued that this provision risks being both redundant, given that the Criminal Code already contains offences such as public incitement of hatred, wilful promotion of hatred and wilful promotion of anti-Semitism, and is difficult to apply consistently. In an already-tense context, that risks shifting onto police and prosecutors the responsibility of drawing the line themselves between what falls within criminal law and what does not. Honourable senators, here again, one must ask whether the problem truly lies in the absence of provisions in the Code, or rather in the use that is made of them. Mark Sandler, chair of the Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism, indicated that the real problem lies more in the underuse of existing legislative provisions than in the absence of legislative tools. That is where the real question lies. Will this bill truly prevent what we have witnessed in recent months or years or will it mainly add another layer to the Criminal Code, while man …", "… minal Code heavier will, by itself, change what targeted communities are actually experiencing. Colleagues, I now turn to the amendment adopted in the other place with respect to section 319 of the Criminal Code. That amendment removes from the provisions dealing with wilful promotion of hatred and wilful promotion of anti-Semitism the defence under which a person cannot be convicted if they, in good faith, expressed an opinion on a religious subject — or an opinion based on a religious text in which they believe — or attempted to establish such an opinion by argument. In other words, this is not a mere drafting adjustment. It is the removal fro …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2371, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/070db_2026-04-30-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism", "other"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal", "police and security"], "act_why": "calls the post-October 7 rise in anti-Semitism impossible to ignore while urging caution on the bill", "trigger": "Bill C-9, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places), at second reading", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "context only"}, {"date": "2026-04-30", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… t have served families and provided education within communities for many years. Jewish Canadians have been looking for clarity and assurances from the government. Can you confirm that the Canada Revenue Agency, or CRA, will apply the law fairly and reject these baseless accusations and complaints that are coming from anti-Semitic hate groups?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 89, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/070db_2026-04-30-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "market"], "response": ["other"], "response_stance": "proposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["public service"], "charge_quote": "baseless accusations and complaints that are coming from anti-Semitic hate groups", "act_why": "charges anti-Semitic hate groups with filing baseless CRA complaints against 11 Jewish schools", "trigger": "reports that anti-Semitic organizations are attempting to misuse Canada's charitable framework, including efforts to strip 11 Jewish schools of their charitable", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "names", "target": ["institution"], "target_detail": "baseless accusations and complaints that are coming from anti-Semitic hate groups... efforts to strip 11 Jewish schools of their charitable status", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-04-30", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Pierre Moreau", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Yes, I totally agree with the premise of your question, which is more of an intervention than a question. I reiterate that anti-Semitism in any form whatsoever is totally unacceptable here in Canada. ORDERS OF THE DAY Criminal Code Bill to Amend—Second Reading On the Order: Resuming debate on the motion of the Honourable Senator Wells ( Alberta ), seconded by the Honourable Senator Cardozo, for the second reading of Bill C-9, An Act to amend the Crimin …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 90, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/070db_2026-04-30-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "states anti-Semitism in any form is totally unacceptable", "trigger": "the complaints seeking to strip 11 Jewish schools of their charitable status", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-05-06", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "David Arnot", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Senator Moreau, I wish to acknowledge the important work of the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights in its recent report on anti-Semitism. Given the evidence of serious and ongoing safety risks and terrorist attacks at Jewish schools and places of worship, what immediate steps is the government taking to ensure that these institutions are protected?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 56, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/072db_2026-05-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["security"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "cites safety risks and attacks at Jewish schools and asks what protection is coming", "trigger": "the recent report on anti-Semitism of the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-05-06", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Pierre Moreau", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["We will do it by doing what the government does best: working every day to provide new jobs for Canadians, making sure that our economy is growing stronger, forming alliances all over the world, diversifying our economy and working every day toward Canadian prosperity. Public Safety Anti-Semitism"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 47, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/072db_2026-05-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "unclear", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["market", "projective"], "response": ["none"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "answer about the economy; term appears only in the rubric heading", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-05-06", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Pierre Moreau", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Thank you for that important question, senator. Hate and anti-Semitism have no place in our communities or anywhere in Canada. In the spring economic update, the government announced an additional $75 million over five years for the Canada Community Security Program, which provides time-limited funding and support for communities at risk of hate-motivated incidents or crimes to enhance s …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 140, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/072db_2026-05-06-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "none", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "market"], "response": ["funding", "security"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "act_why": "says hate and anti-Semitism have no place in Canada, citing security funding", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-06-03", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["If the government were committed in terms of action to fight anti-Semitism, it wouldn’t put into place another advisory committee to duplicate the robust work that a standing Senate committee or a parliamentary committee has already done for them. It raises two questions here: Is the government not really that committed in a tangible way to fighting anti-Semitism, or, more importantly, does the government have absolutely no confidence in the parliamentary process and in this very institution and the work that our committee did?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 84, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/078db_2026-06-03-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "report", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "opposes", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "questions the government's commitment to fighting anti-Semitism, a charge of inaction", "trigger": "the report on anti-Semitism published by the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights and its 22 recommendations", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "Is the government not really that committed in a tangible way to fighting anti-Semitism", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-06-03", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Leo Housakos", "role": "Leader of the Opposition", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["My question is for the government leader. This past Monday, the Prime Minister stood at a synagogue in Toronto and announced the creation of a faith advisory council tasked, among other things, of course, to combat anti-Semitism, which is noble enough. It took many years for this Liberal government to take action on this scourge that the Jewish community is facing. Yet over a month ago, the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights published a report on anti-Semitism that we sent to the Prime Minister. This report was conducted over a period of a year, and we heard from dozens of witnesses. The report has 22 concrete recommendations, all ready to go, yet the Prime Minister is brushing them off and putting into place another advisory committee. Will you agree that it is not time fo …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 159, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/078db_2026-06-03-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "presses for action on the Senate report's recommendations on anti-Semitism", "trigger": "this past Monday, the Prime Minister stood at a synagogue in Toronto and announced the creation of a faith advisory council", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["political opponent"], "target_detail": "It took many years for this Liberal government to take action on this scourge... the Prime Minister is brushing them off", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-06-03", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Nancy Karetak-Lindell", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… iation commitments. These harms are well documented and are not contested in Canadian public law or policy. This amendment does not create a new legal principle; it applies an existing one consistently. Throughout our study of this bill, we have recognized the very real harms caused by Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, anti-Semitism and other forms of hate. We have heard compelling testimony about the need for targeted responses where particular communities are disproportionately impacted by hatred and discrimination. I support those protections. The question before us is why Indigenous Peoples should be treated differently. The obligation of the Government of Canada to protect Canadians does not diminish when the affected community is Indigenous. Indigenous Peoples should not be required to wait longer for protections already recognized as necessary in other contexts. The Prime Minister has stated that anti-Semitism requires a serious and targeted response, a principle currently reflected in Canadian law, including through the recognition of Holocaust denialism as hate propaganda when it meets the statutory threshold. I agree with that approach. This legal framework creates a precedent, which has been established by Parliament, t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1236, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/078db_2026-06-03-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["islamophobia", "racism"], "orders": ["civic", "domestic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "treats anti-Semitism and anti-Indigenous hate as real harms warranting criminal law", "trigger": "Bill C-9 at report stage, and the committee's amendment on wilful promotion of residential school denialism", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-06-03", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Paulette Senior", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… hatred against Indigenous Peoples by condoning, denying or downplaying the Indian residential schools system. A related amendment to Bill C-9 made coordinating amendments to the Criminal Code to provide that this new offence has similar defences and procedural protections to the existing offence of wilful promotion of anti-Semitism, which is section 319(2.1) of the Criminal Code. Finally, the committee amended clause 6 of Bill C-9 to add an exception to new section 423.3 of the Criminal Code, which creates a new offence that would prohibit conduct that intentionally provokes a state of fear in someone in order to impede their access to a religio …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1178, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/078db_2026-06-03-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["racism"], "orders": ["industrial", "civic"], "response": ["criminal law"], "quoted": true, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "response_stance": "proposes", "act_why": "committee chair relays amendments and observations on Bill C-9", "trigger": "the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights report on Bill C-9, its four amendments and seven observations", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "reports", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-06-03", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Pierre Moreau", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Senator Woo, I am not an expert in defining what is or is not anti-Semitism. There is one thing for sure: The government is committed to ensuring there is no anti-Semitism in the country. That’s the reason why an advisory council has been put in place. I repeat that the mandate of the council is to reassess, develop, improve and measure the government’s actions for all groups, including the Jewish community, to ensure that all Canadian values are respected in this action, and that’s the purpose of the committee. Now, to directly address your question, I am not the one who will define today in Question Period what is or is not anti-Semitism. I think it’s more important than that, and it requires more than one minute to answer."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 129, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/078db_2026-06-03-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "jurisdiction": ["none"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "act_why": "declines to define the term but states the government's commitment against anti-Semitism", "trigger": "the Prime Minister's announcement of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-06-03", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Yuen Pau Woo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["It is extraordinary that you cannot say that a country engaging in grave violations of international law cannot be criticized and that it’s possible that such a criticism can be deemed to be anti-Semitic. Is this why the government has been so silent on the United Nation’s inclusion of Israel to the black list of countries that indulge in sexual violence in conflicts? There has been no comment from the Canadian government."], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 72, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/078db_2026-06-03-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "foreign_event", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["reputation", "civic"], "response": ["foreign policy"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "objects that criticism of a state's violations can be deemed anti-Semitic", "trigger": "the United Nations' inclusion of Israel on the blacklist of countries that indulge in sexual violence in conflicts", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2026-06-03", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Yuen Pau Woo", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["Senator Moreau, good afternoon. I also want to talk about the Prime Minister’s announcement of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion and congratulate the Prime Minister on this initiative, which will focus on anti-Semitism as its first priority. Shortly after the council was announced, a number of Jewish groups came out criticizing it, saying that it did not address the fundamental problem of anti-Semitism, which it claims is harsh criticism of Israel and anti-Israel narratives. This is a key question. Senator Housakos is right to refer to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, or RIDR, report. There is a lot of good stuff in it. But the report did not address this issue, so I’m asking you if you can clarify. Can you confirm that it is not anti-Semitic to criticize Israel harshly for grave violations of international law, as documented by the United Nations and other international organizations?"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 153, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/078db_2026-06-03-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "incident", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["inquiry or summit"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["international bodies"], "act_why": "asks for confirmation that harsh criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic", "trigger": "the Prime Minister's announcement of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion and the criticism of it by Jewish groups", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "disputes", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "separates"}, {"date": "2026-06-04", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "David M. Wells", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… came back elsewhere in different forms. Richard Marceau of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs reminded us that we may have the best laws on paper, but if they are not properly enforced they become pointless. The tools already exist; they still have to be used. Mark Sandler of the Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism also stressed that criminal law is only one tool among others and that prevention, education and other upstream measures are also necessary. In other words, even those who support the objective of the bill recognize that the Criminal Code alone will not be enough. Even on the policing side, the need for caution was ex …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2038, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/079db_2026-06-04-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["education", "criminal law"], "response_stance": "says action is inadequate", "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations", "police and security"], "act_why": "critic accepts the worsening reality of hate crimes while questioning the bill's scope", "trigger": "Bill C-9 at third reading, as critic of the bill", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-06-04", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Kristopher Wells", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… o religious or cultural places). He said: Honourable senators, I rise today as the Senate sponsor of Bill C-9, the combatting hate act, to speak to the importance of Bill C-9 and why we need to pass this bill without any further delay. As the Prime Minister said a few days ago, when he announced new measures to combat anti-Semitism, “Pluralism in Canada is not the exception to the framework. Pluralism is the framework.” He further said that, today, in Canada, pluralism is being tested, as our communities are “. . . being particularly and brutally targeted.” This is a moment for the kind of leadership that Canadians — and, indeed, people around t …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 4394, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/079db_2026-06-04-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "high", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["parliamentarians"], "act_why": "sponsor details hate-crime data and calls hate intolerable", "trigger": "third reading of Bill C-9, the combatting hate act", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-06-04", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Kristopher Wells", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… s stakeholders urged us to pass this legislation without further delay. We heard this clearly from the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, Canadian Hindus for Harmony, the Organization for the Prevention of Violence, B’nai Brith Canada, the Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism, the Toronto Police Service and the Edmonton Police Service, to name only a few. We heard clearly and directly from the Minister of Justice: We should recognize through the definition of hate that the ordinary practice of faith is not a hate crime to begin with. . . . . . . Canada is a country built on multiculturalis …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 321, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/079db_2026-06-04-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "governing_party": "Liberal", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "jurisdiction": ["police and security", "community organisations"], "quoted": false, "confidence": "medium", "act_why": "urges passage of the anti-hate bill and rebuts misleading claims about religious expression", "trigger": "the amendment to restore the good-faith religious opinion defence to Bill C-9", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": false, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-06-04", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Paula Simons", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… gnition of hate crime’s harm and its affront to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; and the understanding that the government takes this dehumanizing, destabilizing and corrosive crime type seriously. Naming the harm matters. Several Jewish groups also offered powerful testimony about the corrosive, terrifying rise in anti-Semitism in Canada and the potential for Bill C-9 to respond to that crisis. Let me quote from the presentation of Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center: We are seeing hate crimes remain under-reported, under-investigated, under-prosecuted and too often under-se …", "… l freedoms, and cause an overall chilling effect that will deter long-standing traditions of democratic civic engagement on political and social issues. That will not make our communities safer. And while several Jewish groups spoke passionately and eloquently in support of Bill C-9, especially in this time of vicious anti-Semitism from both the right and the left, the Jewish community is in no way united on this issue — not surprising, perhaps, in a culture that celebrates and prizes debate. As the adage goes, when you have two Jews, you have three opinions. A coalition of five progressive Jewish groups — IfNotNow Toronto, Independent Jewish Voices, the Jewish Faculty Network, Jews Say No to Genocide and the United Jewish People’s Order — presented their own brief to the committee. I will quote from it: Much of the talk around this Bill has been about addressing antisemitism. We know anti-Semitism is real and linked to all other forms of oppressive systems. We also know that criticism of the State of Israel is not inherently antisemitic, nor is protesting corporations, institutions or individuals who have directly supported the Israeli government or who seek to silence pro-Palestinian movements. They continued: Bill C-9 imposes severe consequences for protest activities, language and visual displays. The language of the legislation means that police …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 2878, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/079db_2026-06-04-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": true, "confidence": "medium", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["community organisations"], "act_why": "names the vicious rise of anti-Semitism while relaying conflicting committee testimony", "trigger": "Bill C-9, the combatting hate act, at third reading", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["individual"], "target_detail": "an individual from Newmarket plotted to bomb synagogues across Toronto (quoted from testimony)", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-06-04", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Pierre J. Dalphond", "role": "", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… as are the comments made by Senator Cardozo. I must say that, like all of you, I read and received letters, emails, cards and so on. I was intrigued and so I decided to look into this more closely. I realized that the initial version of this bill did not exclude the two “good faith” defences, either for the offence of anti-Semitism or for the offence of promoting hatred, offences that existed in the Criminal Code and to which we were going to add a third offence on the use of symbols to spread hate. I really gave this some thought and I thank Senator Martin for giving us the opportunity to debate it. I went to see her yesterday to tell her that …"], "terms": ["antisemitism"], "matched_in": "en", "where": "spoken", "procedural": false, "words": 1917, "url": "https://sencanada.ca/en/content/sen/chamber/451/debates/079db_2026-06-04-e", "url_official": null, "source": "sencanada", "locus": "canada", "occasion": "legislation", "alongside": ["none"], "orders": ["civic", "industrial"], "response": ["criminal law"], "response_stance": "supports", "quoted": false, "confidence": "low", "governing_party": "Liberal", "jurisdiction": ["legal"], "act_why": "legal argument that hatred cannot be promoted in good faith; no label dispute", "trigger": "Senator Martin's amendment to restore the good-faith defences in s. 319(3)", "corpus_type": "narrow", "needs_review": true, "act": "condemns", "target": ["none"], "target_detail": "", "israel_frame": "not at issue"}, {"date": "2026-06-04", "year": "2026", "session": "45-1", "parliament": "45", "speaker": "Pierre Moreau", "role": "Government Representative in the Senate", "party": null, "riding": null, "province": null, "topic": "", "passages": ["… . .” All the components of this clause are integral and support the interpretation of the relevant provision in the Criminal Code. The clause was precisely informed by round tables and further consultation with stakeholders held by the Minister of Justice earlier this year. 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