UM Todayantisemitism – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Winnipeg Free Press: Man, 19, charged in antisemitic graffiti incidents https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/winnipeg-free-press-man-19-charged-in-antisemitic-graffiti-incidents/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/winnipeg-free-press-man-19-charged-in-antisemitic-graffiti-incidents/#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:50:56 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=209902 Dozens of Charleswood walls, fences defaced; doesn’t meet criteria for hate crime, police say]]> Three Criminal Code offences specifically pertain to hate under a hate propaganda section, said Kenneth Grad, an assistant professor in the University of Manitoba faculty of law.

The offences are advocating genocide, public incitement of hatred and willful promotion of hatred. A subsection says a person willfully promotes antisemitism by condoning, denying or downplaying the Holocaust.

A separate section includes the offence of mischief against religious property motivated by hate, Grad noted.

To read the entire article, please follow the link to the Winnipeg Free Press.

]]> https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/winnipeg-free-press-man-19-charged-in-antisemitic-graffiti-incidents/feed/ 0 CBC Manitoba Weekend Show: What is the line between antisemitism and criticism of the state of Israel? https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/cbc-manitoba-weekend-show-what-is-the-line-between-antisemitism-and-criticism-of-the-state-of-israel/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/cbc-manitoba-weekend-show-what-is-the-line-between-antisemitism-and-criticism-of-the-state-of-israel/#respond Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:31:51 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=205366 What is the line between antisemitism and criticism of the state of Israel?]]> Listen to a conversation on the different definitions of antisemitism with Associate History Professor Ben Baader who specializes in Jewish and European history.

To listen to the full conversation you can find the link here.

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