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FSWC Finds Questionable Bias In Survey Of Toronto Star
FSWC News Release. June 18, 2010
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Re: - McQuaig: Partner in flotilla ‘farce’
Letter to the Toronto Star by Avi Benlolo. June 17, 2010
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Report sees online hate growing, experts urge parents to discuss negative impact of digital hate with children
FSWC News Release. June 8, 2010
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Re: Controversial Mideast book stays in Toronto schools
Letter to the Toronto Star by Avi Benlolo. April 8, 2010
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Simon Wiesenthal Center’s annual report on Digital Terrorism & Hate
FSWC News Release. November 23, 2009
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FSWC Salutes Toronto International Film Festival; Shocked by Israel Film Boycotts
FSWC News Release. September 3, 2009
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Free Speech a One Way Street at York-Queens Conference
FSWC News Release. June 23, 2009
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Review finds 7,000 vile Internet sites – and numbers are growing
Winnipeg Free Press. October 18, 2007
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Internet is a breeding ground for hate
Hamilton Spectator. October 18, 2007
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Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center thanks VisionTV for their response regarding hateful remarks on television program
FSWC Letter. August 8, 2007
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Hatred weaves evil new web.
Calgary Sun. June 1, 2007
In the global launch yesterday in Calgary of its 10th annual Digital Terrorism and
Hate report, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's researchers in Los Angeles, Toronto,
Jerusalem, Paris, New York and Buenos Aires unearthed more than 7,000 hair-raising
websites -- an increase of almost 17% from 2006 -- that foment and nurture hatred
and even teach wannabe terrorists how to build bombs and carry out suicide bombing
attacks.
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FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER EXPOSES AND TERMINATES CANADIAN TERROR WEBSITE.
FSWC News Release. March 21, 2007.
 Friends
of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) has succeeded in removing
the latest terrorist website from Canadian cyberspace.
The Arabic language website, Detachments of Martyr Ahmed Abualrish, was
discovered by Wiesenthal researchers compiling the Center’s soon-to-be-released
CD-ROM Report, Digital Terrorism & Hate 2007; its annual report on Internet
extremism. Read more...
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Hackers bring down neo-Nazi website
Canadian Jewish News. January 25, 2007.
The centre brought the site to the attention of police in Ontario and Saskatchewan,
asking that they investigate the "registrant," a resident of Barrie, Ontario, and
the "contact person," who lives in Regina. The centre believed the site violated
Canada's hate laws, said Leo Adler, Canadian director of national affairs for the
centre. Read
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CANADIAN NEO-NAZI GROUP EXPOSED WITH THE HELP OF FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER
FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES
FSWC News Release. January 17, 2007.
 Canadian
law enforcement officials (including the RCMP and OPP) had been informed of a neo-Nazi
website registered to a Canadian citizen by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
for Holocaust Studies in Toronto.
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Turning over the dark side of the web.
Backbone Magazine. January 11, 2007.
Leo Adler, director of national affairs at the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center
for Holocaust Studies, regularly approaches ISPs to remove sites that cross the
line, and he claims considerable success. "Ninety per cent of the time we found
that the server agrees with us and we shut them down. The few times they don't agree,
we go to the police." Read more...
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'What starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews'
Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. November 20, 2006.
The Center's current sponsorship of a high school essay contest across Europe on
"Nuremburg – The Lessons of War Crimes Trials and an exhibition on "Nazi Euthanasia"
is to emphasize that all hatred is indivisible. Read more...
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Cyberspace a haven for hate and terrorist activity
London Topic. November 15, 2006.
The video images show a close up of a man's passport and documents, suddenly, without
warning, the scene shifts to the man struggling on the ground, hands tied behind
his back, the barrel of a high-powered rifle comes into frame and - bang - the man
is shot in the head.
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Wiesenthal digital hate report out in French
Canadian Jewish News (Montreal edition). August 10, 2006.
… Adler cited the example of two Internet hate sites on Montreal-based servers,
including one that was pro-Hezbollah, that were successfully shut down this past
may. Read more...
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Centre warns of ugly anti-Jewish websites
Charlottetown Guardian. August 4, 2006.
As the death and destruction continues in the Middle East, a new war is being raged,
the one on the Internet.
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Collating Hate
The Hour. August 3, 2006.
The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies honoured Montreal psychologist,
educator and trainer Dr. Myrna Lashley of the Centre for Research Action and Race
Relations last week for her efforts in promoting multicultural understanding. Read more...
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Hate Control
Montreal Mirror. August 3, 2006.
Last week, The Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Toronto-based, Canadian
branch of the International Jewish human rights group, released their eighth annual
Digital Terrorism and Hate report at a Montreal press conference. Read more...
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Anti-Semitism and terrorism intimately linked, says speaker
Canadian Jewish News. August 3, 2006.
Canada and the rest of the world are facing “an anti-Semitism-terrorism nexus” that
is without frontiers” and threatens humanity, said Shimon Samuels, director of international
relations for the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Read more...
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Internet-based terror groups 'fastest-growing type of hate'
Montreal Gazette. July 28, 2006.
The 2006 Digital Terrorism and hate study, which was made public yesterday in Montreal
as part of a global campaign, puts the number of websites, blogs and newsgroups
that incite hate at more than 6,000, a 20-per-cent jump over last year. Read more...
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DIGITAL TERRORISM AND HATE 2006 CD ROM REPORT TO BE RELEASED IN MONTREAL.
FSWC News Conference Invitation. July 20, 2006.
LE RAPPORT SUR CD ROM PORTANT SUR LE TERRORISME ET LA HAINE NUMERIQUE EN 2006 RENDU
PUBLIC À MONTRÉAL
Invitation À Un Point De Presse
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Wiesenthal Center cites hate, terrorism Web pages
CBC News. July 16, 2006.
Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies has released a list
of more than 200 Web sites it says promote terrorism and hate… The organization
said the compilation is intended to give law-enforcement officials, public officials,
educators, parents and media a better understanding of the scope of "digital hate."
More than 30,000 copies of the new CD-ROM have been produced. Read more...
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'Vile' hate messages land Ontario man in Jail.
CanWest News Service. July 14, 2006.
"Hopefully is will send a message to people that, firstly, they should not be practicing
hate in Canada and Secondly, if you are going to do it and the courts tell you to
stop, they mean it," said Leo Adler, director of national affairs for the Simon
Wiesenthal Centre, a Jewish human rights organization. Read more...
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Suicide bombers recruited on Web site hosted in Montreal.
National Post. May 10, 2006.
A Farsi-language Web site that glorifies suicide bombers and appears to be based
out of Iran was uncovered yesterday on the server of a Montreal-based Internet provider.
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Farsi hate websites worry Holocaust group.
Globe and Mail. May 10, 2006.
Leo Adler, a director with the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre for Holocaust
Studies, said yesterday he has written to police and Internet service providers
about several such sites in recent weeks. Read more...
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‘GLOBAL VIRTUAL UNIVERSITIES OF TERRORISM’ HIGHLIGHTED IN TERRORIST AND HATE INTERNET
SITES REPORT BY FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER
FSWC News Release. May 5, 2006.
The number of terror and hate websites, newsgroups, blogs, chat rooms and online
clubs has surged above 6,000.....representing a 20 per cent spike over last year.
That's the finding of the 2006 edition of Digital Terrorism and Hate, an interactive
Report released by Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center released in Halifax today.
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Feature: Digital Hate 2006.
Monitor. May, 2006.
The Los Angeles CA-bases Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) and the Canadian Friends
of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) in Toronto, last month released their annual report
on the dark side of the Internet...
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Canada moves 'to turn back the culture of terrorism'.
Ottawa Jewish Bulletin. April 24, 2006.
Rabbi Cooper was recently in Ottawa to release the Simon Wiesenthal Center annual
CD-Rom report, Digital Terrorism and Hate 2006. While here, the rabbi
met with Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay, Justice Minister Vic Toews and Public
Safety Minister Stockwell Day.
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Web a bomb 'university'.
The Toronto Star. April 6, 2006.
Looking for a bomb-making kit, attack plan, or handy list of targets near you? Go
to the Internet. That's the conclusion of the latest report on Internet terrorism
and hate-related activities by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Toronto-based
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Online hate growing rapidly.
National Post. April 6, 2006.
The number of hate Web sites on the Internet has grown exponentially in the last
decade, says a new report by the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center. Read more...
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Senior federal cabinet ministers to get "snapshot" of Internet terrorism.
Rogers Yahoo Mail & Canadian Press. April 6, 2006.
"We've tried to put together a snapshot that I think will help (the ministers)...
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Internet use by hate groups increasing: expert.
CBC News. April 5, 2006.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles,
is in Canada this week to present the group's annual report of digital terrorism
and hate to the new Canadian government. Read more...
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TERRORIST AND HATE INTERNET SITES SURGING IN 2006, PROVIDING GLOBAL ‘VIRTUAL UNIVERSITIES
OF TERRORISM', SAYS FRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER
FSWC News Release. April 5, 2006.
The number of terror and hate websites, newsgroups, blogs, chat rooms and online
clubs has surged above 6,000.....representing a 20 per cent spike over last year.
That's the finding of the 2006 edition of Digital Terrorism and Hate, an interactive
Report by Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center and Canadian Friends of the
Simon Wiesenthal Center released in Toronto today. Read more...
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