Aron Csaplaros

British Columbia Regional Manager at @bnaibrithcanada | My Tweets, RTs, and likes are my own.

[Aboud D. @CanuckAboud]

I mean, there is a reason why Khalid Barakat is banned from the USA and the EU. Does belonging to a designated terror group have no repercussions in Canada? 🤦🏻‍♂️

[B'nai Brith Canada @bnaibrithcanada]

We have to talk about what happened in Vancouver last week...

Canada's laws need to change, and they need to change now. We won't stop fighting for a Criminal Code that stops terror before it spreads.

Footage courtesy of @mashakleiner

[David Granovsky דוד גרנובסקי @GranoDavid]

This is why I love working for @bnaibrithcanada.

[David Granovsky דוד גרנובסקי @GranoDavid]

Canada’s national crisis of antisemitism demands immediate action.

That’s why @bnaibrithcanada’s submission (👀 below) for @FP_Champagne’s Budget 2026 consultations puts forward four targeted policy recommendations to strengthen Canada’s response to
combat antisemitism, hatred, extremism, and radicalization.

Read the full submission and recommendations:
https://t.co/Md7f77mNL2

Also available here:
https://t.co/CQXEjl4Xmh

@FinanceCanada

[B'nai Brith Canada @bnaibrithcanada]

The City of New Westminster, British Columbia, has some explaining to do...

After being alerted to an upcoming event that is being held at the City's Anvil Centre, featuring Norman Finkelstein, a vitriolic Holocaust denier and terror sympathizer, the City has dismissed B'nai Brith Canada's concerns, claiming that an event platforming Finkelstein does not contravene the City’s policies and procedures.

The City's response is hard to fathom. Their Code of Conduct prohibits behaviour, actions or language that promote discrimination, racism, hatred, or that is demeaning. New Westminster's Strategic Plan states that the City recognizes identities and values to support the development of welcoming, respectful, and inclusive processes, activities, spaces, and places.

There is nothing welcoming, respectful, or inclusive about providing a platform to an individual who distorts the scope of the Holocaust, accuses its survivors of profiting off of their experience and celebrates the October 7 massacre. Glorifying terrorism and Holocaust denial are behaviours that promote discrimination, racism, and hatred.

The question now is, why is New Westminster so willing to ignore its own Code of Conduct and Strategic Plan and give Finkelstein the opportunity to use a municipal space to spew hate and incite division? Is it because that hatred is directed at the Jewish community?

[Mark Goldberg @Mark_Goldberg]

Submission by @bnaibrithcanada for @FP_Champagne Budget 2026 Consultation, citing a national crisis of antisemitism.

4 key recommendations, including STOP FUNDING ANTISEMITES. (You would have thought we would have learned by now, but we just can't seem to help it.)

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[B'nai Brith Canada @bnaibrithcanada]

Why is Penny Appeal Canada importing hate?

Penny Appeal Canada, a registered charity that claims to stand for humanitarian relief, is bringing Norman Finkelstein to Canada, a speaker whose public record includes comments that no serious humanitarian charity should be willing to excuse.

After the October 7 massacre, Finkelstein wrote that Hamas’s actions “warmed every fibre” of his soul and described the terrorist entity Hezbollah as “the hope.” Finkelstein has also publicly questioned the scope of the Holocaust, accused survivors of profiting off of a "Holocaust industry," and suggested that some Auschwitz survivors faked their tattoos.

These comments should be beyond the pale for any Canadian charity. Penny Appeal Canada is lending a charitable platform to a man who has celebrated terrorism and engaged in Holocaust distortion.

If Penny Appeal Canada wants to raise money, it can do so without importing someone who has excused violence against innocent civilians and denied the extent of the Holocaust.

B’nai Brith Canada has written to the Telus Convention Centre in Calgary, the JW Marriott Edmonton, and the Anvil Centre Theatre in New Westminster urging them to cancel these events. These venues should not allow their spaces to be used to legitimize a hatemonger under the cover of humanitarian concern.

Penny Appeal Canada has crossed a basic moral line. The venues must not follow.

[B'nai Brith Canada @bnaibrithcanada]

The CMHR isn't just any museum. It's Canada's only national museum for human rights, entrusted with one of the world's most contested conflicts. It has a responsibility to handle that history with the care and complexity it deserves.

Canadians should be able to trust their public institutions to uphold the standards of balance, transparency, and intellectual integrity, not advance one-sided narratives. The eight omissions highlighted here make it clear that the Museum failed to live up to that responsibility.

That failure is exactly why Mark Berlin resigned from the CMHR's Board of Trustees. To hear his firsthand account of the issues surrounding the exhibit, his resignation, and the events that led up to it, visit the link here: https://t.co/v4Tp186YOf

The Museum's CEO and Board of Trustees must be held accountable. Minister Marc Miller must intervene. The Museum's operations should be investigated and suspended. Then, if the CMHR cannot correct the record and provide factual context, this exhibit has no business remaining open

[Aron Csaplaros @aron4895]

The Tri-Cities Pride Society claims to remain true to Pride’s history of advocating for human rights and justice. It also claims to be committed to creating an environment where all members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community feel safe and welcome.

However, by endorsing the discriminatory BDS movement, Tri-Cities Pride is betraying the very principles it claims to uphold.

BDS is not a movement for inclusion. It is a campaign that has repeatedly fostered hostility toward Jewish participation in public life and has contributed to the exclusion of Jews from spaces that purport to be welcoming and diverse. Its impact is particularly harmful within Pride communities, where Jewish individuals are increasingly pressured to distance themselves from a core component of their identity or face marginalization.

By aligning itself with BDS, Tri-Cities Pride has chosen to embrace a movement that is widely viewed as antisemitic. The result is an environment in which Jewish concerns are dismissed, Jewish voices are sidelined, and Jewish participation is treated as conditional.

After receiving significant pushback from community members over its 2025 “Solidarity Statement,” Tri-Cities Pride doubled down rather than engaging meaningfully with those concerns. Its claim to oppose all forms of racism and prejudice, including antisemitism, rings hollow. Equally troubling is its decision to elevate fringe voices while disregarding the overwhelming concerns expressed by mainstream Jewish organizations and community members.

Let’s be clear: BDS is a prejudicial and antisemitic campaign. When Pride organizations endorse it, they send a message that Jewish members of the community are less deserving of belonging, consideration, and inclusion than others.

Pride should be a place where everyone is welcome. By embracing BDS, Tri-Cities Pride has made clear that this commitment does not extend equally to queer Jews and their allies.

@bnaibrithcanada also wishes to thank the Port Moody Arts Centre (PoMoArts) for immediately speaking up and demonstrating truly inclusive leadership. Although PoMoArts did not explicitly mention the Tri-Cities Pride Society, its statement was a clear affirmation that community spaces should remain open and welcoming to all.

[CIJA @CIJAinfo]

As featured in the @nationalpost, the heads of CIJA, @bnaibrithcanada, and Jewish Federations across the country—organizations that collectively represent the vast majority of Canada's vibrant and deeply rooted Jewish community—have written to the @CMHR_News' Board of Trustees to address the well-documented failures surrounding the controversial "Nakba" exhibit.

The Government of Canada has now confirmed "errors in curation" and "errors in governance." These failures have undermined public trust, allowed a divisive foreign conflict to be imported into a Canadian public institution, and emboldened extremists to spread hatred toward fellow Canadians.

The Board must act to rectify these failures and hold the Museum's CEO, Isha Khan, accountable.

Read the full letter:
https://t.co/fK5zmsUp6A

[CG Idit Shamir 🇨🇦🇮🇱 @ShamirIdit]

Do you know what takes real confidence? Putting the phrase “the eventual destruction of Zionism” in your festival’s own advertising and booking Kitchener City Hall to display it. Not a warehouse. Not a private venue. CITY HALL. In Canada 🇨🇦. A building funded by taxpayers, including Jewish taxpayers, in a city with an official policy on inclusive, and safe civic spaces. @bnaibrithcanada has asked Kitchener to review whether this violates its own rules. The fact that this even requires a formal request tells you everything about where we are in Canada in 2026.

[Aron Csaplaros @aron4895]

Now that she has been welcomed into the BC NDP caucus, MLA Boultbee must address these concerns directly. It also falls to her new caucus to ensure these issues are not left unresolved. (2/2)

[Aron Csaplaros @aron4895]

MLA Amelia Boultbee’s repeated problematic comments regarding Israel and the Jewish community, and her continued lack of apology, show a troubling lack of understanding of the offence they caused to the 40,000 Jews who call BC home. (1/2)

[Aron Csaplaros @aron4895]

As online harms increasingly reach young people, BC should fund a youth digital literacy program and support our broader call for a national initiative.

Young people need to be better equipped for exploitation, misinformation, radicalization, indoctrination and hate online.

[Aron Csaplaros @aron4895]

.@bnaibrithcanada recently submitted recommendations for BC’s 2027 Budget consultations.

The urgency is clear: antisemitic incidents in BC reached 847 in 2025, while incidents nationally increased 145.6% from 2022 to 2025.

https://t.co/3hPn5AKc0I

[Aron Csaplaros @aron4895]

The submission also urges BC to ensure public-service anti-racism training includes a mandatory antisemitism component.

Government employees should be equipped to recognize antisemitism, understand how it manifests today, and respond appropriately.

[B'nai Brith Canada @bnaibrithcanada]

Minister Marc Miller cannot divorce his office from the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ Nakba exhibit.

B’nai Brith Canada has warned that the CMHR’s development of the exhibit has been flawed. What the Federal Government allowed to transpire was not a curatorial error, the available evidence suggests that the CMHR's leadership failed to govern the museum in accordance with its mandate. Ensuring the good governance of the CMHR is directly within the purview of the Minister. When our concerns were brought to the attention of the Minister, the Minister dismissed them.

Now, after the exhibit has opened to the public, the Minister has acknowledged some of the deficiencies in the exhibit.

The problem is that this is not simply about one missing reference to Hamas. It is about Canada's national human rights museum being enabled to present a biased account of a deeply contested historical and political subject, even after its leadership and the Federal Government were repeatedly warned of the dangers of presenting an incomplete and misleading narrative.

If the Minister now accepts that the exhibit is flawed, then the next step cannot be a quiet cosmetic edit. The exhibit must be closed, pending a full review by qualified experts, an investigation must be opened, and those responsible for failing in their duties to govern the CMHR must immediately removed from office.

https://t.co/mjxDFC3SvV

[B'nai Brith Canada @bnaibrithcanada]

What’s really going on at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights?

In a candid conversation with B'nai Brith Canada CEO Simon Wolle, former CMHR trustee Mark Berlin pulls back the curtain on his resignation, the Nakba exhibit, and what it reveals about the state of Canada's public institutions.

Watch the full conversation here: https://t.co/lm44Uz1JB6

[James Pasternak @PasternakTO]

Happy to have joined you on the panel.