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The final decision to green-light the previously scheduled rally came after a last-minute meeting last week between Levac and Clark. The two were forced to review the rally application following outrage by various Jewish groups that the rally had been approved in the first place.

B’nai Brith Canada has criticized Queen’s Park for issuing a permit for the protest in part because of the secrecy surrounding the organizers.

Concerns about the rally have also been expressed by Premier Dalton McGuinty, The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies. [Terrororganisationen] The Jewish Defence League of Canada has announced plans for a counter-protest.

MPP Peter Shurman [✡] said it might be time to change the rules governing permits at Queen’s Park. “Let’s change the rules; whatever it takes...."

Howard English [✡], senior vice-president of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), said CIJA monitored the protest “very closely,” and would ask Queen’s Park to investigate if there was hate speech, with an eye to banning such events in the future.

ADL opposes any display that makes any American feel ostracized from or isolated in his or her own community. Displays of swastikas, nooses, and the Confederate battle flag send an unambiguous message of disenfranchisement and inequality to African-Americans, Jews and other minorities. ... The display of these symbols with intent to intimidate or harass should be investigated as criminal conduct.

Internet providers and hosts of Web sites should be called upon to implement and uphold their Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policies that often include prohibitions against hateful materials.

The California State Assembly approved a resolution calling on colleges and universities in the state to combat anti-Semitism.

The symbolic resolution was approved Tuesday with no debate, according to The Associated Press. It also calls on the schools to quash campus demonstrations against Israel.

Pro-Palestinian and free speech activists were angered by the resolution, saying it characterizes pro-Palestinian speech as anti-Jewish.

A University of California spokesman told the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday that it would not support the resolution, saying that it violates the First Amendment.

The resolution was authored by state Assemblywoman Linda Halderman, a Republican from Fresno. Some 66 of the Assembly's 80 members signed the resolution as co-authors.

The canceled play, "The Sixth Coffin," is set in 1920 France and features a group of powerful Jews plotting to destroy Hungary and plunge humanity into another world war shortly after World War I had ended. The drama was set to premiere early next year in Budapest’s renowned New Theatre, which had received $500,000 last year from the municipality.

For Csaki and Adam Fischer, the general music director of the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, the issue was a test case, indicative of increasing government tolerance to anti-Semitic behavior.

They and other intellectuals formed an unofficial working group called It Cannot Be that lobbied Tarlos, actors’ associations and the local media to stop the staging of what they regarded as “incitement.”

A Jewish politician from Brazil said he would sue a colleague for suggesting he was a Nazi.

Isaac Tayah, president of the city council of Manaus, said he would file charges in a federal court for racism, libel and defamation, according to A Critica, a Brazilian news site.

Earlier this month, Councilman Mario Frota published on his blog a photo montage of Tayah’s face on the body of Adolf Hitler wearing a Nazi uniform.

Frota told several newspapers that it was a “bad joke,” but that was not sufficient for Tayah.

“I can’t just ignore this. Even of the trial goes on for 10 years, Frota will have to answer for this,” he told A Critica. If Frota wanted to make a joke, Tayah added, “he could have presented me as a ballerina. He wanted to create a polemic.”

The umbrella organization of Jewish communities of the Brazilian state of Amazonas expressed “solidarity” with Tayah. Manaus is the capital of Amazonas.

“Comparing Jews to Nazism is offensive to the Jewish people and religion,” read a recent statement by the organization, CIAM, which referred to Tayah as a “prominent member” of the Jewish community of Amazonas.

Terrence Tremaine was charged in 2008 with wilfully promoting hatred for postings he allegedly made on the Internet that referred to Jews as a "parasitic race" and black culture as "fundamentally depraved and disgusting."

Tremaine lost his job at the university in 2005 when the allegations came to light. Court heard his career as a computer programmer was ruined because one of the conditions restricted his Internet use.

During his previous court appearance, Tremaine told reporters he was simply taking a stand against the Jewish community "power" in Canada and disputes having committed a criminal act.

Outside court, Tremaine told reporters he was taking a stand against the Jewish community's "inordinate amount of power" in Canada.

He also said his writings have all been on American servers, and that jurisdiction may be an issue in his defence.

When questioned about his view on other races, Tremaine told reporters he believes whites have a right to Canada, and that any aversion to his beliefs may be the product of decades of media propaganda.

In an interview Monday,Tremaine said he will use the criminal proceedings as a platform for his views. He wants all Jews to leave Canada, calling them a "destructive force" in society.

[...]For now, all we can do is demand change. We can demand the antisemitic pages are removed. We can demand the users responsible are permanently banned, not just suspended for a day or two. We can demand Facebook improve its systems and add a system of auditing to ensure the quality of its complain management systems. We can demand an appeal process. These demands need to be made. The Online Hate Prevention Institute has started a Petition, join me and let’s see some change. This sanctioning of hate simply can’t continue.

Dr Andre Oboler is CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute, an Australian-based NGO globally tackling online hate. He is also co-chair of the Online Antisemitism Working Group of the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism.