Advocacy @ HBT: The week of December 5, 2025

Advocacy @ HBT: UJA Project at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights and Hamas Activity Here in Canada 

• Canadian Museum of Human Rights erases Mizrachi and Sephardic Jewish experiences. 
• Hamas is active in Canada, we need to act! 
• MP Leslie Church comes to Holy Blossom on December 14th.  

UJA has asked for the Jewish community, and its allies, to raise our voices as the Canadian Museum of Human Rights (CMHR) wades into controversy. “The Nakba Past and Present” will soon be exhibited at the CMHR, highlighting the history of the Palestinians in the days leading up to – and directly after – Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. The Curator and the Museum have chosen not to include any statistics about the near 70,000 displaced Jews at the end of the war, nor does it mention the 800,000-1,000,000 Jews who were similarly displaced in the Arab world (a story we highlighted here at Holy Blossom only last week with our Yom ha’Plitim program). Instead, once again, voices in our Canadian community are playing fast and loose with history and telling only one part of the story. You can raise your voice at the UJA Actionhub here.  

Additionally, UJA is sharing a recent Global News investigation which reveals at least 450 people in Canada have direct ties to Hamas. This includes terrorists who are actively sanctioned by other governments. UJA asks that you write directly to your MP, to raise the alarm and to ask them to make sure that individuals are properly investigated before they are allowed to enter or operate in Canada. That letter can be found here.  

You can also raise this point, in person, with our own MP Leslie Church on December 14th here at Holy Blossom. MP Church is coming for a neighbourhood check-in, and Holy Blossom has opened its doors to create a space for her to receive thoughtful feedback, meaningful appreciation and genuine concern from our community. Along with MP’s Lantsman and Housefather, we recently learned that MP Church was responsible for organizing a non-partisan screening of “The Road Between Us” on Parliament Hill this last week. You can learn more about MP Church’s visit to Holy Blossom here.  

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