Jewish Civil Rights Educational Foundation of Canada
- Jewish Civil Rights Educational Foundation of Canada
A prominent organisation, the Jewish Civil Rights Educational Foundation of Canada
Headquartered at 181 University Avenue in Toronto, it is currently led by attorney Bert Raphael. [ [http://www.raphaelpartners.com/toronto_bert_raphael.htm Raphael Partners, LLP] ]
The organisation published the Deschenes Commission Report in 1985.
In 1996, the group wrote an open letter expressing concern for Pakistan's treatment of the Canadian NGO worker Ahmed Said Khadr who had been accused of financing an attack on the Egyptian embassy.[Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, " [http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0296/9602028.html Canadian Relief Worker Held in Pakistan] ", Feb/Mar 1996. pp 103] ]References
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