FAST – Fighting Antisemitism Together

FAST – Fighting Antisemitism Together, is a Canadian human rights activist group which opposes antisemitism. It was founded in 2005 and describes itself as "a coalition of non-Jewish Canadian community and business leaders dedicated to speaking out against humanity's oldest hatred."^[1]

FAST was founded by Elizabeth and Tony Comper. The organization is unique in that its leadership is largely non-Jewish.^[2]

FAST sponsors Choose Your Voice: Antisemitism in Canada, a series of lesson plans and documentation for students in Grades 6, 7 and 8 produced by the Canadian Jewish Congress.^[3]

References

↑ University of New Brunswick website; CNW Group web site
↑ CBC news story Non-Jewish executives band together to fight anti-Semitism, August 15, 2005
↑ National Post story Non-Jewish group to fight anti-Semitism: Coalition founded by ceo: FAST to create teaching tool against bigotry, dated June 17, 2005 (Reproduced on CJC website)

(See also FAST: Related Reading Press coverage of FAST and its founders).

External links

FAST - Fighting Antisemitism Together

Hate and the ultra-right in Canada

General Concepts

Organizations and movements

White supremacists	Canadian Heritage Alliance Heritage Front Ku Klux Klan in Canada Nationalist Party of Canada Western Guard Party

Holocaust deniers	Canadian Ethnic Cleansing Team Canadian League of Rights Did Six Million Really Die? Leuchter report

Racist history

Anti-hate law

Anti-hate activism

People

Proponents	Glenn Bahr James Alexander McQuirter George Burdi Wolfgang Droege Paul Fromm Ron Gostick James Keegstra Peter Kouba Malcolm Ross John Ross Taylor Rahowa (band) Gary Schipper Ernst Zündel

Opponents	Sabina Citron Richard Warman

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