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When a Shield Is Reduced to a Star: B’nai Brith Canada’s Leadership Crisis

by Ram ben Ze’ev


When a Shield Is Reduced to a Star: B’nai Brith Canada’s Leadership Crisis
When a Shield Is Reduced to a Star: B’nai Brith Canada’s Leadership Crisis

A father publicly boasts that his daughter told him not to wear a Star of David necklace, and instead of correcting her, instead of teaching her that it is not a star but מגן דוד (Magen David – the Shield of David), he broadcasts it to the world as if it were some profound moment of wisdom. This is not wisdom. This is failure — as a parent, as a Jew, and as someone entrusted to represent our community.


The father in question is David Granovsky, Director of Government Relations for B’nai Brith Canada, a job he has held since November 2022. He holds a role that demands strength, loyalty to Israel, and the ability to defend Jewish identity with clarity. Instead, he celebrates his own child’s assimilationist shame. When the next generation is taught to hide, to erase their Jewish identity, and to regard Israel as a burden rather than a blessing, we are seeing the fruits of cowardice.



And yet, this is the man B’nai Brith Canada has chosen to be the voice of our people in the halls of government. The irony is bitter. Granovsky’s social media profile quotes Theodor Herzl’s immortal words: “If you will it, it is no dream.” But Herzl was not calling us to surrender, to hide our Shield of David, or to be ashamed of our homeland. Herzl’s dream was one of courage, one of revival, one of Jews standing tall in the world.


This contradiction is not new for B’nai Brith Canada. Anyone who looks into its governance history will see a record riddled with internal problems, weak leadership, and controversy. That this organisation could elevate to a position of public representation someone who so openly broadcasts disdain for Israel and shame in Jewish identity is a wake-up call. It reflects not strength, but a collapse of standards.



Assimilation is more dangerous than terrorism. Terrorism attacks us from the outside; assimilation erodes us from within. To hear a Jewish leader’s child confuse a Shield for a star, and to hear that leader proudly amplify it, is to see the very essence of erosion.


The Jewish community in Canada deserves better. Israel deserves better. And Theodor Herzl’s dream demands better. B’nai Brith Canada must be held accountable for who it places in positions of authority, because representation without loyalty is not representation at all — it is betrayal dressed in a suit and tie.


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