FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

B'nai Brith Canada calls on Canadian government to designate radical Turkish
organization behind Gaza Flotilla incident a terrorist entity

TORONTO, June 7, 2010 - B'nai Brith Canada has called on the Government of
Canada to designate IHH, the radical Turkish Islamist organization behind
the Gaza Flotilla incident, as a terrorist entity. David Matas, renowned
international human rights lawyer and B'nai Brith's honourary senior legal
counsel, laid out the justification for the designation in a brief sent to
both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Leader of the Opposition Michael
Ignatieff. The brief, which was based on numerous credible reports,
highlighted the IHH's links to the global jihadi movement, its close ties to
Hamas, its support for Al-Qaeda, and its connection to various terror plots.

"We have contacted both Prime Minister Harper and the Leader of the
Opposition to call on them to act against IHH without delay," said Frank
Dimant, Executive Vice President of B'nai Brith Canada. The IHH, the
radical Islamist organization which came to everyone's attention when it
organized the violent Gaza Flotilla incident against the Jewish State
recently, has a long history of involvement with and links to Islamist
terrorist organizations which clearly justify its inclusion of the list of
designated terrorist entities. Designating the IHH as a terrorist entity
would clearly fit with the Harper administration's public safety platform,
and we fully expect that the Liberal Party, under the stewardship of Mr.
Ignatieff, will support this undertaking."

"There is more than enough information on the public record about IHH to
raise real concern that this organization uses humanitarian aid as a front
or cover to pursue a terrorist agenda," said David Matas, Honourary Senior
Legal Counsel of Bnai Brith Canada. "Because of the IHH's connection to the
Canadian-linked Millennium Bomber terrorist plot, Canada should pay special
attention to the threat that this organization could pose.

"Listing the IHH as a designated terrorist entity now would also serve as a
timely reminder that the Gaza Flotilla incident was far from a humanitarian
operation. IHH was rather using the cover of humanitarianism to poke a hole
in an arms blockade against Hamas, a terrorist organization which the IHH
has very strong ties to."

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For more information, please contact, Dan Rabkin, Communications Officer:
416-633-6224 X 140 / cell: 416-312-9173

B'nai Brith Canada has been active in Canada since 1875 as the Jewish
community's foremost human rights agency