on August 15, 2015 in World News
No room for anti-Israel commentary in Canadian politics
No room for anti-Israel commentary in Canadian politics It would seem the height of Orwellian doublespeak to eliminate a political candidate for calling a war crime a war crime. And all the more so if you’re a leading member of Canada’s New Democratic Party. And yet that’s exactly what happened this week when Nova Scotian Morgan Wheeldon, an NDP candidate for the riding of Kings-Hants, was forced to step down when a Conservative troll found a statement on his Facebook page from 2014 calling Israel’s bombardment of Gaza a “war crime.” I suppose that party brass doesn’t read much Orwell,… View Article
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