Policy landmine on Israel less of a threat to NDP than climate policy is to Tories

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Deputy Leader Alexandre Boulerice announce a campaign to reach out to young people and young families to understand their concerns at a news conference in Montreal on March 29, 2021.As it turns out, policy conventions can do a party more harm than good. Three weeks ago, Conservative Erin O’Toole learned that lesson the hard way. And on Saturday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh learned it as well.

For the gazillionth time, there is nothing anti-Semitic in criticizing the State of Israel for building settlements in territory occupied during previous conflicts, or in supporting an independent Palestine state, or in urging all parties to work toward a two-state solution. That resolution “highlights a toxic obsession with Israel to the serious detriment of the party,” CIJA said in a statement, adding “this unbalanced and obsessive concern with Israel renders the NDP irrelevant on this subject and interferes with the party’s ability to address issues that should be core to the progressive agenda.”

The good news for Mr. Singh is that most Canadians don’t consider relations between Canada and Israel a fundamental question that could sway how they vote. Canadians do take climate change seriously, which is why Mr. O’Toole continues to take flak from the Liberals on the issue.

Probably true but nevertheless sad. You can be an anti-Semite and holocaust denier just as long as you are not a climate change denier! Now that’s totally unacceptable! cdnpoli

Exactly

Nothing like irrelevant comparisons.

Not really. He is basically irrelevant as is the NDP after Layton

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