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Canada’s New Democratic Party has a wonderful, storied past of standing up for human rights and creating positive social change. For this reason, it could become a credible voice for peace in the Middle East. Given the party’s grassroots diversity, it is also in a remarkable position to positively advance and influence interfaith dialogue and strengthen efforts to eliminate anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination. On the world stage, standing up for the oppressed is desperately required and it was welcome news to note raised concern about the plight of the Uyghurs at the party’s recent federal policy convention.
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The pro-Palestine resolution that passed this weekend at Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) convention was a significant step forward; the struggle now is to make sure it is implemented and followed, not lost in some bureaucratic abyss as happened to other policy items after the 2018 NDP convention.
However, the dust-up over another proposed resolution to reject the IHRA definition of antisemitism led to that issue being buried during the prioritization process. This process allowed for electronic voting two days before the convention began, on the priority of resolutions to be discussed, ranked within different categories. Although this was an improvement over the traditional “closed-door” system that had succeeded in preventing any pro-Palestine resolution from ever reaching the floor in prior conventions, it also meant the Zionist lobby had to step up their game to defeat the broadly supported #NoIHRA resolutio
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The orange maple leaf is used as a symbol of the Canada’s NDP (credit: Wikimedia Commons).
Canada’s New Democratic Party, Canada’s main left-wing party, had a policy convention this past weekend, and the extent of its anti-Semitism problem was on full display.
Resolutions 04–08–20 and 04-48-20 (see appendix), which condemn the “genocide of the Uyghur people” (China’s Muslims) and the “persecution of the Uyghur people” were endorsed by only one local constituency association each, whereas anti-Israel resolutions 04–09–20, 04–10–20, 04–11–20, 04–29–20, 04–29–20, and 04–34–20 received the support of several dozen local constituency associati
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