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ericson00

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Tue Jul 12, 2016, 03:23 AM Jul 2016

Canadian Green Party sponsors resolutions targeting Israel [View all]

It would seem natural for Canada's Green Party, which supports social justice and sustainability, to support the Jewish National Fund, an organization widely recognized for its environmental contributions to Israel – but it’s not the case.

Members of the Green Party sponsored two resolutions last month that target Israel: one urging the Canada Revenue Agency to revoke the JNF’s charitable status and another to support BDS in Israeli sectors that allegedly profit from occupied Palestinian territories.

“Given the glut of environmental and human crises the world faces, it strikes us as absurd and inappropriate for Green Party members to negatively single out Israel or Israel-related matters as the primary subject for attention,” said Josh Cooper, CEO of JNF Canada. “They’re allowing an obsession with Israel to distract them from the Green Party’s valid environmental priorities.”


http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Canadian-Green-Party-sponsors-resolutions-targeting-Israel-460134

More proof this isn't about "but the US supports it" given how this hate comes from all over the world.
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The JNF is a bunch of racist thieves - their main function is to redistribute stolen Palestinian Little Tich Jul 2016 #1
Wikipedia and Mondoweiss oberliner Jul 2016 #2
My statement about the JNF is correct - they are thieves and racists. Little Tich Jul 2016 #3
The JNF isn't racist, nor are they thieves. shira Jul 2016 #4
Is the land stolen or not? n/t Little Tich Jul 2016 #5
Nope. Do you go around accusing native Americans or Australian Aborigines.... shira Jul 2016 #6
So it was Jewish land all along, and the Arabs who thought they owned it were only squatters? Little Tich Jul 2016 #7
The JNF bought up state public lands, not private, so not stolen. n/t shira Jul 2016 #8
That doesn't really explain how millions of dunams of Palestinian-owned land ended up in the hands Little Tich Jul 2016 #10
How pathetically unsurprising leftynyc Jul 2016 #9
But intersectionality, right?? ericson00 Jul 2016 #11
They're so busy trashing Israel leftynyc Jul 2016 #12
Canadian political leader ‘torn’ over resolution endorsing BDS Little Tich Jul 2016 #13
isn't the Green Party supposed to be about the ecological environment? ericson00 Jul 2016 #14
They're to the left on social issues. n/t Little Tich Jul 2016 #15
no duhh, but for most countries and nations, Israel/Palestinians is not a real social issue, ericson00 Jul 2016 #16
It's why they've been called the Watermelon Party. aranthus Jul 2016 #17
Couldn't be said better ericson00 Jul 2016 #18
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