Canadian Green Party sponsors resolutions targeting Israel

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13. Canadian political leader ‘torn’ over resolution endorsing BDS

Source: Times of Israel

Elizabeth May supports ‘unequivocally Israel’s right to exist’ but has ‘deep sympathies for plight of Palestinians’

The leader of Canada’s Green Party is “torn” over two Israel-related resolutions to be debated at the party’s convention next month.

One resolution to be reviewed by party members meeting in Ottawa in August would endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. The second calls on the party to pursue revoking the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund of Canada.

Regarding the two measures, “I am honestly torn,” party leader Elizabeth May wrote earlier this month in aletter to the Victoria Times-Colonist newspaper.

“I, along with all Greens, denounce anti-Semitism in all its forms,” May wrote. “I support unequivocally the right of the State of Israel to exist. I also have deep sympathies with the plight of the Palestinian people, and I find the illegal expansion of settlements on the West Bank deeply concerning.”

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