Actually, after reading some of the well-meaning posts above, I think I'll take Mulcair's utter silence at my latest letters to be his final word on the subject. If he hasn't figured out yet that Jimmy Carter and Desmond Tutu using the term "apartheid" in describing Israeli behaviour is not anti-semitic - or even that being anti-Zionist is not some kind of covering for really wanting to slaughter Jews - then I'm afraid he's not in the confused swing camp. Likewise for some of the comments above, I'm sorry to say.
This is not some irrelevant "foreign policy" issue. When Mulcair makes these statements (as with Libby, and as reported by Kady) in public, in the name of the party, then he is standing for the opposite of all that I believe and that makes me get up in the morning (or whenever, depending on shift work).
If Mulcair said sweet fuck all about Zionism and Jews and Israel, I'd be fine with that. But he appears to be a fanatic on the issue. According to Kady, he "vows, once again, to face that debate head on, at McGill and everywhere else." I've written to him twice as a constituent and a campaign supporter - once regarding the CPCCA, once on Libby - and never received a response. So much for facing that debate "head on".
He can go and fuck himself.
Yes, please by all means accept Kady O'Malley's live-blogged words (which she admits she may not have gotten right) over his in person to you in a meeting.
I now regret posting that, but you are back to being your surly self, so that's pretty much the end of anything constructive I guess. I can only imagine what your letters to him read like.