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Premier Greg Selinger recently visited Israel to sign an accord with the racist Jewish National Fund. A few years ago NDP MP Pat Martin described Israel's apartheid wall as "show[ing] a lot of restraint on Israel's part." During the brutal assault two years ago Justice Minister Dave Chomiak blamed Hamas for Israel's destruction of Gaza. NDP cabinet minister Christine Melnick called for the banning of Israeli Apartheid Week at the University of Manitoba. Former MP and mayoral candidate Judy Wasylycia-Leis supported a parliamentary condemnation of the use of the word "apartheid" to describe Israel's policies.
How does this fit into the history of Left Canadian support for Zionism and Stephen Harper's pro-Israel extremism? What would the co-founder of the CCF, J.S. Woodsworth, think about this?
A panel discussion with:
Yves Engler - author of Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid and The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy
Brian Latour - student activist at the University of Manitoba
Event sponsored by:
Students Against Israeli Apartheid (University of Manitoba)
Department of Politics (University of Winnipeg)
Canada-Palestine Support Network (Winnipeg)
