At the risk of being "rabid and intolerant," it is not about someone disagreeing with me. It's someone censoring me - I'm not allowed to disagree with them. And, I think, it is part of a larger campaign to suppress free speech. The Canadian Parlimentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism (CPCCA) would make such disagreements illegitimate, if not illegal.
I'm no political strategist, but couldn't the NDP have opposed/oppose such a motion on the grounds of free speech? "We aren't saying that we agree Israel is an apartheid state, but others are free to present that position." Especially at universities for goodness sake ...
I also see, in this thread and others, an effort to say that the general public is hostile to this discussion. Having leafletted for ten years on this issue (not Israel as an apartheid state specificallly), I can tell you that I have many more positive discussions than hostile these days.
And if the NDP is not going to take stands on these issues, what makes them different from the Liberals? Seriously?