VICTORIA — Premier David Eby said he was reflecting on his leadership after the 'humbling' resignation of former cabinet minister Selina Robinson from the NDP, citing allegations of antisemitism in the party caucus.
VICTORIA — Premier David Eby said he was reflecting on his leadership after the"humbling" resignation of former cabinet minister Selina Robinson from the NDP, citing allegations of antisemitism in the party caucus.
Opposition BC United Leader Kevin Falcon called in the legislature for an independent public investigation into what he said were"stunning" allegations. Robinson, who is Jewish, resigned as post-secondary education minister last month after saying modern Israel was founded on"a crappy piece of land," sparking outcry from pro-Palestinian groups that called the comments racist and Islamophobic.
Robinson's letter highlighted comments attributed to Elmore in 2004, prior to her serving in the legislature, where she said in an interview,"we have vocal Zionists in our work sites and we have to battle them." Robinson's letter says her colleagues"broke my heart" by failing to speak out against responses by Richmond-Queensborough MLA Aman Singh and Burnaby-Lougheed MLA Katrina Chen to Robinson's call for colleagues"to stand with the Jewish community in grief and mourning," in the days after the deadly Oct. 7 attack by Hamas in Israel.
In a post late Wednesday on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, Chen said that"not wanting to see more kids and people die in Gaza is not antisemitism."
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