Nova Scotia NDP candidate out after criticism for ‘troubling’ posts about Israel

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Nova Scotia NDP Leader Claudia Chender speaks at a campaign event at Ocean Breeze apartments in Dartmouth, N.S. on Oct. 29. The province's New Democratic Party says a candidate criticized by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs for 'troubling' social media posts is no longer running for the party.

One, from November, 2023, responds to a World Children’s Day post from the Auschwitz Memorial by saying that children in Gaza will die because “Israel is obsessed with killing all Hamas, regardless of the human expenses.” In Friday’s release, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and the Atlantic Jewish Council said the statements were “inflammatory” and “hurtful.”

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