On Tuesday, printed letters were glued to Marit Stiles' Toronto office with the words 'Free Palestine, blood on your hands.' The NDP Leader said staff at her office were okay.
On Tuesday, printed letters were glued to Stiles’ Toronto office with the words, “Free Palestine, blood on your hands.” Red paint also appeared to have been dripped onto a photo of Stiles in her office window.“I don’t know who did it or what happened, nobody’s hurt,” she said.
The vandalism comes the day after Stiles booted rookie Hamilton Centre MPP, Sarah Jama, from her caucus after a lengthy debate over a statement she released about violence in the Middle East. On Oct. 10, Jama released a statement on NDP letterhead criticizing Israel’s human rights record, calling for a ceasefire in the region and for an “end all occupation of Palestinian land.”The statement came three days after Hamas, categorized as a terror group by the Canadian government, launched a bloody attack on Israel. Thousands of Israelis and Palestinians have died in the violence that has followed.
The controversy resulted in Stiles removing Jama from the NDP caucus after initially resisting calls to do so.“Our offices get vandalized — it’s not OK, I would never condone that, I don’t want it, but it happens to us in politics sometimes,” she said.“We have a bigger issue right now in this province,” she said.
“We have very divided, very divided communities. We have a rise in Islamophobia and antisemitism. And this is a time to bring people together, this is a time to unite people and not divide.”MPP Sarah Jama threatens to sue Premier Doug Ford over Israel-Hamas comments
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