The former cabinet minister says the party is not doing enough to combat anti-Semitism
Former cabinet minister Selina Robinson resigned Wednesday from the B.C. NDP caucus saying she feels the party is not doing enough to combat anti-Semitism.
“We are not saying anything about it,” she said. “We are not saying this is unacceptable and we don’t have a plan for supporting the Jewish community or for helping address this level of hatred that we’re seeing on our streets and in our schools and in our post-secondary education system.” Robinson had resigned from cabinet on Feb. 5 following days of furor including pressure from extra-parliamentary groups aligned to the NDP after she had called the British-ruled Mandate upon which Israel was founded in 1948 a “crappy piece of land with nothing on it.”
“Sometimes we say things and they do hurt people,” she said. “So we need to understand what it’s about.”Robinson said she had approached the Office of Premier David Eby with the idea of doing anti-Semitism and anti-Islamophobia training for caucus, but was rejected. “I want to use my voice to bring people together, to find a way that we can have conversations with compassion, with understanding and in a way that people can feel safe and included here in British Columbia, because that is what I stand for,” she said. “I used to believe that is what New Democrats stood for. I haven’t felt it in quite some time.”READ MORE: Selina Robinson under fire for calling Gaza ‘a crappy piece of land“We are always speaking out against hate toward any community,” he said.
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