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NDP candidate Andrew Cash said BDS is legitimate
September 25, 2015 - 9:31pm
Yay. Make me a bit proud of the NDP
Uh oh. He could be turfed tomorrow.
I was farther down on St-Denis today, at the corner of Mont-Royal in the Plateau and there was a poster stating that Israel killed Palestinian children and Harper applauds; what do the opposition parties say? And yes, the poster designers had found a photo - not too graphic, like the photo of Aylan - of a little Palestinian boy dead by the seaside.
He might be turfed, but it is getting late, his campaign volunteers are hard at work now and would be mightily pissed off.
I was being being facetious. He is a sitting MP. But who knows.
Yes, I checked that he was the sitting MP for Davenport. Sitting and Davenport make a good pair. Of course Cash or Boulerice are far less likely to be turfed than a new candidate, but Zionist pressure remains strong. Wonder what Libby Davies will say when she is no longer an MP?
If it were Eglinton-Bathurst or St. Paul's, he'd be turfed. But there is no way as an incumbent he'll be tossed.
Hell, if anything, it throws a bone to the left wing Toronto base wary of Mulcair's supposed "hawkishness."
Meanwhile Naniamo is likely going to the Cons because Paul Manly is running for the Greens instead of the NDP. I guess Toronto MP's have a different standard than lowly BC candidates in what has been an NDP stronghold.
Cash did not go so far as to say that he supports BDS, just that it is a legitimate form of protest.
That's important though given that Harper is trying to criminalize support for BDS.
BDS and issues relating to Canada's relationship and support for Israel, as well as the continuing unacceptable fund-raising for the Zionist state by the diaspora via UJA etc, needs to be criticized and discussed in depth. As well, the muzzling and suppression of Canadian political candidates critical of Israel. Will this happen here? It should.
What To Expect From the CIJA-UJA-Hosted Federal Election Debate
http://www.cija.ca/what-to-expect-debate/
"People have a real interest in being able to ask some questions that are of particular concern to the Jewish and pro-Israel community, Fogel says."
ALL of the Canadian political parties are unacceptably influenced by the Israel lobby in furtherance of the criminality of the Zionist regime to continue unchecked and for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine to proceed:
"We stand firmly in support of the right of the State of Israel to exist and defend itself."
Where do you stand on the boycott, divestment and sanctions?
"WE DON'T SUPPORT IT."
Elizabeth May - CJN
http://www.cjnews.com/news/elizabeth-may-jews-have-been-heart-and-soul-a...
Viva Viva Palestina! Down Down Israel!
"Meanwhile Naniamo is likely going to the Cons because Paul Manly is running for the Greens instead of the NDP. I guess Toronto MP's have a different standard than lowly BC candidates in what has been an NDP stronghold."
I live in this constituency...it's one of the ones where they do regular polling...as of Sept 20 the figures were Cons 24, NDP 34 Green 24, Lib 17. I can't see the Cons winning...their vote has dropped (last time the figures were 40, 45, 7 and 7). The Green vote has come up, but I'd be amazed if the NDP didn't win. This is a pretty safe NDP seat. And this all the more surprising when you realize that Elizabeth May's constituency is just next door...If anyone upsets the NDP it would be the Greens, I'd guess...
I probably would agree with Paul Manly's views from the sounds of it and I liked him in an interview I heard but have to say the whole rejected-by-a-party-so-moves-ont-to-the-next-one kinda smells of ambition. Certainly, though, not necessarily a detemrining factor in a local race.
Heaven forbid someone runs for office out of ambition.
running for office out of ambition seems normal enough. Switching parties out of ambition perhaps a bit more questionable...
sorry for double post. don't post often enough
After growing up in the party he was refused the nomination because of his agreement with his fathers activism on Gaza. He did not swith he was rejected. He is running for a party whose platform is at least as progressive as the NDP's. Its not like he is running for the Liberals or Conservatives.
Stupid move by the NDP and I agree that the Conservatives should not win but who knows. Polls suck and seldom are accurate.
fair comment, kropotkin, thanks
This is probably the one riding where I'd like to see the NDP be beaten (by the Greens, not the Cons). What happened with Manly was ridiculous, and the party needs to learn a lesson here so it doesn't happen again.
My definition of ambition would be more like:
"The party rejected my principles, so I changed my principles."
Or:
"The party changed its principles, so I did too."
Countless examples spring to mind.
Manly was a completely untenable candidate.
Cash is once again using his position in the party to gently contest the political space by talking about protest as political principle. Good for him. he did the same on C51 by being the first MP in parliament to clearly state that the NDP would repeal C-51.
I walked through Cash's 'hood yesterday and it's a sea of orange signs. And not the little wee ones, either; the big ones.
In what way?
Give us a little clue as to your source for this pearl of wisdom. He seems to be a very tenable candidate for the Green's and the obvious conclusion is he has taken some NDP supporters with him. Do you think that the Manly name is a bad thing in Nanaimo?
I suspect that the Ottawa brass did not want someone like him around because he might have turned out to be like his Dad. Long before James Manly's retirement project of breaking the Gaza blockade he was a thorn in the side of the Ottawa cabal. He opposed the parties support for the Meech Lake Accord and instead supported Elijah Harper's view. No telling where that kind of radical thinking can lead a party of the centre.
Isn't their criteria, for the most part, "can you place fourth?"
Good thing I'm not a candidate. I think the Israeli borders should go back to 1948. I'd also not give them a penny in foreign aid and I'd recognize Palestine as an independant state.
I wonder how that would go over with any of the parties. Not that I would care.
Do you mean "any of the FOUR parties", or "any of the TWENTY parties"?
I explicitly said any of the parties. Whether that's 4 or 44,whatever.
Because the party's big wigs said he was untenable. Now if he gave full throated support to Israel's Gaza operation he would have been totally tenable.
Could you support a party that says this?
On a scale of "yes" to "no.
no. because if this is a printed statement for a platform, copy and pasted then they missed a space between the comma and we renew...who can support a party of typos?
Cash is screwed. Should he win re-election, expect him to fall in a post-election purge. The federal NDP lives under gag rule.