Greens should vote to revoke Jewish National Fund charitable status

Ottawa needs to stop subsidizing discriminatory land covenants.

B’nai Brith Canada and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs asked their supporters to write Green Party leader Elizabeth May, pictured in June, about the motion seeking to revoke the Jewish National Fund of Canada's charitable status, which is seen by critics to be anti-Semitic.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY YVES ENGLER

July 27, 2016

Despite a backlash evocative of those who defended the Jim Crow-era United States South, Green Party members recently voted in favour of a resolution calling on Ottawa to stop subsidizing racist land covenants. In August the Greens will make a final decision on whether they support the principles un...

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