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The assassination threat must be condemned. But we also need Avi Lewis to stand up to the genocidal Jewish supremacist bullies. In “Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis” Yoni Goldstein effectively calls for the leader of the NDP to be killed. In the National Post the former editor of the Canadian... Continue Reading →
The hypocrisy is stunning. Those who link Judaism to Zionism are outraged a politician said Jews have “failed to do our part to stop an ongoing genocide committed in our name.” On Sunday NDP leader Avi Lewis posted, “Tonight Yom Kippur begins, the most sombre moment of the Jewish calendar. It’s a time of atonement... Continue Reading →
“Rebooting the whole conversation” on militarism requires discussing alternative conceptions of security, Canadian force’s actual focus and the roots of great power conflicts. While some of this will be difficult for Avi Lewis, it’s essential to challenging Mark Carney’s historic increase in military spending. The NDP leader’s recent comments on military affairs have received significant... Continue Reading →
Amidst pressure Avi Lewis has criticized Carney’s $100 billion submarine purchase. But there’s still a need to directly challenge the militarist ethos in the NDP. On Tuesday evening Lewis finally criticized Mark Carney’s plan to buy attack submarines. On former Global and CTV reporter Rachel Gilmore’s program, the NDP leader said there’s “no rationale for... Continue Reading →
“I oppose Carney’s $100 billion attack submarine purchase”. Avi Lewis won’t say those words but wants peace minded activists who helped him win the NDP leadership race to believe that’s his position. What does it say about the party and Canadian politics that a leftist NDP leader can’t clearly oppose an unprecedented increase in a... Continue Reading →
The NDP has stayed mum on a major expansion in Canadian war fighting capacity. The Naval Deployment Party has been staunchly pro-navy since long before Russia’s invasion or Trump’s annexation threats. In a major militarist expansion, Mark Carney recently announced the purchase of a dozen German submarines set to be equipped with cruise missiles. Two... Continue Reading →
It would be a victory if we could get Avi Lewis to simply mimic important parts of Stephen Harper, Jean Chrétien and Brian Mulroney’s military policy. When the last Conservative prime minister left office in 2015, Canadian military spending amounted to 1% of this country’s GDP. It’s now twice that (three times in actual dollars).... Continue Reading →
Although some of his supporters claim he isn’t, Avi Lewis sure seems to be a militarist. The new NDP leader’s tacit acceptance of Mark Carney’s submarine madness is but the latest example of Lewis following his party’s well-worn warmongering ways. In the latest phase of the largest militarization in three quarters of a century, Carney... Continue Reading →
Most Canadian politicians, even self-described left-wing ones, seem to want a war bank in their city. Apparently, they don’t care about starving social programs, linking finance to arms production or the violence it will spur. On Thursday leftist Quebec Solidaire (QS) defended Montreal’s bid to host the new NATO war bank Canada was recently selected... Continue Reading →
Avi Lewis has a colonialism problem while some of his left supporters have a deification problem. Recently Joel Bergman posted “Eby betrays indigenous people — Lewis refuses to criticize him”. In his Facebook statement the leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party noted, “David Eby, the NDP premier of British Columbia, has moved to amend the... Continue Reading →
Heather McPherson’s appointment as NDP foreign critic is morally and tactically dubious. Last week new leader Avi Lewis gave McPherson a position that she held over the past five years during which time she generally backed the Liberals’ US empire aligned policy. She’s a member of the NATO Parliamentary Association, close to the Ukrainian Canadian... Continue Reading →
Oppose Israel killing Palestinians, Iranians and Lebanese but promote events the genocidal supremacist state uses to justify their crimes. That seems to be the NDP position. Leah Gaza, Avi Lewis, Don Davies and other NDP leaders recently marked an Israeli government organized commemoration instigated to justify ethnically cleansing Palestinians. The NDP brass all posted about... Continue Reading →
Avi Lewis’ foreign critic is a NATO hawk whose positions are at odds with maintaining social services. This can be seen most clearly by contrasting Heather McPherson’s belligerence on Russia with the position of former Liberal PM Jean Chrétien. As NDP foreign affairs critic over the past five years McPherson has been an extreme war-is-the-only-language-they-speak... Continue Reading →
Why didn’t Avi Lewis call to pause officer exchanges with a military led by a warmongering fanatic? Why hasn’t the NDP leader raised the hundreds of bilateral military accords Canada has with a country headed by an annexationist president? And how come activists assisting Lewis aren’t seeking to shape his call for a “modern military”?... Continue Reading →
Dahlia Kurtz claims that Avi Lewis would have “snitched on Anne Frank’s family” and “joined the Nazis.” Incredibly, this Zionist influencer convinced the police to charge me for responding to her X posts and is suing Roger Waters and I for defamation. Kurtz recently posted, “The new leader of Canada’s leftist party is self-proclaimed anti-Zionist... Continue Reading →
Lori Idlout joining Mark Carney’s Liberals shines a spotlight on the NDP’s rightist, anti-activist orientation. On Tuesday Nunavut MP Idlout joined one of the most right-wing Liberal governments in generations. Considering Carney’s politics, it’s revealing that two elected NDP representatives have joined his team in short order. A month ago, Ontario NDP MPP and deputy... Continue Reading →
Avi Lewis is right to not boost the genocidal warmongers. The NDP leadership candidate didn’t join other dippers and ‘pro-Palestinian’ thought leaders in encouraging an authoritarian Zionist frenzy. On Sunday genocidal fanatic Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar called foreign minister Anita Anand to express the rogue apartheid state’s “concerns regarding a series of shooting attacks... Continue Reading →
Describing itself as a “platform” for the US empire, NATO is supporting war on Iran and radically increased military spending. Yet the ‘left’s’ standard bearer in the NDP leadership race won’t support members calling for Canada to withdraw from NATO even as leading left politicians in Europe push to exit the alliance. On Thursday... Continue Reading →
Does Avi Lewis back monarchical rule in Iran? The NDP leadership candidate and the party’s foreign critic have echoed some of the pretext for the US/Israeli aggression, which has already killed over 1,200. In a statement critical of Mark Carney’s support for US/Israeli war on Iran Lewis wrote, “These leaders justify this war as serving... Continue Reading →
NATO support for aggression against Iran makes it even more important for Avi Lewis to declare his position on the belligerent military alliance. Will the NDP frontrunner support members who are bringing a resolution to the upcoming convention calling for Canada to withdraw from NATO? In multiple recent interviews NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has... Continue Reading →
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