— Feature, Musings —10.12.2023 11:18 AM
My latest: the NDP’s shame
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
That that’s how the saying goes. When it comes to Sarah Jama, it applies.
Jama is (unfortunately for her party) a New Democrat. She is also (unfortunately for the rest of us) an actual member of the provincial legislature.
It’s pretty hard to give Jama credit for anything, but credit where credit’s due: She’s never really hidden what she truly is, which is a bigot. Which is, too, someone who maintains a deep and visceral loathing of Israel — and the people mostly found there. The Jews.
Here’s just a small sampling of some of the things that NDP MPP Sarah Jama has said and done about Israel and Jews — and, for good measure, police.
— Jama has said, many times, that Israel is “an apartheid state.” Given the fact that Israel has Palestinians in its military and legislature and judiciary, it’s not a very effective apartheid state, is it?
— Jama has said that Israel is an “illegitimate” state, and that it funds “the killing of people here, locally, and globally.” She’s offered no proof of any of that, of course. But there is plenty of proof that the myriad Palestinian terrorist groups she often celebrates have killed more than 3,500 Israelis since Israel was founded in 1948, “globally and locally.”
— Perhaps because she doesn’t want the police to feel left out, she has said that police officers “protect Naziism,” and “arbitrarily kill babies.” She has offered no proof of that, either.
This is not an exhaustive list. It also does not include her most recent remarks, published online under NDP letterhead, wherein she again falsely accused Israel of “apartheid,” and — instead of condemning the homicidal cult called Hamas — she attacked the victims, and demanded Israel “end all occupation of Palestinian land and end apartheid.”
Given that Hamas slaughtered hundreds of Israeli men, women, children and babies on Saturday, Jama’s anti-Semitism drew swift condemnation. Multiple Jewish and human rights organizations demanded her ouster from the New Democrat caucus, as did Ontario’s premier and the interim leader of the Ontario Liberal Party.
And, initially, it looked like that might actually happen. Marit Stiles, the purported leader of the provincial NDP, publicly demanded the Jama take down her statement.
She didn’t. She wouldn’t.
Instead, she kept her statement up, and said that she was “reflecting” on her future. She defied her leader and her party.
And, 24 hours later, her leader and her party folded like a cheap suit. They said that Jama’s “apology” — which was a case study in weasel words and conditional language — was sufficient. Everyone move along, nothing to see here, etc.
Except, well, no.
As the past few days have made depressingly clear, Canada has nothing to offer in either a military or strategic sense to Israel and her allies. We have been shut out of any meaningful role in fighting Hamas, principally because of Justin Trudeau’s long-documented performative diplomacy.
So, being a small and increasingly irrelevant country, all that we can really do is provide a good example. But — on the very day that the president of the United States stated that he had seen a video of Israeli babies decapitated by Hamas — the only Canadian example that anyone would remember was that of the Ontario NDP.
That is, to excuse and minimize Jew-hatred and praise for mass murderers.
Regrettably, within the NDP these days, Sarah Jama is not the exception, she is the norm. At all levels, for years, the New Democratic Party has been the political party most often associated with anti-Semitism. There is literally not enough room here to document all of it.
Yes, some Conservative MPs, as was first revealed by this writer, met with a German neo-Nazi. Yes, a Liberal MP invited an actual Nazi to the House of Commons. But in both those cases, the Conservative and Liberal leaders acknowledged that mistakes had been made.
Ontario’s New Democratic Party, and its leader, have not. They let Sarah Jama’s foul statement remain up. They let her remain in their caucus. They let hate win, basically.
Sarah Jama, as noted has always shown us who she is. She has not hidden it.
And, now, we all know what Ontario’s New Democratic Party is like, as well.
Which is just like her.
Warren,
She has unwittingly revived the hapless provincial Liberals. That is probably her only noteworthy accomplishment.
Scratch a leftist and out pops an anti-Semite.
Wink,
Not always and certainly not exclusively. My distant MacKenzie relatives in Scotland were right-wingers.
NDP needs to revisit its original name the CCF. My dad used to call them Canada’s Crazy Fools.
I’ll add this woman to my personal list of reasons never to vote for these communists.
Most of the time in this country, and with a couple of jurisdictional exceptions, the NDP is irrelevant. Therefore, we typically don’t pay much attention to the NDP, including looking into the easily discoverable kookery of many NDP MPs, MLAs and other party grandees.
But the fact is, you don’t have to look very hard to find out that a lot of NDPers are nutters. But sort of subconsciously we figure they’re harmless because we don’t take the NDP all that seriously.
Doc,
Sort of like a significant number of Greenies.
She is also trying to position this as something to do with “anti colonialism”. Tasha Kheiriddin has a great rebuttal to that in today’s Post.
Tasha Kheiriddin’s article can be found here:
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-decolonization-movement-will-condemn-us-to-the-brutality-of-our-past
Kheiriddin quotes Jama, who posted on Twitter, “I am reflecting on my role as a politician who is participating in this settler colonial system,”
As a settler in a so called (her words) colonial state, Juma is free to leave. Unfortunately, there isn’t any place on the planet that hasn’t been settled or colonized by one or more groups (except Antarctica, which I believe is protected by international treaty and intense cold).
Just as Winston Churchill condemned the “foul baboonery of Bolshevism”, all men and women of upright moral stature need to take notice and condemn the failure of the NDP here in Ontario to hold one of their own to any kind of account. I note that at the time she ran for office, Ms Jama was given the nomination; she did not even have to compete with anyone else. At the time her proclivity for anti-semitism and other hateful biases were well documented. Yet the Ontario NDP ignored the warning signs and supported her. Well, as you sow, so shall you reap. How know does Marit Stiles attacked Doug Ford’s integrity on any issue with this disgraceful episode front and centre? What about her integrity? Hopefully Bonnie Crombie wins the Liberal leadership and the Ontario NDP can be reduced to the status of irrelevance they so richly deserve in the next election.
Marit has been spending most of the day doing this:
https://media.tenor.com/SAjg0aWRJVIAAAAd/hey-guys-over-here.gif
Trying to talk about the RCMP investigation of Ford which is a legitimate story but no one cares anymore what she thinks.
I said to a gloating good friend and training partner(a Scottish marxist/socialist AND anarchist) in 1990 after Bob Rae’s upset win that the one bright side for me was that they would fuck it up so bad that we would never hear from them again in Ontario for a LONG time. 33 years and counting and I see no reason, based on what has been going on of late, why that won’t continue until I am currently dead.
Leah Gazan, a talentless NDP MP here in Manitoba, made similar comments.
The back slapping by the progressives about the NDP guy with the “inconvenient” past winning the Manitoba election seems to have been pushed off the front pages. I do note that in a short statement made on the 7th that he is hoping for a de-escalation of the conflict. So, there’s that. I don’t see too much else though. He shooting hoops on his Twitter page. Perhaps he should have a quick chat with Ford.
I understand that many don’t support Israel, but nothing excuses what Hamas did. It needs to be condemned.