What is it with these former Calgary mayors and the Jewish community?

NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi now joins Jyoti Gondek as a serial offender.

As mayor, Gondek refused to light the city hall Menorah candles in December 2023, on the weird pretext that the traditional Jewish ceremony was somehow a fundraiser for war.

That was two months after the Hamas Oct. 7 massacre.

Calgary’s Jewish community was shocked and deeply hurt.

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Nenshi went much further Thursday.

In a bizarre statement, he apologized publicly and slavishly for having his photo taken with the Israeli ambassador, Iddo Moed, during Stampede.

Nenshi looks quite cheery in the photo. For him the trouble came after some people saw it and objected.

Those would include the antisemitic cluster on the left of his party, the kind of people who cheered the murder, rape and torture of Jews that was committed by Hamas on and after Oct. 7, 2023.

Nenshi said in his statement:

“I want to speak to you from the heart about a photo going around from last weekend. I’m so sorry for the........

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