I’m going to do the Canadian political establishment and the Jewish community an enormous favour and torpedo Yves Engler’s bid for the leadership of the NDP before it even gets started. I will do this by offering him my wholehearted endorsement.

Serial activists who make hating Israel their entire identity are a dime a dozen these days. Yves Engler stands out even in that field: He’s been suspended by Concordia University for organizing a riot against Benjamin Netanyahu in 2002. He has filmed himself confronting anyone he deems to be insufficiently anti-Israel. Keffiyeh-wearing MP’s like Edmonton-Strathcona’s Heather McPherson get off lucky with denunciatory tweets. He’s even gone to jail because he just would not stop attacking pro-Israel online folks. Most importantly, Engler consistently advocates for punishing the organized Jewish community for Israel’s actions, since according to him, they

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