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Chris Selley: Marvel at the politicians' performative idiocy on Israel

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The substance of Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi’s grovelling apology for the “harm he caused” by casually having his photo taken at the Calgary Stampede with Israel’s ambassador to Canada is somewhat difficult to nail down (perhaps because it wasn’t intended to be).

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In a statement on social media last week, Nenshi spoke of “immense hurt that has been caused to a lot of folks” — to whom? How? It wasn’t clear — then reiterated his party’s objections to Israel’s recent actions in Gaza. Although, I notice, he eschews deploying the loaded term “genocide.”

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Nenshi then portentously mentioned untold levels of “hatred, anger, anti-Palestinian racism and anti-Semitism.” If Nenshi shaking hands with the Israeli ambassador has something to do with antisemitism, that surely sounds a lot more like a “Nenshi problem” and an “NDP problem” than an “Alberta problem.”

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