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Don Braid: Nenshi's slavish apology for his photo with the Israeli ambassador

For the Alberta NDP leader the trouble came after some people objected to the photo. 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 by Hamas

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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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