New Democrat Leader Marit Stiles is standing by her candidate in Thursday’s Hamilton Centre byelection after video emerged of Sarah Jama accusing the city’s police force of protecting “Nazism” and targeting “Black Muslim Palestinians.”
New Democrat Leader Marit Stiles is standing by her candidate in Thursday’s Hamilton Centre byelection after video emerged ofThe video is an excerpt of a speech that Jama — acclaimed as the NDP candidate in November after former party leader— made at a May 2021 Palestinian rights rally at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto.
“We’ve all ended up at rallies … where maybe we didn’t use the right choice of words,” she added. “But I do think that Sarah has been, and will continue to be … a really strong advocate for her community.
“And the same liberal-minded people will continue saying, ‘But, you know what? It’s fine if these things are happening, because the issue will go away if you get the right people in positions of power. It’s fine that, you know, Israel’s illegitimate because Netanyahu’s not there,’” she continues, “and we know that was not true, because the same people will continue to fund the killing of people here locally and globally.
Jama’s campaign would not make her available for an interview with the Star on Monday or Tuesday to more fully explain her remarks in the video, and interviews with some other media organizations were cancelled.
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