Pro-Israel Canadian politician’s office defaced
A Jewish member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly, Selina Robinson, had her Coquitlam constituency office vandalized on Tuesday night as part of an ongoing row over the Canadian politician’s remarks that prior to the establishment of Israel the territory was “a crappy piece of land with nothing on it.”
“No Zionists AKA Jewish
supremacists as our MLA (member of the legislative assembly),” read one poster calling for her resignation from caucus. Another proclaimed that “Zionism is racism.”
Photographs taken in the land that became the State of Israel were plastered at the entrance, along with white graffiti saying, among other things, “crappy piece of parliament.”
“There is only one solution,
Intifada revolution,” said other posters. “Free Palestine.”
An X account calling itself Canadian Antifa claimed responsibility for the vandalism in a post on Tuesday.
“We decorated Selina Robinson’s office to let her know we don’t want her as our MLA and that she needs to be ousted out of the NDP (New Democratic Party) party,” wrote Canadian Antifa.
BC Premier and BC NDP leader David Eby decried the defacing of Robinson’s office, including with “hateful messages.”
“This is wrong,” said Eby. “Peaceful protest cannot include spreading hate.”
The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center said that the incident was “utterly deplorable,” and that Robinson’s “removal [from her ministerial position] and the ensuing vandalism are the inevitable result of the ongoing intimidation and vilification tactics anti-Israel agitators are using against Jews.”
Robinson stepped down from her position as the province’s post-secondary education minister in an announcement Monday. According to The Vancouver Sun, during a January B’nai Brith Canada online panel with other Jewish politicians, Robinson described Mandate Palestine as a barren land with little economic development prior to Jewish resettlement.