Niki Ashton Has No Reason to Apologize for Meeting With Jeremy Corbyn
Canadian NDP MP Niki Ashton has faced absurd attacks for agreeing to join an event with British Labour politician Jeremy Corbyn. Canada’s Left should see the absurd charges of antisemitism against Ashton and Corbyn for what they are: an attempt to delegitimize socialist ideas.
New Democratic Party (NDP) MP Niki Ashton. (Richard Lautens / Toronto Star via Getty Images)
New Democratic Party (NDP) MP Niki Ashton has come under fire from the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) for her intention to participate in an upcoming virtual event — “Building Solidarity” — with former UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
“Corbyn’s brand of politics creates space for antisemitism and hate to take root,” reads the joint statement with the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BOD), which cites the allegations about the Labour Party’s “antisemitism problem” under Corbyn’s leadership.
The CIJA-BOD statement denounced the invitation to the man it called a “disgraced” former leader “to spread toxicity in Canada.” It accused Ashton and fellow progressives in the NDP of pulling the party in a direction that is “antithetical to basic Canadian values.”
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