With enemies like these, one needs fewer friends.
My odds of winning the NDP leadership race have significantly increased within only a few days of announcing the bid. The campaign to offer an alternative to capitalism and imperialism by promoting de-colonization, de-growth and economic democracy remains a long shot even if Zionist fanatics and rightist media have turned the extreme long shot bid into a mere long shot.
The Globe Mail, Toronto Star, Politico, Economic Times and Hill Times have all mentioned the campaign in stories about the NDP. Le Journal de Montreal did a long, hostile, but not horrible, story while the rightist Western Standard published a thorough critique of the campaign’s policies. So did Juno News while US-based Front Page did a hit piece. Ben Mulroney ranted for a minute and half on radio about me and leftism.
In the Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne devoted a paragraph to criticizing my socialist economic policies while YouTube influencer Steve Boots covered our domestic policy sympathetically. Leader of the Green Party of Quebec Alex Tyrell did a supportive article on the campaign’s eco-socialist outlook and the possibility of mobilizing disenfranchised Greens. I also did long sympathetic interviews with Dimitri Lascaris for Reason to Resist, Aidan Jonah for Canada Files and Jessa McLean for Blueprints of Disruption and. My article on Why I’m running for leadership of NDP has circulated widely as has the long press release announcing the leadership bid.
As expected, the extremist fringe of the genocide lobby has responded with authoritarianism. Even before the NDP leadership race has officially begun, former Jewish Defence League head Meir Weinstein, Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley and disgraced anti-Palestinian former BC NDP cabinet minister Selena Robinson are all calling for me to be excluded from the race to lead the party. Now in charge of a group called Israel Now, Weinstein posted on Thursday night that “Israel Now will confront the NDP to either drop Yves Engler or change their name from the NDP to the Nazi Party of Canada.” Lilley boosted Weinstein’s post while Robinson supported a call to “disqualify Yves Engler from running due to blatant prejudice against Jews and Israelis.”
The more the genocide advocates demand my exclusion from the race the more difficult it will be for the NDP brass to block me from running. As Israel kills starving children in Gaza and corrals them into ever smaller concentration camps, will NDP members accept the genocide lobby determining who are allowed to run for party leader? (more...)
Campaign success! Genocide lobby totally freaked out
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