Selina Robinson Should Be Kicked Out Of The NDP

 

If the NDP cared about anti-Palestinian racism, Robinson would have been booted months ago.

The NDP is a safe space for anti-Palestinian racists. This was made clear by the fact that it took growing public pressure for British Columbia Premier David Eby to announce that MLA Selina Robinson would be stepping down from her cabinet role for spewing anti-Palestinian racism. Despite Robinson leaving her role as minister for post-secondary education, Eby said she will remain in the B.C. NDP caucus.

If the NDP cared about anti-Palestinian racism, Robinson would have been kicked out of the government, caucus and party months ago.

Eby’s decision to announce Robinson’s departure from cabinet stemmed from comments she made during a recent virtual meeting with pro-Israel group B’nai Brith. During that meeting, Robinson referred to Palestine as “a crappy piece of land with nothing on it” before it was “offered” to the Zionist settlers who colonized it. She noted, in passing, that there were “several hundred thousand people,” but “other than that, it didn’t produce an economy, it couldn’t grow things, it didn’t have anything on it.” Vancouver-based socialist Sean Orr brought the video clip to light on Twitter last week.

The context of Robinson spewing these racist lies — ones that are embedded in the DNA of narratives that seek to justify or whitewash the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land by Zionist settlers in 1948-49 — was her claiming that 18 to 34 year-olds have “no idea” about history. As many pointed out, her racist lies essentially regurgitated the colonial concept of Terra Nullius, the legal fallacy invoked by European settlers to justify stealing land from Indigenous Peoples.  (more...)

Selina Robinson Should Be Kicked Out Of The NDP

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