"Betrayal" by Brian Henry

NDP foreign affairs critic Heather McPherson in keffiyeh (centre); Hamilton NDP MP Matthew Green with clenched fist (left). Green has been a speaker at an anti-Israel rally organized by the terror-supporting group Toronto4Palestine. (More here.)

“Betrayal”

Right now,  in my riding of York Centre, the Conservatives could run a housefly against the Liberal incumbent and win. York Centre is one of the most Jewish ridings in Canada, and our Liberal MP, Ya’ara Saks, voted in favour of stopping arms sales to Israel.

Canada claims to be Israel’s ally …. 

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Read more of my essays here (and scroll down).

If politics doesn’t interest you, check out what I’d rather be writing if only Israel weren’t at war and antisemitism wasn't on the rise. See my round-ups of Jewish-interest Canadian books for children here, here, here, and here.  Or try my introduction to Judaism and the Jewish people here. ~Brian