B’nai Brith Canada calls on Liberal party leader to oust candidate with openly anti-Israel views

MONTREAL - B'nai Brith Canada has contacted Liberal leader Stéphane Dion to ask that he refuse to let Jocelyn Coulon stand as the Party’s candidate in the Montreal riding of Outremont, in light of the candidate’s well documented anti-Israel bias.

“Mr. Coulon has expressed views on Israel and the Middle East that appear out of step with current Liberal policy,” said Moïse Moghrabi, Legal Counsel, B’nai Brith Canada – Quebec Region. “His hostile attitude toward Israel, his anti-US rhetoric and his calls to end the isolation of a government controlled by Hamas, a terrorist group banned in Canada, ought to disqualify him as a candidate for the Liberal Party.

“Mr. Coulon has also dismissed as ‘Western propaganda’ the notion that a state with nuclear capability may at some point pass along nuclear weapons to terrorists. By his flawed logic, the human rights-abusing regime of Iran, an active supporter of the terrorist group Hezbollah, should pose no danger whatsoever to the global community.

“We call on Mr. Dion to reverse his earlier decision and refuse to let Coulon stand as the Party’s candidate in Outremont. Surely, the Liberals cannot continue to countenance having an individual with such biased views as their point person on foreign policy issues.”

For further information contact Karen Lazar, Director of Communications:
416-633-6224 X 140 (office) / 416-312-9173 (cell)

B’nai Brith has been active in Canada since 1875 as the Jewish community’s foremost human rights organization.

Mr. Jocelyn Coulon is a political scientist at Université de Montréal's CÉRIUM

Source: bnaibrith.ca - Tuesday, July 24, 2007

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