Progressive think-tank and Canadian Jews condemn political party’s invitation to “toxic” Corbyn

A Progressive think-tank and Canadian Jewish organisations have expressed outrage at an invitation to Jeremy Corbyn to participate in an event organised by Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP).

Now an independent MP following his suspension from the Parliamentary Labour Party, Mr Corbyn – under whose leadership the Party was found to have unlawfully victimised and harassed Jewish members by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) – has been invited to join “a conversation” with an NDP MP.

Rick Smith, the Director of the Broadbent Institute, a think tank with links to the NDP, criticised the invitation. After sharing the EHRC report, he declared: “This is not the sort of person that should headline a Progressive fundraiser or occupy the time of Canadian Progressive leaders.”

Describing Mr Corbyn as “toxic”, a Canadian Jewish leader said that it was “staggering” that, given the “catastrophic” and “consequential” issues currently facing Canada, this was where “some in the NDP want to spend the Party’s capital.”

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