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Originally Posted by Doctorfever
It’s not me making the blanket statement. It’s Selena Robinson. Again, if you don’t want to believe her, that’s your choice.
I suspect discrediting her is next…
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She discredits herself
From the article
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And then four days later, he was telling me that I had to resign. I am pretty confident it was because I’m a Jew, and not because I was a bad minister. I think I was a damn good minister in every file that I’ve had. I was fired because I was creating a bit of a #### storm, I think, for the premier, and he didn’t like that.
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From her wiki page
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Robinson apologised for the comments later that week, calling them "disrespectful," continuing to clarify "I was referring to the fact that the land has limited natural resources". In a statement, Eby said that Robinson's claim was "wrong and unacceptable... I thank her for withdrawing the comments and apologizing unreservedly", though Robinson did not publicly withdraw the comment
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On October 28, 2023, Dr. Natalie Knight, an instructor at Langara College made remarks that were interpreted as praising the October 7 attacks. She was initially put on leave, but then reinstated in January 2024 after Langara College conducted an investigation and found that Knight did not violate the college's policies. Her remarks had been deemed offensive to some, but ultimately protected under academic freedom. However, after the reinstatement, Selena Robinson met with the college administration and called for Knight's termination – and on January 26, the college terminated Knight. Michael Conlon of FPSE said it was unprecendented for a politician to intervene directly into a college's internal matters and Robinson was "abusing her ministerial powers to silence political views that don’t agree with her own".[32]
On February 1, 2024, the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC (FPSE) alongside the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) released a statement calling on David Eby to call for the immediate resignation of Robinson. FPSE also describe Robinson as undermining "the democratic principles of freedom of expression, academic freedom, and a college and university system free of direct manipulation by the provincial government"
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She's got some sour groups and she is claiming that she was fired from her position due to being a Jew. But it seems like she was being divisive in her comments on Palestine, apologized but did not retract them, then used her political position to unduly influence Langara College's decision based on her personal feelings.
So I can understand why she feels the way she does, but I also think her attempt to frame her treatment as related to her heritage is unfounded. I would be upset to if my colleagues and friends didn't back me up like I hoped they would. But part of that is in her words and her actions, not because of her background.
Using one person's story as a way to demonstrate that the NDP is "the party of antisemitism" doesn't really hold up.