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Please flood Thomas Mulcair's inbox with your emails:    thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca

Here are some tweets you can send out:

.@ThomasMulcair Tell him & NDP they are on wrong side of world & history in supporting ZIONISM https://www.change.org/p/thomas-mulcair-mr-thomas-mulcair-reinstate-morgan-wheeldon-as-ndp-candidate-for-kings-hants-nova-scotia?

.@Thomas Mulcair @OliviaChow @BradLavigne  Read comments on the petition page. https://www.change.org/p/thomas-mulcair-mr-thomas-mulcair-reinstate-morgan-wheeldon-as-ndp-candidate-for-kings-hants-nova-scotia?

.@Thomas Mulcair @BradLavigne Big Miscalculation on Gaza support. @ElizabethMay gets our votes. https://www.change.org/p/thomas-mulcair-mr-thomas-mulcair-reinstate-morgan-wheeldon-as-ndp-candidate-for-kings-hants-nova-scotia?

.@ThomasMulcair, your credibility is at stake. Reinstate Morgan Wheeldon for Kings-Hants Nov... https://www.change.org/p/thomas-mulcair-mr-thomas-mulcair-reinstate-morgan-wheeldon-as-ndp-candidate-for-kings-hants-nova-scotia?

Mulcair's orange purge of pro-Palestinian candidates will come back to haunt him | rabble.ca http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/j-baglow/2015/08/mulcairs-orange-purge-pro-palestinian-candidates-will-come-back-to-h#.Vc1fN6y9kY5.twitter …

Morgan Wheeldon was the NDP's official candidate in Kings-Hants before resigning after controversial comments he allegedly made about the Middle East on Facebook appeared as a screen grab being circulated by the Conservative Party. 

Wheeldon is accused of saying Israel intended to "ethnically cleanse the region" in a Facebook post in August 2014. The original post has since been deleted.

Wheeldon said the Facebook post was part of a longer conversation and the post itself wasn't expressing his sole viewpoint but one that comes from a variety of news sources, which is illustrated by the fact that the post opens with "one could argue..."

"The broader point was that depending on your source of information, you would draw different conclusions about the conflict," Wheeldon said.
"The context changes the entirety of this whole thing and it makes exceptionally clear that this is a dirty smear and it's shameful," he said.

Earlier today, Brad Lavigne, an NDP campaign adviser, said Wheeldon's position as reflected by the Facebook post didn't reflect the party's position. 

"Our position on the conflict in the Middle East is clear, as Tom Mulcair expressed clearly in the debate. Mr. Wheeldon's comments are not in line with that policy and he is no longer our candidate," he said.

"We were made aware of some information that had not previously been disclosed. When we approached Mr. Wheeldon with this information, he submitted his resignation."

Wheeldon said his true personal views are actually in line with the NDP platform.

"My position on Israel has always been that they deserve a safe and secure state, one that works with Canada and I also agree personally with the two-state solution in the NDP platform," he said.

Wheeldon said what is being circulated doesn't fall under defamation because he's a public figure but if he were a private citizen, it would fall under cyberbullying legislation.

"Being accused of being an anti-Semite, that's pretty much defamation if I was a private citizen."

(CBC News - August 10, 2015)

August 17, 2015  Report of another candidate barred from running because he spoke the truth   http://www.metronews.ca/news/edmonton/2015/08/16/ndp-hopeful-protesting-disqualification-over-israel-comment-.html​

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Mulcair's orange purge of pro-Palestinian candidates will come back to haunt him
BYJ. BAGLOW
AUGUST 12, 2015

Criticism of Israel is something that "today's NDP" takes very seriously indeed: so seriously that a purge of candidates now seems to be underway. Their crime? To speak up for the human rights of Palestinians.

After the recent roasting of a Palestinian toddler by Israeli settlers (no arrests to date, just a round-up of the Usual Suspects and a lot of talk), one might have expected a party with a strong human rights record to speak out. Nope. OK, it's an election campaign, and the calculus of victory includes giving as little offence as possible to wavery electors. But the NDP High Command is going further -- much further.

It began last year, when Paul Manly, the son of former NDP MP Jim Manly and an NDP activist since he was eight years old, was not even permitted to run for the party's candidacy in Nanaimo-Ladysmith. He had spoken up for the suffering and destitute people of Gaza. That was too much for the NDP High Command.

I said at the time that the mould was truly on the orange at that point, and predicted it would spread. It has.

Two candidates have been disappeared so far. One is Morgan Wheeldon, who was running for the NDP in Kings-Hants. He "resigned" (not really) after it came to light that he disapproved of Israel's ethnic cleansing policies. He was referring to the West Bank, but he could have included East Jerusalem and the on-going expulsion of Bedouins from the South Negev in Israel proper.

This sort of thing is indeed a "war crime," precisely as Wheeldon said. But the NDP High Command immediately dropped the hammer. "Our position on the conflict in the Middle East is clear, as Tom Mulcair expressed clearly in the debate," said apparatchik Brad Lavigne. "Mr. Wheeldon's comments are not in line with that policy and he is no longer our candidate."

"Clear," eh? Well, becoming more so, I guess. 

Also axed was Clyde River Mayor Jerry Natanine, who wanted to run as the NDP candidate in Nunavut. But Tweets supporting Palestinian human rights came to light. In Natanine's own words, "I often side with the Palestinians because of all the hardship they are facing and because nothing is being re-built over there."

Apparently the NDP High Command thought that might be construed as anti-Semitic. Yes, seriously. It has come to this.

There are other candidates who have incautiously defended the human rights of Palestinians in the past, and who may yet disappear down the orange memory hole. How long will Hans Marotte last, for example? He's being duly investigated as of this writing by B'nai Brith and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. Ulp. Then there's David McLaren (Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound), whose sin, apparently, is to refuse to support either side of the Middle East conflict.

Up to now I've been supporting the NDP in the run-up to October 19, even though I quit the party last year over the Manly mess. Now...I dunno. Yes, we have to get rid of Harper: that's imperative. No, young Justin would just give us more of the same, with different clothes and hairstyle. That pretty well leaves the NDP. But at what point do we progressives have to start listening to our consciences?