(National Post) A voting guide for Canadian Muslims rated federal political leaders on their views on a boycott campaign against Israel and was partly funded by a federal grant, a Jewish advocacy group said Friday.
B’nai Brith Canada urged an end to any government funding that could encourage what it called the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The group said that the Canadian Islamophobia Industry Research Project at Wilfrid Laurier University authored the Canadian Muslim Voting Guide, which gauges responses from the federal party leaders to six national and six international issues that might concern Canadian Muslim voters.
One issue discusses the BDS movement, a campaign that argues for international boycotting of Israeli interests, divestment from Israeli state and business activities, as well as sanctions.
