'For the City of Montreal to weigh into this conflict would be inappropriate and exacerbate tensions between communities,' reads an open letter from B’nai Brith Canada
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B’nai Brith Canada is calling on the City Council of Montreal to reject a motion by opposition party Projet Montréal to cut institutional ties with the State of Israel, calling it “divisive” and “deceitful.”
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In an open letter seen by National Post, B’nai Brith Canada accuses Projet Montréal of “explosive falsehoods” in the labelling of Israel as an “apartheid” regime and accusing its government of “genocide,” adding that the motion contains “calculated lies and extreme characterizations.”
“For the City of Montreal to weigh into this conflict would be inappropriate and exacerbate tensions between communities,” the letter reads. “It is not in the city’s purview to dictate foreign policy for its residents, as our federal leaders are elected to do that, and no other elected officials are charged with that mandate.”
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