"Crappy piece of land": BC minister out over Israel-Palestine comments

Selina Robinson is stepping down as B.C.’s minister of advanced education, Premier David Eby announced Monday afternoon.

Dozens of people showed up to protest outside a BC NDP caucus retreat in Surrey on Monday morning, demanding Robinson be removed from her role, following her comments last week that Israel was founded on a “crappy piece of land.”

In her initial comments, made in an online panel discussion hosted by B’nai Brith Canada, Robinson also equated the generations-long battle between Israelis and Palestinians to a fight between the Tsleil-Waututh and the Squamish First Nations over land.

She apologized in a social media post, saying her comments were “disrespectful,” and that she had been referring to the land having limited natural resources.

Despite that, more than a dozen mosques banned NDP MLAs and candidates from their properties.

Global's Richard Zussman reports.

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