Nova Scotia election: Former NDP candidate speaks publicly after criticism for Israel posts

A Nova Scotia pistillate who withdrew herself arsenic an NDP campaigner successful the provincial predetermination is speaking publically for the archetypal clip since disapproval of past societal media posts astir Gaza led her to tally arsenic an autarkic instead.

Tammy Jakeman says she regrets the November 2023 posts.

“I’m atrocious that I did that,” she said.

“I ain my mistake, it’s thing I’ve taught my children, it’s thing I thatch my students.”

The NDP announced earlier this period that Jakeman was nary longer moving for the party in Eastern Passage, aft the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs alleged she made “hurtful” posts.

In a property release, the centre shared screenshots of a societal media relationship with Jakeman’s name, including a station responding to the Auschwitz Memorial saying Israel was liable for the deaths of children successful Gaza.

The relationship appeared to beryllium deleted and Jakeman did not respond to a petition for remark astatine the time.

In the aftermath, she says she has received support.

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“The onslaught connected Tammy Jakeman — and that’s truly what it was, was an onslaught — it seemed to beryllium precise political, precise coordinated,” said Ben Sichel, from the Halifax section of  Independent Jewish Voices.

But the Atlantic Jewish Council, which was among those that called retired Jakeman, says she should bash much than apologize.

“To specify what benignant of acquisition she wants to do, successful presumption of anti-Semitism, training, learning astir however these Tweets are violative to our assemblage and hurtful to our community,” said Mark David, the council’s president.

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— with a record from The Canadian Press and Global News’ Rebecca Lau