"Top Jewish groups in Canada have expressed disappointment after the country voted in favor of an anti-Israel UN General Assembly resolution earlier this week.
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), the advocacy arm of the Jewish Federations of Canada, called the move a 'betrayal.'
'It contradicted explicit commitments made by liberal candidates during the recent election to maintain the principled opposition to the twenty annual resolutions whose sole purpose is to isolate and delegitimize Israel,' said CIJA co-chairs Joel Reitman and Jeffrey Rosenthal.
Since 2006, both conservative and liberal Canadian governments had rejected the resolution in question, which comes up for a vote annually...
Liberal MP Michael Levitt expressed his concern about the vote on Facebook, arguing that UN anti-Israel resolutions 'unfairly singled out Israel of condemnation, ignoring the crimes being perpetrated by many of the resolutions' sponsors.'
'For example,' he pointed out, 'Assad's Syria was the subject of just one resolution, compared to eight targeting Israel. The situation in Venezuela, where the illegal Maduro regime is starving millions of Venezuelans and causing the largest refugee crisis in our hemisphere's history, was entirely ignored.'..."