B.C. Premier David Eby is holding a press conference at 1:30 p.m. in Vancouver amid mounting calls for Post-Secondary Education Minister Selina Robinson to be removed from her post over her remarks about Israel and Palestine.
The event will be live-streamed above and on BC1.
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 Jews 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.
Robinson issued another apology Monday morning, adding that she will take part in anti-Islamophobia training.
More to come.