A candidate to represent the New Democratic Party in a voting district in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has been removed for tweets that accused Israel of committing genocide against Palestinian Arabs and compared Israel to the Nazis, JTA reported on Sunday.
Rana Zaman, who is Muslim, was running in the Dartmouth-Cole Harbour district for the NDP, a social democratic federal political party in Canada. She was removed last week after tweets surfaced from a year ago, according to JTA.
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