Calls are growing for Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow to apologize — and even resign — after she publicly accused Israel of committing “genocide.”
Chow made the comments over the weekend at an event organized by the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM,) where she compared Israel’s operations to eliminate Palestinian terror to Japan’s ruthless and brutal occupation of China during the Second World War.
“My mother was a child in a war zone, she suffered famine caused by Japan when they invaded China during the Second World War,” she told the crowd during her address on Saturday.
“At just 13 years old, alone after my grandmother died of dysentery, she was responsible for keeping her two brothers alive.”
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