Green Party Dances With The Devil

At the recent Green Party policy convention, the membership voted to make support for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel the official party policy. Much has been said about this in the media and by various political talking-heads, but as an ordinary Canadian who strongly supports the state of Israel and is passionately opposed to BDS, I want to put my thoughts on record as well.
Yes, the Green Party should be proud of
their choice to be a party of and for the members, a party governed by the grassroots and
not from the top down. That is admirable and in a time when party leaders centralize power,
stifle dissent and backroom machinations interfere with local nomination contests (myself
having experienced the latter personally), it is something that other parties should aspire to emulate.
But some things are just not up for debate and there are certain issues that should never be on
the table. When it comes to anything considered anti-Israel that is one of those issues for me.