THE BC Liberals on Wednesday said that John Horgan’s star NDP candidate in New Westminster is the latest to proudly support extreme views.

Jennifer Whiteside, a long-time NDP activist, has compared modern workplaces to slavery, celebrated brutal Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, and promoted boycotts of Israel, they said.

Last Saturday it was Bryn Smith in Surrey-White Rock, and today it’s Jennifer Whiteside.

According to the BC Liberals, Whiteside’s ‘extreme views’ include:

• In May 2019, Whiteside published a Facebook post that compared modern workplaces to “the master/slave relationship”, going on to praise BC NDP legislation on that basis.
• In 2016, Whiteside shared an opinion piece arguing “It’s time for a boycott of Israel” – a position repeatedly rejected by all major Canadian federal and provincial political parties.
• In 2013, Whiteside shared a Facebook post mourning the death of “Comandante Hugo Chavez”, the brutal Venezuelan dictator. According to a 2017 report by Human Rights Watch, Chavez oversaw “severe shortages of medicines, medical supplies, and food….[and] protesters have been arbitrarily detained and subject to abuse by security forces.” In 2012, Whiteside shared a Facebook post celebrating the re-election of Chavez.
• In 2012, Whiteside also shared an article from the notoriously anti-Israel website The Electronic Intifada, whose name references two violent Palestinian uprisings marked by deadly terrorist attacks.
• Whiteside shared content accusing Israel of apartheid and colonization, including a 2012 Occupy Wall Street statement Whiteside praised that blamed Israel’s theft of Palestinian land on capitalism and called for “overthrowing our regimes at home”.
• Also in 2012, Whiteside shared a Facebook post claiming that “we have a capitalism problem”, and promoting the ideas of Revolutionary Communist Party USA leader Bob Avakian.