A senior government minister in the Canadian province of British Columbia resigned after saying last week that modern Israel was founded on a “crappy piece of land”, a comment that outraged pro-Palestinian groups. Selina Robinson, who is Jewish, made the comments during a panel discussion on Thursday and apologized on Friday. She said she understood her “flippant comment” diminished the connection Palestinians had to the land. Israel was created in 1948 from land that was previously part of Palestine.
