CAEF President, Michael Teper's letter to 7 members of the NDP Caucus re Yves Engler's NDP Leadership Candidacy--A Racist Threat to Canadian Democracy, July 10, 2025
- CAEF
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Dear Members of the NDP Caucus:
On Monday July 7, the NDP permitted Yves Engler, an open and explicit racist to stand for the leadership of the NDP.
1. Here's Yves in his own words, describing the Jewish communities of Hampstead and Cote-St-Luc in Montreal:
"Inward looking and affluent, the Jewish community is quick to claim victimhood. But, like an out of control child, the major Jewish organizations need a time out. Without an intervention of some sort, the Jewish community risks having future dictionaries defining “anti-Semitism” as “a movement for justice and equality.”
"Hampstead is a wealthy, ethnically segregated, enclave. It traces its roots to Britain’s late-1800s Garden City movement, which was a move by London’s elite to move out of the city centre. Just west of Montréal, Hampstead was established by some of the wealthiest Canadians in 1914. The municipality doesn’t allow retail shops or industrial land in its boundaries and is one of the wealthiest municipalities in Québec. Until after the Second World War, it was almost entirely WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant). Today over three-quarters of Hampstead’s 7,500 residents are Jewish and it is one of the most ethnically homogeneous areas in greater Montreal. The median income of the 2,500 households was $150,000 per year in 2021 (almost twice the Montreal wide median).
Pointing to Hampstead’s social characteristics ought to be a way to counter genocidal Jewish supremacists claiming victimhood. Instead of demonstrating the typical characteristics of a community discriminated against, the municipality highlights privilege and power."
Yves is fond of the term "genocidal Jewish supremacist". He uses it frequently to describe Roman Baber, Irwin Cotler, Ben Mulroney, Ya'ara Saks, Holly Doan, Anthony Housefather, Pierre Poilievre, Michael Levitt, Kevin Vuong, the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) etc.
He has some pretty nasty things to say about the major Jewish organizations:
Recently, he's gone full tilt with the "death to the Israel Defense Forces" meme, He calls it the "Israel Occupation Forces" (IOF).
He has some peculiar observations about "Canadian Jewry" and "world Jewry".
Is this the new normal for the NDP? If not, what are you going to do about it?
Best regards,
R. Michael Teper