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NDP leadership contender rejects endorsement from alleged Holocaust denier

Aug 22, 2017 | 5:15 PM

OTTAWA — Federal NDP leadership contender Niki Ashton is rejecting an endorsement from a supporter who’s been accused of holding anti-Semitic views, including denying the atrocities of the Holocaust.

Ashton says she “in no way” supports such views and does “not accept support from people who hold such views.”

Ashton posed for a photo with Nazih Khatatba at a fundraiser in Mississauga, Ont., earlier this month hosted by the Palestine Aid Society.

Khatatba subsequently used the photo in an endorsement of Ashton on Facebook; she also got a front page endorsement in an Arabic language newspaper edited by Khatatba.