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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Ya’ara Saks explains the photo with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas—and her ‘yes’ vote
Description: Embattled cabinet minister Ya’ara Saks says it was her “choice” to meet with the leader of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas last week in Ramallah, and that includes posing for photos that show him holding her arm and hand.
The Liberal MP for a heavily Jewish Toronto riding, the Canadian-Israeli has been heavily criticized by community members since those photos were posted March 14 on the official social media account of Canada’s foreign minister Mélanie Joly. (They were not posted on any of the accounts belonging to Saks herself.)
Saks says she “was asked to go” with Joly on a dip...