Subhead:Critics demand accountability over Sean Orr’s past social media statements about Israel, Canada, and parental rights.#
Vancouver’s newly-elected city councillor Sean Orr is facing mounting calls to resign or apologize after resurfaced social media posts reveal a pattern of comments critics believe are antisemitic and anti-Canadian.
Among them, a 2021 tweet in which Orr wrote: “Everyone knows Vancouver city planners are controlled by a secret cabal of Jews who have a bunker in the earth’s core fml.”
The Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) condemned the remark, calling it a reference to a “centuries-old antisemitic trope alleging Jewish control of political and economic systems—myths that have fueled discrimination, exclusion, and violence against Jews throughout history.”
