The Quebec government’s Minister for the Condition of Women, Pauline Marois, refused to meet with a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s General Union of Women, Inam Abushar, after two Jewish members of the Quebec National Assembly — Harry Blank and Herbert Marx — protested Abushar’s reception in the National Assembly’s restaurant by Guy Bisaillon, a Parti Quebecois member of the Assembly and the president of the Council for Peace, a Moscow-oriented organization.
Marx stated that the government of Quebec should not “give legitimacy to an organization which is known above all for terrorism.” Abushar’s visit to Montreal was organized by the Montreal-based League for the Rights of Women in connection with the family movement’s International Day of Solidarity last week.
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