It’s unfortunate the Green Party of Canada has chosen to hurl itself into irrelevancy by taking up the cause of Israel bashing.

Leader Elizabeth May understands how much political damage the Greens have done to themselves in a very short period of time. It's because of this she's now suggesting she may resign over the issue.

Party members voted earlier this month at their convention to support the so-called Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state.

Of course the Greens are free to pursue any policy they want and bashing Israel isn’t confined to their Canadian contingent.

For example, the Green party candidate running in the U.S. presidential election supports BDS as did the former head of the Greens in the U.K.

May isn't personally supportive of BDS. Although she sponsored a petition calling for the Parliament of Canada to rescind its motion condemning the BDS campaign passed in February by a vote of 229 to 51.

May didn't vote on the resolution. She said said she considered it an attack on free speech.

Her opposition to BDS is not an endorsement of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Indeed even many Israelis object to that.

Rather she views BDS as a divisive policy, adopted by the Greens contrary to their normal procedure of forming policy by consensus.

Supporting BDS puts the Greens on the fringe of Canadian foreign policy, since both the governing Liberals and opposition Conservatives oppose it and it has been publicly condemned by both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the previous Conservative government under Stephen Harper.

Why the Greens are so obsessed with unfairly singling out Israel for human rights violations, to the point of obscuring their core messages about the environment and the economy, is something they will have to explain to Canadians.

It doesn’t help that it was recently uncovered by B’nai Brith that a Green party candidate in three previous federal elections is a Holocaust denier, whom the Greens are now in the process of expelling from their party.

The Greens should listen to Elizabeth May and withdraw their support of BDS.