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In a 12-minute exchange, Ms. May clarified that the Green Party does not support Israeli sanctions, and that she intended to tell the group as much.

She said the CJPME “have made a mistake in thinking that they will advance the goal of peace in the Middle East by basically putting forward an agenda hostile to the State of Israel and I don’t think that’s a constructive way forward.”

The Green Party leader added that she does not agree with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s close ties to the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but added “neither would we ever want to be associated with the anti-Israeli stance of the Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East.”

On Nov. 19, the Jewish Tribune published the results of the interview in a story headlined, “Green Party’s Elizabeth May ‘not going to pander,’” noting that the Green Party leader was distancing herself from the group’s “anti-Israeli stance.”

In an official Green Party press release released Wednesday, more than a week after the story’s publication, Ms. May asserted that she had been misrepresented.

“In the course of a fairly combative interview in the context of a very aggressive response to my upcoming speech … some misleading statements were published,” she wrote.

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In the course of a fairly combative interview in the context of a very aggressive response to my upcoming speech at the Canadians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East (CJPME) on December 5th 2013 in Ottawa, some misleading statements were published.