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OTTAWA — The Green Party of Canada has updated its policy book to reject the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, but maintain support for some of its practices within a broader policy.

At a special convention in Calgary this past weekend, about 350 party members voted in an update to its Israel-Palestine policy that supports nonviolent, economic methods of protest but reinforces support for the state of Israel itself.

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The resolution, supported by leader Elizabeth May, needs to be ratified by an online vote open to party members for two months. If it’s rejected — an unlikely scenario — a controversial August resolution supporting the BDS movement will stand.

In an announcement Sunday, the party said it “explicitly rejects the notion of boycotting the state of Israel,” and rejects “the goals of the ‘BDS movement’ as they do not include supporting the right of the state of Israel to exist.”