Next year in Jerusalem: Joe Clark and the Jerusalem embassy affair

From: International Journal | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: FLICKER, CHARLES | Copyright information

This article had its genesis in an MSc dissertation for the London School of Economics and Political Science

ON 25 APRIL 1979 THE LEADER OF Canada's Progressive Conservative party, Joe Clark, announced before the Canada-Israel Committee in Toronto that, if elected, his administration would move the Canadian embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. 'Next year in Jerusalem,' he declaimed, 'is a Jewish prayer which we intend to make a Canadian reality.'(1) Some four months earlier, a...

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