“This individual will not be participating in future campaign events. We do not vet every creator we speak to, but we are reviewing how we engage with online voices to ensure alignment with our values.”
An OnlyFans creator who had been campaigning online for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has been dropped after prior comments regarding the Holocaust and the ongoing war between Israel came to light.
In a late September post to TikTok, Jessica Wetz, whose full name is Jessica Wetzstein, equated remarks about "Palestinian babies" made by an Israeli member of parliament to remarks about "Jewish babies" made by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
NDP campaign spokesperson Anne McGrath told the National Post in a statement, "We disagree with the comparison that was made. Nothing should be compared to the Holocaust. Doing so minimizes the scale and horror of that genocide and disrespects the memory of the six million Jews and millions of others who were murdered."
"This individual will not be participating in future campaign events. We do not vet every creator we speak to, but we are reviewing how we engage with online voices to ensure alignment with our values," she added.
Wetz described herself as a health and human rights influencer with hundreds of thousands of followers to the National Post, saying in a statement, "Comparing the genocide and apartheid in Palestine to any other genocide and apartheid is how you contextualize it. Canadian wide the curriculum has us compare and contrast different methods of genocide, it’s not minimizing or disrespectful, it’s educational."
In one video she posted to social media, Wetz said that she had run into Singh in an elevator four years ago and made a TikTok video. She said that Singh had recently sent her a message asking in she wanted to "talk healthcare." Wetz was seen in a video on board the NDP campaign bus, posing with Singh, and attending rallies, at times sporting a keffiyeh. The video told content creators to contact Wetz if they wanted to "get on the bus."
Per the Toronto Sun, Wetz’s OnlyFans page states, "Hot and wild pics and vids. Unreleased images, uncensored/explicit PPV content, funny videos, we’ve got it all here folks! Thank f*cking god my nipples can be freeeee! I mean… OF doesn’t allow them outdoors… but freeish you know."
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