Documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis has been chosen the new leader of the federal NDP - replacing former Burnaby South MP Jagmeet Singh. Lewis, who is Jewish but an outspoken anti-Israel pundit, hasn’t held political office but has worked as a TV host and CBC journalist. He had two failed bids to become and NDP MP - one in West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky, the other in Vancouver Centre. Lewis is a self-proclaimed social democrat and also the son of former United Nations Ambassador Stephen Lewis.