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In this Touro Talks conversation, Irwin Cotler — international human rights advocate and former Canadian Minister of Justice — highlights what today’s struggles demand of us. Drawing lessons from the anti-apartheid fight for Nelson Mandela in South Africa and the movement for Soviet Jewry that became a model of global advocacy, Cotler shows how collective action can dismantle injustice. Cotler discusses the rise of antisemitism, magnified since October 7, as not only a threat to Jews but to democracy itself, and calls out the United Nations for betraying its founding ideals by enabling rather than combating antisemitism.
By Touro UniversityIn this Touro Talks conversation, Irwin Cotler — international human rights advocate and former Canadian Minister of Justice — highlights what today’s struggles demand of us. Drawing lessons from the anti-apartheid fight for Nelson Mandela in South Africa and the movement for Soviet Jewry that became a model of global advocacy, Cotler shows how collective action can dismantle injustice. Cotler discusses the rise of antisemitism, magnified since October 7, as not only a threat to Jews but to democracy itself, and calls out the United Nations for betraying its founding ideals by enabling rather than combating antisemitism.