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Fighting Apartheid, Antisemitism, and Injustice: A Conversation With Irwin Cotler

Fighting Apartheid, Antisemitism, and Injustice: A Conversation With Irwin Cotler

Update: 2025-09-09
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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.

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Fighting Apartheid, Antisemitism, and Injustice: A Conversation With Irwin Cotler

Fighting Apartheid, Antisemitism, and Injustice: A Conversation With Irwin Cotler

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