Yves Engler on Irwin Cotler

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Yves Engler

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Irwin Cotler is a stain on Canada. Leftists who have promoted this supremacist fraud should apologize to Palestinians. On the front of Thursday’s National Post the former Liberal minister took his anti-Palestinian hate to a new low. In “The truth about Nakba: Propagandizing the antisemitism agenda in Canada”, Cotler wrote that the tiny “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” exhibit at the Canadian human rights museum ignored how the “Jews also suffered a ‘Nakba’”. According to Cotler and former Conservative minister Joe Oliver, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine was in fact a story of Jewish suffering. Two weeks ago Cotler also co-authored a Globe and Mail commentary labelling a museum exhibit he hadn’t seen “propaganda masquerading as scholarship”. Cotler is a raving Jewish supremacist who supports spilling ever more Palestinian, Lebanese and Iranian blood. He has promoted aggression against Iran and criticized Canada joining 155 countries that have recognized Palestine. Cotler has attended multiple rallies supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza and written in defence of its policies. Previously Cotler pressured the International Criminal Court to ignore Israeli war crimes and opposed the International Court of Justice advising member states on their responsibility vis a vis Israel’s illegal occupation. He’s also pushed Ottawa to relocate its embassy to Jerusalem while attending events put on by the racist Jewish National Fund and meeting with far-right colonists seeking to cleanse occupied East Jerusalem of Palestinians. In one sense Cotler is little more than your run of the mill politically connected Jewish supremacist. But in another way, he’s far more despicable. More than any other, Cotler goes to great lengths to mask his Jewish supremacy with human rights language and work. He set up the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and falsely claimed to have been Nelson Mandela’s lawyer. Cotler has become a saintly figure in the establishment by expressing moral outrage at official enemies while endorsing or ignoring international abuses by the US and Canada. Despite a half century of aggressive support for Israeli apartheid, genocide and war crimes, Cotler’s liberal imperialist ‘human rights’ schtick has traction with the establishment left. In November 2024 the House of Commons unanimously praised Cotler’s “contribution to the defence of human rights”. At the time pro-Palestinian NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice told CBC Cotler was a “remarkable” individual. In recent years NDP foreign affairs critic Heather McPherson has done a half dozen events, including on June 11, 2025, with the leading apartheid and genocide apologist. In November 2022 McPherson and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh met with Cotler, capitalist Bill Browder and others. At that time McPherson wrote, “this afternoon, Professor Irwin Cotler and I spoke about how we can work together to protect human rights in Canada and around the world. I am grateful to him for sharing his wisdom with me.” Previous NDP foreign affairs critics Hélène Laverdière and Guy Caron regularly attended events or initiatives led by Cotler. So did former NDP MPs Murray Rankin and Randall Garrisson. Green Party leader Elizabeth May attended many press conferences organized by Cotler. May was part of the Cotler-led Raoul Wallenberg All-Party Parliamentary Caucus for Human Rights and has repeatedly praised him. Everyone can make mistakes, but to regain credibility, leftists who have lauded and worked with Cotler should be pressed to publicly denounce his genocidal Jewish supremacy. Truth and reconciliation with millions of Palestinian victims requires it.

4:37 PM · Jul 12, 2026

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