Selective human rights ‘defender’ Cotler promotes war with Iran

 

It’s “remarkably” contradictory to challenge Israel’s treatment of Palestinians while celebrating its leading advocate’s “defence of human rights”.

In the House of Commons Monday MPs unanimously praised Irwin Cotler’s “contribution to the defence of human rights”. For his part, ‘pro-Palestinian’ NDP MP Alexandre Boulerice told CBC Cotler was a “remarkable” individual.

But over the past half century Cotler has probably been Canada’s most important promoter of an apartheid state terrorizing the Middle East. In September 2023 Israeli President Isaac Herzog gave him the Presidential Medal of Honor for making “an extraordinary contribution to the State of Israel, the Jewish people, and all humanity.”

Since then, Cotler has attended multiple rallies supporting Israel’s holocaust 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.  (more...)

Selective human rights ‘defender’ Cotler promotes war with Iran