Irwin Cotler

While the eyes of the world are understandably turned toward North Africa, Iranian executions have escalated dramatically. Human rights organizations report that in January 2011 alone, Iran has executed at least 65 people, while another 43 executions took place in…

While the Holocaust was “uniquely unique” as Holocaust scholar Yehuda Bauer put it, there are important universal lessons to be acted upon Whenever I write on the Holocaust – the Shoah – I do so with a certain degree of…

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1160530.html Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran – as distinguished from the people of Iran, the objects of massive domestic repression – has emerged as a clear and present danger to international peace and security, regional stability and, increasingly and alarmingly, its own…

Contemporary Antisemitism has become more sophisticated, globalizing, virulent and lethal. It is reminiscent of the atmospherics of the 1930s and without parallel nor precedent since the end of the Second World War. The new forms and processes of contemporary anti-Judaism…

http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418620191&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull After nearly a decade of rocket-fire from Gaza targeting Israeli civilians – including armed attacks that continued and escalated for the three years after Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 – this year’s conflict in Gaza was nothing…

http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304849224&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Some 125 parliamentarians gathered together last week for the historic founding conference of the Interparliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism (ICCA), brought together by a new sophisticated, globalizing, virulent and even lethal anti-Semitism reminiscent of the atmospherics of the…

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1214132655019&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull The enduring lesson of the Holocaust – as French President Sarkozy well knows – and that of the genocides in the Balkans and Rwanda is that they occurred not simply because of the machinery of death, but because of…

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1214726165071&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull I recently addressed an annual meeting of Quebec lawyers on the topic “The Genocide Convention and Universal Declaration of Human Rights Sixty Years Later: What have we learned? What must we do?” Jews from Arab lands living in a…