Prevent, protect, prosecute, partnership: go back to basics on fighting hate, says Cotler

Elected officials also have a role to play in lowering the temperature when it comes to the spread of hate and inflamed tensions, says a university student who was caught in a social-media firestorm.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed on Nov. 9 what he called a 'terrifying' rise in antisemitism and 'unacceptable' Islamophobia in the wake of a pair of shootings at two Jewish day schools and the firebombing of a synagogue and Jewish community centre in Montreal.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

November 15, 2023

Irwin Cotler, Canada's former special envoy on combatting antisemitism, says his successor is “the right person, in the right place, at the right time” to bridge the widening gap between Canada’s Jewish and Muslim communities in their shared fight against an unpre...

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