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Thursday, 6 February 2025

Former human rights chief launches defamation lawsuit against Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman

Former Canadian Human Rights chief commissioner Birju Dattani listens to his lawyer during a news conference on Parliament hill, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025 in Ottawa.


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Former Human Rights Chief Launching Defamation Lawsuits – February 6, 2025

Birju Dattani holds a news conference in Ottawa to discuss defamation lawsuits he has launched against Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman, media personality Ezra Levant, and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) for what he alleges were defamatory statements made about him on social media. Last year, Dattani resigned as chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission shortly after his appointment following complaints about past comments and actions of his that were called antisemitic by CIJA and others. (no interpretation)


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Irwin Cotler

Member of Parliament
for Mount Royal
In office
15 November 1999 – 4 August 2015
Preceded bySheila Finestone
Succeeded byAnthony Housefather
Minister of Justice
Attorney General of Canada
In office
12 December 2003 – 5 February 2006
Prime MinisterPaul Martin
Preceded byMartin Cauchon
Succeeded byVic Toews
Personal details
Born8 May 1940 (age 84)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political partyLiberal
SpouseAriela Cotler
Residence(s)Montreal, Quebec, Canada
ProfessionLawyer, law professor, Founder and Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights


Irwin Cotler PC OC OQ[1] (born 8 May 1940) is a retired Canadian politician who was Member of Parliament for Mount Royal from 1999 to 2015. He served as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 2003 until the Liberal government of Paul Martin lost power following the 2006 federal election. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election in November 1999, winning 92% of votes cast.[2]

Early life and education

The son of a lawyer, Cotler was born in Montreal, Quebec to a Jewish family.[citation needed] As a child, Cotler's father brought him to Delorimier Stadium in 1946 where the two saw Jackie Robinson on the field, with Cotler saying this moment inspired his interest in civil liberties as he and his father discussed anti-racism.[3]

Cotler received his B.A. (1961) and BCL (1964) degree from McGill University and was an editor of the McGill Law Journal.[4] He then graduated from Yale Law School with an LL.M.

Career

Academia

After working as a speechwriter for federal Minister of Justice John Turner from 1968 until 1972,[3] Cotler entered academia in 1970 beginning his career as an associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.[3] Cotler was a professor of law at McGill University and the director of its Human Rights Program from 1973 until his election as a Member of Parliament in 1999 for the Liberal Party of Canada. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Yale Law School and is the recipient of eleven honorary doctorates.

Political career

Cotler served on the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Development, as well as on the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. In 2000, he was appointed special advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the International Criminal Court.[5][6]

Minister of Justice

Irwin Cotler (left) (11 May 2004, Washington, D.C.)

On 12 December 2003, Prime Minister Paul Martin appointed him to Cabinet as Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. He recommended the appointment of two women to the Supreme Court of Canada: Louise Charron and Rosalie Abella, Canada's first Jewish woman Supreme Court justice.[3] Cotler attempted to introduce several bills to decriminalize marijuana.[7][8] As Minister of Justice, Cotler tabled Canada's first-ever National Justice Initiative Against Racism, in parallel with the government's National Action Plan Against Racism.[citation needed] He was tasked with improving relations with the indigenous peoples in Canada and implemented a policy "known as the seven R’s: recognition, respect, redress, representation, responsiveness, reconciliation and relationships."[3]

As Minister of Justice, Cotler presided over many legislative changes concerning national security. This included proposed changes to privacy legislation known as "Lawful Access" to give police and intelligence officers the tools to conduct surveillance of electronic communications for law enforcement and national security purposes.[9][10]

In early 2005, Cotler intervened in the senate review of Canada's 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act, as mandated by section 145 of the bill. This law, adopted in the wake of the September 11 attacks, had been criticized by some human rights groups and defense lawyers, as an unreasonable trade-off between security and freedom.[11] In his speech to the senate committee on the matter, Cotler rejected these concerns, arguing that "there is no contradiction in the protection of security and the protection of human rights".[12]

Liberal Party

On 22 February 2006, the Liberal Party appointed Cotler Critic for Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness in the opposition shadow cabinet for the 39th Canadian Parliament. On 18 January 2007, Cotler was appointed Critic for Human Rights by newly elected leader Stéphane Dion.

Cotler was re-elected to Parliament in the 2008 election to represent the Mount Royal riding in Quebec with 55% of the vote,[13] In January 2009, Cotler was named Special Counsel on Human Rights and International Justice for the Liberal Party, under Michael Ignatieff, and subsequently Critic for Human Rights.

He was re-elected again in the 2011 election, fending off a serious challenge from former city councillor Saulie Zajdel, a longtime Liberal supporter running as a Conservative who lost by only 2,500 votes. It was only the third time that the Liberals had been seriously threatened in Mount Royal since 1940, and the closest that a centre-right party has come to winning anywhere in Montreal since 1993.

In May 2011, Cotler was named Justice and Human Rights Critic by interim Liberal leader Bob Rae.[citation needed] Cotler also chaired the Inter-Parliamentary Group for Human Rights in Iran, the Inter-Parliamentary Group of Justice for Sergei Magnitsky, and the All-Party Save Darfur Coalition.[14]

In 2013, Cotler was chosen to represent the Liberal Party of Canada at the funeral of Nelson Mandela in deference to the work he allegedly did for and with Mandela in fighting Apartheid. Party Leader Justin Trudeau gave up his seat for him.[15]

On 5 February 2014, Cotler announced he was not running in the 42nd Canadian federal election. He said he would remain "active in public life, lecturing and writing on the issues of the day, advancing the causes of human rights and international justice, and advocating on behalf of political prisoners."[16]

Post-political career

Cotler was one of thirteen Canadians banned from traveling to Russia under retaliatory sanctions imposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in March 2014. He replied through his official Twitter feed, "I see my travel ban from Russia as a badge of honour, not a mark of exclusion."[17]

In November 2024, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told Cotler that it had stopped an assassination attempt on him by the Iranian government the previous month. Cotler, a fierce critic of the Iranian government, confirmed that he had been under police protection for more than a year.[18]

Activism

Human rights

Cotler is on the Board of Advancing Human Rights.[19] Cotler spoke at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy on several occasions.[20]

Jewish and Israel activism

Cotler is a past president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, a member of MEMRI's Board of Advisors,[21] an Honorary Member of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation,[22] serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Genesis Prize Foundation[23] and is a board member of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations.[24] Studying antisemitism, Cotler separated it into six categories and found thirteen indices of discrimination against Jews that characterizes the "new anti-Jewishness".[25]

In 1986 he was named chief counsel to the Canadian Jewish Congress at the Deschênes Commission of Inquiry on Nazi war criminals.[26]

Cotler worked with a group of international jurists to indict Iranian President Ahmadinejad for incitement to genocide under the UN Charter and the Genocide Convention, saying that the Iranian government used anti-Jewish rhetoric similar to the Nazi Party.[27] Cotler chaired a commission called the "Responsibility to Prevent Coalition", which released a petition in 2009 entitled "The Danger of a Genocidal and Nuclear Iran: A Responsibility to Prevent Petition". The petition was signed by Elie Wiesel, Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, and the former Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Per Ahlmark, and historian Yehuda Bauer.[28][29][30][31][32][33][34] Cotler is an advisory board member of United Against Nuclear Iran and the Counter Extremism Project.[35][36]

In 2012, Cotler advised Canadian foreign minister John Baird on rejecting the recognition of the State of Palestine during a United Nations meeting.[3]

Cotler is a close friend of American lawyer Alan Dershowitz;[37] the two met at Yale University in the 1960s.[3] Dershowitz's book Abraham was dedicated to Cotler, who Dershowitz described as "a modern-day Abraham."[37] In 2016, the two were named by The Jerusalem Post as "perhaps, the two most eloquent international advocates for Israel and human rights."[37] Dershowitz nominated Cotler for the Nobel Peace Prize the same year.[37][38]

In 2016, Irwin Cotler drafted the "'Never Again' Declaration", which has been signed by justice ministers, parliamentarians, jurists, and Luis Moreno Ocampo, former International Criminal Court prosecutor.[39][40]

Cotler has been criticized as being anti-Palestinian, though he denied the description, saying he supports a two-state solution and criticized the Palestinian National Authority, saying "unfortunately, the Palestinian leadership has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity."[3]

In January 2024, he criticized South Africa's ICJ genocide case against Israel,[41] saying that "Israel consistently seeks to minimize harm to civilians [in Gaza] using measures including leaflets, messages and phone calls to urge civilians to evacuate targeted areas, creating humanitarian zones and corridors, and facilitating humanitarian aid."[42]

Prisoner representation

Cotler began representing notable prisoners with the Natan Sharansky case, who was imprisoned in the Soviet gulag for Jewish activism. In 1977, Sharansky's wife asked Cotler to represent Natan when the two met in Israel.[3] Cotler went to the Soviet Union in 1979 to represent Sharansky, though he was deported.[3] Sharansky was released in 1986 by Mikhail Gorbachev and went on to become Israeli Deputy Prime Minister.[3][43] According to Cotler, the case taught him that "[i]t was very important for mobilizing public opinion" and that "[t]he tipping point for the release of political prisoners is not necessarily the injustice of the case, ... It’s when you can make the case that it’s in their self-interest to release the prisoner because it’s costing them."[3]

In 1981, Cotler visited South Africa after being invited by anti-apartheid activists, being detained after giving the speech titled "If Sharansky, Why Not Mandela?"[3] At the request of Nelson Mandela's South African legal team, Cotler took on the role of "Canadian counsel" to Mandela at the end of the visit, participating in anti-apartheid activities in Canada and advocating on Mandela's behalf with Amnesty International.[3][44] The claim that Cotler was arrested or ever represented Mandela in any capacity has been disputed by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and two prominent South African lawyers, including a surviving member of Mandela's legal team.[45] However, in 1986, United Press International reported that Alan Dershowitz and Cotler were involved in an attempt to negotiate Mandela's release through a prisoner exchange.[46]

Cotler went on to represent other imprisoned individuals, including Jacobo Timmerman in Latin America, Muchtar Pakpahan in Asia. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian democracy activist imprisoned by the Egyptian government, was represented by Cotler and acquitted in 2003.[47] He acted as counsel to Maher Arar during part of Arar's imprisonment[48] and supported demands for a public inquiry.[49] He has also defended both Palestinians and Israelis against their own governments, and participated in a minor role in the Camp David peace agreement between Israel and Egypt.[50]

Imprisoned Venezuelan opposition politician Leopoldo López chose Cotler to serve as an attorney on his defense team in 2015.[51] In 2017, Cotler was then asked to join a panel of independent international experts designated by Luis Almagro, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, to determine whether there was reasonable ground to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed in Venezuela.[52]

Personal life

Cotler's wife, Ariela (née Ze'evi), is a native of Jerusalem and worked as a legislative assistant to Likud members of the Israeli Knesset from 1967-79.[53] The two met at a lunch with the Knesset in 1977; Cotler was asked to deliver a letter from Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to the Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, a letter that included peace negotiation proposals.[3] The two married on 26 March 1979, the day that the Egypt–Israel peace treaty was signed.[3] Cotler became a step-father to Ariela's daughter Michal Cotler-Wunsh, who he adopted when the couple moved to Montreal, and the two had three other children; Gila, Tanya and Jonathan.[3] Cotler-Wunsh is an attorney and a PhD candidate in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was a Member of the Knesset for the Blue and White alliance during the 23rd Knesset, from 2020 until 2021.

Awards and achievements

Cotler was appointed in 1992 as an Officer of the Order of Canada.[3] He received fifteen honorary doctorate degrees.[3] Cotler received an honorary doctorate from McGill University on 30 May 2019,[54][55] and gave the commencement address during the Faculty of Law's convocation ceremony.[56][57][58] In 2022, he was profiled in the documentary film First to Stand: The Cases and Causes of Irwin Cotler.[59] In 2023, he was awarded Israel's Presidential Medal of Honour by Israeli President Isaac Herzog.[60] Also in 2023, he was awarded the Lantos Human Rights Prize.[61]



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Corey Balsam – National Coordinator

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Corey has long been involved in IJV, both out of his hometown  of Ottawa and Toronto. He now lives in Montreal after spending nearly four years living in Palestine, working for Oxfam, where he was involved in research, advocacy, and program management.

Based in Ramallah, Corey frequently hosted young Jews following their Birthright trips.

“I felt that it was important for me to act as a bridge for young Jews who were curious but afraid to cross the divide. Visiting me on the other side of the Wall allowed them to see first-hand the human cost of Israel’s actions and showed them just how unacceptable the status quo really is. I’m happy to report that it never took long for them to see the light. Several have even become active in the movement.”

Corey speaks French, Portuguese, Arabic, Spanish, and some Hebrew. He is experienced in organizational development and outreach to young people and students. He sees the value of drawing on personal stories and Jewish tradition for inspiration in the work we do.  

“I see IJV not only as an organization of progressive Jews that support Palestinian rights, but as a space for Jews to develop an alternative Jewish community grounded in principles of true social justice.”

We are confident that Corey will help IJV reach new heights in the coming years.

“The tides are shifting. Jews in Canada are reconsidering their support for Israel like never before and need a way to get engaged. This is a perfect time to step up our efforts and expand our base in the fight for a just peace in Israel/Palestine.”

Tamara Filyavich – Membership Engagement Coordinator

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Tamara was born and raised in the city of Yalta in the south of Ukraine. She lived in Israel-Palestine during the first gulf war in the early 90s, before moving to Montreal with her family. That experience had a profound impact on her developing sense of social justice and human rights for all. Over the last 20 years, Tamara has been involved in numerous grassroots struggles: Indigenous solidarity, anti-poverty, opposition to police brutality, prisoner justice as well as BDS campaigning in Montreal. 

She worked at CKUT Radio for over a decade, where she actively recruited and trained volunteers in creating social justice-based media and propelling many community reporters onto the local and international scenes. With her support, countless people got involved in fighting for Palestinian human rights, countering antisemitism, as well as racism and exclusion more broadly. She also has a wealth of experience in organizational building and has facilitated needs assessment and campaign development sessions for several community groups in Montreal. Tamara sees her role as helping people to find tools, resources, and encouragement to transform curiosity into dedicated work.

When she is not working to create connections between people, she teaches herbal medicine at the Concordia City Farm school and makes music with several experimental electronic music projects.

Steering Committee Members

Sara Rans (chair) – London, ON

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Sara Rans is currently Chair of IJV National’s Steering Committee. She is always looking to share information about IJV’s No IHRA and Together Against Apartheid campaigns. She is a retired elementary teacher who loves kids, kindergarten and union work. A long-time political organizer for the NDP, she helped elect an MPP to her local riding. Sara joined IJV to work for justice for the Palestinian people. In her spare time, Sara works to give girls and women a voice in the world; and she enjoys mystery fiction, jazz, and walks along the Thames River.

 

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Asher (Robert) Kirchner (he,him) is a retired professor of linguistics, living in amiskwaci-waskahikan (Edmonton). Asher has been an IJV member since 2017, and joined the steering committee in 2021. He currently serves on the fundraising committee and the Together Against Apartheid campaign. Asher is also active in his Reform shul, and (with limited success) in the Reform Jewish Community of Canada. He identifies as Quaker as well as Jewish. His other interests include cooking, cycling, and anarchist political theory. He is married, with two adult daughters.

Larry Haiven – Halifax

Larry Haiven is a founding member and Executive Committee member of IJV Canada. A former university professor, he has written extensively on Israel-Palestine issues and antisemitism. He co-facilitates a workshop called “Combatting Antisemitism With a Critical Thinking Lens.”

Stephen Aberle – Vancouver

Stephen is an actor, singer, computer programmer and organizer living on the unceded traditional, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations colonially known as “Vancouver”. He got actively involved in the Palestine solidarity struggle in the late ‘80s, joining Vancouver’s Jews for a Just Peace. He’s been an enthusiastic and active supporter of IJV’s excellent work since the organization’s founding, and is deeply grateful for the wise and kind mentoring and loving community he finds here. He takes his inspiration from Hillel’s dictum: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to another. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go study.”

Neil Naiman – Vancouver

Neil Naiman is a retired York University Professor who moved to Vancouver just in time to join IJV Vancouver at its founding in 2008. Though he grew up in a Zionist home and attended Zionist camps and Hebrew Day schools he became politicized during his involvement in the divestment campaign against South African apartheid at York University and continued in the anti-apartheid struggle for many years. He then began to see the parallels between South African and Israeli apartheid and has committed himself to working towards justice for Palestinians.

Rima Berns-McGown – Nova Scotia

Rima is the recovering former NDP MPP for Beaches-East York. Before she was asked to run for the seat, she taught Diaspora Studies at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. Rima was born in South Africa of a mixed Jewish-Cape Coloured background and is a lifelong social justice advocate. She is proud of having held her ground in politics — in the face of constant attempted silencing — as a progressive Jew who fought hard against antisemitism, anti-Black racism, and Islamophobia, as well as all other forms of bigotry — and for Palestinian human rights. Rima decided not to run again in 2022, and is writing a book on how to make politics less toxic. As part of IJV Steering Committee, she is looking forward to helping further the mission of our organization.

Jillian Oliver – Toronto

Jillian is a research technician working in Toronto, and has been involved with IJV since Spring 2021. She is relatively new to activism, and is keen on learning from and with life-long activists, as well as other newer members of IJV. She is motivated by challenging the commonly held assumptions that she grew up with in Conservative Jewish Toronto in order to advocate for the Palestinian people and cause, and is keen on fostering an inclusive and progressive Jewish community.


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LARRY HAIVEN: Cries of anti-Semitism overblown and a deliberate distraction

Privileging only one kind of bigotry divides us

LARRY HAIVEN Guest Opinion

Larry Haiven is professor emeritus at Saint Marys University in Halifax and a member of the executive committee of Independent Jewish Voices Canada

It happens like clockwork totally predictable.

First theres open conflict in Israel/Palestine where disproportionate carnage is visited upon Palestinians. Last month, Israeli forces killed 256 Palestinians, including 66 children (compared to two on the Israeli side), injured 19,000 and rendered 58,000 homeless.

Half a beat later come the accusations that the biggest problem in Canada is wait for it anti-Semitism.

Some leaders of the Jewish community want to distract Canadians. They insist Canadians should immediately stop mourning the massacre, and turn our attention elsewhere.

Jewish-American commentator Max Blumenthal calls it the great anti-Semitism freakout.

As the Jewish child of a Holocaust survivor, and critical of Israel, Im sick of it.

In 2009, after Israel had killed 1,391 Gazans (including 313 children) the then Canadian Jewish Congress (and its partner, the Atlantic Jewish Council) insisted we change the channel to a (more serious?) problem: anti-Semitism.

In The Chronicle Herald, I compared these accusations to chaff the pieces of metal foil that fighter planes cast off to divert incoming missiles. The missiles go after the bits of metal, leaving the fighter pilots and their planes to fight and bomb another day.

The same thing happened after the 2014 Israeli attacks on Gaza.

And chaff exactly describes the June 5 opinion piece by Atlantic Jewish Council executive director Naomi Rosenfeld ( Anti-Semitism at its worst in Atlantic Canada since start of Israeli-Arab conflict ).

Her claims of the primacy of anti-Semitism come at the same time that:

  • hidden graves of 215 Indigenous children are discovered in Kamloops;
  • we commemorate the first anniversary of the killing of George Floyd and millions of people taking the knee;
  • East-Asian Canadians are attacked physically due to misconceptions about COVID;
  • Islamophobia runs rampant.

We do not lack for bigotry in Canada.

Lets look a bit more closely at this so-called crisis of anti-Semitism in North America.

A 2019 global survey by the U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League (hardly soft on the problem) shows Canada as the second least anti-Semitic country in the world (next to Sweden). Only eight per cent of Canadians (heavily weighted toward those older than 50) are susceptible to anti-Jewish stereotypes (such as the notion that Jews exhibit more loyalty to Israel than their own country.)

A recent Pew survey of American attitudes to different ethno-religious groups indicates that Jews are the most-favoured among minorities.

Studies of implicit bias (unthinking prejudice) suggest that most people prefer their own kind, but among others, Jews invite the least enmity.

Bnai Brith Canada wants us to believe that anti-Semitism is always rising. But their annual audit of incidents is fatally tainted, using the largely discredited definition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, where seven of the 11 examples refer to criticism of the practices and policies of the state of Israel. If someone complains about the waving of a Palestinian flag, or the calling of Israel settler colonialist, or the mere commenting on the scale of the Gaza onslaught, it can go on the list as an anti-Semitic incident.

This approach refuses to distinguish between critical anger at Israel (which even the respected Israeli human rights group BTselem calls an apartheid regime) and hatred of Jews as Jews.

Ms. Rosenfeld claims to speak for Atlantic Canadian Jews. But a 2018 EKOS poll of Jewish Canadians suggests that she does not.

  • 44 per cent of those surveyed say Israel is not making sincere efforts at peace with the Palestinians;
  • 37 per cent have a negative opinion of the Israeli government;
  • 48 per cent agree that accusations of anti-Semitism are often used to silence legitimate criticisms of Israel.

Better that all Canadians unite and fight against bigotry everywhere than privilege any one type as predominant, and thus divide us all.



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Date: Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Subject: Automatic reply: RE Defamation lawsuits against Melissa Lantsman, Ezra Levant and Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Subject: RE Defamation lawsuits against Melissa Lantsman, Ezra Levant and Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs
To: melissa.lantsman <melissa.lantsman@parl.gc.ca>, <ezra@rebelmedia.com>, <namiel@cija.ca>, <erica.berry@stlbarristers.ca>, <alexi.wood@stlbarristers.ca>
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