Michal Cotler-Wunsh
@CotlerWunsh · Pro-Israel advocacy & explainers
Michal Cotler-Wunsh is Israel's special envoy for combating antisemitism and a former MK, a leading advocate of the IHRA definition.
25 years to the UN Durban Conference ‘against’ Racism that launched blood-libellous lie of ‘Israel as an apartheid state’, peddled since across places & spaces as ‘fact’, this from @BoyGeorge echoes common sense that is seemingly not so common… “How can Isreal be an apartheid state when Arabs and Christians live there peacefully and are part of the political system?…In life there are people who see what's going on and others who just blindly follow the trends. Remember. Fashions change.”
“As we mark both 25 years since the Durban Conference against Racism, turned antisemitic hate fest, and 25 years since 9/11, the decision by these governments signals the continued dangerous failure to recognize the raging war of barbarism on civilization that 10/7, like 9/11, represented, and the existential threat to freedom and humanity that antisemitism signals, again and again.” Read and share @The_ILF statement on the UK led sanctions against Israel on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.
“Antisemitism is the hardest of all hatreds to defeat because it mutates like a virus, but one thing stays the same: Jews, whether as as religion or a race or the State of Israel, are made the scapegoats for problems.” These chilling words from @rabbisacks legacy echo & reverberate, demanding clarity, action, & courage.
As Canada joins the mob in boycotting”the Jew” among nations, Montreal offers a vital lessons... “The vocabulary changes. The mechanism of demonization, delegitimization and double standards does not. Whether excluding an individual Jew from an equal place in society or excluding Israel from an equal place in the family of nations, antisemitism gnaws away at the foundational principles that sustain free societies.” My article with @Ned_Law in @JNS_org . https://t.co/BZnIjtct6u
The same Great Britain prohibiting entrance of Jewish products from the Jewish homeland - not only did nothing to help, but prevented the entry of Jews into their ancestral homeland that it occupied in 1939, dooming them to death in the Shoah. But 2026 isn’t 1939. After decades of its’ systematic demonization, delegitimization, & double standards - the mechanism that enables the mutation of antisemitism & creation of ‘modern’ lethal strains including antizionism - Israel must respond to this antisemitic boycott with a clear comprehensive strategy.
This is not 843 days. It is decades, which led to 9 years, and another 843 days. To understand and escape a multi-system conceptual captivity, which some warned about every Friday—in the Black Arrow, in the Knesset, around the world…one cannot begin with the result of the Simchat Torah massacre, including the 843 days of hostage captivity, while ignoring the case study of the 4 who were there for 9 years...
Translated from Hebrew“We recognize that an image used in a recent local activation by the local team has raised concerns and strong reactions. It was never our intent to cause offense and we apologize for anyone affected…”@adidas The image that a company started by Nazis apologized for “offending”? A courageous Israeli appearing in a Single Shoe campaign for amputees… Shame.
"Billions of dollars were wasted and the development that I saw emerging as a child was arrested. This alone should have delegitimized Hamas among Western activists, academics, students, journalists, protesters, politicians and those who claim to be pro-Palestine. Yet after Hamas carried out the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust on Oct. 7, 2023, triggering the worst catastrophe in modern Palestinian history, I watched with dismay and anger as activists, students, academics, politicians and writers expressed a chilling appreciation for the massacre." @afalkhatib in @nytimes
It’s September 7. In one month, with broken hearts, at the peak of Jewish days of memory & awe, we will mark 3 years to the October 7 massacre. 3 years to a savage attack of barbarism vs civilization - that butchered, raped, abducted hundreds, launching a genocidal multi-front war. 3 years to unfathomable responses - of silence, denial, justification, attack, & murder of Jews around the world, fuelled by normalized ever-mutating lethal antisemitism that ‘justifies’ genocidal intent & attempts the name of ‘liberation’, ‘resistance’, ‘justice’. 3 years, & words said in the UN one month after, remain at the core of deliberate & systematic demonization, delegitimization, & double standards towards 🇮🇱”the Jew” among nations. Never again is now.
It’s not just the spreading of Hamas peddled lies without evidence while ignoring data that proves the opposite with impunity. It’s that these lies fuel ever-mutating antisemitism, normalizing a lethal hate that ‘justifies’ openly declared genocidal intent & attempts to destroy the Jewish people & state…including harassment, attacks & murder of Jews. In the UK too. Never again is now.
Unpopular opinion: This really has nothing at all to do with Jews/Arabs, right/left, yes Bibi/no Bibi… The cooperation between “woke progressives” and the Muslim Brotherhood is also really not an Israeli invention. Abbas’s and Sgalovitz’s Ra’am is another example of a green-red alliance (red-green alliance) in a polished Israeli style in its detachment. Part of a systematic war that threatens to collapse the foundations of democracies from within, intersecting with a raging war from within and without over Israel’s character and identity — a state of all its citizens, a state governed by halakha, or a state founded fully on the vision, mission, and values of the Declaration of Independence — the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, with an indigenous archetypal people that returned to sovereignty in a historic homeland after thousands of years of expulsion and persecution, committed to equality.
Translated from HebrewDavid Berger Eliezer Halfin Zeev Friedman Yakov Springer Amitzur Shapira Kehat Schor Marc Slavin Andreï Spitzer Moshé Weinberg Yossef Romano Yossef Gutfreund Athletes. Murdered on September 5, 1972, at the Munich Olympics by Palestinian terrorists who infiltrated the Olympic Village & took members of the Israeli delegation hostage, torturing & murdering all 11 athletes & coaches, as well as a German police officer. The response? Olympic competitions were suspended for 34 hours, then resumed. No memorial was held for decades. The 2021 Tokyo Games held a first-time minute of silence, officially observed during an opening ceremony. 54 years later, the same genocidal terror intent to destroy, fuelled by lethal ever-mutating antisemitism that targets the Jewish people & state - continues to be met & emboldened by the same silence, indifference, false moral equivalency, impunity... May their memory forever be a blessing.
In a 2026 Canada that Orwell could not have imagined…where 9/11 is “not terrorist an attack”; Professors protest in Jewish neighbourhoods alleging “Jews eat babies”; Municipalities vote whether to sever all relations with Israel because of blood libellous accusations… In what it refers to as a “human moment”, a ‘human rights tribunal’ awards $7,000 to a Toronto university teaching assistant who publicly prayed for Jews to be murdered “one by one” for his injured “dignity, feelings and self-respect”. Never again is now.
‼️Don’t be fooled. For the Mayor of Toronto @oliviachow, her antisemitic ilk, & terror supporting mobs - “Jewish leadership” includes only those who shed their Zionist “pound of flesh”, severing memory, identity, heritage…renouncing membership to a prototypical indigenous people who after millennia of exile & persecution returned to sovereignty in our ancestral homeland.
Days after October 7, it was RESPONSES across places & spaces to the atrocities perpetrated gleefully by barbaric savages - that exposed the collapse of morality. Traveling around the world to meet elected officials, law-makers, mayors, university presidents, media…I attempted to alert to what was coming. The normalization & institutionalization of ever-mutating lethal antisemitism is a predictor to the normalization & institutionalization of genocidal terror & tyranny - intent to destroy all who cherish life & liberty. In Montreal 🇨🇦 too. Never again is now. https://t.co/lf8MLzfXhv
“Do not dare look at as and propose that Israel never wanted peace with Palestine. If anything, we wanted it too much.” @EinatWilf Many masks were brutally exposed by international responses to October 7. That second sentence expresses what most Israelis see clearly, and what must be translated into comprehensive foreign policy. It’s precisly the pivot from Arab rejectionism to normalization that the Abraham Accords could enable, from the “3 no’s” of Khartoum to the 3 yes’s - recognition, that enables negotiation, paving the path to peace. It’s precisely the reason for the multi-front war raging against them and all they represent and demand of Palestinians on the potential path to peace. https://t.co/8kvDqtq5vE
Two years since I spoke with @PaulaReidCNN after the beautiful 6 - abducted, starved, tortured - were executed point blank by genocidal Hamas savages in an underground terror hell built below homes, schools, hospitals…enabled by int’l ‘humanitarian aid’, impunity, support of frenzied mobs in int’l institutions, on streets, on campuses, online. What should have sounded sirens for all who cherish life & liberty - was met with moral confusion & cowardice, normalizing & institutionalizing ever-mutating lethal antisemitism anchored in lies, & the threat to humanity & freedom that it predicts... Again & again.
Reminder: The genoLIE was a weapon of mass destruction in a decades-long process that deliberately & systematically hijacked, redefined, inverted, weaponized legal principles & institutions. It was activated immediately after the October 7 genocidal attack of barbarism vs civilization - to ‘justify’ openly declared intent & attempts to annihilate the Jewish people & state by the criminal Islamic regime in Iran, its genocidal terror proxies, supporters, & allies. All who peddled the genoLIE across places & spaces - must & will be held to account. Never again is now. https://t.co/PUkVGEYHfj
Facts that matter from @emilykschrader at the @OxfordUnion Orwellian inverted motion alleging “Israel never wanted peace”…
🚨25 yrs to Durban - it is time to connect the dots… ‘Zionism is racism.” ‘Israel is an apartheid state.’ ‘Israel is committing genocide.’ Decades of peddling, normalizing, institutionalizing blood libellous lies anchored in an ancient ever-mutating lethal hate - have turned “the Jew” into a pariah representing all that is evil thus must be destroyed…again. Never again is now.
“…vast NGO and charity networks ultimately helped Hamas entrench its rule, culminating in the October 7 disaster.” @afalkhatib 25 years after the UN Durban conference ‘against’ racism turned antisemitic hate-fest - that exposed the hijacking of the ‘human rights’ industry & international ‘humanitarian aid’…for the funding & fuelling of genocidal terror for whom human tragedy is the strategy.
🚨Coming to a park near you… ‘Globalizing’ the deliberate & systematic (ab)use of kids as shields & sacrifices. Transforming kites into a destructive weapon that normalizes genocidal terror. Poisoning hearts & minds in a raging war - that peddles a lethal ever-mutating hate; is intent to destroy freedom…that kites represent. Never again is now.
“These people are incredibly dangerous...Abdul's position is a total and complete arms embargo against the State of Israel, including defensive weapons. That's an insane position…you want to de-plug and defund and take away Israel's - half the world's Jews- ability to defend themselves?" @VanJones68
🚨Qatar is not, & was never, an ‘honest broker’. It doesn’t ‘just’ peddle & spread ever-mutating lethal antisemitism anchored in lies. It’s proudly poisoning hearts & minds across places & spaces…intent to destroy foundations of democracies, & all who cherish life & liberty. https://t.co/Qt1ujmBi6U
Gazan children are taught to murder Jews. They hearts & minds are poisoned with lethal ever-mutating antisemitism anchored in blood libellous lies, glorification of terror, pay to slay of Jews. …In UNRWA curriculum, funded by countries claiming to support human rights, protect kids, oppose antisemitism… Never again is now.