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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Israeli official Michal Cotler-Wunsh tells Canadians to show courage, leadership for its Jewish students
Description: Shortly after attending last week’s funerals for some of the six hostages executed by Hamas, Israel’s antisemitism special envoy, Michal Cotler-Wunsh, flew to Canada for a speaking engagement. And while she was here, she made a point to attend the pro-Palestinian protesters’ return to the University of Toronto campus for their first fall rally and march.
Cotler-Wunsh was appalled by what she saw on Sept. 6—both because the university once again allowed protesters to intimidate Jewish students, and because there were only a handful of people from the local Jewish community to stand up and support the students...