New group fosters Jewish-Kurdish friendship – Alan Dershowitz, Irwin Cotler and Nazi-hunting couple among members of Brussels-based Jewish Coalition for Kurdistan, which backs region’s independence | Times of Israel

Several prominent Jews in Europe and North America have joined an organization fostering Jewish-Kurdish friendship which is supportive of independence for Iraqi Kurdistan.

The Jewish-American lawyer Alan Dershowitz joined the honorary board of the Brussels-based Jewish Coalition for Kurdistan last month, along with Irwin Cotler, a former justice minister of Canada, and Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, two well-known hunters of Nazis from Germany, the group’s founder and president, Joel Rubinfeld, told JTA Wednesday.