EZRA LEVANT ｜ Beyond 'doom-scrolling' through the propaganda pipeline — not everything is as bleak as it seems
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I m going to try and cobble together some good news. I ve been doom scrolling for too long, and I want to show you a few things that gave me some hope, and maybe they'll give you hope too.
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Hello, my friends. I'm going to try and cobble together some good news. I tell you, I've been
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doom scrolling for too long, and I want to show you a few things that gave me some hope,
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and maybe they'll give you hope too. But before I get to that, let me invite you to get a
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That's how we pay our bills. All right, here's today's program.
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Tonight, I think I can scrape together some good news. It's November 14th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
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We're fighting for freedom. Shame on you, you sensorism bug.
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If you are online or extremely online, you get a distorted view of the world. That's one of the
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problems with young people hooked on their phones. They're fed an alternative reality,
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an augmented reality that comes mainly these days from a Chinese company called ByteDance,
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which owns TikTok. That's the leading social media app for North American teenagers, and it is a huge
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pipeline of propaganda. Pro-China, pro-Russia, pro-Hamas. I find that interesting myself.
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I'm on TikTok because I'm a news commentator. To be candid, I find a lot of information on TikTok
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that I don't find in the mainstream media I normally consume or even the independent media
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I normally consume. I always seek to verify anything I see on TikTok through other sources,
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but it is a window into worlds that I normally don't have. I want to see the propaganda of the
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other side because sometimes it's actually true on rare occasion, but even if it's not,
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I think I'm savvy enough to identify it as propaganda, and it's still useful for me to know it,
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to get a read on the whole picture of the world. I want to know what the other side is saying.
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But what happens if you're 14 years old or 16 years old or 18 years old, and you haven't really
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studied your own history? It's not even really taught anymore anywhere, is it? And you aren't
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well grounded in your own identity, your own country's identity. You haven't heard your side
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of the story, but now you're immersed in your enemy's side of the story. That's what's happening.
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It's a direct pipeline from our enemies, foreign dictatorships, foreign propaganda networks like
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Al Jazeera and other state broadcasters directly into the hearts and minds of our young people.
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It's never happened before in history. It wasn't technically possible. I mean,
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imagine if Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan back in the 30s and 40s had a way to communicate directly
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with millions of young Americans, planting seeds of doubt, encouraging dissent,
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even violent dissent, normalizing being anti-patriotic, normalizing being pro-terrorism,
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normalizing anti-Semitism. I like to follow accounts online that inspire me,
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that are a role model for me. I like to follow some non-political accounts too,
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some comedians, some musicians. But I have always made a point of watching what my critics and
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opponents say to know the other side of the story, to know what I have to rebut,
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and occasionally to acknowledge that the other side once in a while has a point,
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once in a while that make me reconsider my own thoughts. So I sample from the enemy.
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I look at anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas and pro-woke accounts. But look,
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there is no way you can consume that much enemy propaganda without having it emotionally affect
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you. You start to think that everyone in the world is a barbarian and that everyone in the world is full
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of bloodlust. Everyone's cheering for violence, that countries far away are reverting to ancient levels
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of barbarity and violence and cruelty, as Hobbes would say, where life was solitary, poor, nasty, brutish,
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and short. And when you see our own Canadian civility, our politeness, our mutual friendship,
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our high-trust society, our sense of community being replaced by people who cheer for violence.
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And worst of all, when our own national leaders abide it and our media encourage it or hide it.
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I can't believe this tweet from CTV News last night. A woman was murdered by Hamas, a Canadian woman,
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and she was so brutalized it took weeks to identify her remains. And here's what CTV News said,
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quote, Canadian peace activist Vivian Silver, who went missing after Hamas attack, has died.
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Really, just died. And here's what Trudeau's foreign minister said about the same woman,
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Vivian Silver was a proud Israeli-Canadian and lifelong advocate for peace. I met her son in Tel Aviv and he
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described her as kind, generous, and selfless. Canada mourns her loss with him and her loved ones.
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So she's lost. It's a loss. She's lost. Is she? What happened? Did COVID get her, maybe?
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Why won't Melanie Jolie say what happened to her, that she was murdered? Why won't Jolie say,
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who did the murder? You know why. Oh, and another synagogue was vandalized.
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What does the Quinty News have to say? Place of worship vandalized. Oh, that's pretty generic. I'll read
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the entire article to you. A place of worship in Belleville's East End was vandalized early
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Tuesday. City police report a congregation member called saying he'd advised a man who approached
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the front of the building at 6.30 in the morning that it was closed to the public. At that point,
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it's alleged, the man walked to the west side of the place of worship and smashed a window.
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Police arrived quickly and arrested a 44-year-old suspect from British Columbia and charged him with
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mischief under $5,000. He was held for a bail hearing. Police say there's no evidence to suggest
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the crime was hate-motivated. Oh, really? Is that the case? Then why won't you say it's a synagogue?
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And what is the name of the accused attacker? You'd have to check a different newspaper to learn any
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actual facts about it. There's a synagogue, of course. My point is, if you only look at the world
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through a certain lens, it looks pretty bleak. The kids call it doom scrolling. When people keep going
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through their social media feeds hour after hour, just consuming more and more and more bleak news,
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I do that sometimes. But doom scrolling can get you down. Sometimes you just have to put the cell phone
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down and go outside for a walk, I say, giving myself advice. And although we have to be skeptics,
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and I'd rather be a pessimist who's proven wrong than an optimist who's proven wrong. I hate saying
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the words, I told you so. But I still think maybe once in a while we ought to take a moment to look
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at some good news. It's not great news, but it is not completely bleak out there. Let me share with
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you some okay news. For one thing, today, there are about a quarter million people who marched in
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Washington, D.C. in support of Israel and against anti-Semitism. And it was peaceful. And there were no
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threats and no calls for genocide or jihad. There were Israeli flags and U.S. flags too.
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And it was positive. It was sad, but it was positive. And the fact that a quarter million
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Jews and righteous Gentiles went out to march is remarkable. I mean, the woke left are professional
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activists. They are often students or government workers or even people on social assistance.
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They are at leisure, let's say. They're the kind of perpetual rent-a-mob with professional
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activists and organizers like public sector union bosses and antifa types. But the crowd
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today was very different. Severely normal people who don't usually go to protests. I found it
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encouraging. I even saw some Democrats there. And that made me feel good, not because I like
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Democrats, but because it confirmed for me that no, the entire Democratic Party has not
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yet lost its mind and gone full Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, full Ilhan Omar. And that there are even
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some Democrats willing to stand for Israel's right to exist and Israel's right to fight back
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against a Nazi-style terrorist group. Here's a U.S. State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller is his
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name, actually pushing back on the blood libel that Israel is attacking hospitals. Listen to this
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yesterday. We would love to see all the people that are calling for Israel to take steps to protect
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hospitals call for Hamas to vacate the hospitals and stop using civilians as human shields. We would
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love to see Hamas take some of the fuel reserves it's sitting on and use that to supply hospitals
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in northern Gaza. We would love to see Hamas have taken the fuel that Israel offered it yesterday
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that they declined for use at Al-Shifa Hospital. So it's a very difficult situation. And I would say
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as a principle, I'll just re-say what I said at the top, we do not want to see civilians caught in the
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crossfire. I found that clarity surprising and encouraging. Here's the German Chancellor standing up
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to the new Hamas-Nazis just yesterday. Aren't you glad to hear this in German?
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Israel is about a democracy. That must be very clearly said. And there is no doubt about it.
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And we will also emphasize that in every conversation and every chance that this is our view of things.
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In other words, a country that is entitled to human rights, that is entitled to the people's rights,
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that is entitled to the people's rights, and that is also entitled to its actions. And that is why the
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actions that are taken against Israel are absurd. And there is no doubt about it.
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That's good news. I mentioned to you the other day that the Muslim Brotherhood Front Group,
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called the National Council of Canadian Muslims, they commissioned a poll about Canadian views
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on Hamas. Only 8% of Canadians called Hamas freedom fighters. The rest saw them as terrorists
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or a front group for Iran. I'm sort of surprised that the NCCM published that poll anyways,
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because it makes them look so obscure and marginal and radical. And I also see the latest polling
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numbers federally for the election. And Justin Trudeau has never been this low. It's his worst ever.
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He's almost behind the NDPs, almost in third place. And yes, there are lots of reasons besides
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his handling of the Hamas-Israel issue, of course. Inflation, cost of living, cost of housing,
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crime, his bizarre carbon tax, his carbon tax exemption just for his friends, a zillion things.
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I know that. But those were all in effect five weeks ago. He has fallen to a record low
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in the past five weeks. And I put it to you that his handling of the war issue is part of it.
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He'll never be pro-Hamas enough for the extremists, but his attempt to pander to them,
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nonetheless, is so palpable and so gross to the majority of Canadians who see it for what it is.
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I actually think that his approach to the war is hurting him in the polls.
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He'll never be able to outbid the kooky NDP and Green Party in terms of anti-Semitism.
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So he's losing some Islamist support to them, but he's losing more normal Canadian voters
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because he's so awfully apologetic for Hamas and he so grossly smears Israel. And then they have
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atrocious comments like Melanie Jolie. I say again that one of the safest places in the world right now
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to be a Jew, as crazy as it sounds, is the United Arab Emirates. Because they don't allow pro-Hamas
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marches. They don't allow actual violence of pro-terrorists or pro-terrorist activism.
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I've heard it said about Saudi Arabia too. Look at this news story. It's an Arab report,
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but it cites the Wall Street Journal that says the Saudi military apparently shot down a ballistic
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missile shot by Iran-backed extremists in Yemen that was aimed at Israel. I saw an unsourced report
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that Jordan did the same thing about a missile shot from Iraq. Now you have to take these reports
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with a grain of salt. Maybe it was an Israeli interceptor or maybe an American one. There's
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two aircraft carriers out there. But my point is just because Hamas and its sponsor Iran and its
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safe heart of Qatar and all the Western universities because they all love Hamas doesn't mean the rest
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of the Arab world does. A lot of countries are not thrilled about what Israel is doing, but they
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understand that Hamas launched a brutal terrorist attack. One that Israel had to respond to and one that
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was clearly designed to fracture the Abraham Accords peace deal. And that Accords was seeing remarkable
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peace progress between Israel and its Arab neighbors. I think that peace remains in place. I think that is
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good news. But here's what I think is the best news. Put aside the politics, put aside the media spin,
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the street marches. What is happening to Hamas itself? Well, the Israeli Defense Forces are actually
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destroying Hamas. They found hundreds of tunnels. They found hundreds of weapons caches. And they've
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taken out hundreds, likely thousands, of terrorists. They've sealed off northern Gaza, cut it off from
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the other parts, and are clearing it of terrorists. Here, watch some of the footage.
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I was really worried that attacking Gaza would be like Stalingrad in the Second World War. Here's a
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movie about it called Enemy of the Gates. It was one of the bloodiest battles in world history. Every
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single Russian was fighting against hundreds of thousands of Nazis in a city. But that's not
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happening here. Gaza has tens of thousands of terrorists. It's true. And they hide behind 2.2
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million citizens. It's true. But those civilians themselves have no intention of being soldiers.
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Israel opened up safe corridors for them to move to the south. Hamas actually shot some of the civilians
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who left. Hamas wanted the human shields to stay. But with the civilians gone and Hamas cut off,
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Israel has gone in and had remarkable success. I was terrified of Israel's soldiers getting bogged down
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down in urban warfare and those terrifying underground tunnels. Here's one of their tunnel solutions,
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Israel pumps in purple smoke and they see where the smoke comes out, to see where the ventilator shafts are. There's
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all sorts of technological ideas so that they're not trapped in these tunnels hunting for Hamas.
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Hamas has always been quick to accuse Israel of targeting hospitals because they know Israel
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Israel pumps in purple smoke and they see where the smoke comes out, to see where the ventilator shafts are.
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There's all sorts of technological ideas so that they're not trapped in these tunnels hunting for Hamas.
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As you know, Hamas has always been quick to accuse Israel of targeting hospitals
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because they know Israel doesn't want to do that. And the Western media would be shocked
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by that. Hence the false accusation about a month ago of Israel allegedly launching a rocket at a hospital.
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It turned out to be a terrorist rocket gone awry.
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But of course, Hamas does actually have its main base underneath the biggest hospital in Gaza.
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As I think about that, they actually did it on purpose. They used the biggest hospital as a giant human shield,
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knowing that Israel would never attack Hamas headquarters for that reason.
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By the way, the United States attacked the big hospital in Mosul, Iraq, when the U.S. was taking out ISIS.
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And that was just normal warfare, collateral damage. That was just a few years ago. But I guess the rules are different for Israel.
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Anyway, so Israel evacuated the hospital and helped to do so.
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Israel has actually brought in its own doctors, obviously, and has helped ordinary people in Gaza.
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But now that the big hospital is cleared out of civilians, Hamas no longer has its human shields.
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Here, let me show you what one other hospital looked like yesterday when Israel found it. I showed a bit of this yesterday.
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You can see the tunnel. The tunnel is let down more than 20 meters down. The robot found a door, a door that is bulletproof.
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It's explosive proof. So it looks like a hard evidence, a clear evidence that the hospital direction is connected.
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This is a cover tunnel. It's part of the same floor and it slides down here.
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So it's a cover tunnel so nobody can find it. This is Rantisi Hospital.
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And this is the place where I showed you the tunnel. I want you to see.
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We are now, we are now in the area of the basement of the hospital.
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I want to show you a room where we found all the gear, the operational gear of Hamas.
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Hamas is using hospitals like we showed the evidence in Shifa hospital, in other hospitals.
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Today, there is more video footage of Israeli troops taking command bunkers and other hidden
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headquarters, as well as the legislature of Gaza, which, of course, hasn't been used.
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Gaza is not a democracy. Hamas won one election and that's the only election that's ever been held.
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What's so scary to me is that Hamas has fled and taken their hostages with them.
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But Israel has scoured northern Gaza of most of its terrorists and is about to close in on the
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headquarters. Unfortunately, Hamas leaders have always been safe in Qatar or other countries.
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The head of the snake won't easily be cut off. But here's my point.
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Public relations and spin is a battleground. Politics and media, that is a battleground.
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And that's what we care about in the news business, of course, but the real battleground
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is the battle on the ground. And in remarkable time, with remarkably few casualties, both the
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Israelis and Gaza civilians, Israel has extirpated Hamas terrorists from half the Gaza Strip
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and freed from the threat of Hamas. Some civilians are actually starting to talk candidly about having
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terrorists run the city. Terrorists, by the way, who flee the city when the shooting starts against
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them. Look, hard days lie ahead for sure. And who knows what Joe Biden will try to order Israel to do
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or what Iran and Hezbollah might try and do. Who knows? It might be about to turn especially bleak.
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But for now, the military success against Hamas is some good news.
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Make no mistake, this will be a war until the end. Hamas says so themselves.
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So either the war, as Hamas wants, will be fought long and slow and painfully, or Israel
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destroys Hamas now before Hamas can attack again and again as they threaten to do.
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But the speedy conclusion of this war could mean the eventual peace will come more quickly
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And when it does, Israel has some important questions it has to answer, like how could
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But we here in Canada and across the West will have important questions we need to answer
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too, like how do we denazify our own country of the masses of pro-violence haters that we
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One of the things I hate the most about COVID is how it normalized wearing masks.
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I mean, unless you were a welder or a dentist, the only people who wore masks were bank robbers
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It's something that Antifa and pro-Hamas extremists have taken advantage of where they can, first
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of all, hide their own identity, making it harder to identify them if they break the law.
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There's a reason why we show each other our faces, why we smile, why we show each other
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There's a lot of terrible things that happen by allowing masking to become normal again.
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And one pro-Hamas student in Canada recently thought that she would go full mask on, in a
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way, dropping her mask and revealing what's in her heart.
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This feels like an ISIS video because I think it sort of is.
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Here, watch a two-minute video by someone who purports to be a student in Ontario.
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We are a group of high school students in Ontario that are appalled and disgusted by
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the Ontario District School Board's silencing of pro-Palestinian voices.
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Our mission is to ensure that Palestinian children and teens feel safe expressing their
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As Palestinians who grew up in the Canadian school system, we have been denied our identities
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and heritage by many teachers and staff members.
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Many teachers growing up have always pressured us into questioning our identities and made
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We have been treated as second-class to Israelis.
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We are sick and tired of telling the world that we exist and constantly having to prove
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We want teachers and school staff and the school board to be held accountable for anti-Palestinian
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rhetoric and we want them to face consequences if they attack or harass children into feeling
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If our demands fail to be met, then it will be clear to all of us that our education system
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targets Indigenous populations and does not actually believe that Indigenous people deserve
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Put your words into action if you truly stand for Indigenous people.
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We demand a section in our curriculum that focuses on teaching the history of colonization
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We also want students to understand Canada's role and complicity of land theft in Palestine.
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We demand that Palestine is acknowledged and studied extensively during the lessons on
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We demand that Palestinian students be treated equally and given our safe space in school to
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grieve for their families and communities that have been subject to senseless death by Israel.
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Palestinian and non-Palestinian students alike have been crying every night because of how
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helpless they feel towards the plight of Palestinians in Gaza.
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We demand that the Ontario District School Board acknowledge that Palestinians are being ethnically
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We deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.
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We deserve to be who we are without fearing unjust consequences on our education and future
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We are calling all pro-Palestinian voices to shake the ground on November 13th with students
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You know, it's a little bizarre to have someone masked like that in the dark, making a list
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The one thing that stood out to me the most was that the enemy she talked about was Israelis,
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which she implies that there are hordes of Israelis in school in Ontario, and they're the
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You know, I got to tell you, I would be surprised if there were 10 Israelis in the Toronto District
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But I don't think that there are many Israelis going to school in Toronto.
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I think it's pretty obvious that she meant to say those damn Jews, but that sounds a little
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I actually don't believe that our schools are anti-Palestinian.
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In fact, I think most teachers are so woke, they're pro-Palestinian.
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I don't even believe that the new Holocaust education programs will have any effect.
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They'll show Schindler's List for an hour, and anti-Semites like this young girl will
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watch it and probably take notes on how Hitler did it.
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Just the other day, we saw a principal of a school in Brampton engage in insane and obscene
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anti-Semitic social media posts so much that the education minister had to weigh in on the
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But I think the main story here is that you have Palestinian youth, or she claims to be
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Palestinian, for all we know, she's not, mimicking the style of terrorists, normalizing the style
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of terrorists, a mass face, threatening demands.
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Joining us to talk about this is our friend Sue Ann Levy, who writes for True North.
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You know, I just can't get over the fact that she's just sick of all those Israelis in Ontario.
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There are some Israelis in Ontario, but that's obviously not what she's talking about.
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No, it was, you know, she dressed her anti-Semitism in the guise of Israelis.
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And that's been the big, one of the big issues throughout this, the five weeks since October
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7th, is that Jew haters will say, oh, I only hate Zionists, or I only hate Israel, or the
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Zionists are largely, or Jews are largely Zionists.
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You know, I want to say, if there was discrimination against Arab or Muslim kids in schools, if teachers
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were bigoted against them, if they were demeaning them or defaming them, I would be against that,
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I have seen no evidence of that whatsoever, not even on social media, not even allegations
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of that, what I have seen are, just today, a synagogue in, I think it was in Barrie, was
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vandalized, and neither the police nor the media identified it as a synagogue.
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We know that a Jewish school in Montreal was shot with a gun twice in a week.
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We know that a synagogue in Montreal had a Molotov cocktail thrown at it.
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So I can see without my own eyes, I can see the hate marches in our streets.
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I can see the don't buy from Jews boycotts against Jewish-owned or Jewish-themed businesses.
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And for her to have a terrorist-style demand video, I think it's an attempt to try and take
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some moral sympathy away from the Jews by pretending that she has been through this same suffering.
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But I think the number one takeaway for me is they're practicing that jihadist style.
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And there may be 1,000 or 10,000 who go through the motions, but maybe one out of every 10,000
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will actually act on it by smashing something, vandalizing something, shooting something.
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I think they're psychologically training a whole generation of people to actually move
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from extreme words to issuing demands to what comes next.
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Well, I think we're just this close to violence in Toronto and Montreal, for example.
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And it scares me because the anger on the streets of Toronto and of Montreal, but in particular
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Toronto, because I'm here in Toronto, has just been unbelievable, horrific.
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And, you know, the banging on the windows of Jewish-owned businesses and the intimidation
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of people at Aroma Cafe, for example, the Israeli-owned Aroma Cafe.
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And I think my concern is because the politicians, because our police force, they're trying to
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handle it, but they're not really handling it that well.
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And our politicians aren't saying enough is enough, that these people will be emboldened
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And this young lady has nothing to complain about.
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So the school system, TDSB and other boards are so woke that all I've been seeing is real
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Jew hatred on social media from various and sundry people within the school system, teachers,
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I think she's just trying to jump on this bandwagon of, you know, poor me, the victimization.
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And I also say to you that when I watched her making her demands, it reminded me of Black
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Lives Matter during the Pride Parade, sitting at the corner of Yonge and Dundas or Yonge
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What is it with these people who feel they're oppressed making all these demands?
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The weird thing was she was talking about indigenous rights, but she's not from Canada.
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I mean, it's sort of bizarre that she's here talking about decolonization when either her
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Of course, Jews have been in the Holy Land since they were expelled from Egypt thousands
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Well, she's trying to say that Israel is a colonial state.
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And I've seen more swastikas in the last month than I have maybe in my entire year combined,
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And it's trying to demonize and denormalize the Jews as Nazis.
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The target of the Nazis, the victims of the Nazis are being Nazified by the pro-Hamas types.
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But I think it's sort of, I think they're testing the limits, Sue Ann.
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Oh, I was just going to say that the politicians are so weak that there are no consequences.
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I went to a Jewish rally, a pro-Israel rally on Sunday.
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No calls to boycott falafel, I mean a shawarma stand.
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No calls to, you know, go after Palestinian businesses or gas the Palestinians.
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You know, the only twinkle of hope I can find is in a poll by Main Street Research, commissioned
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by the National Council for Canadian Muslims, which is a Muslim Brotherhood front group.
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They found that fewer than 10% of Canadians regard Hamas as freedom fighters.
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Like, the overwhelming number of Canadians hate this.
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And I think that's one of the reasons why Justin Trudeau is at an all-time low in the
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I think if you over-consume social media, you think, oh my God, everyone is against Israel
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and the Jews and the world is supporting terrorism now because all the institutions feel that way
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But I think ordinary Canadians, I hope this, Sue Ann, I hope they're appalled.
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And by the way, I am open to the possibility that Palestinians or Arabs or Muslims could
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But like you say, there's not mobs marching through the streets chanting for the death of
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And I think, I think, I hope that's got to be detectable by ordinary Canadians.
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I don't have proof of it, but I'm quite sure he's given his social media feed.
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He's just regurgitating every single thing that the government of Iran puts forward.
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So I assume he's an agent of Iran, whether he's paid or not.
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He did this stunt where he went into Cafe Landwehr, ordered a drink and then returned
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The Filipino cashier didn't know what was going on.
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He had his daughter there and the whole thing was filmed.
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Just a bizarre, gross, weird, racist protest that didn't even make sense.
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So I don't even think the Filipina cashier understood what was going on.
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For a humanitarian purpose, they made a mistake and they bought from this company.
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What else do I just give the drinks to you for free and then I'll refine the money?
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For us, like, so we've got to support free Palestine and you don't know what it is, right?
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I'll look into it and I'll give her a little bite.
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They always stand for human rights and for justice.
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If he were a white man going into a black restaurant and saying racist things about lynchings or whatever, he would probably be arrested, but he's testing what he can get away with against the Jews.
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And now he knows and he'll go a little bit further.
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He had this super gross fake Remembrance Day ceremony where he said Remembrance Day should be about our Hamas martyrs.
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And the answer with our media and our politicians is, so far, unlimited.
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And they'll keep going until someone is killed.
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When you shoot at a Jewish school twice, I think it's fair to assume you're trying to kill someone and kill a child.
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And I'm certain, but I do not relish that fact.
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That gentleman, I hesitate to call him a gentle, Firas al-Najim.
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I wrote about him a couple of years ago when I was still with Post Media.
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And he's been harassing Jewish neighborhoods and showing up at Jewish rallies nonstop and trying to threaten people.
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He came up to somebody in a wheelchair in a park where Jews frequent a couple of years ago.
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And to take his daughter into Café Landois to pull his little stunt, which didn't go anywhere.
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And, you know, frankly, we Jews are far too polite.
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We don't, you know, we say, okay, well, he's just a nutcase.
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They keep doing what they're doing because they don't get stopped.
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I mean, I don't know how many Muslims are in Canada.
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It's at one and a half million, two million now.
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And even if only one in a thousand believes everything and takes it to its ultimate conclusion.
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I've always said this about the rhetoric about Donald Trump.
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You have, for years, the mainstream media demonized Donald Trump as a Nazi.
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And the same New York Times and BBC and CBC can't bring themselves to say it.
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And what worried me about that is if you tell 350 million Americans, 330 million Americans that Trump is a Nazi, what if one in a million actually believes it and says, oh, my God, this guy's the new Hitler.
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And what if one person says, I've got like, you know, that that thought experiment.
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If you could go back in time, would you kill him?
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But what if someone thought this really is Hitler?
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If the entire Arab Muslim immigrant woke institutional community is saying Jews are the new Nazis, Jews are the devils, Jews are committing genocide.
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But all these Israelis, Zionists, don't you mean Jews?
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And what if one in a thousand, one in 10,000, one in 100,000, God forbid, acts on it?
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That's that is an act of terrorism lurking, waiting.
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And when you're dressing up and fetishizing the terrorist look, that was a terrorist look of that young woman.
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She was going for that terrorist look on purpose.
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If something bad happened to her at school, say it.
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There will be no shortage of journalists to report it.
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There's no shortage of politicians who will come by to help her.
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We have a list of demands against the Israelis.
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I think that that was a disgusting show of young people saying, how far can I go?
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And they're LARPing right now, live action role playing.
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We've already seen, thank God they haven't killed anybody, Molotov cocktails and shots.
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The Jews in parliament have been marginalized completely.
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It's pitiful to me to see Jewish MPs like Anthony Housefather of Montreal and Yara Sachs in Toronto bleat on Twitter.
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And you're reduced to whining on Twitter because the liberal Hamas caucus dominates that government.
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There's nothing more pitiful than a liberal party Jew who's doing a Woody Allen shtick.
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Because the government, the government is absolutely pro-Hamas.
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I think that Trudeau is the only prime minister who has not yet visited Israel in solidarity out of the G7.
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Rishi Sunak, Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, the German chancellor, the Italian prime minister.
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I think every G7 country, I think, has gone except for Canada.
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But Justin Trudeau, who's at a record low in the polls, knows that this is his base.
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Well, you know, I have been watching this for, well, a long time.
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But the last five years, I could see the rise in anti-Semitism from the left and from the Arab contingent.
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Buried their heads in the sand, including my own community.
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The chickens have come to roost, unfortunately.
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My sister and I were the only Jews in the school.
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My entire life, I did not have a single anti-Semitic incident.
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And I grew up and I traveled to every redneck place.
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And I would tell you if I saw it, I simply did not.
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We have not vetted or demanded that newcomers to Canada subscribe to our view of pluralism and nonviolent solutions to problems and separation of mosque and state.
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And I know that this is not Canada, but it is becoming Canada.
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If you bring in millions of people without testing for a cultural fit, and by that I mean, you know, do we agree to live in peace with each other and not bring ancient great grievances and hatreds here?
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And we will wreck the beautiful place that we've lived in.
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But Sue Ann, your article in True North is called Pro-Palestine Student Activists Need to Be Educated About Israel and Gaza.
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You know, in my discussion with Sue Ann, I said Barry instead of Belleville.
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It was the Belleville synagogue that was vandalized.
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You can get down in the dumps when you look around and all you see are the haters.
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But Richard Nixon is the one who talked about the silent majority.
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And he said just because crickets are making a lot of noise doesn't mean they're the only people in a field.
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And it's been such a disastrous five weeks, not just for the terrorist barbarity that happened to Israel on October 7th, but everything since.
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It's been terrible to see what's happened across the West since.
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But maybe these polls that I've quoted are a sense of comfort, and maybe it's not just you and me who are repulsed by seeing this new form of Nazism on the streets.
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Maybe other Canadians and Americans are, and aren't you heartened by what Germany is saying and doing?
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Doesn't that feel good for the country that got it so wrong 80 years ago to get it so right these days?
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And isn't it interesting to see the Democrats who are atrocious on these things, at least some of them speaking out today?
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Whereas I think the Christian, the Judeo-Christian West is about life.
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I mean, a lot of Christian teachings are about life, the phrase pro-life.
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And the Jews, when they say l'chaim, it's a form of saying cheers in Hebrew, that actually means to life, l'chaim.
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Jews who wear necklaces somewhere are a little Star of David, but somewhere two little letters that say chai, which means life.
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I think this really is a battle between the forces of light and darkness and the forces of life and death.
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And the Judeo-Christian West and others, too, not just them, I mean, Hindus and Sikhs and moderate Islam, they believe in life.
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But these death cult Hamas, ISIS, Nazis, they love death and they want to deal it.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.