EZRA LEVANT ｜ The Best and Worst of College Hamas encampments
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
153.12816
Summary
Tonight, the Best and Worst of College Hamas Encampments. It's May 6th, and I'm in Dublin covering an anti-immigration march in Canada. So while I'm here working, I want to bring you a compilation of some of the best and worst footage coverage we've done over the last few weeks of these Hamas-style sympathizer, terrorist, anti-Semitic things that have been breaking out across universities, not just in Canada but in the US and elsewhere, from UBC to U of T to TMU to Colombia to the Fashion Institute of Technology, we've had eyes on a ton of them.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
Tonight, the best and worst of college Hamas encampments. It's May 6th and this is the Ezra
00:00:37.760
Hi everybody, I'm actually in Dublin, Ireland. Look at that iconic castle-like gate behind
00:00:43.680
me. I'm here doing a story that will bring you tomorrow about a very large anti-immigration
00:00:51.200
march in this city. If you think Justin Trudeau is out of control in Canada with immigration,
00:00:56.720
will you hear about Ireland? So it's been a great day. You can see the sun is sort of setting.
00:01:02.400
So while I'm here working, I want to bring to you a compilation, a medley, if I may,
00:01:08.560
of some of the best and worst footage coverage that we've done over the last few weeks of these
00:01:13.520
Hamas-style sympathizer, terrorist, anti-Semitic things that have been breaking out like measles
00:01:21.760
across universities, not just in Canada but in the United States and elsewhere from UBC to U of T to
00:01:28.960
TMU to Colombia to the Fashion Institute of Technology. We've had eyes on a ton of them.
00:01:36.480
McGill also, our friend Alexa Lavoie out there. So for the course of the next half hour,
00:01:41.840
here's the best and worst of Hamas encampments. I'll be back in Canada tomorrow and you don't
00:01:48.720
want to miss my coverage from here in Dublin of the anti-immigration march. Till then,
00:01:53.600
enjoy this coverage of a very difficult and challenging subject, namely these foreign-funded,
00:02:02.000
radical-directed, non-student-driven student protests.
00:02:10.400
Alexa Lavoie reporting for Rebel News here on the ground at McGill University where entire
00:02:17.280
Israel protesters have occupied the campus with their encampment for six days. Tensions have escalated
00:02:26.240
with reports of intimidation and anti-Semitic chants on campus.
00:02:39.840
Police have separated the two groups by closing off some of the access to the property where the
00:02:49.040
encampment is located. Now let's speak with people on the ground and let's see what they have to say to me today.
00:03:07.600
This isn't daycare, this is higher education. McGill is a university. You want to talk, you want to have
00:03:13.520
dialogue, you want to have discussion. There's no pushing, there's no shoving, there's no name-calling,
00:03:18.880
there's no throwing. That's what university is about. Get back to class, this isn't daycare.
00:03:24.080
The people on the other side of the fence inside McGill have been taken advantage of and some of them
00:03:29.280
are very cynically trying to advocate for the genocide of the Israeli and Jewish people. Professional
00:03:36.960
agitators have taken over my alma mater. I went to McGill and to see it taken over by professional
00:03:44.320
agitators and who are now monopolizing our entire discourse of our province, all of a sudden taken
00:03:51.920
over, hijacked by people who don't know the difference between Hamas and hummus. As a student who
00:03:58.880
is soon entering the university system, I don't know what to expect but we are here today to show that we
00:04:04.000
are proud. We will not stand down. We have a country. This is not 1939 anymore. These people
00:04:09.360
in the encampment, they're doing illegal things. They don't have the right to set camp on McGill campus.
00:04:15.920
They're standing for something wrong. They're clearly anti-Semitic. I think it's a really important
00:04:20.880
thing to stand up for who we are. We have thousands of years of history. We're peaceful, loving people who
00:04:28.720
only want good for others. We have been persecuted for centuries for absolutely no reason but being
00:04:34.720
Jewish. I feel it's important that the leaders of any municipality such as mine who are of the Jewish
00:04:41.120
faith and even of any other faith should be here to show that we support Israel. We support the Jewish
00:04:48.880
people and it's literally a shame that Jewish people have to hear death to the Jews, gas the Jews. It's
00:04:57.760
disgusting. I think it's too long for them to to occupy the campus. We're proud Jews and we have to
00:05:05.120
stand out for our people and you know the fact that wealthy educated people who go to a beautiful
00:05:10.080
institution or a once beautiful institution called McGill are protesting on behalf of Hamas, a terrorist
00:05:15.360
organization and these people pretend to be preoccupied with women's rights, gay rights, LGBTQ rights and
00:05:21.280
then stand for Hamas after the atrocities they committed on October 7th. It's a testament to how
00:05:25.760
morally decadent our society has become. There is no stoppage on the Jewish students going on to
00:05:29.760
courses. What are you talking about? The camp is here. It's not blocking anybody's way. All the students
00:05:36.800
they are very they are free to go wherever they want and they are going. Actually it's not in the
00:05:41.120
end of the term, okay? So the second thing, even if it were at the middle of the term, the second
00:05:47.440
semester, I'm sure the people who are camping here they are not making any blockages against anybody
00:05:54.320
attending any courses. We stood far away from them. We didn't interrupt them. We didn't do anything. We
00:05:59.280
didn't say anything. We actually had a conversation, a nice conversation with someone from there. Once they
00:06:06.320
recognized us, the entire crowd, they just came to us. About 20 jihadists, 25 jihadists came to us,
00:06:13.680
surrounded us, surrounded me specifically and started to scream, go back to Europe. All the Zionists are
00:06:20.880
racist and they were screaming go back to Europe for about five minutes and I told them, guys, my family
00:06:29.040
is from Iraq. I'm not even from Europe. So they say, go back to Iraq. The problem is that Jews cannot go to
00:06:44.640
How do you feel to see people like actually walking and trampling the Israeli flag?
00:06:50.800
I am not intimidated. They can do what they have to do, but we're not going to stoop to their level
00:06:56.800
and let's just get them out of here. Eventually Montreal enforcement are going to come once the
00:07:02.480
McGillen Junction is going to kick in and this whole encampment is going to be done. But yes,
00:07:08.880
Michael Van here for Rebel News. I am in Vancouver for other business and I had a meeting
00:07:14.400
at the University of British Columbia today and I walked by and one of these U.S. style,
00:07:20.480
foreign-funded, professionally organized, pro-Hamas protest encampments has popped up
00:07:27.200
in the heart of the university. Now, final exams are over. Most of the students have vacated the
00:07:33.520
university. But behind me, every ragamuffin around, including, I emphasize the professional organizers,
00:07:41.040
there's a terrorist group called Samidun. It's a pro-Palestinian terrorist group similar to Hamas.
00:07:48.720
It's regarded as a criminal terrorist organization in other countries such as Germany. Because Justin Trudeau is
00:07:55.520
our prime minister, it's not banned here in Canada. And one of the Samidun organizers is behind this.
00:08:02.240
Of course, foreign funding, of course, professional Antifa funding. I tried to talk to some of the
00:08:07.920
folks here. Obviously, as soon as they see a camera, they say, who are you? And they try and block it.
00:08:13.200
I think he's right. It shows how thin-skinned you are.
00:08:16.160
Just like my experience at Columbia and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City,
00:08:26.720
and the experience of my colleagues across the country, these folks really don't
00:08:30.240
have a lot of arguments. They're more cult members who delegate the communicating to the senior
00:08:35.360
organizers. And many of them are professional haters from Antifa or whatnot. As I was walking by,
00:08:43.200
two people just on the street recognized me, partly because I'm wearing a Rebel News shirt.
00:08:49.920
And they came up and talked to me. Here, I'll show you how those conversations went.
00:08:56.320
Joe, tell me about yourself and what it's like being on campus with the, I don't know,
00:09:03.520
Well, I mean, I'm a fourth-year major in poli-sci. I'm graduating this year. And since October 7th,
00:09:08.320
and the horrible massacre of all the Jewish people there, I was actually in the kibbutz that got
00:09:12.400
massacred in August in Israel, Karzah. And it's just been an environment of intimidation and
00:09:19.440
harassment towards anything that's not matching their views, essentially. It's just been horrible.
00:09:26.080
They've been harassing Jewish students, chanting intifada, revolution, calling for basically terrorist
00:09:32.160
acts. And it's just like a horrible environment for campus. And now they've set up this encampment,
00:09:36.400
which just will serve to further intimidate Jewish students and those who feel like they need to
00:09:43.280
I'm not a student. I'm a parent of a student, and I live on campus.
00:09:46.560
Oh, yeah. And how do you feel about this encampment here?
00:09:50.000
Well, same as I feel about the rest of the encampments. It's horrifying. It's anarchy. It's
00:09:55.040
hateful. It's not doing good to anyone. So, yeah, I'm, I'm appalled that the university is not doing
00:10:02.640
anything like many other universities, and I hope they will speak up.
00:10:10.000
How do the non-Jewish students feel about this? There's a lot of international students.
00:10:14.400
Are most students here just sort of notes to the grindstone do their studying, or is this a
00:10:20.720
I would say that UBC is kind of a more science campus, so it's a little less involved. Most
00:10:25.680
students are notes to the grindstone. We have quite a large, like, international population that's not as
00:10:29.600
interested in this. But, um, so it's a small population on both sides that is doing all the
00:10:35.200
I can see that Ryerson is getting proactive. They don't want those shenanigans on campus,
00:10:43.360
clearly. And, uh, so far nobody has scaled the fence, uh, to erect, uh, an illegal campout.
00:10:53.120
Genocide! Shut it down! Genocide! Shut it down!
00:10:59.040
Israel is a parasite! Israel is a racist state! Israel is a racist state!
00:11:04.960
Hey, hey! Ho, ho! The occupation's got to go! Hey, hey! Ho, ho! The occupation's got to go!
00:11:12.960
We are not anti-Semitic! We are not anti-Semitic! That excuse is so pathetic! That excuse is so pathetic!
00:11:21.760
But, you know, isn't the irony perverse? I am sure the woke people here at Ryerson,
00:11:29.760
they would hate the fact of the U.S. developing a Trump-style wall on the southern border to keep
00:11:38.160
the illegals out. Uh, and I'm including the administration there. And yet, when it comes to
00:11:44.160
preserving their own backyard, oh no! You riff-raff, you stay out. You're not going to stage your little
00:11:53.200
mini-crystal knocks on our campus. Free! Free Palestine! Free! Free Palestine! Free! Free! Free!
00:12:01.120
The University of Ottawa has a group of students that is joining a broader trend that's growing across
00:12:06.720
universities in the English-speaking world. We've seen similar protests at New York University,
00:12:11.760
at Columbia University, also here in Canada, we've seen it at McGill University, where demonstrators
00:12:17.200
who we can broadly say, let's say, are pro-Palestine or anti-Israel are aggregating and agitating against
00:12:23.440
what they call war crimes or genocide being perpetrated by Israel against Palestinians in
00:12:29.040
Gaza and in the West Bank. The protesters are demanding that university administrators disclose
00:12:35.760
and divest from any sort of financial overlap or tie to interests or persons related to Israel.
00:12:44.240
The protesters have a sort of BDS-style series of demands. BDS being the acronym for boycott,
00:12:51.120
divestment, and sanction against Israel. So the demand is to disclose and divest. The protesters want
00:12:59.040
the university administration to disclose all of its investments, and any of them that may relate to
00:13:04.720
Israel should be terminated. Not long after I attended this demonstration, a minder for this
00:13:12.000
protest began to advise all the demonstrators that I was a right-wing chud and I was an agitator.
00:13:18.800
Essentially everyone there obeyed their master's orders and refused to talk to me at all despite my
00:13:24.560
good faith sincere invitation for these people to share their remarks as to why they're there, what they
00:13:30.080
sought to achieve, what their goals are, what their perception is of the ongoing conflict in and around
00:13:35.840
Israel. There was one exception, one older Arabic man who shared some remarks with me, but other than
00:13:41.680
that, once this minder, middle-aged white man got his message out as to who I am according to him, he had
00:13:51.120
quick obedience from essentially everyone in the protest. Would you want to do an interview with me on
00:13:55.920
camera, tell us why you're here and what the purpose of the demonstration is about?
00:14:03.440
Maybe you want to share your name or your rationale for being here? All right, how about you? Would you
00:14:08.720
want to talk to me for a few moments, tell our audience why you're here, what the motivation for
00:14:12.000
the demonstration is? My name is Robert Krejcik, I'm with Rebel News. I'm with Rebel News.
00:14:18.560
Okay. They're far right-wing people. Well, I mean, I can speak for myself, but...
00:14:24.400
They're the people who are involved with the convoys. Are you saying sorry to me or saying sorry to him?
00:14:29.440
No, actually, I listen to him because I'm with them. I'm here just because I want to stop the genocide
00:14:36.560
from Israel's side, okay? Okay. Yeah. Anything else you want to say about that? Like, what's the purpose of the
00:14:43.280
demonstration? How does this demonstration seek to end what you describe as a genocide? Okay, because
00:14:48.080
the Israel government, they pay for every media, okay? Like your media or whatever, if they pay you
00:14:56.080
or not, but I'm sure they pay... We're not being paid by Israel. Who's? Wait, for whom? AIPAC? We're not
00:15:03.120
paid by AIPAC or Israel. No? No. Why they refuse to talk to you? I can't explain why this guy will do what he's
00:15:12.720
doing. I can just answer your own questions on my own behalf. Anyway, we are here to stop genocide
00:15:17.200
in Gaza. We are here to ask for freedom for Christian people. We are here for peace, okay?
00:15:25.200
Well, give me it straight up. You guys seem like regular guys. Yeah, I mean, if you ask me,
00:15:30.800
it's not my favorite thing in the world. You know, I'm not going to say you can't protest, but I think
00:15:35.440
that it's honestly like they're just disrupting so much, to be quite honest. It's just like finals are all
00:15:41.920
messed up. Classes are messed up. We're going virtual, stuff like that. These things have just
00:15:45.840
like... It just kind of stresses the regular student out, like especially with like the football on top
00:15:50.880
of it. We're like going, doing this and that, and this is all going on. We have to worry about whether
00:15:55.360
we can get in through this gate, that gate. We're all closed off. It's like... It kind of feels like
00:15:59.920
we don't have our own... It's not our school anymore, in a way. Let me ask you this. I know that
00:16:05.120
there's protests, but then there's been some, what I would call, anti-Semitic actions.
00:16:11.360
Are you aware of any Jewish kids or other kids who think, I don't want to even go to school
00:16:15.440
anymore because I feel like it's not my place? That's what all the professors... That's why we're
00:16:20.400
all doing a bunch of virtual stuff now because these Jewish kids are scared. That's the problem.
00:16:26.720
I think it's all great when people express their rights and stuff like that, but I feel like this is
00:16:32.320
just taking a step forward. Just step a little too far. The anti-Semitic stuff is just not cool.
00:16:38.320
You know, I didn't go to a gorgeous school like this. I went to a good school. I'm not putting
00:16:42.960
down my school in any way, but seeing this beautiful place and just... I'm sort of homesick for what I
00:16:49.680
didn't have, you know? And what's on my mind is these guys getting an amazing opportunity and using
00:16:57.200
it for this instead. That's what... And I'm not even from here, but I feel that way.
00:17:03.200
Yeah. Our dad also, he's from Africa, immigrated here when he was 17. And he went to college here
00:17:09.920
and he thinks the same thing. He thinks sort of like just a bunch of, I'd say probably privileged
00:17:14.240
kids that don't really know a whole lot about the situation, that they're just there to fight and be
00:17:19.120
in something, I guess. And so these kids are just using this money from the school, from banks and
00:17:25.840
from their parents and stuff like that, and kind of just wasting it away and just kind of
00:17:29.680
just using it towards something that just they could do in another way.
00:17:37.120
We all commit to remain grounded in why we enter the space. Can journalists go in there?
00:17:42.880
No. The students are asking that journalists listen to the press conference over there and there will be an
00:17:47.440
opportunity to ask questions over there from the students who are participating in the encampment.
00:17:52.160
Now, there's probably like a hundred reporters, so I don't think it's likely that I'd be able to
00:17:56.480
get my questions. I'm just here to de-escalate. I don't actually know why you're filming me.
00:17:59.920
I'm just here to de-escalate and help keep everyone calm. Your best... I'm so calm, I'm almost asleep.
00:18:04.480
Your best opportunity for talking to the students is to go over there. You can ask questions at the press briefing.
00:18:09.920
No, we're sorry. You're pressed. You have a microphone.
00:18:16.080
Okay, just like that, you gotta go. You gotta leave. That's also against our
00:18:19.280
community guidelines. No, I'm just a Jew. Thank you.
00:18:21.360
No, you gotta get out of here. You gotta get out of here.
00:18:25.920
They won't let me in because I'm a Jew, and they won't let you in because you don't.
00:18:30.560
They really have both ends of this thing covered.
00:18:34.960
That's the world, and we know that we are on the right side of the issue.
00:18:38.640
They've been standing strong with their fellow students and are committed to
00:18:46.880
standing in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestinians more largely.
00:18:50.000
I think what the students here are trying to do is remind the world that there's a genocide
00:18:54.880
happening in Gaza. Our politicians, our president even seems to continue to try to take attention
00:19:01.440
away from that and attention away from his act of complicity in arming Israel and engaging in this
00:19:06.560
genocide. And the fact that these students have gotten their attention, I think, is incredibly
00:19:11.680
impressive and hopefully will pressure them to put their attention back to the people of Gaza.
00:19:16.480
I'm Alexa Lavois reporting live from Montreal. And behind me, you can see anti-Israel encampment
00:19:24.960
located at McGill University where students and supporters have decided to occupy the area
00:19:32.640
to call for the institution to completely sever ties with Israel.
00:19:50.240
How do you feel to see your campus being taken in a stage by pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protesters?
00:20:00.640
I mean, we've seen this in the US and some places, some universities have reacted really poorly.
00:20:05.760
Some people have allowed police to take the measures, you know, that are necessary.
00:20:10.080
This morning, McGill sent out an email to all students and faculty saying that the encampment violates
00:20:15.280
the student code of conduct and would not be allowed. And now they're refusing to act on it.
00:20:18.800
They're refusing to allow police presence on campus. So McGill refuses to protect their students.
00:20:25.360
I was currently like I was just studying for my finals in the library and I could hear them.
00:20:31.120
So I can't be a productive student here. And it's not a safe environment for me because every time
00:20:36.720
I walk, I'm harassed. I'm followed. People scream at me. People know who I am because I'm a Jewish student
00:20:42.720
at McGill. And I'm vocal about it. So I'm constantly harassed on this campus and McGill administration
00:20:47.520
refuses to do anything about it or to protect their Jewish students. For them, these are people that
00:20:52.960
didn't know anything about this conflict before six months ago and just decided to make it the biggest
00:20:57.920
part of their personality just because it's convenient to hate Jews and it fits into their narrative.
00:21:02.400
Behind me, they are not people who are anti-Israel. They are Antifa because this is Antifa tactic.
00:21:10.080
They are there for disturbing, growing their agenda. They are not really there for, you know, for the cause.
00:21:17.680
If you really ask them question about the conflicts between Israel and Palestine, they probably don't
00:21:23.920
know much about it. They are just there for, you know, they are just privileged to them. They are
00:21:31.760
rich to them. And they are here on the dime of their parents. Probably their parents didn't know
00:21:37.920
they are here. And most of them wear masks. Why they wear masks? Because they don't want to be recognized.
00:21:47.120
Do not touch. You will see my avocat soon. We are able to recognize your face very, very,
00:22:00.240
very, very quickly. Do you want to poke his face?
00:22:04.800
You are really aggressive. You are really aggressive, huh?
00:22:11.920
You are not welcome. In passing, you did not have control on the university. It's McGill
00:22:18.240
Is it you are a student? Because you have to look, when you are young.
00:22:27.240
Is it you are a student? Is it you are a professor?
00:22:30.240
I don't like this question. I don't like this question.
00:22:34.240
Hey, I don't want to take care of your cell, huh?
00:22:36.240
Oh, why? Do you want to threaten me to take my cell?
00:22:44.240
Why? Do you want me to threaten me to threaten me?
00:22:56.240
What important thing is that it's for me saying?
00:22:57.240
Great generation, what was the coolest thing that I don't know when I was
00:23:16.080
Some people just want to cross the street and they just want to walk and they need to go
00:23:21.600
on the street to be able to cross into the street because they are blocking everybody
00:23:26.160
who try to pass through. This is hilarious. Those people have like, do you agree with
00:23:33.800
those people to just like come with umbrella and just like try to harass people?
00:23:38.640
I can only speak for myself. I believe like anything that is in public, you have the right
00:23:43.660
to film. If it's in plain view, you have the right to film this building, this police officer,
00:23:48.480
whoever. So I believe in those essential freedoms. I don't know who those people were and I believe
00:23:54.400
in freedom of press and freedom of inquiry and photography.
00:24:01.440
There is some Jewish student who was impacted by the October 7th and they probably...
00:24:07.080
I believe October 7th was an inside job. Israeli military personnel who served on the border
00:24:16.040
He knows us and he is free to express his own opinion. You don't need to control everybody
00:24:24.760
Well, I believe that this is a grassroots protest. Anybody could come here. You may have infiltrators,
00:24:30.040
instigators. We see this at the Columbia University protests where you actually had teachers posting
00:24:36.600
signs pretending to be Palestinian, pro-Palestine supporters, but really agitating and I'm not saying
00:24:45.400
every incident of disrespect is staged, but there are definitely incidents that have been staged.
00:24:55.560
I'm trying to ask the question in so many ways.
00:24:56.840
Yeah, but because you don't answer the question. Do you care about the feeling of the Jewish student
00:25:02.840
who see that and feel intimidated and harassed on their own campus?
00:25:07.480
I don't see why Jewish students would feel intimidated and harassed by a protest that is
00:25:13.560
protesting a disproportionate, brutal war response that anybody could come here and say things.
00:25:20.200
I speak for myself. From what I understand, the river to the sea basically means, from what people
00:25:24.120
have explained to me, it means freeing an area from apartheid, from discrimination, from colonial settler,
00:25:33.560
you know, brutalities. Hi there, just wondering if somebody wanted to come on camera.
00:25:43.640
Well, I guess that's our answer. I just wanted to hear their side of the story and they resort to
00:25:49.160
chanting. And I've also noticed, you know, I thought we were more than two years away from the masking
00:25:56.040
mandates in Ontario. And yet there is a disproportionate number of people with this protest wearing their face diapers.
00:26:06.600
So you have to ask yourself, folks, are they that overly concerned about COVID, which I thought was in the rearview mirror?
00:26:14.360
Or is this about disguising themselves? Are they maybe up to nefarious intentions?
00:26:21.240
But as you can see, we are clearly not allowed to come into the encampment. So maybe we can find
00:26:29.640
somebody on the other side of the fence that might want to come on camera. Let's see.
00:26:37.800
Hi, ma'am. What do you make of this occupation? I'm not COVID positive.
00:26:43.320
I don't know. Okay, I'm supporting them. I'm here. And I understand they want the U of T
00:26:53.080
to sever ties with Israeli companies, with Israeli universities. Divest and boycott. Yes.
00:26:59.240
All right. Now, why do you think that's a good idea? Why? For the same reason that I thought that
00:27:05.320
was a good idea when it was going on around South Africa, because Israel is an apartheid state and there
00:27:11.240
is a genocide going on right now. And I would like to my my universities in my country to stop
00:27:18.680
supporting genocide. You know, I'm curious what makes you support the idea that Israel is equivalent
00:27:26.600
to apartheid South Africa? Because Israel is equivalent to apartheid South Africa in all of its
00:27:33.960
policies, in the way that it has treated the Palestinian population for 75 years, in the way that it has
00:27:40.280
stolen people's land and resources, and in the way that it has treated the Palestinians.
00:27:45.320
But aren't there Arabs who are part of the Israeli Knesset? I'm not interested in this argument with
00:27:50.680
you. How do you feel about the way members of the LGBT community are treated in Gaza?
00:27:59.240
You really are that concerned about that? Yeah, I don't think it's a good idea to throw
00:28:04.440
people from a rooftop based on sexual orientation. Can you prove that? Oh, it's well documented.
00:28:10.360
Who's documented that? Show me. No, show me the evidence. Show me the evidence in the same way that
00:28:15.800
you said that people that that Hamas raped people on October 7th and there was absolutely no documentation.
00:28:22.440
That didn't happen. That is fake news. That is fake news and you're spreading fake news. So I'm not
00:28:27.240
interested in arguing with you about something that has absolutely no basis.
00:28:42.280
Now I should note folks, my cameraman Efren Monsanto beat me to the scene and I'm glad he was here early.
00:28:48.520
He caught a really disturbing incident in which an elderly woman was swarmed and pushed simply for
00:29:09.560
Can I ask you what happened there? I was walking through. I live in the neighborhood.
00:29:25.000
They won't let you in. They surround you. They condemnate you.
00:29:27.720
You lie, don't you? See? What's your message to like the elected leaders or maybe the university president?
00:29:40.200
This is the city of Toronto and people used to be able to walk freely. This has all just been done
00:29:48.840
for everybody to enjoy. Not just for a group of people that can tell you they don't show you any
00:29:55.480
identification. They just come over. They intimidate you. They harass you.
00:30:01.080
Anti-Semitic slurs. And yet nobody from Toronto Police, nobody from campus security
00:30:09.720
seem to have a problem with that. Ezra Levan here for Rebel News. I'm actually at the Fashion
00:30:14.200
Institute of Technology in Manhattan where, I don't know, I guess in the last hour or so,
00:30:19.640
a group of pro-Hamas supporters stormed into the lobby of the Fashion Institute of Technology and have
00:30:26.440
set up an echo camp of what's at Columbia. The anti-Semis therein want the university or the
00:30:34.360
institute to cut all ties with Israel. And they put Israel in quotation marks. I spoke to some of the
00:30:40.920
kids outside who really didn't have a clue what was going on. They didn't know much about Gaza or Israel.
00:30:46.280
I asked them what they had to say about the Uyghur genocide. Those are the Muslims
00:30:50.440
in Western China who were literally put in concentration camps. They don't know any of
00:30:55.160
that. They prefer to chant. But there are organizers. We know in Canada that, for example, Iran has 700
00:31:03.160
agents in Canada actively pumping up an anti-Semitic protest. Let's see what the fuss is about around here.
00:31:10.600
Many of the people protesting are not students. Not surprisingly, they wear masks. I think the
00:31:18.280
funniest moment of the day, and I've only been here for about an hour, is seeing people with flags.
00:31:26.120
Flags that aren't even the Palestinian flags. What country's flag is this? What flag is this?
00:31:32.120
Palestine. Is this the Palestine flag? Are you sure?
00:31:41.080
Hi. Do you know what flag this is? I'm not sure, but it's not the Palestine flag.
00:31:45.880
She says it's not the Palestine flag. Did you just pick it up or did someone give it to you?
00:31:51.720
It was given to me. I don't think that's the Palestine flag. What's the protest about?
00:31:58.120
Palestine and the eviction of two students and the firing of an RA.
00:32:04.760
Do you live here in New York or did you come here from another place?
00:32:07.160
I dorm here. Where are you from originally? Mexico. Oh, Mexico.
00:32:15.240
Are you going to boycott class or is it just sort of like a one-day protest?
00:32:22.360
Is it expensive to be a student here? Absolutely, yeah.
00:32:27.480
Are you worried that you're going to miss out on your education?
00:32:31.480
I mean, absolutely, but those things are more important.
00:32:37.400
And why are you glad people are showing up and supporting?
00:32:41.400
What are they supporting? Help me understand. I just got here one minute ago.
00:32:46.040
The students of FIT are protesting for free Palestine.
00:32:54.200
They're under a devastating genocide right now.
00:32:58.760
And it's about time the whole city stands up and is loud about something so horrible.
00:33:12.040
A lot of universities, including FIT, have connections to Israel.
00:33:16.600
They should divest all of their money and all of their associations with Israel.
00:33:23.640
There are charges against certain students for protesting and they should drop those charges.
00:33:32.360
Everybody should be loud and help us finally come to an end.
00:33:40.280
One of the grossest things, and this is typically an Iran move, is that there's an extremely small
00:33:47.880
sect of a fringe Jewish group that when they're asked to, they come and purport to represent Jews.
00:34:00.840
You can see the ultra-Orthodox back there with anti-Semitic comments.
00:34:11.960
How much have you been paid to be here and be a Jewish anti-Semite?
00:34:19.160
Who pays you to be here to be a Shanda for the Goyim?
00:34:22.680
How much money will you take to be an anti-Semite?
00:35:57.000
Don't touch me away from my fucking ear, right?
00:35:59.000
If you put that in your rear, that's assault, right?
00:36:03.000
Actually, under your criminal code, what you just did, is assault.