Antisemitism and Hatred Have No Place in Ontario
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Learn English with Rachel Goodman. Rachel Goodman is a Palestinian-Canadian activist, human rights activist, and human rights defender. She is an advocate for human rights and human dignity, and has been a member of the Ontario legislature for 15 years. She has been an outspoken critic of the Islamic regime in Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations.
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You know, Madam Speaker, when my parents immigrated to Canada in 1986, I was a year old.
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And the reason that they immigrated to Canada from Iran is because in 1979 there was an Islamic revolution
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and our once free and democratic country was taken over by radical Islamists,
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was taken over by terrorists, and was taken over by fascists who actually executed over 40,000 communists in the late 80s.
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And so my parents escaped in 1986 because they wanted to live in a free and democratic society.
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And we were blessed to be able to come to Canada to escape that hatred,
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to escape that radical, fundamentalist, Islamofascist ideology.
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And that's the same regime, Madam Speaker, that denies the Holocaust.
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That's the same regime that spreads anti-Semitic information and propaganda,
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not just inside the Islamic regime of Iran, but around the world
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and through its proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah and others.
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And so when we came to Canada, my parents raised myself and my younger sister
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always telling us how blessed we are to be Canadian.
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Never forget your heritage, never forget your culture, never forget your background,
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but always remember that you are first and foremost a proud Canadian.
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And what that means, Madam Speaker, is you come here to embrace culture and diversity
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and accept people for who they are, and you leave the problems of your home country behind.
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Now, it doesn't mean you can't speak up, Madam Speaker.
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It doesn't mean you can't attend rallies and protests.
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I do it all the time in support of the people of Iran
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against the brutal and terrorist Islamic regime in Iran.
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And to anyone who says these are peace rallies,
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It's appalling that I have to put this in hand, but it needs to be done so that the
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world will always remember what these hate rallies were about.
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This is a message from the Palestinian youth movement, one day after the horrific October
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7 genocidal massacre of 1,400 innocent Jewish people, and it says, Toronto, all out for
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Palestine. Join us Monday, October 9th at 2 p.m. An unprecedented series of events has taken place
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by our heroic resistance in Gaza, with over 30 Zionist hostages captured, the fall of settlements
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surrounding Gaza, and the prison break that destroyed the fence that has been entrapping
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Gazans for over 17 years. The resistance's offensive attack has shaped a new precedent
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for our national liberation struggle and we remain steadfast in our right to resist by any means
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necessary we call on our people in the far diaspora in toronto to uplift and honor our resistance and
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our martyrs join us this monday october 9 at 2 p.m at nathan phillips square and celebrate our steps
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closer to liberation shameful i was in toronto on monday because monday was thanksgiving and
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i was walking my dog and i happened to come across this pro-hamas celebration
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It was the first time in my life that I had ever felt uncomfortable as a Canadian.
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The hate, the anger, the way they were marching, the chants they were making,
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that's something you see in the Islamic regime in Iran.
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That's the kind of behavior you see in radical fundamentalist countries, not in Canada.
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That is not the Canada that my parents immigrated to.
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What was even more shocking to me, and I didn't realize this until a few days later,
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what was even more shocking to me is that the member from Hamilton Centre marched in that parade.
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participated in that very same parade, rally, celebration, whatever you want to call it,
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the pro-Hamas rally that supported the genocide.
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The member from Hamilton Center marched in that.
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She can try to say whatever it is she wants to say, but silence is louder than words.
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Even prior to this, when I had the unfortunate opportunity of having to hear her voice in this legislature again,
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she spread misinformation she accused the state of israel of bombing a hospital even though
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it was debunked right away it was the palestinian jihad organization and hamas was using it to
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spread propaganda to fuel more hate rallies around the world she also failed to mention
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anything about the 1400 innocent civilians she failed to mention that the hamas terrorists must
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release the hostages you cannot negotiate with terrorists madam speaker you cannot
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as someone who comes from a country that is ruled by islamic regime terrorists we know you cannot
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negotiate with them they have no problem killing people there's there's someone who's named
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Mossab Hassan Youssef. And I encourage everyone to look him up. Mossab Hassan Youssef is the son
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of a Hamas leader. He defected. He knows what happens on the inside and he has some fascinating
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interviews. He's even wrote a book called Son of Hamas. And in that book he writes, and in his
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interviews he writes, Hamas does not care if you are Israeli or Palestinian, Arab, Jew, Bedouin.
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they do not care. They will execute everyone. They do not care about the people. They use
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Palestinians as human shields. And he said, he said every few years, what the Palestinian
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authority does, the Palestinian leadership, they will just create a war because they know what's
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going to happen is Israel will retaliate and then the world will be outraged and then they will get
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money through donations. That's what he says. This is someone who was born and raised in Hamas
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and he defected another thing that was very shocking for me and I I can't fail
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I have to mention this the hate and the violence at these pro-Hamas rallies is
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getting worse yesterday I believe it was yesterday or possibly the day of the day
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before. Café Landwehr in Toronto was surrounded by pro-Hamas supporters right at the rally,
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and they all started chanting, boycott, boycott the Zionist Café. Madam Speaker, what does
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a Jewish-owned café in Toronto have to do with the conflict in Israel and Palestine?
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we are being faced with full-on hatred full-on anti-semitism this is not 1933 this is 2023
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and what's horrifying is that in 1933 cafe lanwer was fled berlin because of the anti-semitism they
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were experiencing then and now 90 years later they're experiencing experiencing it once again
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And this is what the member from Hamilton Centre supports.
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We all, we all, our hearts bleed for all the innocent lives lost,
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if you cannot have the moral clarity to understand
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that the root cause of this is terrorism that's funded by the terrorists and illegitimate Islamic
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regime in Iran. If you are out there spreading a message of divisiveness instead of caring for
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people, then you should not be in this legislature. Thank you.