Goldie Ghamari - October 24, 2023


Antisemitism and Hatred Have No Place in Ontario

Am Yisrael Chai Radio Interview： Canada is a safe haven for the terrorist Islamic Regime in Iran

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Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

135.48

Word count

1,249

Sentence count

57

People

Also mentioned:
Mossab Hassan Youssef Hamilton Center Café Landwehr Bedouin Hamas

Harmful content

Toxicity

3

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Hate speech

11

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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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00:00:00.000 You know, Madam Speaker, when my parents immigrated to Canada in 1986, I was a year old.
00:00:06.420 And the reason that they immigrated to Canada from Iran is because in 1979 there was an Islamic revolution
00:00:13.800 and our once free and democratic country was taken over by radical Islamists,
00:00:20.320 was taken over by terrorists, and was taken over by fascists who actually executed over 40,000 communists in the late 80s.
00:00:30.000 And so my parents escaped in 1986 because they wanted to live in a free and democratic society.
00:00:38.000 And I was a year old at the time.
00:00:40.000 And we were blessed to be able to come to Canada to escape that hatred,
00:00:45.000 to escape that radical, fundamentalist, Islamofascist ideology.
00:00:54.000 And that's the same regime, Madam Speaker, that denies the Holocaust.
00:00:58.000 That's the same regime that spreads anti-Semitic information and propaganda,
00:01:03.540 not just inside the Islamic regime of Iran, but around the world
00:01:07.620 and through its proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah and others.
00:01:13.120 And so when we came to Canada, my parents raised myself and my younger sister
00:01:18.580 always telling us how blessed we are to be Canadian.
00:01:23.060 And we should always put Canada first.
00:01:26.480 Never forget your heritage, never forget your culture, never forget your background,
00:01:31.180 but always remember that you are first and foremost a proud Canadian.
00:01:36.220 And what that means, Madam Speaker, is you come here to embrace culture and diversity
00:01:44.240 and accept people for who they are, and you leave the problems of your home country behind.
00:01:53.160 Now, it doesn't mean you can't speak up, Madam Speaker.
00:01:55.340 It doesn't mean you can't attend rallies and protests.
00:01:57.720 I do it all the time in support of the people of Iran
00:02:00.400 who are fighting for freedom and democracy
00:02:02.320 against the brutal and terrorist Islamic regime in Iran.
00:02:06.220 But what I don't do, Madam Speaker,
00:02:08.080 I don't go to protests calling for genocide.
00:02:11.660 I don't attend protests where I say,
00:02:13.600 from the river to the sea,
00:02:14.940 and I can't even finish that sentence
00:02:16.480 because it is abhorrent and vile.
00:02:20.000 And to anyone who says these are peace rallies,
00:02:22.220 It's appalling that I have to put this in hand, but it needs to be done so that the
00:02:29.100 world will always remember what these hate rallies were about.
00:02:34.160 This is a message from the Palestinian youth movement, one day after the horrific October
00:02:39.720 7 genocidal massacre of 1,400 innocent Jewish people, and it says, Toronto, all out for
00:02:49.020 Palestine. Join us Monday, October 9th at 2 p.m. An unprecedented series of events has taken place 0.93
00:02:56.540 by our heroic resistance in Gaza, with over 30 Zionist hostages captured, the fall of settlements
00:03:04.460 surrounding Gaza, and the prison break that destroyed the fence that has been entrapping
00:03:09.660 Gazans for over 17 years. The resistance's offensive attack has shaped a new precedent
00:03:15.580 for our national liberation struggle and we remain steadfast in our right to resist by any means
00:03:21.420 necessary we call on our people in the far diaspora in toronto to uplift and honor our resistance and
00:03:28.460 our martyrs join us this monday october 9 at 2 p.m at nathan phillips square and celebrate our steps
00:03:34.540 closer to liberation shameful i was in toronto on monday because monday was thanksgiving and
00:03:55.820 i was walking my dog and i happened to come across this pro-hamas celebration
00:04:03.900 this pro-Hamas rally.
00:04:08.760 It was the first time in my life that I had ever felt uncomfortable as a Canadian.
00:04:13.580 The hate, the anger, the way they were marching, the chants they were making, 0.78
00:04:21.720 that's something you see in the Islamic regime in Iran.
00:04:24.060 You do not see that in Canada.
00:04:26.420 That's the kind of behavior you see in radical fundamentalist countries, not in Canada.
00:04:31.020 That is not the Canada that my parents immigrated to.
00:04:34.020 That is not the Canada that we were raised in.
00:04:37.520 That hate does not belong in Canada.
00:04:47.400 What was even more shocking to me, and I didn't realize this until a few days later,
00:04:53.460 what was even more shocking to me is that the member from Hamilton Centre marched in that parade.
00:05:01.020 participated in that very same parade, rally, celebration, whatever you want to call it,
00:05:06.900 the pro-Hamas rally that supported the genocide.
00:05:10.460 The member from Hamilton Center marched in that.
00:05:15.540 She can try to explain away her statement.
00:05:18.020 She can try to say whatever it is she wants to say, but silence is louder than words.
00:05:23.720 Even prior to this, when I had the unfortunate opportunity of having to hear her voice in this legislature again,
00:05:31.020 she spread misinformation she accused the state of israel of bombing a hospital even though
00:05:36.140 it was debunked right away it was the palestinian jihad organization and hamas was using it to
00:05:41.980 spread propaganda to fuel more hate rallies around the world she also failed to mention
00:05:48.220 anything about the 1400 innocent civilians she failed to mention that the hamas terrorists must
00:05:54.380 release the hostages you cannot negotiate with terrorists madam speaker you cannot 0.89
00:06:01.580 as someone who comes from a country that is ruled by islamic regime terrorists we know you cannot 0.98
00:06:09.740 negotiate with them they have no problem killing people there's there's someone who's named 1.00
00:06:16.940 Mossab Hassan Youssef. And I encourage everyone to look him up. Mossab Hassan Youssef is the son
00:06:24.880 of a Hamas leader. He defected. He knows what happens on the inside and he has some fascinating
00:06:32.620 interviews. He's even wrote a book called Son of Hamas. And in that book he writes, and in his
00:06:38.800 interviews he writes, Hamas does not care if you are Israeli or Palestinian, Arab, Jew, Bedouin.
00:06:46.080 they do not care. They will execute everyone. They do not care about the people. They use 0.96
00:06:52.020 Palestinians as human shields. And he said, he said every few years, what the Palestinian
00:06:57.820 authority does, the Palestinian leadership, they will just create a war because they know what's 0.77
00:07:03.320 going to happen is Israel will retaliate and then the world will be outraged and then they will get 0.82
00:07:08.160 money through donations. That's what he says. This is someone who was born and raised in Hamas 0.68
00:07:15.280 and he defected another thing that was very shocking for me and I I can't fail
00:07:28.680 I have to mention this the hate and the violence at these pro-Hamas rallies is
00:07:36.700 getting worse yesterday I believe it was yesterday or possibly the day of the day
00:07:42.840 before. Café Landwehr in Toronto was surrounded by pro-Hamas supporters right at the rally,
00:07:53.400 and they all started chanting, boycott, boycott the Zionist Café. Madam Speaker, what does
00:07:58.740 a Jewish-owned café in Toronto have to do with the conflict in Israel and Palestine?
00:08:05.600 we are being faced with full-on hatred full-on anti-semitism this is not 1933 this is 2023
00:08:16.560 and what's horrifying is that in 1933 cafe lanwer was fled berlin because of the anti-semitism they
00:08:25.080 were experiencing then and now 90 years later they're experiencing experiencing it once again
00:08:29.860 in Ontario, in Canada, and it is horrifying.
00:08:35.600 And this is what the member from Hamilton Centre supports.
00:08:40.940 This is exactly what she supports.
00:08:44.600 We all, we all, our hearts bleed for all the innocent lives lost, 0.95
00:08:49.580 including Palestinians.
00:08:51.440 But if you cannot call out terrorism, 0.67
00:08:54.480 if you cannot have the moral clarity to understand 0.98
00:08:58.640 that the root cause of this is terrorism that's funded by the terrorists and illegitimate Islamic
00:09:04.600 regime in Iran. If you are out there spreading a message of divisiveness instead of caring for
00:09:10.220 people, then you should not be in this legislature. Thank you.