Juno News - Hamas calls for global ‘Day of Jihad’ (ft. Melissa Lantsman)

00:00:00.000 We have been covering over the course of the week on this show and in True North's coverage

00:00:14.520 more broadly the horrific terror attacks that have been taking place against Israel and against

00:00:20.380 Israelis and we've been covering the Canadian response to this both from Canadian officials

00:00:25.980 and also from Canadian communities both Jewish and non-Jewish and well on one hand I think it is 0.96

00:00:33.680 very easy to dismiss this for some of these people that want to have their heads in the sand

00:00:38.240 about the world as just an Israel thing I would encourage you to look more closely the attacks

00:00:45.120 that are taking place against Israelis are if a lot of the rabid anti-Israel and anti-Semitic folks

00:00:51.140 have their way not going to be limited to Israel at all a Hamas official has actually called for a

00:00:57.940 global jihad in his words against Jewish people around the world we have in London England schools

00:01:05.920 that have said they will close tomorrow we've had synagogues that have had to ramp up security and

00:01:10.680 I've not really heard from the federal government much in the way of very definitive steps that are

00:01:15.740 being taking that are taking place to protect the Jewish people tomorrow in communities across Canada

00:01:21.640 Conservative Party of Canada Deputy Leader and Thornhill MP Melissa Lanceman joins me now

00:01:27.380 Melissa let me just first and foremost say my thoughts and condolences are with your community and your

00:01:33.480 friends and family through this time I'm not a Jewish person I'm a great ally of Israel but

00:01:39.120 I've not had to shoulder this the way Jewish people in Canada have 1.00

00:01:42.660 how real are these concerns about tomorrow well look I think they're a big concern from so many

00:01:51.200 members in in the community and first off I should say thank you and thank you to all of those who have

00:01:57.340 reached out who you know don't have to don't have to say the things that they they did but super

00:02:03.120 appreciative of of of of the thoughts and the and the and the prayers certainly for the people on the

00:02:09.760 ground but in our own community there is a heightened sense of of fear and that's exactly what these

00:02:16.900 messages are intended to do you know when a terrorist leader calls calls on something like this around

00:02:24.000 the world its intention is to destabilize the normal daily lives of of Jews living in communities 1.00

00:02:31.100 abroad and instill fear in the community and that's exactly what it's doing

00:02:36.520 one of the things that that is so inspiring whenever uh Jews are targeted attacks is the

00:02:43.100 resilience of the Jewish people I mean this is a community that has survived the holocaust has

00:02:47.800 survived numerous attacks on the existence of Israel and continued ones this is very different than a lot

00:02:55.040 of these stories that have emerged in the last few years both in death toll and and I think the

00:02:59.880 narrative and I'm wondering just in in general when you see a lot of the discussions in the media and

00:03:05.060 online about this what are they missing well look I think depending on which media you're you're

00:03:10.540 looking at they're missing the point in in entirely we have we have media in in Canada that won't use

00:03:16.420 the word uh terrorist when they talk about uh Hamas so you know that's that's a complete uh revision of 0.81

00:03:23.900 what is happening here you have the sick sadistic terrorist organization committing crimes uh on women on 0.99

00:03:32.360 children on elderly holocaust survivors kidnapping them we've heard stories and and frankly seen images

00:03:39.960 that we've never really seen before you you almost are are watching this in real time um as if you would

00:03:46.440 be on a on a on a body cam if you were interested in that kind of thing um this is this is disheartening

00:03:53.160 certainly from the community uh for the community and the resilience for for the community you're right

00:03:57.560 uh throughout history biblical history uh there is there is instance after instance of uh of those

00:04:04.160 trying to eradicate the jewish people and this genocidal terrorist group is no different their goal 1.00

00:04:09.940 is one goal and that's the eradication of israel and the eradication of jews around the world 1.00

00:04:14.400 the federal government has i think said the right things when it comes to condemning Hamas 0.98

00:04:19.940 uh justin trudeau and your leader pierre paulia both spoke very eloquently on monday night they've

00:04:24.620 been unequivocal that Hamas is a terror group when you look at the efforts that the government has

00:04:29.840 been doing or i mean in some cases not been doing to help canadians in israel though

00:04:34.760 tremendous doublespeak here i mean on one hand we were hearing from the foreign minister melanie

00:04:39.960 jolly that everything was hunky-dory and the officials in tel aviv were working all through the

00:04:44.940 weekend and then we find out uh yesterday that uh the embassy was in fact closed and everything was

00:04:50.480 being handled out of ottawa what's your take on this i mean is the government doing

00:04:54.380 enough to help uh canadians just this basic consular role that global affairs is supposed

00:05:00.060 to be providing well look certainly not and we've uh we've we've managed to call and push

00:05:04.860 the government for for for the people watching um you know they they might understand my my the

00:05:10.360 writing that i'm so lucky to represent has the largest number of uh of jews anywhere in the

00:05:15.280 country and any at any given time um there are tons who are visiting studying um uh you know

00:05:22.160 celebrating something in in israel so the very fact that they would reach out to our office

00:05:27.540 suggests that they're not getting the answers that they need from from government you know nobody on

00:05:31.860 the other end of the phone a uh an auto standard reply saying you know please don't travel to israel

00:05:37.680 to people who are in israel saying that the embassy is open the embassy is closed uh call this number but

00:05:42.900 nobody answers and when you're in a situation where you are fearful uh you you should at the very least

00:05:50.000 expect that the government is going to answer the phone so they were slow off the mark slow to start

00:05:55.920 uh and finally finally uh after a major push uh do we have the the first flights out of uh of

00:06:02.260 canadians wanting to come home you mentioned that fear is the goal for hamas and its supporters just

00:06:09.580 in closing melissa what's your message to jewish canadians but i'd say all canadians for

00:06:14.700 taking the next few days and weeks this is all canadians and i i would say you know watch you

00:06:19.700 know watch who has the courage to stand uh by their by their conviction watch very carefully that the

00:06:24.960 the words that are used uh you know for for those in our in our own community here uh north of toronto

00:06:30.860 and in jewish communities and uh in other communities across the country um you know stay stay vigilant and

00:06:36.780 we will make sure that we continue to push on the government uh to keep canadians safe wherever they are

00:06:42.820 whether they are in canada or they are traveling abroad and want to get home uh deputy conservative

00:06:48.060 leader melissa lansman thank you so much for coming on and uh try to stay as comfortable and

00:06:54.480 as peaceful as you can in these very difficult times thank you thanks so much thanks for listening

00:06:59.160 to the andrew lawton show support the program by donating to true north at www.tnc.news

Juno News - October 13, 2023

Hamas calls for global ‘Day of Jihad’ (ft. Melissa Lantsman)

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