Juno News - How Canada Became a Hotbed for Antisemitism

00:00:00.000 Hi, Juno News. Alexander Brown here back for another episode of Not Sorry. I'm the director

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00:00:18.520 slash Not Sorry for 20% off. 16 people are dead after a horrific father-son terror attack

00:00:25.600 on Hanukkah celebrations at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. The stories are harrowing,

00:00:30.600 the pictures are heartbreaking. The Prime Minister has offered his remarks and support, saying

00:00:36.360 on an immensely painful day for Jewish people, the community came together here in Ottawa

00:00:40.600 to mark the beginning of Hanukkah. To the Jewish people across Canada and around the world

00:00:45.000 gathering with your loved ones during this holiday, may you take comfort in your community

00:00:49.340 and faith. Even in times of darkness, light will prevail. That these remarks are even necessary

00:00:55.280 betrays what's missing from his statement and the uncomfortable truth that many liberals

00:01:01.020 refuse to face, be it on purpose or by accident. They've lost control of anti-Semitism in the

00:01:07.360 West, in Canada. It's running rampant. There were horrible displays in our Canadian cities

00:01:13.460 even after news of these attacks broke, as some from the radicalized Kaffeea crowd protested

00:01:19.240 Hanukkah ceremonies, or in the case of Montreal, appeared to even celebrate these heinous killings.

00:01:24.280 Canada has a cultural problem. Trudeau sought to create the world's post-national state

00:01:30.220 with no core identity, and he's getting results. Just last week, Canadian mass immigration lobbyist

00:01:36.780 and former BlackRock exec Mark Wiseman was appointed as our new U.S. ambassador. Minister of Canadian

00:01:42.820 Identity and Culture, Mark Miller, he sent out his thoughts and prayers Sunday. But outside of Sean Frazier,

00:01:48.260 no minister has done more damage to this country's cohesion or even infrastructure or security as

00:01:55.360 Miller had in his time at immigration. Miller wrote, tonight, as families and friends gather after

00:01:59.660 sunset for eight nights to light candles at the Hanukkah, our government reinforces its support to

00:02:05.140 Australia and to Jewish communities around the world to help bring more brightness during this

00:02:09.480 difficult time. What would bring even more brightness would be a crackdown on the weekly hate

00:02:15.000 rallies? Would be actually enforcing the law? Would be a return to our immigration standard of 1.00

00:02:20.900 yesterday, where the talent of the world joined us on points and shared values? It would be sending

00:02:26.940 home those who expire on their visas, those bilking our asylum system, those who break our laws while 1.00

00:02:34.060 visitors in our home. Cowardice is contagious. Disloyalty and decline are as well. We're seeing where

00:02:41.580 that's led us, for our Jewish Canadians, for all Canadians. Let this serve as an opportunity,

00:02:47.220 not just for reflection, but rededication to our communities, to their safety, to our very

00:02:53.360 civilization, to reestablishing what Canada and the West once were and can be again. Let's talk to

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00:04:51.860 Jeff Russ joins the show. Jeff is a terrific writer with the National Post,

00:04:55.940 the publication by the name of Without Diminishment. Jeff, thanks for being here.

00:05:00.440 Alex, it's great to be back.

00:05:02.320 Jeff, it's a kind of a doozy of a day. We're coming out of a weekend that was marred by a terrorist

00:05:09.700 attack on Bondi Beach, radical Islamist father and son. There's no way around the fact that Canada 0.91

00:05:16.520 has been flirting with these same problems. We've thwarted attacks in the past. I know the concern

00:05:23.620 is that could happen here. Can you share your perspective on the Bondi Beach terror attacks

00:05:28.800 that occurred during these Hanukkah celebrations in Australia and how they highlight a broader

00:05:34.760 vulnerability in Western societies right now?

00:05:37.560 Absolutely. It's hard to not escape the conclusion that the horrible tragedy that happened on Bondi

00:05:43.740 Beach was an inevitability rather than something that could have prevented. Maybe it could have

00:05:49.120 been prevented if we, in the West, if you want to call us a collective group of countries, if we had

00:05:54.620 taken sterner measures and had more of a culture of safety and caution with regards to what are

00:06:00.160 foreign ideologies. I just don't believe that. A lot of former center-right governments and especially

00:06:07.060 not progressive governments are willing to do that.

00:06:08.760 Now, in what ways do you believe these attacks reflect sort of growing global concerns with radical

00:06:20.440 Islam? Like we're particularly in a country like Australia or Canada.

00:06:25.220 Yeah, it comes out from a number of specific countries. Pakistan is one of them. You look at

00:06:31.040 Syria, Iraq, countries that have been ripped up by war. It's obviously not every Islamic country. 0.99

00:06:35.940 You look at Iran. Their government meddles a lot, but the people come out of Iran tend to 1.00

00:06:40.220 be very peaceful. But there are these hotspots from regions within Pakistan, and I don't think we've

00:06:47.020 had enough vetting from them. I think there is a huge problem with a lack of vetting when it comes to

00:06:53.120 conflict zone immigration. We have to understand that there is a lot of anger and rage in a lot

00:06:59.040 of these people that we simply do not understand. But what we do understand are the consequences,

00:07:03.980 and that is more than enough for governments in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Britain,

00:07:09.860 the United States to put up some barriers and say, no, we cannot allow the status quo of unfettered

00:07:18.120 immigration without any guardrails or cautionary measures to continue. 0.94

00:07:23.040 Yeah. And even if it, I think from what I'm learning about this case pretty quickly, so it's

00:07:27.560 father-son, but the son was known to police and intelligence sources. And the father may have been

00:07:35.440 there for as long as 10 years. So it's, you know, there's a question of like, who the heck are we

00:07:40.220 bringing in when we first bring over the dad from Pakistan? But there's evidently some gap between

00:07:46.900 intelligence and immigration as well, where it's like, how do you not, you know, how is this kid

00:07:52.180 not, you know, flagging on lists? How is he not kept, you know, for his last anti-Semitic remarks?

00:07:58.020 How is, how did, you know, how is he not locked up or, or being closely monitored? It's just such a,

00:08:04.200 it's such a failure on, on, across so many levels. So why then would Canada also be failing to crack down

00:08:12.340 on, on, on anti-Semitism? Like what, what policy failures are we seeing that, that will have

00:08:18.840 contributed to this issue? Because we all see the videos online. I thought it's like, just so I'm

00:08:24.600 going to try to not to swear on my own show, but like, it was really disgraceful to see yesterday

00:08:29.000 that even after this attack, you have Roman Baber at a Hanukkah celebration and like the protesters are

00:08:34.660 still there. I saw a video this morning of, of some scumbag outside of a Jewish school, you know, 0.99

00:08:40.480 being like, this is a great, you know, wow, yesterday ruled. It's like, what the hell are 1.00

00:08:44.840 we doing? And so, so policy wise, if you can think of any, and, and the certainly immigration comes to

00:08:52.080 mind or, or gee, law and order, imagine that like, how is Canada failing here? And like, what's the,

00:08:58.720 what's the, what's the urgent fix? Because surely we're courting disaster here.

00:09:04.020 Absolutely. We are courting disaster and short of disaster. We have had numerous incidents of

00:09:09.080 targeted violence against Jewish Canadians. You look at the girls' school in Toronto,

00:09:13.040 it shot up twice. You look at a whole synagogues in Australia have been burnt down. You have entire

00:09:18.260 political campaigns in Britain, for example, by independent candidates, or even labor candidates

00:09:21.940 fought over the issue of Gaza. And Gaza is not a peaceful protest movement. This is a violent,

00:09:29.920 violent insurrection. People have their views on one side or the other, but regardless, we've focused

00:09:34.600 on what the impact is here. And we have seen an escalation since October 7th. We have seen

00:09:39.380 it go from marches to intimidation, shooting up schools, and now they're shooting up people.

00:09:47.400 And we cannot continue to have what I would call a cultural permissiveness towards this. All of these

00:09:53.660 escalating incidents have largely gone unpunished. Now, don't get me wrong, full credit to the RCMP and

00:09:58.820 FBI for taking down that one man. He was another man from Pakistan caught in Quebec, planning to go

00:10:04.360 to New York to commit a horrible mass shooting. I think this was last year. So the intelligence

00:10:09.880 agencies are not entirely toothless, but we have not seen aggressive action to prevent it. Like this

00:10:17.440 is going to calcify in our politics and our society and our culture, and it's not going to get any safer

00:10:24.600 as a result. Yeah. And another shout out, I suppose, to the intelligence networks get a bad rap these

00:10:31.980 days. But I believe it was an attack was just thwarted in LA, you were saying before we just

00:10:38.680 got on this call, that there was another targeting that was about to happen. And so, Jeff, following

00:10:44.360 these attacks, the Australian left is quickly advocating for stricter gun laws, gun control

00:10:50.060 measures, despite Australia's already incredibly harsh gun laws. What do you see as the real

00:10:55.740 shortcomings here, such as, you know, the lack of, you know, bear hugging this guy when he was known

00:11:02.680 to to their agencies, the need for deportations or, or a more immediate and unflinching police response?

00:11:08.820 Like, is gun control really going to be what fixes this?

00:11:13.640 No, gun control would not be what fixes this. If you get rid of the guns, the terror will not abate,

00:11:17.880 it was simply transferred to the use of bladed weapons, knives,

00:11:21.920 UK style. Yeah, UK style and explosives. Look at France, they have for gun control in France,

00:11:27.780 they use trucks. Yeah, they have had to cancel both the Christmas and New Year celebrations on the

00:11:32.700 Champs-Élysées in Paris. Yeah. And I would say there is an atmosphere of people at the very least

00:11:38.720 being guarded when they attend Christmas markets. I went to Christmas markets in 2019. In Europe,

00:11:43.100 there were no bollards. This was in Germany. It was happy, the most relaxed atmosphere,

00:11:47.760 you could possibly imagine. I don't know if it would be the same. It is in Eastern Europe,

00:11:52.860 bear in mind, which are not hotspots for immigration. For there, you can still walk

00:11:56.080 around with no issues in cities like Zagreb. Yeah. But we have to deal with the situation that

00:12:03.700 has been cultivated by governments have been too lax on security. And again, you know, this is not

00:12:09.140 an attack on Muslims, but there are these hotspots in the Islamic world where, let's face it,

00:12:15.080 we have militants coming out of, you don't tend to see them coming out of places like Tunisia,

00:12:20.180 but Syria, Iraq, and parts of Pakistan. These are places that really need scrutiny and screening.

00:12:26.200 We need much more rigorous screening. These people came in peacefully, the ones who committed the

00:12:30.280 attacks at Bondi Beach. I mean, this was not the case of Europe where they are often illegal migrants

00:12:35.460 coming over land. This was a vetted, processed newcomer. And they still did this. 0.98

00:12:41.380 Yeah. And this would be, I think of how Canada is pretty flat footed here right now. Cause like,

00:12:46.660 this is a, this is a terrible time to have an asylum system that is out of control where there's now 1.00

00:12:52.960 roughly 500,000 plus in this backlog where Michelle Rumpel Garner just spent an entire fall session, 0.99

00:12:59.280 like deeply trying to fix this. And we have criminals in BC where you and I both are,

00:13:06.420 where this extortion network in Surrey was, they're trying to break it up where these, 0.97

00:13:10.380 these scumbags who came over here in the Fraser and Mark Miller wave, just like shoot up houses and 0.96

00:13:15.620 ask for money. Like the actual game, it's like these, I don't know if they're Kalisani's or hairy 0.99

00:13:20.300 envies, but there are two groups that shouldn't be here. And they like, you get a letter in the mail

00:13:25.020 being like, star, please, you give me money. And then if you don't, they shoot up your house and

00:13:30.660 we've tried to send them home and they immediately just claim asylum. And so that's now the thing that 0.69

00:13:36.100 you do when you're, when you're in trouble here, whether you're a foreign student whose visa is 0.99

00:13:40.440 running out or you're a transnational scumbag who never should have gotten here and the liberals 0.99

00:13:45.900 waved in. And gee, if we were even to go to a Christmas market in Vancouver right now, there's 1.00

00:13:52.220 probably those bollards up now too, where Canada is a, is a society with strong gun control. We have

00:13:58.440 strong, reasonable gun advocacy from groups like the CCFR. And yet, you know, Vancouver is not immune

00:14:05.500 to, to mass death at, at, at an event where some schizophrenic, uh, troubled young man, uh, drove into

00:14:15.460 a Filipino street festival over the summer and he was known to police and should have been

00:14:20.180 institutionalized long before. So we're seeing all these cascading failures and what a shame now that,

00:14:26.040 you know, you go to, you go to these public events and I put in a tweet over the weekend where it's

00:14:30.560 like, if you see those cement blocks or those pillars, it's like you're guaranteed to know that

00:14:36.480 you are living under a government that tells you things like hatred has no home here or, or that is

00:14:41.820 offering all these thoughts and prayers, but it's, it is in place of real action to actually keep people

00:14:47.820 safe because in a, in a flourishing country, democracy, government, city, town, country, whatever,

00:14:53.120 you shouldn't have to see those things. Jeff, I digress. What, what are the key risks associated

00:15:00.320 with radical Islam in the context of mass immigration policies in countries like Canada?

00:15:05.340 Like what, what, what might we be missing? What, what are they not checking for? Like where, where's

00:15:11.660 your, where's your concern level there that we're not potentially attempting to integrate people

00:15:16.720 or that we no longer have a kind of values test or, or point system?

00:15:22.900 I think we know exactly what the problem is. I think they're clearly identifiable. I think the

00:15:27.200 government is fully aware, but I think they are terrified of being perceived as being intolerant,

00:15:32.460 especially with the current liberal government in Ottawa. They've made themselves the party of,

00:15:37.600 let's face it, the party of mass immigration. Even when they pull back, there's always a reluctance.

00:15:41.300 There's always plenty of corners to cut and workarounds. That is so fundamentally part of

00:15:46.780 their ideology. Let's face it, their voter base. So when they start to put in checks to say,

00:15:52.320 do you believe these things you cannot be admitted into the country? Well, that clashes directly with

00:15:57.260 people who vote for them. And I would say the politicians themselves, they, they fundamentally

00:16:01.640 believe that what they say, uh, go Trudeau 2015, a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. Even if that

00:16:07.920 guy wants to murder millions of other Canadians based on, on the basis of their religion or

00:16:11.940 ethnicity. Yeah. And it's not as difficult as people think to fix this. It's going to be a lot 0.91

00:16:19.780 of people who have status need to be reviewed. This is going to take strong national security

00:16:25.060 measures, the likes of which I don't think we've seen in Canada probably since the FLQ crisis of the

00:16:29.960 1970s, but we can do it. It just takes the will. I don't know if this current government has it.

00:16:35.400 Maybe provincial governments can, I cannot think of a single one that has demonstrated that so far.

00:16:42.560 Uh, the only one where it might is Alberta, but they have not had the same pressures.

00:16:48.800 Yeah, they haven't. And Jeff, you have drawing on that Trudeau Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian.

00:16:55.320 I remember him going to bat for, for Omar Kader, not the dead American soldier. You've written about

00:17:01.340 the multiple times. It's been kind of part of your beat on the front page of the national post about

00:17:06.000 what, what Trudeau is referred to as a post-national approach to what was that immigration now mass

00:17:10.980 immigration about the cultural barbarization of Canada. Great piece. One of the reasons we're 1.00

00:17:15.640 friends. I picked it up. I read it. You know, we said, we traded messages. Can you explain what

00:17:20.560 concerns you most about this model and its impact? We've talked about the security aspect,

00:17:27.180 but what about the impact on national identity? To be Canadian has to be more than a piece of

00:17:34.460 paper. In 2012, for example, if you were a Jewish senior in Toronto at the apartment building on

00:17:42.300 Bathurst, you didn't have to worry about some lunatic wandering through your hallways, not outside with

00:17:47.060 a march, like through your hallways and ripping the mezuzahs off your door. It was unthinkable in 2012.

00:17:53.060 It was utterly unthinkable in the climate of fear. Like I mentioned, again, like the shooting up of

00:17:57.900 synagogues like me, I'm not Jewish. I have many Jewish friends. They used to tell me this used to

00:18:02.680 be one of the safest, most secure countries where they felt safe in Jewish in the world. I remember

00:18:07.520 even as recently as 2017, they were saying that when I was at university, that's not the case anymore.

00:18:12.600 It really isn't. And it happened very fast. And it happened when we didn't, we did not enforce

00:18:19.060 a punitive culture against extremist ideologies. I mean, sure, they'll do it against the very small

00:18:25.900 far right threat in Canada, let's be real, that is so overblown by the current government, it is not

00:18:29.740 anywhere close to approaching the anti-Semitic terror. But that becomes the focal point. And so

00:18:36.500 the only measures you get when it comes to a measurement like this will be gun control, which

00:18:39.820 like I said, will only transfer the terror to knives and explosives, because if these people want to cause

00:18:44.040 mass death, they will find a way. And we need to go beyond simply preempting that we have to like

00:18:50.360 when they say hatred has no home here. No, it does have a home. They gave it to them.

00:18:55.340 We invited it in. Yeah, take your shoes off, put your feet up on the coffee table.

00:18:59.760 Yes, and they have to be evicted. And that's going to take stern measures like which I don't think

00:19:04.200 any government in Canada currently has the guts to do with that. Like I said, perhaps Alberta,

00:19:08.100 maybe Saskatchewan, but like I said, they've not had to deal with the same pressures as Ontario or Quebec.

00:19:11.900 Yeah, my worry is that this would be a great moment to be preemptive. I don't want like there

00:19:20.780 might be some libertarians in the audience right now going like, whoa, be careful. Like, but it like

00:19:27.140 we know that we're due for a doozy. And then you're dealing from a position of weakness and the tragedy

00:19:35.220 has happened and you've lost lives unnecessarily. Like, I think we're all in some ways waiting for

00:19:41.580 that day to come and and and how tragic that will be that like we are in a position right now where

00:19:46.260 it's like you could actually start making examples of people. And it is good to make examples of

00:19:51.560 scumbags. And it is good to make examples of non citizens. And it is good to make examples of 0.98

00:19:57.660 of non civilization and disorder and threats and weekend protests and and people feeling unsafe in

00:20:06.760 their homes. Like if you're not going to crack down on that, if you're not going to rattle the purple 0.98

00:20:12.140 haired carny supporters a little bit when it comes to that stuff, it's like, when are you when are you

00:20:16.840 going to step up that? Jeff, you you took an interesting angle here with a recent National Post

00:20:25.040 article where you argue that Canada's national purpose must go deeper than just enjoying diverse

00:20:30.500 takeout menus from from as a product of multiculturalism. I can you elaborate on that

00:20:36.380 central thesis? I know what you're getting at here because because we hear it all the time when

00:20:40.760 you know, someone's immediate response for some reason when you criticize mass immigration is like,

00:20:46.880 I love my takeout. And it's like, what? Like, how is it? How's it not more than that? And so can

00:20:51.740 you can you tell us a little bit about this piece?

00:20:53.340 No, certainly it was prompted by two public figures when Australia, horrible coincidence,

00:21:01.860 the premier of South Australia. He says that without multiculturalism, all the food would be

00:21:07.160 the same. I can't imagine a worse fate. What about being dead? Yeah, what about that? It's like a much

00:21:12.720 worse fate. Yeah. Or when you look at Piers Morgan saying I would trade, you know, there's many white 1.00

00:21:18.520 English people I would trade for a good weekly tikka masala. What world do they live in? Like 1.00

00:21:26.320 seriously, what world like, okay, yes, I like tikka masala. I love all these foods. Do is that your is

00:21:31.980 that your only response when we say, hey, maybe we should vet people so that they don't want to kill

00:21:35.440 minorities in the country? Yeah, it's just the first thing is, oh, yeah, yeah, it's like, oh, what about

00:21:40.660 your fancy wraps? It's like, whatever, I think we should ban Uber Eats point blank, but that's a

00:21:45.660 separate issue. I can get the recipes online. You cannot have culinary justifications for this.

00:21:51.620 Like we're so past this. Like all of this, this is so outdated at this point, this whole live and

00:21:56.340 let live, eat your food, everyone will get along, everyone will assimilate and integrate and be

00:22:01.020 kumbaya in five years. No, sorry, we have second generation terrorism now. And yeah, well, I hope 1.00

00:22:09.120 it's worth that nice spicy bowl you've ordered. Because it's not for everybody else. Yeah, no, you're

00:22:15.500 great. As you point out, insufficient foundation for a nation's social contract. I'm going to

00:22:20.600 share that piece in the show notes. It's really great. Jeff Ross, thanks for joining us today.

00:22:25.960 Alex, it's always a pleasure. Thanks for having me.

Juno News - December 16, 2025

How Canada Became a Hotbed for Antisemitism

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