Juno News - December 16, 2025


How Canada Became a Hotbed for Antisemitism


Episode Stats

Length

22 minutes

Words per Minute

180.8629

Word Count

4,062

Sentence Count

234

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

16


Summary

16 people are dead after a horrific father-son terror attack on Hanukkah celebrations at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. The stories are harrowing, the pictures are heartbreaking. The Prime Minister has offered his remarks and support, saying, on an immensely painful day for Jewish people, "To the Jewish people across Canada and around the world gathering with your loved ones during this holiday, may you take comfort in your community and faith."


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hi, Juno News. Alexander Brown here back for another episode of Not Sorry. I'm the director
00:00:08.920 of the National Citizens Coalition, writer, campaigner, communicator. Always thrilled
00:00:13.560 to be here with you. While I am here, take advantage of our promo code, JunoNews.com
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
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
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
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.
00:06:35.940 You look at Iran. Their government meddles a lot, but the people come out of Iran tend to
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.
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,
00:08:40.480 being like, this is a great, you know, wow, yesterday ruled. It's like, what the hell are
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.
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
00:12:52.960 roughly 500,000 plus in this backlog where Michelle Rumpel Garner just spent an entire fall session,
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,
00:13:10.380 these scumbags who came over here in the Fraser and Mark Miller wave, just like shoot up houses and
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
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
00:13:36.100 you do when you're, when you're in trouble here, whether you're a foreign student whose visa is
00:13:40.440 running out or you're a transnational scumbag who never should have gotten here and the liberals
00:13:45.900 waved in. And gee, if we were even to go to a Christmas market in Vancouver right now, there's
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
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
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
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
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
00:21:18.520 English people I would trade for a good weekly tikka masala. What world do they live in? Like
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
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.