Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ A wake-up call for Canada： Pro-Hamas protesters swarm Jewish synagogues and schools

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Absolutely crazy street protest. I don't even think there's street

00:00:05.420 protest is when you physically attack people. Well, I mean, they call the January 6th meandering,

00:00:12.100 they call that a riot. They call that an insurrection. What do you call it when these

00:00:16.220 pro-Hamas types shut down public events, shut down streets, block Jews from going into Jewish

00:00:22.840 buildings? I think that's got to be a January 6th insurrection or more. That's what my show's

00:00:29.200 about today. I'd like you to see it in video form, too. It's really the footage that counts.

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00:00:40.020 really want you to see it with your own eyes. I want you to see the cowardice of the police

00:00:44.040 who just let these guys go. rebelnewsplus.com, eight bucks a month. And you know, we live off

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00:00:59.200 Pro-Hamas protesters swarm Jewish synagogues and schools and the bizarre self-hating Jews 1.00

00:01:16.420 who support the liberals. It's March 6th and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:20.440 I don't know. I think it's mayhem, total mayhem. Here's an event in Toronto, a fundraiser. I think

00:01:43.960 it was Yaara Sachs, a Trudeau cabinet minister from Toronto, with Chrystia Freeland, the deputy

00:01:50.980 prime minister. They were having a fundraising event at a fancy restaurant and they were swarmed,

00:01:57.680 not by thousands, not even by hundreds, but I think by dozens of pro-Hamas activists, some of

00:02:03.700 whom, of course, are foreign nationals who I believe should be deported immediately if they're 1.00

00:02:08.040 engaging in hate marches in Canada. I mean, go back and do that where you came from. That's not

00:02:13.380 the Canadian way. But if they're Canadian citizens, I think that they should be denounced. That's just 1.00

00:02:19.260 my view. But whatever it is, there were dozens of them. You just take a look at that. They were

00:02:23.860 blocking the entrance to people getting in, just like they blocked the entrance when Justin Trudeau

00:02:30.200 and the Italian prime minister, Giorgio Maloney, had a meeting about a week ago and police were

00:02:37.420 useless. Take a look.

00:02:38.280 Giorgio Maloney, the U.S., KKK, I.O.S., you're all the same.

00:02:42.620 Giorgio Maloney, the U.S., KKK, I.O.S., you're all the same.

00:02:46.700 E.P.S., KKK, I.O.S., you're all the same. 0.60

00:02:47.840 Excuse me, officer, I'm going to the restaurant. Can I get through here?

00:02:52.480 Can everyone just move to the side?

00:02:55.520 No, no, that's the whole purpose.

00:02:56.940 Just move to the side, just let them through.

00:02:58.820 No justice, please.

00:03:03.200 No justice, please.

00:03:03.220 No justice, please.

00:03:03.860 No justice.

00:03:04.180 No justice, please.

00:03:04.980 No justice.

00:03:05.980 The cop, hey, guys, can you teehee, please move?

00:03:22.760 And, of course, they don't move.

00:03:25.360 I'm not quite sure where these timid vegetarian police were during the lockdowns, during the 1.00

00:03:32.960 pandemic, when they had batons, when they shot our reporter, Alexa Lavoie, with a riot gun

00:03:38.820 and hit her with sticks, when they threw Tamara Leach in jail without a trial for 49 days. 0.99

00:03:44.840 Where were these timid, useless cops back then?

00:03:47.600 Teehee, can you guys please move?

00:03:49.980 No?

00:03:50.820 Oh, OK.

00:03:52.060 Just absolutely useless.

00:03:53.760 Here's some more footage from it.

00:03:56.560 Here's some old Jewish guy who just wanted to get in, but sorry, no Jews allowed. 1.00

00:04:02.960 It's a picket line, sir.

00:04:10.440 You're going to cross this picket line?

00:04:11.940 It's not a picket line.

00:04:12.640 There's a genocide.

00:04:14.200 You have your right to protest.

00:04:16.820 I have my right to go in.

00:04:18.560 So I would like to go in if you don't mind.

00:04:20.760 Genocidal monster.

00:04:21.640 You have your right to protest.

00:04:23.340 Genocidal genocide.

00:04:24.740 You don't care about genocide.

00:04:27.560 Maybe I'm going to say something to them.

00:04:29.420 We are making a statement.

00:04:30.980 It's a picket line.

00:04:34.000 It's a picket line.

00:04:35.500 It's a picket line.

00:04:38.000 It's a picket line.

00:04:39.540 It's a picket line.

00:04:40.400 It's a picket line.

00:04:41.500 It's a picket line.

00:04:41.600 It's a picket line.

00:04:42.040 It's a picket line.

00:04:42.140 Here's another guy.

00:04:43.360 I understand this guy, some senior liberal organizer, wanted to get in.

00:04:47.380 They pushed him around, and it sounds like they physically assaulted his wife, too.

00:04:53.000 Repelled them from the event.

00:04:54.260 Cops are right there.

00:04:55.000 Of course they didn't do a thing.

00:04:57.500 Take a look.

00:04:58.020 Don't let him in.

00:04:59.440 Don't let him in.

00:05:00.180 Don't let him in.

00:05:01.760 Don't let him in.

00:05:03.380 Don't let him in.

00:05:05.920 What the hell are you doing?

00:05:07.780 He's a chick. 0.99

00:05:09.220 I'll fucking kill you.

00:05:10.820 What?

00:05:11.920 What's that?

00:05:12.940 Don't touch my wife. 1.00

00:05:14.160 I don't give a shit.

00:05:16.440 Don't touch my fucking wife. 1.00

00:05:19.240 Don't let him in.

00:05:20.680 Don't let him in.

00:05:21.640 Don't let him.

00:05:22.640 Don't hug him.

00:05:23.380 Your hand's on him.

00:05:23.940 Don't give a shit.

00:05:24.920 Don't let him in.

00:05:26.580 Unbelievable.

00:05:28.300 Don't let him in.

00:05:30.080 No.

00:05:31.980 Don't let him in.

00:05:33.360 Don't let him in.

00:05:34.620 Don't let him in.

00:05:37.760 Don't let him in.

00:05:38.860 Don't let him in.

00:05:40.500 Don't let him in.

00:05:40.860 Don't let him in.

00:05:41.500 Don't let him in.

00:05:42.400 Yeah.

00:05:42.800 So that's Toronto, of course.

00:05:44.540 I'm just surprised that Toronto police didn't bring the protesters hot coffee like they did

00:05:49.560 when the Hamas protesters blocked that bridge in the Jewish community

00:05:54.340 on the 401 highway and Avenue Road.

00:05:57.320 Do you remember this footage?

00:05:58.220 They're literally blocking a road.

00:05:59.920 There was no military or political or diplomatic nature to this road.

00:06:04.380 It was just a Jewish neighborhood.

00:06:05.960 So Hamas thought they would block the Jews.

00:06:08.120 Remember this?

00:06:08.680 The cops bringing them hot coffee.

00:06:10.100 Take a look.

00:06:10.520 No one told them they can't come back.

00:06:11.720 Otherwise, he would have said, OK, I understand.

00:06:13.260 OK, I'll just ask Chris to...

00:06:14.600 I understand.

00:06:15.220 Just so...

00:06:17.080 Sorry, it's...

00:06:19.520 Jihad? 0.94

00:06:21.800 Yeah, that's Toronto's police.

00:06:24.560 There's Toronto, and Montreal was even worse, if you can believe it.

00:06:27.940 Here they are chanting Allah Akbar at a Jewish school?

00:06:32.900 Akbar!

00:06:35.460 Akbar!

00:06:37.360 Akbar!

00:06:39.080 I love you guys.

00:06:40.460 Sure, why not?

00:06:41.240 I mean, Jewish schools and synagogues in Montreal have been shot at

00:06:44.860 and have had Molotov cocktails, attempted fire bombings.

00:06:48.560 Here's some footage from a Jewish synagogue, just a synagogue.

00:06:53.520 There's no political aspect to it.

00:06:55.520 It's a very old synagogue.

00:06:58.360 It's the site of a protest, a pro-Hamas protest.

00:07:01.420 You can see some Jews there with the Israeli flags,

00:07:04.780 and I think there's some Canadian flags too.

00:07:06.680 And they're singing O Canada.

00:07:08.100 And then you have the Hamas protesters chanting Free Palestine and F-U-C-K Canada. 0.86

00:07:15.480 Take a look.

00:07:15.940 With this New Mexico!

00:07:22.760 Winning of the dancing!

00:07:28.540 The war, the fire, the drone, the—

00:07:31.800 On Canada, we—

00:07:33.920 Oh Canada, we live.

00:07:34.580 Yeah, and this is organized, of course.

00:07:59.540 This is funded and financed.

00:08:01.640 Who brings a loudspeaker to a house of worship, a Jewish synagogue, a Christian church,

00:08:08.360 a mosque, whatever, to shout insults at them?

00:08:13.180 I mean, don't think for a second that this is just about Israel.

00:08:16.260 It's just raw hatred of Jews.

00:08:17.960 Take a look.

00:08:18.460 This continued on from the day into the night.

00:08:38.760 Here's a Jewish community building in Montreal.

00:08:41.540 Every single doorway was blocked.

00:08:43.900 Again, not to a restaurant with a political fundraiser, but just the Jewish community.

00:08:48.460 That's been going on for days, but really it's been going on for weeks and months.

00:08:52.740 Now, one Jewish lawyer from a Jewish law firm went to court and managed to get a restraining order.

00:08:59.680 And here's some Jewish guy on Twitter cheering about it.

00:09:03.240 Okay, listen, congratulations.

00:09:05.040 You managed to get a judge to sign a piece of paper saying don't.

00:09:08.040 It's just a piece of paper.

00:09:11.240 We have other things in Canada that apparently are just a piece of paper, like our criminal code or city bylaws.

00:09:18.260 And if the police or prosecutors or judges won't enforce them, they're just a piece of paper.

00:09:23.860 And that's what's happening.

00:09:25.160 You have a two-tiered justice system more and more evident.

00:09:28.260 And the same laws, the same criminal code is in effect for the truckers and for anti-vaccine mandate protesters as for these pro-Hamas protesters.

00:09:39.140 And yet the law, which is on paper, is applied how the politicians want it applied.

00:09:45.760 I don't know if you remember, but a few years ago, by chance, I was on a plane that Omar Khadr, the convicted al-Qaeda terrorist, was on too.

00:09:55.360 And I don't know if you remember, I wrote a book about Omar Khadr.

00:09:59.440 Imagine me spotting him on the plane.

00:10:01.880 Now, as part of his release conditions from Guantanamo Bay, he agreed to be on a no-fly list and never going to America and now doing this and that.

00:10:09.720 Now, Trudeau, in addition to giving him $10.5 million, obviously took him off the no-fly list because there he was.

00:10:16.660 He was actually flying first class on the airplane.

00:10:19.940 I was in economy.

00:10:21.680 I got off the plane, spotted him, actually managed to catch up with him, was asking him questions, walked outside, and a cop stopped me.

00:10:32.700 Not Omar Khadr, the terrorist, the cop stopped me and said if I followed him onto the street, I would be given the jaywalking ticket.

00:10:40.980 Let me show you that.

00:10:42.340 This is a few years old.

00:10:43.780 This was actually right before the pandemic.

00:10:46.920 The cop said, I'll give you a ticket if you step on the road.

00:10:50.020 This was in the loading zone at the Halifax airport.

00:10:52.040 Just take a look.

00:10:52.760 It's a terrorist.

00:10:53.420 That's an al-Qaeda terrorist right there.

00:10:55.300 Sir?

00:10:55.780 Al-Qaeda terrorist.

00:10:57.160 It's an al-Qaeda terrorist right there.

00:10:59.440 Okay.

00:10:59.960 Al-Qaeda terrorist right there.

00:11:01.380 Okay.

00:11:01.620 Go ahead.

00:11:02.360 Just go on.

00:11:04.200 Sir?

00:11:05.040 Sir?

00:11:05.580 Sir?

00:11:06.080 Sir?

00:11:06.620 Yes?

00:11:08.220 Yes?

00:11:09.320 Why are you touching me?

00:11:10.020 You're impeding someone from leaving the building.

00:11:11.720 No, I'm not.

00:11:12.060 You're impeding me from leaving the building.

00:11:13.600 What's your name and badge number?

00:11:14.660 I'll give you my card, sir.

00:11:15.620 Give it to me.

00:11:16.420 I will give it to you, sir.

00:11:31.620 You're very close to being arrested.

00:11:36.700 You understand me?

00:11:37.260 And you're very close to getting a civil lawsuit for assault and battery.

00:11:43.720 Don't jaywalk, sir.

00:11:44.840 I'll just walk back there, okay?

00:11:51.120 Am I clear?

00:11:56.220 Don't jaywalk. 0.99

00:11:57.040 What are you stepping on me for?

00:12:02.640 Doing your job, sir.

00:12:03.620 Doing your job.

00:12:04.320 And what job is that?

00:12:05.620 Keeping the public safe.

00:12:07.660 Whose safety was in breach there?

00:12:10.100 Everyone's safety, sir.

00:12:11.060 You're a goddamn liar and you know it.

00:12:13.340 You're a disgrace to that badge.

00:12:15.040 And you're a disgrace.

00:12:16.180 I'm proud of what I do, sir.

00:12:16.900 You're proud of defending a terrorist?

00:12:18.740 I'm proud of keeping people safe, sir.

00:12:20.080 Safe from whom?

00:12:25.040 So you see what I mean?

00:12:27.100 There's an actual murderer.

00:12:29.720 A murderer and a terrorist.

00:12:32.360 And the cops are telling me if I step one foot on the road, I'll be given a jaywalking ticket.

00:12:38.360 Same thing happened during the lockdown.

00:12:40.420 Our reporters were given fines and they were prosecuted for, in the case of our head of video,

00:12:45.680 Efron Monsanto, I swear, literally shaking hands, he was charged, he was given $1,000 pints

00:12:52.640 for shaking hands with someone in public.

00:12:56.720 True story.

00:12:58.200 So if you're on the freedom side of things, if you're an anti-vax mandate or a pro-trucker

00:13:03.600 or a conservative or Jewish, and you do the most trifling infraction, don't you step on that street, 1.00

00:13:11.320 the police will arrest you.

00:13:12.820 But if you go to a Jewish school and essentially chant death to the Jews, if you protest so much

00:13:22.920 that it breaks up a meeting of two heads of the G7, Trudeau and Maloney, with signs that boast

00:13:29.740 about the armed nature of this, there are signs going up around Toronto and Montreal, resistance

00:13:35.500 by any means, with pictures of guns on them.

00:13:39.040 That's fine.

00:13:40.400 But don't you dare misgender someone or you'll be hit with Trudeau's new hate speech bill.

00:13:45.280 Unbelievable.

00:13:45.920 Speaking of which, yesterday it turns out that the Muslim extremist who shot up the Edmonton

00:13:52.800 City Hall was in fact charged with terrorism.

00:13:56.020 Did you even hear about that?

00:13:57.980 I bet you didn't.

00:13:59.000 Oh, we can't jump to conclusions, even though he did a video in advance where he referred

00:14:05.520 to Gaza as one of his motivations.

00:14:08.040 Of course he was a terrorist.

00:14:09.280 We've all known that.

00:14:10.180 And finally, the police admit it in the form of charges that they've laid.

00:14:13.820 But even now, the CBC won't say who did it.

00:14:20.080 Here's their story that they posted.

00:14:21.600 They talk about a politically motivated shooting.

00:14:24.740 But I read this article very carefully.

00:14:27.240 There's no mention of Gaza or Hamas or Islam or Muslims, even though all of these were the 1.00

00:14:33.560 factors for this terrorist act.

00:14:35.500 Imagine writing a story about a guy being charged with terrorism and never saying what terrorism,

00:14:43.160 for whom.

00:14:43.680 Do you think the CBC would take that same approach if it were, say, a Christian white male who

00:14:50.900 shot up a mosque?

00:14:52.880 It's all they would talk about.

00:14:55.500 That's a form of a double standard, too.

00:14:58.040 That's the government journalists at the CBC State Broadcaster.

00:15:01.400 So in the backdrop of an actual terrorist shooting up City Hall in Edmonton and the media,

00:15:08.700 cone of silence on that.

00:15:09.860 And what we saw over the weekend, Georgia Maloney and Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland,

00:15:14.840 Yara Sachs, the synagogues and the schools in Montreal and Toronto.

00:15:19.100 Today, Ahmed Hassan, a Somali-Canadian who's now the Minister of Foreign Aid, announces he's

00:15:25.600 going to keep on funding the United Nations Relief Works Agency, or UNRWA, which is basically

00:15:30.860 the Hamas-UN branch.

00:15:33.980 Of course, he never really stopped funding it.

00:15:36.320 It's more money.

00:15:37.480 But in the last few months, we've learned a lot more about this UN agency.

00:15:43.080 In fact, various chat groups and various video footage from the October 7th terrorist attack

00:15:49.580 shows that UN Relief Works Agency, UNRWA, UN staff, were not just celebrating the terrorist

00:15:57.420 attacks on Israel.

00:15:58.940 They were participating in them.

00:16:00.900 450 UN staff at this agency are actually Hamas activists, Hamas members, even Hamas terrorists.

00:16:12.000 Here, take a look at this video.

00:16:13.760 I won't show the whole thing.

00:16:15.000 It's too long.

00:16:15.800 But here's some of this video where the evidence is presented.

00:16:18.480 Okay.

00:16:40.300 Yusuf Zidane al-Khajaura was just one, one out of several UN workers

00:17:10.060 who took part in the Hamas massacre of October 7th.

00:17:14.400 This evening, we are publishing the names of additional terrorists employed by UNRWA

00:17:20.580 who participated in October 7th massacre.

00:17:25.340 Bakar Mahmoud Abdallah Darwish, a Hamas terrorist and a school counselor at a UNRWA school.

00:17:36.680 Rassan al-Jahabari, a Hamas terrorist who works in the Hamas-run Ministry of Health.

00:17:45.640 Mamdouk Hossein Ahmed Al-Khuk, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist and a teacher at a UNRWA elementary school.

00:17:53.900 Over 450 UNRWA employees are military operatives in terror groups in Gaza.

00:18:06.560 Over 450.

00:18:09.240 This is no mere coincidence.

00:18:12.120 This is systematic.

00:18:14.360 There is no claiming we did not know.

00:18:17.180 Hamas exploits humanitarian organizations and uses them to commit crimes against humanity. 0.87

00:18:26.180 These terrorists are employed by UNRWA.

00:18:29.100 Of course everyone knows that.

00:18:31.060 Of course everyone knows that if you want to give money to Hamas, you just give it to the UN and they launder it. 0.68

00:18:35.940 Literally underneath the headquarters of the UN's office in Gaza is a Hamas bunker.

00:18:44.100 For two reasons.

00:18:45.360 First of all, to show how closely tied they are.

00:18:47.800 But second of all, to use the UN as a human shield.

00:18:51.500 Everybody knows this, including Ahmed Hassan, who wore the Hamas scarf today when he was announcing the funding.

00:18:57.720 Canada has gone full pro-terrorist.

00:19:01.480 Under Stephen Harper, Canada is one of the most principled countries in the world when it came to foreign affairs.

00:19:06.740 We've done a 108 degree turn.

00:19:09.820 I think about things politically.

00:19:11.820 I think about the liberal MPs who are Jewish.

00:19:16.520 In Montreal, Anthony Housefather, who's a junior cabinet minister.

00:19:20.040 Rachel Bendayan.

00:19:21.420 They go out in the Jewish community because there are pockets of Montreal and Toronto where there's a lot of Jews.

00:19:26.640 In Toronto, there's a cabinet minister named Ya'ara Sachs.

00:19:30.040 They really play up their Jewishness when they're running for office.

00:19:34.160 But they're completely fine with Trudeau and his pro-Hamas point of view.

00:19:40.120 They squawk a little bit on Twitter about anti-Semitism, but they don't say a word about Justin Trudeau or Ahmed Hassan or what I call the liberal Hamas caucus.

00:19:50.580 Incredibly, the chief fundraiser for Justin Trudeau is Jewish himself.

00:19:55.440 You know, I was thinking a little bit more about Hamas protesting at that fundraiser last night for Chrystia Freeland and Ya'ara Sachs.

00:20:05.900 How gross is that, that they're having a fundraiser, that they're asking for money from the Jewish community on the eve of giving more money to Hamas? 0.50

00:20:14.460 Now, I want to tell you, I don't support violence.

00:20:17.340 And there was violence.

00:20:18.760 There always is violence.

00:20:19.780 I showed you the other day that one pro-Hamas activist hit a cop and was just released because the mob demanded it.

00:20:27.180 I don't support violence.

00:20:29.320 But you know what?

00:20:30.340 If violence has to happen somewhere, if these thugs have to be active somewhere, well, I'd prefer it to be at a Chrystia Freeland Ya'ara Sachs fundraiser than in the Jewish community, at a school or at a synagogue.

00:20:45.940 I mean, they're the ones who abide it.

00:20:48.320 They're the ones who okay it.

00:20:50.460 Shouldn't they be the targets of it?

00:20:53.340 Let me end with a little flicker of good news.

00:20:55.560 There was a by-election in the Ontario riding of Durham the other day, and Jamil Giovanni ran as the conservative candidate, and the liberals pulled out all the stops.

00:21:08.280 Justin Trudeau himself went there to campaign.

00:21:11.300 So did half a dozen other cabinet ministers.

00:21:14.900 And look at this.

00:21:16.080 Jamil Giovanni, the conservative candidate who was personally insulted by Justin Trudeau, who called him a twofer, referring to he's black.

00:21:25.320 And I forget what the other thing is.

00:21:26.720 I mean, just a phrase that if anyone else had used would be called racist.

00:21:30.680 In fact, they ran a really crypto racist campaign.

00:21:33.900 Oh, he's not from around here.

00:21:35.380 He's not our kind because Durham is sort of a, you know, it's a whiter riding than, say, downtown Toronto.

00:21:41.260 The liberals didn't hesitate to play the race card very subtly.

00:21:44.780 But Jamil Giovanni absolutely smoked the liberals.

00:21:48.940 He got 57.4% of the vote.

00:21:52.080 And the liberals just got 22 and a half, less than half of that.

00:21:56.420 It was incredible.

00:21:58.740 It was hopeful.

00:22:00.700 And any liberal who thinks they'll just be able to skate through this, well, good luck to them.

00:22:05.360 I saw the liberals put out a meme on Twitter comparing Pierre Paulyev to Donald Trump.

00:22:13.240 And I thought, boy, they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel, aren't they?

00:22:17.680 Like, they really run out of ideas when that's their rebuttal.

00:22:21.860 Well, Canada's GDP is shrinking.

00:22:24.360 We're in a de facto recession.

00:22:26.140 Housing prices have never been worse.

00:22:27.580 Inflation's never been worse.

00:22:29.040 You've got terrorism, either soft terrorism, shouting and screaming death to the Jews, or actual terrorism, shooting up the city hall.

00:22:37.040 This country has rarely been in such bad shape.

00:22:39.480 And Justin Trudeau thinks he'll change the channel by saying he likes Trump.

00:22:43.040 Not sure if it's going to work.

00:22:45.400 You know, I'm reminded of when Pierre Trudeau was given sort of a bonus term.

00:22:51.200 If you remember your history, Joe Clark beat Trudeau in 1979, but Joe Clark screwed it up.

00:22:58.760 And there was another election less than a year later, and Trudeau came in for sort of a bonus term from 1980 to 1984.

00:23:07.260 Sort of, it was like a windfall.

00:23:11.900 And it was in that last term that Pierre Trudeau did some of his craziest radical stuff,

00:23:17.760 including nationalizing the oil and gas sector through the national energy program.

00:23:23.240 They knew that they weren't going to get another term, so they were partying like it was the end of the world.

00:23:29.560 I mean, why not?

00:23:30.420 They knew they weren't going to win the 1984 election anyways.

00:23:33.260 Why not do whatever they could in their final years?

00:23:36.400 I think that Justin Trudeau is in that same phase.

00:23:41.160 I think he and his party realize that there's going to be a lot more Jamil Giovanni's.

00:23:47.000 In fact, week after week, we see polling where the liberals will practically get wiped out.

00:23:52.420 Now, you'd be foolish to be complacent, and the poll is a snapshot in a moment of time.

00:23:57.400 It's not a prediction for the future.

00:23:58.660 But I think that Justin Trudeau and Ahmed Hassan, who's giving millions of dollars to terrorists,

00:24:05.280 and Arif Virani, by the way, who is Muslim himself,

00:24:08.940 and who said we've got a crackdown on Islamophobia, by which he means criticism of Islam.

00:24:13.880 He's bringing in this censorship bill that is the most, you know, draconian ever seen in Canada.

00:24:20.460 I think they're in the burn the place down phase of this government, like Pierre Trudeau was in 1980.

00:24:26.080 My only hope is that we can get elections soon enough to keep the fire as small as possible.

00:24:33.120 Stay with us. More ahead.

00:24:46.100 Well, if you were to ask me who my number one favorite independent news site was,

00:24:50.420 I would tell you, out of loyalty and belief, that it's Rebel News, of course.

00:24:53.860 But a very close second is a great Irish website called gript, G-R-I-P-T dot I-E.

00:25:03.320 That's the Irish country suffix on the internet.

00:25:06.720 Citizen journalists who take a contrarian view to the dominant narrative.

00:25:11.240 But the quality of their work is amazing.

00:25:14.120 And what makes me a little bit jealous is they get access to everyone in the Irish cabinet,

00:25:20.560 and they put the questions.

00:25:22.540 And this is very unusual for us Canadians to see.

00:25:26.760 The Irish politicians actually answer them.

00:25:29.840 I've never seen that in Canada.

00:25:31.920 And so we follow gripped very closely.

00:25:34.180 And it has been the go-to news site for me to follow the Irish migration crisis.

00:25:40.120 They use the word asylum seekers, where we typically say refugees.

00:25:44.960 But Ireland has been swamped in recent months.

00:25:49.200 And we have a story today from gripped.

00:25:52.800 T-Shock, that's how they say prime minister in Irish.

00:25:56.640 T-Shock says huge numbers of single male asylum seekers still arriving in Ireland.

00:26:02.020 And the author of that report is Fatima Gunning.

00:26:04.820 And she joins us now from Ireland.

00:26:07.660 Great to see you again.

00:26:08.940 Thank you for taking the time.

00:26:10.320 Congratulations on the increasing growth and success of gripped.

00:26:14.580 I found this article funny because T-Shock, which is how you say prime minister in Irish,

00:26:20.340 he's the guy who's brought them all in.

00:26:22.520 He's the guy who's opened the floodgates.

00:26:24.420 And now he's expressing his surprise that they're not actually the young, the old, the sick, the poor.

00:26:29.700 They're not women and children. 1.00

00:26:30.620 They're single military-aged males claiming to be refugees.

00:26:34.880 I don't know.

00:26:35.480 It seems like a bit of a fake shock, like in that scene from Casablanca.

00:26:40.620 Gambling?

00:26:41.340 What gambling?

00:26:42.260 Here's your winning, sir.

00:26:43.720 Why, thank you.

00:26:44.400 It seems like a fake that he's shocked by this.

00:26:47.720 I think it is a little bit strange that he is, you know, coming out now and saying that he said that 38 to 40 percent of the asylum claimants have genuine claims,

00:27:00.960 which means that the majority are not genuine.

00:27:03.920 He said now that those people need to be kind of processed quickly and removed from the state, which by, I think, his own government's definition would have been a far-right statement only several weeks ago.

00:27:16.500 So I'm not too sure what exactly has changed to change Leo Varadkar's feelings about what and what is not far-right, in some cases misinformation of what he would have said himself.

00:27:29.180 So I do think that there has been, just to give a little bit of background for some of your viewers that may not be too familiar with what's been happening in Ireland over the past two years,

00:27:39.980 but since the start of the war in Ukraine, we have taken in over 100,000 people, 100,000 Ukrainians,

00:27:48.660 and then there's another 20-something thousand international protection applicants, asylum seekers, like would-be refugees.

00:27:55.960 So our small country of 5 million, we have 5 million in the Republic of Ireland, has absorbed over 100,000 migrants in the past two years alone.

00:28:08.380 And as I'm sure your viewers might be able to imagine, that has created somewhat of an accommodation crisis because, like, you know,

00:28:15.000 how do you accommodate over 100,000 people, you know, practically speaking, overnight?

00:28:21.000 Yeah. I mean, a few months ago, there were massive riots in Ireland, and I know that sometimes when a town is targeted to receive hundreds of migrants, 0.99

00:28:32.380 and let's say a building or a hotel is basically seconded by the government for that purpose,

00:28:37.980 I know that in some cases they've been torched, which shows the depth of dissatisfaction that people are driven to violence.

00:28:45.920 I think it goes back to what you said earlier about, in the past, how this Prime Minister Varadkar would denounce anyone who's critical of mass migration as far-right or misinformation.

00:28:57.720 I think it's terrified people, and so if they're afraid to speak out, well, then they go to other, less peaceful means.

00:29:05.500 I don't in any way condone violence, either riots or arson, but I think, obviously, ordinary Irish people are being driven to the edge by this plan that no one voted for, no one asked for.

00:29:18.220 I know Leo Varadkar, the Prime Minister, or Taoiseach, as it is in Irish, is one of those World Economic Forum young leaders.

00:29:24.940 He's very globalist. He's very hip and fashionable.

00:29:28.300 It feels like he's trying to punish Ireland for being Irish.

00:29:32.220 That's a feeling I get. He reminds me a little bit of, I think his name is Joseph Hamza, the head of the Scottish Parliament,

00:29:44.240 who has given a speech showing his contempt for the Scottishness of Scots.

00:29:48.560 I feel sometimes like Leo Varadkar hates the fact that Ireland is so Irish.

00:29:52.900 Is that an unfair thing to say, Fatima?

00:29:55.720 I don't know if he does or not.

00:29:57.780 I mean, he's a mixed race Irish person like myself.

00:30:01.180 He's half Indian, half Irish. I'm half Pakistani, half Irish.

00:30:03.820 So we have that in common.

00:30:05.020 But I think perhaps, I don't know if the similarities end there.

00:30:10.860 Look, yeah, there have been a spate of fires at buildings that have been earmarked or even rumoured to be earmarked as accommodation centres for asylum seekers.

00:30:20.640 Obviously, as you said yourself, that's like it's a horrible criminal act, like in no way condone people setting fire to buildings.

00:30:27.780 I mean, somebody could be in there.

00:30:29.240 A life could be lost.

00:30:30.720 And I don't think this situation is worth lives being lost.

00:30:33.840 But he said that, you know, maybe some of the Irish people were doing that out of like a fear of speaking out.

00:30:40.940 When the Irish people have spoken out and have taken to the streets over the past two years to speak out about their displeasure, about what the government is doing in terms of asylum seekers and refugees, they were flatly ignored.

00:30:53.480 And worse than being ignored, they were labelled far-right, racist, bigot, everything, every single name in the book.

00:31:01.840 And I'm talking about by the Garda commissioner, or the Garda commissioner would be either the head of our police force, by almost everybody in government who are calling the Irish people names.

00:31:12.880 A recent poll carried in a paper called the Sunday Business Post.

00:31:16.980 It's a Red Sea poll.

00:31:18.120 It's quite, you know, kind of the official polling that will be used to gauge political moods in the country, show that 75% of the Irish people feel that the government has taken in too many refugees and asylum seekers.

00:31:31.960 So are you really reasonably calling 75% of the Irish population far-right?

00:31:38.740 I mean, that sounds a bit ridiculous to me.

00:31:40.520 Well, one of the things that we've followed through your website, Gripped, and we've interviewed some of your colleagues, is the hate speech law that's being proposed by the Irish government.

00:31:51.600 And it was, frankly, one of the most terrifying laws I've seen until Justin Trudeau in Canada introduced his a week ago.

00:31:59.900 One of the things in the Irish law, which I did a program on, we went through it line by line, is that if you are in possession of an email or a meme on your phone, just merely possessing something that could be offensive, could theoretically be an offense, as if it was child pornography or something, something that's politically offensive would be treated that spectacularly, as if it was that toxic.

00:32:26.400 I thought the Irish censorship law was the worst I'd ever seen until I saw Canada's.

00:32:31.860 But how is that law coming along?

00:32:33.640 Has it been bogged down in the parliament?

00:32:36.280 Is it sailing through?

00:32:37.920 I know a lot of Irish people were against it.

00:32:40.180 One of your colleagues counted the public response and it was against.

00:32:44.320 Is that censorship law, is that hate speech law moving forward?

00:32:48.300 Because the fact that Leo Varadkar, the prime minister, would denounce people as hateful or far right, I could imagine him using a hate speech law to silence critics with the law, in addition to just shaming them.

00:33:03.340 How's that law coming along?

00:33:05.500 Well, for the moment, it seems to have been put somewhat on the back burner.

00:33:09.660 I know that they were essentially trying to ram it through last year and that didn't happen.

00:33:14.880 There was quite some significant opposition to it from senators, especially Senator Sharon Keoghan and Senator Michael McDougall, who was our former minister for justice.

00:33:25.400 They had some very robust objections to it.

00:33:27.860 So it has been kind of shoved away.

00:33:30.800 And I think that perhaps the kind of the government that we're pushing it through, the government members that we're pushing it through were perhaps taken aback by the level of public opposition to it.

00:33:42.340 Will it be scrapped?

00:33:43.860 I don't think so.

00:33:44.880 I don't think a bill that has gotten this far through the legislature has ever been scrapped at this stage.

00:33:51.140 But I think it's so deeply unpopular and they're going into an election right now.

00:33:56.020 So, like, I don't know if they want to be ramming something down to people's throats that's so, like, visibly unpopular.

00:34:01.620 Isn't that interesting?

00:34:02.740 Hey, I've got one more question for you.

00:34:04.420 I was following the riots in Ireland against these migrants or asylum seekers, and it was fascinating. 1.00

00:34:13.160 And one of the most famous Irish people in the world, I think, would be Conor McGregor, the mixed martial artist, the brawler. 0.84

00:34:21.660 You know, he's in the past, I don't think he's been particularly political.

00:34:27.100 He's got his opinions and he's got a brash style.

00:34:30.180 But during that time, I saw him weighing in a lot in social media.

00:34:34.300 In fact, he even replied to and interacted with a few tweets from you guys, from Gript.

00:34:40.600 And there was this idea of perhaps that he's going to make a career change into politics.

00:34:46.200 He would certainly have huge name recognition.

00:34:49.420 He has a passionate sports following.

00:34:52.320 I think a lot of Irish people seems like they look up to him as a champion of what it means to be the fighting Irish.

00:34:58.860 I think he'd be a real contender in that, like Donald Trump, you love him or you hate him, but he would give enthusiasm to people.

00:35:06.360 He would be very different from Leo Varadkar.

00:35:08.640 Has anything come from that?

00:35:10.920 Was that just a passing flight of fancy by Conor McGregor or does it look like he might actually one day enter politics?

00:35:18.780 Because I think just as a complete outsider, based on his raw personality and following and the fact that he's on the other side of the migration issue, I think he might actually have a chance like Trump did.

00:35:31.020 I mean, I think that, you know, if it's not Conor himself, like I have seen some of his more recent tweets and they do seem to be kind of giving out a more political message than they may have hitherto.

00:35:42.800 But I think even if it's not himself, like there is a huge, huge appetite for change in this country, because I think the Irish people are just sick of the same old BS being kind of rearranged on the chessboard over and over again, because that's essentially what Irish politics is.

00:35:58.520 It's kind of like we just were playing musical chairs and every four years the same members kind of get up and get a different chair and we start back up again.

00:36:06.120 I think there is huge, huge appetite for change.

00:36:09.600 I will say, though, that after the Dublin riots, Conor McGregor was reported to be the subject of a Garda investigation for allegedly inciting hatred, I believe, inciting violence.

00:36:22.280 He was reported to be part of a Garda investigation.

00:36:26.340 I haven't seen anything come of that.

00:36:28.480 I don't know if they're still investigating it.

00:36:30.440 I don't know if it's fallen by the wayside.

00:36:32.460 But, yeah, he was kind of singled out there a little bit as being one of the causes of what happened.

00:36:40.240 You know, I don't think that's legitimate.

00:36:42.200 I followed him pretty closely.

00:36:43.380 And while he was reacting to it and he was showing his emotions, by no means did I see him actually inciting violence.

00:36:51.440 And with my earlier analogy that he's sort of Trump-like and that he's this larger-than-life character, huge name recognition, bit of a media star.

00:37:01.040 How are they going after Trump with endless, specious investigations and prosecutions?

00:37:06.340 Sounds like they might be taking a page from the anti-Trump folks, too.

00:37:09.860 Well, listen, Fatima, it's great to catch up with you.

00:37:11.680 I really appreciate you taking the time.

00:37:13.900 I admire gripped.ie.

00:37:16.640 And, you know, Ireland's a small country.

00:37:19.180 I think there's more Irish people living outside of Ireland than in Ireland itself.

00:37:23.660 But many of the issues that you're dealing with, whether it's mass migration, globalism, problems with your democracy, hate speech laws, those are things that we're going through in Canada, too.

00:37:35.140 So, of course, there are Canadians of Irish descent and Canadians who admire Ireland.

00:37:39.200 But it's also the same reason we find Australia interesting or other countries like that.

00:37:43.760 What happens in Ireland today might be a template for what happens in Canada tomorrow, especially since our leaders seem to be sort of identical twins on that stuff.

00:37:52.820 So keep up the great work.

00:37:54.000 And once again, thanks to you and your team.

00:37:55.840 I really do love gripped.

00:37:57.260 And I'm delighted to see that you're going from success to success.

00:38:01.680 Thank you so much.

00:38:02.780 Hope to be with you again.

00:38:04.880 Right on.

00:38:05.520 There you have it.

00:38:06.040 Fatima Gunning.

00:38:07.120 Stay with us.

00:38:07.800 More ahead.

00:38:20.320 You know, it's really demoralizing seeing police say, oh, I don't know, when Hamas supporters clearly break the law, when they physically attack people, when they even attack police, when they say, oh, we can't do anything.

00:38:34.040 And, of course, the police could do something.

00:38:36.140 Remember Adam Skelly and his barbecue when it wouldn't close in Toronto and they said 100 cops and ride horses?

00:38:41.760 That's how police can be.

00:38:44.180 That's why I think that Justin Trudeau actually deliberately allowed his meeting with Georgia Maloney to be a failure.

00:38:50.320 We know he hates Georgia Maloney. 0.95

00:38:51.740 We know the first time they met, he scolded her for not being LGBTQQSL plus friendly enough.

00:39:01.080 There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that the RCMP and Toronto police could have for sure kept that meeting safe.

00:39:08.320 I think they chose not to.

00:39:09.820 I think they're choosing chaos.

00:39:11.440 I think they want to put Canada into a state of anarchy and fear.

00:39:15.240 I think they want to do that to justify their Online Harms Act, which will give them power to censor everyone.

00:39:21.600 So they want to have people afraid.

00:39:23.620 And I think they want to get while the getting's good.

00:39:25.420 If they had their way, they would bring all of Gaza over here. 1.00

00:39:28.040 Don't you doubt it for a second.

00:39:29.720 If Justin Trudeau had his way, he would airlift two million Gazans to Canada and give them new citizenship and just sort of win the next election on that alone. 0.55

00:39:38.460 That's the burn it all down mode they're in.

00:39:41.200 They'll do literally anything, violate any law, steal any money.

00:39:44.900 And the NDP seems to be going along with it.

00:39:47.060 It's just incredible that the NDP is blocking parliamentary inquiries into the Chinese stealing of the Ebola virus or whatever they did there.

00:39:55.320 Just incredible.

00:39:56.280 But the role for a citizen journalist is more important than ever.

00:40:00.600 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:40:05.780 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:40:08.460 And keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - March 06, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ A wake-up call for Canada： Pro-Hamas protesters swarm Jewish synagogues and schools

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