Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Another day, another antisemitic attack in Toronto

00:00:00.000 Tonight, another day, another shooting of Jews in Toronto.

00:00:03.620 It's May 8th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:06.320 You're fighting for freedom!

00:00:09.180 Shame on you, you censorious bug!

00:00:20.880 When I'm standing outside a synagogue, you wouldn't necessarily know it's a synagogue

00:00:24.920 because they've taken down every outward sign that it's a synagogue.

00:00:28.680 There's no Star Davids on it. There's no name on it.

00:00:31.620 That has all been taken down because of the two-and-a-half-year anti-Semitic crime wave in Toronto.

00:00:36.860 They want to sort of hide their presence because almost every day in Toronto there's another shooting or punching.

00:00:43.420 And actually just a few days ago there was an outright murder, a daytime execution-style murder of a Jewish man in the park.

00:00:51.600 And so a synagogue and a school like this doesn't want to be seen.

00:00:54.680 And while it didn't save them, last night someone was driving by on the road

00:00:59.060 and started shooting at identifiable Jews, Orthodox Jews, on the street.

00:01:04.180 And there was another shooting elsewhere in the city.

00:01:06.520 Bathurst, which goes north and south, is a major route in Toronto.

00:01:10.900 And adjacent to it live probably most of Toronto's Jews, myself included.

00:01:17.900 And so many of the Jews are visible.

00:01:19.920 If you wanted to commit anti-Semitic crime, it would be so easy to do so.

00:01:23.600 And indeed, it has happened.

00:01:24.680 But the crime is much more than one of opportunity.

00:01:27.560 These are planned terrorist-style events.

00:01:30.820 And I remind you that there are 700 members of the IRGC terrorist group

00:01:35.060 that the government of Canada knows about in this city.

00:01:38.800 And then there's the pro-Hamas activists.

00:01:40.420 And then there's just latent anti-Semites who have come over in our

00:01:43.760 open-the-doors mass immigration project.

00:01:47.120 Anyway, so I got in my car and I started looking for this synagogue.

00:01:51.420 I actually went to another synagogue first because there's a number of them.

00:01:54.040 there were police outside it too i thought it was the shooting no they said different crime scene

00:01:59.840 so they sent me over here here's a little bit about how that went this is a video i recorded

00:02:04.780 this morning but come right back afterwards because i've got a lot more updates for you

00:02:08.540 including when i scrummed toronto's deputy police police chief on it you'll find that interesting

00:02:14.520 come right back oh by the way this is the synagogue it was just at i don't know if you

00:02:18.080 recall, but over there are some school buses that are parked. And not too long ago, one of them was

00:02:26.240 torched, completely burnt to a husk. It was a school bus for a Jewish school. The media said

00:02:32.840 it was a truck that spontaneously burst into flames, and they didn't mention that it was

00:02:38.440 a terrorist attack. Like I say, this happens every day in Toronto.

00:02:48.080 well i found the other synagogue where the shooting happened last night apparently it was

00:03:03.680 a pellet gun uh you can see there's a number of police here there's also ctv has a camera here

00:03:09.680 there was another mainstream media outlet that was here i just talked to the cops here there

00:03:14.320 they say they're unaware of any arrest they said well what's with the uh the motorcade and he said

00:03:20.720 well this is another one of their public visibility efforts so basically they're driving around

00:03:26.400 jewish neighborhoods to try and show that the police are on duty and like i said last time

00:03:32.640 that's fair enough for what it is but you know the the shootings are not happening during the day

00:03:38.800 are they uh it's it's almost every single day where there's an anti-semitic crime and i'm not

00:03:44.200 talking about a hurt feelings crime or a word crime i'm talking about shooting at jews with

00:03:50.160 guns it's now normal i i noted that the prime minister has other things that he's busy attending

00:03:55.920 to like pledging his support for a sovereign palestinian state in a phone call with the

00:04:01.980 terrorist leader mahmoud abbas just an absolute disgrace mark carney told us what he's doing

00:04:08.380 there's a new world order i believe the progress that we have made in the partnership

00:04:15.020 sets us up well for the new world order in his mind canada is no longer allied with the united

00:04:25.020 states israel the liberal democracies of the world it's part of a pro china pro islam uh world order

00:04:33.180 i mean he's just literally used those words and he proves it every day we understand that this

00:04:37.980 rupture calls for more than adaptation it calls for honesty about the world as it is we are taking

00:04:44.780 the sign out of the window we know the old order is not coming back we shouldn't mourn it nostalgia

00:04:52.620 is not a strategy but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger better

00:04:59.180 stronger more just and it's because of mass immigration when you bring in literally millions

00:05:04.380 of people to canada from places around the world they bring with them their culture i mean there's

00:05:09.260 a reason why canadians don't go on holidays to somalia or pakistan because those are not hospitable

00:05:15.660 places they're not safe they're violent they're poor and they don't share our western values so

00:05:22.300 when we bring in people en masse from those parts of the world and they don't assimilate

00:05:26.780 and they're brought into such large numbers that they can live in enclaves when we have ethnic

00:05:31.580 pandering politicians, there is no surprise that Canada is now starting to resemble Somalia and

00:05:38.160 Pakistan and the worst places in the world. And I think that Mark Carney has simply done the math.

00:05:44.360 There's about 350,000, 400,000 Jews in Canada, and there's about 2 million people who hate Jews

00:05:50.980 in Canada. And Carney knows which side his bread is buttered on. It's a shame Toronto for so long

00:05:56.820 was such a hospitable place to be Jewish Jews were really part of the fabric of this country

00:06:02.220 and this city in particular. But I think those days are coming to a close. I'll just say one

00:06:08.040 more thing about this synagogue and school. It's not even marked. Like there's no Star of David

00:06:14.040 on it. There's no sign that says this is a synagogue. It's a completely inconspicuous

00:06:20.100 building and so the terrorists that attacked it and shot at it with a pellet gun he would have

00:06:28.340 had some intel he wouldn't have just been some casual walker by who might have been deterred

00:06:33.920 by these police vehicles someone has done their research and as you know there are 700 agents in

00:06:40.700 canada from the irgc the uh republican guard corps in iran that's a terrorist group there's

00:06:49.400 700 terrorists in canada that the canadian government knows about but they're not ejecting

00:06:55.280 them uh i don't know who shot up this jewish facility but uh i don't think that uh even if

00:07:05.560 we did know that the government would do anything about it we know the 700 agents in canada the

00:07:10.840 government knows they they must know if they came up with a number of them but they haven't done

00:07:14.940 anything about it. This is a residential neighborhood. That's a Jewish school and

00:07:19.220 synagogue. These are not military establishments. They're not even affiliated with the state of

00:07:26.280 Israel. It's just Jews. Rafael, tell me what's your connection to this facility? Is it a synagogue

00:07:32.920 or a school or a bit of both? It's a Jewish synagogue and it's my synagogue. I pray here

00:07:37.400 every day. We come here, we pray, we celebrate here. We have Shabbat over here. That's the

00:07:43.420 place where i go every day and uh what happened and when did it happen so last night we finished

00:07:48.520 our evening prayers and i was standing actually right here it's uh east uh part of the synagogue

00:07:54.840 and the other guys they came out from the other entrance it was a butter street entrance of

00:08:01.020 synagogue and what i heard 10 10 evening time car was passing by rolled down the window and

00:08:07.100 somebody shot the one the member of our synagogue using the bibi gun so he was at he actually hit

00:08:12.680 That's right, he hit the member of our synagogue at his arm.

00:08:18.440 And was it a grievous wound or did it just hurt? Like, did it puncture his clothing?

00:08:23.480 Yeah, yeah. I mean, this time, thank God, nothing happened. He didn't require any medical

00:08:27.400 assistance, but it was a bibigone and thank God it was not a hat, it was an arm, but it's, yeah.

00:08:34.200 That's shocking. So, this was around 10.10 last night, then what happened? I take it someone

00:08:39.880 called 9-1-1 pretty quickly yeah so so we we called shomrim and shomrim is the jewish police

00:08:44.600 they called the police right away and thank god everything was very fast police came very fast

00:08:49.080 they were very helpful and they were here with us and they went upstairs to see the video video

00:08:54.520 cameras around the synagogue and we were able to locate the guy and arrest the guy this morning

00:08:59.000 really so he's been arrested do we know any information about him i have no idea but i heard

00:09:03.560 he was arrested and i hope he will stay in the jail or something and maybe not be let on the

00:09:08.600 streets and god forbid something else again. So I take it someone was driving the vehicle and then

00:09:14.600 someone was shooting so there were two people in the vehicle? That's correct, that's correct.

00:09:17.960 The passenger rolled down the window and shot the guy and took off. Now how about the political

00:09:22.040 leadership, the mayor, the premier, the prime minister, have they said anything that you know

00:09:26.520 about like it was a shooting yeah and it's been a half a day have you heard anything from any

00:09:32.120 political leaders? No no no no no so far nothing just police here and the city news and all the

00:09:38.040 the news over here and we're trying to try to get some information but nothing from the politicians

00:09:44.200 my theory is that with mass immigration you're bringing in a vast number of anti-semites from

00:09:49.160 violent cultures where terrorism is normal that's not the canadian way but maybe it's becoming the

00:09:54.520 canadian way through immigration what do you think about that yeah i think they should really look

00:09:58.440 into immigration and then they should bring people who wants to be uh she wants to work in canada

00:10:05.800 who wants to be good in Canada and not bring guys who wants to do problems and terrorist attack and

00:10:11.320 some hatred to bring the hatred to the city. It's crazy. I talked to a few people outside

00:10:16.680 the synagogue that was attacked and I bumped into Avi who's with a neighborhood watch group called

00:10:22.840 the Shomrim and he's agreed to talk with me. Nice to see you again. I see you from time to time.

00:10:27.400 Before we go further tell our viewers what is Shomrim? In Hebrew that means sort of guardians

00:10:32.760 But what does it mean in real life?

00:10:34.560 We're essentially a neighborhood community watch organization

00:10:36.800 dedicated to helping the Jewish community feel safe

00:10:40.480 while continuing to work with the police

00:10:42.840 and being that sort of middleman between the community and the police

00:10:47.720 when there's sometimes resistance of reporting incidents.

00:10:51.120 Similarly to what we saw last night when we got a phone call

00:10:55.020 about both incidents that had transpired,

00:10:58.440 one being outside the synagogue and one being outside of or driving

00:11:02.120 just north of here. The victims didn't understand the severity of what had transpired and did not

00:11:09.820 know if that was something that they needed to report. And after being able to explain to them

00:11:14.740 that given the severity of what had transpired, we were then able to have them come meet us and

00:11:20.440 engage the police for them to be able to facilitate a report, something that your average individual

00:11:25.560 doesn't expect to have to deal with. But unfortunately, they had called us for guidance

00:11:31.120 and us understanding the severity and continuing to work alongside law enforcement,

00:11:36.840 had them come and give over their information.

00:11:41.200 And we're being told that as a result of all that, someone has been arrested.

00:11:46.360 We don't know more details of that yet.

00:11:49.360 I'm assuming given the fact that it happened outside of a synagogue,

00:11:52.960 there is some hate motivation to what had transpired.

00:11:56.760 But I'm sure in the coming days, more will come out.

00:11:59.080 And I can understand how that can be if someone is shot at or even if they're hit and something stings.

00:12:05.620 But if they don't know the larger picture, they may not even realize that they're being attacked.

00:12:10.360 And that's why they were not, they didn't understand the severity and didn't realize that this is something that needs to be reported and dealt with as soon as possible.

00:12:18.880 But you can confirm, you've been talking to police, you're sort of like a police liaison, you can confirm someone has indeed been arrested.

00:12:25.060 I can't confirm from the police because I've not heard that.

00:12:27.460 It's what people in the community have told me so far.

00:12:30.400 There's a lot of speculation on social media and whatnot.

00:12:34.320 I'm waiting to hear from the police once that becomes public.

00:12:37.540 I'm hoping, fingers crossed, that they get who is responsible for this.

00:12:41.220 Well, if they have the driver's license, that's certainly a very important clue.

00:12:46.100 Now, the police are here with their vehicles.

00:12:48.740 They say it's sort of a show of force, but it's broad daylight and, you know, it's a PR move.

00:12:54.380 I don't think it's it obviously hasn't stopped things. There's been three shootings in the last week, if I'm not mistaken.

00:13:02.400 These are not gang shootings. This is an anti-Semitic targeted crime that I think is a form of terrorism.

00:13:10.720 What is the solution? Do you have any advice? I mean, having police drive around the next day, I don't think that's going to solve it.

00:13:18.180 They were here from the start of when the report was made.

00:13:22.480 They were on scene within less than 30 seconds of us getting off the phone with 911.

00:13:27.800 That's good to hear, but how do we, let me change my question then.

00:13:30.620 How do you prevent it?

00:13:32.020 The police responded quickly.

00:13:33.380 I'm glad to hear it.

00:13:34.100 How do you stop this thing from happening in the beginning?

00:13:37.500 I think this goes way above police and this goes back to our politicians in strengthening laws that will not allow repeat offenders out

00:13:45.600 And that will scare people into committing offenses before they do if there were some punishments as opposed to getting arrested and getting back out on the street and be able to continue this revolving door that has been going on for far too long.

00:14:01.180 As I was walking away to go to my car, a local resident honked and she was driving by and said he goes to that synagogue.

00:14:10.160 And I said, look, that synagogue's unmarked. How would someone other than a professional know that's a Jewish target?

00:14:15.940 And he said, could be, but there are anti-Semitic groups that are publishing online lists of every Jewish synagogue, every Jewish school, every Jewish summer camp.

00:14:27.080 So there is this terrorist style attack, but it could be just a lone wolf who says, oh, I can do this myself because I'll use these online resources put up by these anti-Semites telling me where the schools and synagogues and camps are and that I'll be like as if I'm in the IRGC terrorist group.

00:14:49.720 I'll just do it on my own. I think that was a good point. And I think it's pretty gross that there are people making lists of Jews.

00:14:56.200 They're the kind of people who would have turned in Anne Frank to the Nazis, but we're in 2026 in full color in Toronto, Canada.

00:15:04.420 Anyhow, so when I came here to this synagogue and school, I was sort of lingering outside and a police officer tipped me off to the fact that inside was a gaggle of politicians.

00:15:14.760 Now, they didn't say who, so I got one of the kids to let me in and sort of show me and lead me through this to a room where I saw Olivia Chow, the mayor, sort of Canada's Zoran Mamdani, and Michael Kersner, the Solicitor General.

00:15:29.800 That's the provincial cabinet minister in charge of police.

00:15:32.920 And they were meeting with a small handful of the rabbis from the school.

00:15:36.440 Now, I stood there, and I took out my phone, and I was filming, and then when they detected me, they all freaked out.

00:15:42.780 And the mayor demanded I get out of there and they shooed me out because she did not want to be seen with the city's Jews.

00:15:50.980 Isn't that weird?

00:15:52.400 She publicly refuses to go to Jewish events.

00:15:55.700 She refuses to go to the annual walk with Israel.

00:15:57.960 She refused.

00:15:58.960 If there's anything Jewish, she is terrified to be seen.

00:16:03.340 Is it because she's anti-Semitic personally or is it because her voter base is anti-Semitic?

00:16:07.580 It really doesn't matter which of those is true or both are.

00:16:10.740 She was terrified that I managed to get a quick shot of her there.

00:16:14.640 And I was waiting out back here.

00:16:16.020 She got into a tinted vehicle and sped away.

00:16:19.860 She did not want any of her voters to know she was even talking to those yucky Jews.

00:16:24.660 Can you believe it?

00:16:25.840 So if we can't talk to Mayor Chow, we can talk to Mayor Weinstein,

00:16:30.080 spelled a little bit differently, M-E-I-R.

00:16:32.340 You're the real mayor of these parts.

00:16:33.840 What do you make of the other mayor refusing to even, like, she won't even be seen.

00:16:40.120 She doesn't even think it's a PR win to stand with the victims of the shooting

00:16:43.780 because she's so obviously on the side of the shooter.

00:16:48.100 Yeah, well, that fear that she has of standing with the Jewish community publicly

00:16:53.040 is what's going to fuel even more attacks against the Jewish community.

00:16:57.100 We have synagogues being shot at.

00:16:59.640 This one last night was shot at, Jews standing outside.

00:17:02.760 One is injured, in fact.

00:17:04.540 We had a Jewish man at Winderley Park that was gunned down, execution style, five bullets.

00:17:13.800 This community is in complete shock right now, and it's only getting worse.

00:17:20.020 Hamas is listed by the government of Canada as a terrorist organization,

00:17:25.820 and yet these Hamas supporters in Toronto, they're very public about it.

00:17:30.200 They fully support Hamas.

00:17:31.660 They stand with Hamas leaders and take selfies.

00:17:35.380 They promote the ideology of Hamas, but the mayor just seems to embrace them and says,

00:17:40.940 yes, you could march in the Jewish community, you could threaten the Jewish community,

00:17:45.320 and the result is bullets.

00:17:47.420 Well, I mean, like Mark Carney, like Doug Ford, they can do the math.

00:17:50.880 There's a maximum of 400,000 Jews in Canada, and they're pretty tame,

00:17:55.180 but there's at least 2 million migrants to this country who are explicitly anti-Semitic.

00:18:00.560 that's not vetted for.

00:18:01.920 And by the way, this isn't just my opinion on the outside.

00:18:04.540 Hank Idzenga, a very senior former commander at the Toronto Police,

00:18:08.980 says it's infiltrated in the police.

00:18:11.100 And he actually said if you call the Toronto Police

00:18:13.420 to report an anti-Semitic hate crime,

00:18:15.720 he says there's a real chance you're talking to someone

00:18:17.740 who supports anti-Semitism on the inside.

00:18:20.860 The anti-Semitism is coming from inside the police.

00:18:23.740 Yeah, absolutely.

00:18:24.860 We had a case of two Muslim police officers

00:18:29.100 that were gloating right after October 7th on their own podcast,

00:18:33.540 on a police podcast, actually,

00:18:35.700 and they said that October 7th was wonderful for the Islamic community

00:18:40.700 because many people came back to Islam.

00:18:43.540 Yeah.

00:18:44.100 Anyways, by the way, Michael Kersner, the Solicitor General,

00:18:47.400 promised he would talk to me afterwards.

00:18:49.060 He didn't keep that promise.

00:18:50.640 Anyhow, the deputy chief of police was dispatched

00:18:53.560 to have an impromptu press conference,

00:18:55.240 and they sat up on the corner there and I went there and the first person to speak was the

00:19:01.960 deputy chief and he gave a bit of an update on things and I had some questions for the deputy

00:19:06.420 chief and I thought I'd start off with the most simple question. Yes, I'm interested in this

00:19:11.120 detail or that detail, but really I've been to half a dozen of these synagogue shootings now.

00:19:16.500 Good afternoon. Today we're here to provide an update on two very troubling incidents

00:19:21.220 that occurred over the past week, both targeting members of Toronto's Jewish community.

00:19:26.280 On April 30th, three individuals were walking in the area of Bathurst Street, Lawrence Avenue West

00:19:30.920 when they were shot at from a vehicle with an imitation firearm.

00:19:35.040 All three victims sustained minor injuries and the suspect fled the area in a blue SUV.

00:19:40.360 Last night at approximately 10.45pm, officers responded to a second similar incident.

00:19:46.080 Three people were standing outside the synagogue behind me

00:19:48.400 when they were shot at from a passing vehicle, again with an imitation firearm.

00:19:52.900 One person was struck, the suspects fled in a blue SUV.

00:19:57.900 These incidents are deeply concerning, particularly because the victims were visibly identifiable members of our Jewish community.

00:20:05.900 Early this morning, approximately eight hours after the second incident occurred,

00:20:09.900 search warrants were executed as a residence and a vehicle in Vaughan.

00:20:14.900 An 18-year-old man has been arrested and charged with various weapons offenses.

00:20:19.240 Evidence was also seized, including two gel blaster imitation firearms.

00:20:23.920 Isn't the obvious question, not a detail about this shooting or that shooting,

00:20:27.420 but isn't the obvious question, are you even able to protect Toronto's Jews anymore?

00:20:34.280 And I don't mean from hurt feelings crimes.

00:20:36.160 I mean from gun crimes.

00:20:37.620 I mean from being murdered, from being shot at on the street.

00:20:41.340 And here's how that went down.

00:20:44.200 I have a question for the deputy chief. I've been about a half a dozen of these press conferences. The other day a Jewish man was murdered execution style not far from here. Almost every day there's a shooting of a Jew. A former senior officer in your police force says that anti-Semitism is now rooted within the police.

00:21:07.180 At what point will you admit that you're either unable or unwilling to protect Toronto's Jews?

00:21:15.900 So I would ask everybody that's here today to focus on the investigation at hand.

00:21:20.000 We're not going to be discussing...

00:21:21.540 Why can't you stop these things?

00:21:23.420 We could please just discuss what we're talking about.

00:21:25.700 I don't take direction from you on what I can talk about.

00:21:29.080 I want to know if you can protect Toronto's Jews.

00:21:32.280 Why can you not protect Toronto's Jews?

00:21:34.480 like you're literally not going to ask answer that question that's the basic

00:21:39.380 question we're all here to answer you don't have an answer the shooter the

00:21:45.580 other day the 17 year old shooter why was he not charged with a hate crime as

00:21:49.540 well why was the 17 year old not charged with a hate crime officer deputy chief

00:21:55.760 why was the the 17 year old not charged with a hate crime like you said the hate

00:22:01.840 crime was involved with that one why would you not charge him with a hate

00:22:04.680 crime well I'm not concluding my question so why won't you answer whether

00:22:10.960 or not you're even able to protect Toronto's Jews like what like that's the

00:22:14.900 most basic serve and protect have you given up on protecting Toronto's Jews

00:22:19.300 sir why are you speaking for the chief are you the chief's boss or the deputy

00:22:25.060 chief just doesn't know what to say are you able to protect Toronto's Jews it's

00:22:30.940 pretty simple yes no question and I would imagine that you would say yes but

00:22:35.560 you just simply haven't been able to. Sir we have our officers are deployed every

00:22:42.260 week and every day in communities that are experiencing disproportionate

00:22:45.760 violence. It's not fixing things it's not stopping the shootings. Well we made an

00:22:49.660 arrest last night an investigation very quickly it's because of our deployments

00:22:53.560 in the area that assisted in making this arrest. Do you need the OPP for help?

00:22:58.440 will you ask for help from the OPP or RCMP and I'm not done answering

00:23:04.220 questions because they haven't been answered properly run away run away

00:23:07.940 bravely run away the coward imagine imagine refusing to answer the most

00:23:15.760 basic question of whether or not you're able or willing to protect Toronto's

00:23:19.640 Jews just say yes just say just just say you can I mean we know it's not true but

00:23:24.080 just say it. He wouldn't even say it. Just incredible. He ran away. Look, if you ask the

00:23:32.040 question, are you unwilling or unable to protect Toronto's Jews? I can think of two answers. The

00:23:37.020 first is your PR answer, which is no, I reject that. Of course, we're going to protect Toronto's

00:23:41.960 Jews like all communities and we'll do everything necessary. You can see we made an arrest on this

00:23:46.320 and we'll look, you can, you can give an answer that is politic. You can give an answer that the

00:23:51.760 police chief is proud of. Oh, look at him out there fighting for the cops in the community.

00:23:55.420 He didn't say that. Okay, well, the other alternative is to say, no, actually, we can't

00:24:00.260 keep Toronto's Jews safe. We need some help. We need more resources. We need more cops on the

00:24:05.220 street. We need to borrow some police from the Ontario Provincial Police, the OPP, or even the

00:24:09.180 RCMP or CESIS. By the way, those are ideas put forward by some of the local city councillors who

00:24:13.400 were here. So you could say, yes, we can protect Jews, or you could say, no, we actually are having

00:24:18.420 a lot of trouble protecting Jews. Instead, he bravely ran away. He ran away. If you're terrified

00:24:28.180 of me, I think you're going to be terrified of anti-Semitic felons with guns, don't you think?

00:24:35.720 Anyways, I came back and Michael Kersner had made his escape so he didn't have to answer questions

00:24:41.080 like the deputy police chief. But then there was a bit of a press conference and there were three

00:24:45.640 city counselors and i've seen them before i saw them at the last synagogue shooting in fact

00:24:50.120 when i greeted um mike cole one of the i said i saw you at the last synagogue shooting it's almost

00:24:54.780 like saying hey i saw you at the last wedding or i saw you at the last funeral no imagine the only

00:24:59.140 time you see someone is at synagogue shootings that's a sign of distress isn't it it seems to

00:25:05.060 be happening on a frequent basis what can we do to stop it well you know from day one i've said

00:25:12.520 I can't direct the police, okay, I'm not supposed to, but I've said that this is not a Toronto issue by itself.

00:25:23.560 And I've called for an emergency anti-Semitism on-the-ground task force with the RCMP, OPP, and the Toronto Police to take this as really, these are acts of terror, really.

00:25:40.240 do we have to wait till these guys have real rifles or guns so I'm just saying

00:25:46.240 it is not normal business so I don't care even if we get the cops to walk up

00:25:53.480 and down with a foot patrol on the on Bathurst Street whatever it takes and we

00:25:59.740 can't wait for legislation and platitudes just kick some ass that's

00:26:05.240 all I'm saying okay in plain English and if I were to grab one of these guys

00:26:09.480 driving by, shooting at people, I don't know what the hell I would do. I don't know what I would do.

00:26:15.600 You've been very supportive of the Jewish community. I saw you at the last synagogue

00:26:19.280 shooting, which is a terrible thing to say. Hey, I saw you at the last synagogue shooting.

00:26:22.940 But it's becoming so frequent. I poked my nose in the synagogue and I see the mayor is in there

00:26:28.600 right now. But when she saw me, they kicked me out. She didn't want to be seen in public. She

00:26:33.020 didn't want to be recorded. And I respect she may have some private things to say,

00:26:36.660 But I'm worried that the mayor does not stand as solidly with the community as you do.

00:26:43.320 Is this an incorrect perception on my part?

00:26:46.260 Well, you know, the mayor has left a lot of things wanting, that's for sure.

00:26:51.300 And I think that she should have taken a stronger stand in defense of this community because it's Toronto.

00:27:00.060 it's you know so but all I know is that to me is much bigger than the mayor this

00:27:08.100 is goes because we know the Iranian gangsters are funding this kind of stuff

00:27:15.000 we know they're orchestrating these demonstrations which fuels more sort of

00:27:21.940 confidence in these thugs so it's bigger bigger than Toronto and that's why I've

00:27:27.720 always said we need a heck of a lot more these are not this is not business as usual this is like

00:27:35.080 intimidating people frightening people angering people a whole community is under this threat

00:27:42.200 yeah and so that's why i'm saying we got to go way beyond the mayor way beyond toronto police

00:27:47.120 and let's really take this on you know i i just i've had enough i've had enough last question

00:27:54.840 for you and thanks for talking with me uh i know in the past you've mentioned that perhaps other

00:27:59.480 police could supplement the toronto police there's the opp that's the ontario police there's even the

00:28:04.440 rcmp and ceases god forbid right they're missing in action you know i got a resolution passed

00:28:11.400 asking for the creation of that task force opp uh rc and not around the table task force and on the

00:28:17.480 ground real cops from the RCMP OPP here in Toronto helping out and so far they

00:28:24.440 refuse to be part of it so they're saying oh no it's a Toronto thing it is

00:28:27.800 not just a Toronto thing and unless we get some reality from RCMP when they

00:28:36.440 firebombed the IDF grocery store up on Duffin and Wilson we said investigators

00:28:42.260 an act of terror bring in the RCMP they refused so this has gone on I've been

00:28:46.580 making this plea for over two and a half years. Take this on. Thanks very much for your remarks

00:28:53.780 today. He and James Pasternak, and then there's a third one in their trio, they all say we need

00:29:01.360 help. And one of the interesting things, and you'll see this in James Pasternak's remarks,

00:29:05.960 is he repeatedly says, look, this is more than just a city policing issue. These are foreign

00:29:10.900 funded, terrorist-backed agents, provocateurs, and criminals. We need a national level response.

00:29:17.460 I think that makes a lot of sense. If you were fighting with an Iran-funded professional

00:29:22.840 violence committer, you need more than your local beat cop. And how about say that? And that's what

00:29:30.140 I would have put to Michael Kersner had he not bravely ran away from me before he had promised

00:29:34.660 me he would do an interview. Why are you not supplying the Toronto Jewish community in the

00:29:40.260 broader city with more policing help. Well it's sort of obvious it's a milder

00:29:46.820 version of what's wrong with Olivia Chow. Look they can count there are more

00:29:51.300 anti-Semites in Canada now than Jews by far and they don't want to do anything

00:29:55.700 to upset the sensibilities of the anti-Semitic community.

00:29:59.700 Councillor do you believe that the Toronto Police are able to protect the

00:30:04.440 Jews of the city? I think we're under-resourced I think it's a very thin

00:30:09.380 force. I've always argued that it needs at least another 1,000 officers. 5,500

00:30:14.360 officers for a force for a city of 3 million is totally inadequate. Chicago

00:30:21.060 has 3 million people and they have 11,000 officers.

00:30:24.260 Council, what do you think?

00:30:25.500 I think, as I said, the police do a great job on local issues. This is

00:30:32.660 internationally funded, inspired, motivated. So we need the RCMP to do their

00:30:39.860 job. We need the OPP to do their job. It's more than a local Toronto police

00:30:44.960 issue. Chairness Lin is our other councillor who's had a synagogue shot at,

00:30:50.620 fired at, like I have. I've had one synagogue shot at and one synagogue that's

00:30:55.400 been vandalized ten times over the last two and a half years. So this is

00:31:00.860 happening not just at Bathurst and Lawrence not just at Bathurst and

00:31:05.120 Shepherd it's happening across our city and everybody needs to be concerned and

00:31:11.320 while I'm very happy to see the uptick in arrests that we have seen from the

00:31:16.440 Toronto Police Force I think they are doing absolutely everything they can and

00:31:21.920 I'm happy to see more charges being laid and we have seen an uptick in charges

00:31:27.200 being laid. I would also echo quite frankly the call that Michael Kirzner, the Solicitor General

00:31:33.360 made earlier. I'm not in the provincial government but I have been saying this repeatedly. We need

00:31:38.480 every Torontonian to care about what is happening to the Jewish community in Toronto. That is the

00:31:45.440 basic premise of a democracy, of a civic society, that everybody is able to be who they are in the

00:31:53.440 the city of Toronto, practice their faith, go to their community, go to church, go to mosque,

00:32:00.400 without being accosted, without being harassed, without being shot at.

00:32:06.580 But that really only happens to the Jews.

00:32:08.840 Well, you know what?

00:32:10.080 If it happens to the Jews, everybody needs to care.

00:32:13.300 And you heard that call from the Solicitor General earlier,

00:32:16.560 that we need everybody to come and encircle the Jewish community and say,

00:32:20.920 what happened here is not right we do not want this in Toronto and we get the Toronto we create

00:32:29.260 it's time for Torontonians of all stripes to stand up and speak out about what is happening

00:32:36.760 and I have to say I am very happy that the mayor was here earlier today we need to see her out

00:32:43.920 every time something happens we need to see her speaking out for the Jewish community because the

00:32:50.480 Jewish community, when it is under attack, basic freedoms are under attack for all of us. Thank you.

00:32:57.320 But the mayor came in the back door.

00:33:00.040 Stephanie Smythe from St. Paul's, just to the south, with a large Jewish community.

00:33:03.920 Thank you so much, Councillor Kohl.

00:33:06.760 This is something of deep concern to all of us, not just the Jewish community.

00:33:11.340 You have a large Jewish community in Toronto, St. Paul's.

00:33:13.400 That is living in fear day after day.

00:33:16.840 This is another example why.

00:33:19.920 I'm glad Toronto Police were able to make a quick arrest in this situation.

00:33:24.140 However, we have a Solicitor General who can work harder to ensure arrests are made and charges stick.

00:33:31.020 And that real progress is made in fighting anti-Semitism in Toronto, in the province of Ontario.

00:33:38.040 Hamas is listed as a terrorist organization in Canada.

00:33:41.660 And we have Hamas supporters, they identify like that.

00:33:44.960 and they praise the October 7th massacre of Jews

00:33:49.320 and they regularly come into the Jewish community

00:33:53.320 and they take over streets intimidating Jews.

00:33:57.720 If we want to get to the root, in my opinion,

00:33:59.760 if we want to get to the root of it and solve anything,

00:34:03.200 aside from saying we all have to stand together,

00:34:05.860 if we turn a blind eye to Hamas in Canada,

00:34:08.660 which is listed as a terrorist organization,

00:34:11.780 and we don't do anything to outlaw it,

00:34:13.960 How's it going to be solved?

00:34:16.660 Rectified.

00:34:18.760 Well, I guess, Meyer, the thing is that an example of Hamas' influence is Bathurst and Shepherds.

00:34:25.440 Yes.

00:34:26.280 That funds those so-called protesters.

00:34:30.580 We can't direct the police, but they should get them the hell out of there.

00:34:35.540 Get them the hell out of Bathurst and Shepherds.

00:34:37.440 What are they doing there after two and a half years?

00:34:40.420 Yeah, I mean, the reality is there's no embassies there, there's no consulates there, there's

00:34:47.360 no government buildings there, there's no public squares there.

00:34:50.660 They have picked that corner to harass the Jewish community.

00:34:54.400 And as I said earlier, this would never be allowed in any other minority community.

00:34:59.040 They want to do a charter challenge, let them do a charter challenge.

00:35:03.020 We're here to make the city safe.

00:35:05.020 That's what we want.

00:35:06.020 That's the main role of government, keeping the city safe.

00:35:09.420 Look, just a day or two ago, Mark Carney, the prime minister, got on the phone with the terrorist leader of the PLO, Mahmoud Abbas,

00:35:17.120 and pledged again to support Palestinian sovereignty with no preconditions.

00:35:22.560 It's just absolutely shocking.

00:35:24.060 I mean, listen, he said he'd arrest Benjamin Netanyahu on site for war crimes.

00:35:28.360 Canada is no longer in the column of the good guys.

00:35:31.140 We're not with the allies.

00:35:32.260 We're not with the democracies or the peacemakers.

00:35:34.520 Under Mark Carney, Canada is with China and Hamas.

00:35:38.460 And I'm in the center of it here in Toronto.

00:35:40.480 Wouldn't have thought those words would be said,

00:35:42.000 but this is the most anti-Semitic violent city towards Jews in North America.

00:35:50.400 Prove me wrong.

00:35:51.980 That's my report for the day.

00:35:53.720 Until next time, on behalf of all of us at Rebel News,

00:35:57.200 to you at home, good night.

00:35:59.000 Stay safe and keep fighting for freedom.

00:36:07.560 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - May 09, 2026

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Another day, another antisemitic attack in Toronto

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