Rebel News Podcast - September 21, 2026


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Belleville synagogue attack： Officer confronts gunman as Ottawa faces questions over antisemitism

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6 minutes

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00:00:00.040 Tonight a terrorist attacks a Jewish synagogue on Yom Kippur. Thank God for 1.00
00:00:05.460 the local policeman who saved the synagogue but got shot himself. It's 0.95
00:00:09.720 September 21st and this is the Ezra Levant Show. I'm out here in beautiful
00:00:16.240 Belleville, Ontario. What a lovely city. It's about two hours east of Toronto. I
00:00:21.440 returned home from Yom Kippur. That's a Jewish high holiday, the Day of Atonement 1.00
00:00:25.800 it's called. I had gone to synagogue in Toronto where there was about 10 visible security and 0.96
00:00:31.260 police outside. I got home and I went on Twitter and I saw that here in Belleville, which doesn't
00:00:36.820 have a large Jewish community at all, the synagogue had been attacked at precisely the
00:00:41.780 minute that the holiday began, where the synagogue would have had maximum attendance right after 7
00:00:47.340 p.m., 7.10 to be precise, and a hail of gunfire. And I started following on social media and it
00:00:54.600 turned out that there was a gun battle between the terrorist and an armed policeman who was I
00:01:01.200 think he was off duty I don't think he was wearing his police identification we don't have the info
00:01:05.860 on that yet but I think he was sort of not undercover but low key a gun battle broke out
00:01:11.780 other police came the terrorist was shot gravely but he's still alive and the policeman was
00:01:17.660 grievously wounded he's in hospital yet we came down here the whole block has been blocked off
00:01:24.280 As police meticulously document what's happened on the scene, we understand there's four investigators and two forensics experts, which would be capturing things like those cartridges of apparently a shotgun was used.
00:01:37.960 I've spent the day here and if people have walked by, I've talked with them, whether it's neighbors who were not involved, but heard some pop, pop, pop of the shooting or actual people who were in the synagogue when it happened.
00:01:51.560 and we spoke to their head of security who told us what it was like
00:01:55.100 and actually referenced something he had seen a week earlier,
00:01:58.520 someone he thought was casing the joint.
00:02:00.700 By the way, he did report that to police.
00:02:02.960 I also did man-on-the-street interviews.
00:02:05.000 I'll show you a few of those.
00:02:06.040 Here, here's some of my day, how it went. 1.00
00:02:08.920 And then let me say something in response to that lady. 1.00
00:02:12.440 That was a very lovely lady who didn't like what was happening 1.00
00:02:16.120 because evil reached into beautiful Belleville. 0.93
00:02:19.860 but she did something I think that was wrong and I'm not picking on her she's not a professional
00:02:24.120 pundit or philosopher and I don't mean to be critical but she said something that that when
00:02:28.780 I heard it I thought you're wrong there was evil that came to Belleville here that meant to kill
00:02:33.760 the Jews and that's an evil that didn't just pop up in a moment and that's an evil that you cannot
00:02:40.160 ascribe to one politician in Israel here I'll play the interview for you and this lady who's a very 0.53
00:02:47.500 friendly lady said, Netanyahu has whipped this up. That's basically what she said here. Take a look
00:02:52.760 at that. No, that's not true. First of all, an attack on a Jewish synagogue, it's not a target
00:03:00.420 of Israel. That's not the Israeli consulate or embassy. That's not the Israeli military.
00:03:05.840 Those are Canadians who are Jewish going to pray and to somehow say that this is a counterweight 0.72
00:03:12.100 to that dastardly Netanyahu is unacceptable.
00:03:15.460 But second of all, it implies that all Israel needs to do
00:03:18.200 is vote for a new prime minister
00:03:19.960 and this Jew hatred around the world will dissipate
00:03:23.060 as if it hasn't been thousands of years of anti-Semitism,
00:03:27.000 as if anti-Semitism exists only because
00:03:29.420 some people say they don't like Netanyahu.
00:03:32.960 I can assure you, if it wasn't that, it would be something else.
00:03:35.340 I can assure you that there was terrorist attacks
00:03:37.620 or pogroms against Jews before the modern state of Israel existed.
00:03:41.240 I can tell you that there's an endless supply of Jew hatred that will come up with any reason or no reason.
00:03:47.000 I think what that lovely lady was doing, and I mean she was lovely, she was a very nice lady.
00:03:50.560 I just don't think she had maybe thought through her point of view.
00:03:54.320 What she was doing is providing her own explanation for the attack.
00:04:00.020 Instead of letting the terrorists provide their own explanation, and we saw that after 9-11.
00:04:04.280 The terrorists at 9-11, the men who hijacked those jets and crashed them into buildings,
00:04:09.260 just like all terrorists, is only too happy to explain what motivates them.
00:04:14.860 Hatred, hatred for the West, hatred for Jews, hatred for democracies. 0.97
00:04:18.740 Radical Islam despises the West because it's a blemish on the idea of a one-world government 0.99
00:04:25.720 called an Ummah that is Islamic in nature. 0.99
00:04:29.180 ISIS, the Islamic State, shows you what they mean. 0.54
00:04:32.400 They want a world that is run under Sharia law, not democratic legislatures.
00:04:38.020 So that's why they call America the, you know, the king of all evil or the mother of all evil. 0.51
00:04:46.300 And Israel is a little evil or something because they are blemishes on their worldview.
00:04:52.700 You cannot change that by saying, no, actually, it's because we in the West were colonialists a century ago 0.71
00:05:01.160 or because we in the West didn't condemn the attack in Gaza.
00:05:04.620 You can try and furnish your own excuses for terrorism, but you don't need to.
00:05:10.980 The terrorists tell you why they're doing it.
00:05:13.500 And so when you see a Western liberal trying to come up with an explanation for why it really happened,
00:05:19.100 it really happened because of Netanyahu.
00:05:21.400 It really happened because of this micro incident I saw on Twitter last week.
00:05:25.580 No, what's actually happening there is that that woman cannot fathom or process that there is that much evil in Belleville.
00:05:32.620 And so she has to find a way to cope with it psychologically.
00:05:36.900 That's not because there is deep evil in my city.
00:05:39.740 It's because of Netanyahu.
00:05:41.440 It's because we provoked them.
00:05:42.820 It's because we did something to them. 0.70
00:05:44.120 It's because we were Islamophobic. 1.00
00:05:45.740 It's because we're not as tolerant to them. 0.95
00:05:47.840 It's because we're not as multicultural.
00:05:49.580 She is furnishing for them the excuse of why they attacked the synagogue.
00:05:53.900 They don't need that.
00:05:55.280 They have their stated reasons for why they attacked the synagogue.
00:05:58.760 Here's some more of what I saw today.
00:06:00.920 That was a little bit long.
00:06:02.620 Thank you.