Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canada's anti-Semitism brigade ramps up intimidation of Jewish communities

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Big show today. I want to take you through David Menzies' journey to an

00:00:05.120 anti-Semitic pro-Hamas rally in a Jewish neighborhood in Toronto. And then we're

00:00:10.280 going to talk to Joel Pollack about the State of the Union address in the States.

00:00:13.800 I really want you to see David's report. And to see it, you have to be a subscriber to what we

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00:00:36.360 government and it shows. All right, here's today's show.

00:00:38.800 Tonight, Hamas protesters occupy a block in a Jewish residential neighborhood with plenty of

00:01:00.820 violence. Why is that being normalized? It's March 8th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:08.800 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:20.960 I live in Toronto. There are a lot of Hamas protests here. Same in Montreal. The two cities 0.81

00:01:26.340 are unrecognizable in that way. Both were very friendly to Jews and all minorities. That changed.

00:01:31.960 What's crazy is they're not protesting Israel so much as protesting Jews. That's called 0.97

00:01:40.420 anti-Semitism. It's been going on for months. I remember one of the first protests was outside

00:01:45.800 a Jewish community center and a daycare, the Spadina Jewish community center in Toronto. Who

00:01:52.800 protests outside a Jewish daycare to shout at children? They had a protest in Toronto outside

00:01:58.660 a large Jewish hospital, the Mount Sinai Hospital. Obviously, it's a hospital that takes people 0.85

00:02:03.700 of all backgrounds, but they chose a Jewish-founded hospital with lots of Jewish doctors.

00:02:10.820 That's got to do with Israel. That's got to do with hating Jews. 0.99

00:02:15.260 There were protests at Jewish restaurants, or at least restaurants owned by Jews, or those that served 0.85

00:02:21.780 Jewish food, like Café Landwehr. I know a little bit about Café Landwehr. I've been there. It was

00:02:28.100 started in Germany. It had to be shut down, of course, because of Hitler. Its descendants 1.00

00:02:33.940 restarted it in Toronto, and same with the descendants of Hitler. They restarted in Toronto, too. 0.94

00:02:41.820 Jewish-owned businesses that have nothing to do with Jewish anything are targeted. You might know

00:02:46.740 that Chapters Indigo is owned by a Jewish woman, Heather Eastman, and her husband, who's also Jewish.

00:02:53.940 It's not a Jewish business in any way, but a Jew owns it, so they vandalized and attacked that 0.57

00:02:59.400 business. Now, those are all minor attacks, but of course, there were some major attacks that could

00:03:05.820 have been deadly. In Montreal, a Molotov cocktail, a firebomb was thrown, gunshots at synagogues and

00:03:14.220 schools. Of course, in Toronto, there's vandalism everywhere. There's graffiti that more or less

00:03:21.400 says, kill the Jews. There's posters being held at protests with machine guns. There's posters on posts 0.99

00:03:30.300 that say, by any means necessary, showing a gun. Those are calls for death, for murder. They're not

00:03:38.960 pretending to be political. They're not really going through the effort anymore. They just realize they can

00:03:43.800 get away with pure Jew hatred. They don't really have to pretend. They blocked a road into a Jewish 1.00

00:03:49.880 neighborhood. There's a road called Avenue Road. It's a bridge that goes over the 401 highway. It's one of only

00:03:56.640 two ways into a large Jewish community with schools and residences. Hamas protesters would block it. It is

00:04:02.900 miles away from anything political, anything economic. It was just blocking a Jewish neighborhood. And that 1.00

00:04:10.000 went on for days and days and days. And police brought them coffee.

00:04:15.420 No one told them they can't come back. Otherwise, he would have said, OK, I understand.

00:04:18.760 OK, I'll just ask you to...

00:04:20.420 I understand.

00:04:20.720 Just so...

00:04:22.000 Sorry, it's the...

00:04:25.000 Jihad? 0.94

00:04:27.200 Yeah.

00:04:27.900 And now they've moved a little bit north to a Jewish community in Thornhill, in a city called Vaughn.

00:04:34.180 They protested not at an Israeli embassy. There's no Israeli embassy in Vaughn, Ontario.

00:04:41.700 They protested in Jewish neighborhoods, near Jewish houses, and a Jewish synagogue.

00:04:47.640 There's been no one condemning this in high office, not the premier of Ontario or the premier

00:04:53.380 of Quebec, and certainly not the prime minister. He talks about these protests. He's actually talked

00:04:58.060 about it a few times. And what he has to say is, that's their free speech. Really? Here's a clip

00:05:04.700 of that.

00:05:05.080 Can you comment about some of the protests that we've been seeing across the country in

00:05:11.220 relation to the Israel-Hamas war, but particularly in Toronto? I mean, you had experience with

00:05:14.880 this last weekend where your event was cancelled, and a lot of people were upset about that,

00:05:19.180 upset how they've been... Toronto police has talked about the hostility and confrontation

00:05:23.000 between police and protesters now. What specifically is your government, if anything, going to do

00:05:28.600 about this? Or are these protests just allowed to happen in our country because it's a free

00:05:33.180 country?

00:05:34.140 Well, first of all, nobody can remain indifferent to the suffering and the anguish going on in

00:05:43.160 Gaza right now. This loss of civilian lives and the impact on Canadian families and people

00:05:49.900 who are worried about their loved ones is entirely understandable. Canadians have a right to

00:05:55.700 protest. Absolutely. To make their anguish, their anger heard by other Canadians. That's important,

00:06:04.260 and we will always protect that right. But when the protests turn to hatred or to acts of harassment,

00:06:15.220 particularly against fellow Canadians, there's a line that's crossed. I've heard from too many

00:06:23.720 members of the Jewish community, particularly, who are seeing their synagogues, their community

00:06:28.600 centers, their neighborhoods protested, who feel unsafe in their own country.

00:06:33.740 So chanting for intifada revolution, intifada being an Arabic word for a riot, a race riot, a pogrom,

00:06:40.860 as it would be called in Russia, signs with guns on them, and violence, more violence in a single day

00:06:47.880 than in the entire trucker convoy. Compare Trudeau's reaction to the Hamas protest to his reaction

00:06:54.340 to the truckers. Trudeau appointed an anti-Islamophobia commissioner named Amira El-Gawabi,

00:07:04.180 but there's actually not a lot of anti-Islamophobia to be against. There's no hateful protests outside

00:07:10.120 mosques. There's no vandalism of mosques. There's no assault on Muslims. What this anti-Islamophobia

00:07:16.960 commissioner is spending her time doing is defending these protests, saying that they are legitimate.

00:07:23.200 She's not being an anti-Islamophobia commissioner. She's being a pro-anti-Semitism commissioner. 0.85

00:07:32.080 Trudeau also appointed an anti-Semitism commissioner. Bizarrely, he chose a non-Jew for the position,

00:07:39.260 Deborah Lyons. I guess there was no Jew available, or no Jew who cared enough, or maybe the Jews all 0.98

00:07:46.560 cared too much. I'm not quite sure. I really don't know what Deborah Lyons does. I know she took a 0.56

00:07:51.320 first-class trip to Israel for some photo ops, but other than that, all I can detect is every once in 0.97

00:07:57.320 a while she writes some pathetic tweets on Twitter to her small following that basically say, 0.99

00:08:03.280 come on, guys, let's stop hating the Jews. It really is pitiful. And now back to what's been 1.00

00:08:10.480 happening in this city north of Toronto called Vaughn. There's a big Jewish synagogue. It's

00:08:16.180 actually the one I went to about a week ago when the British commentator Douglas Murray was in town.

00:08:22.460 I really like Douglas Murray. I asked him a few questions about the United Kingdom. I asked him if

00:08:26.800 it's safe for Jews in Britain. Here's what he said. Is Britain still safe for Jews? 0.99

00:08:33.040 Yes, but it's tense. It's very tense. I mean, if there's a march every Saturday where there are

00:08:40.020 people calling for your death and destruction, you can't say that that's a happy society. And it

00:08:45.780 wouldn't be put up with for any other group. If there were marches in the center of London every week

00:08:51.760 where there were some people, even just some people saying that we should eradicate everyone 0.97

00:08:56.720 who's black, that march would be stopped. There would not be a second march or a third. And the 0.97

00:09:02.940 people who would be on the first march once they knew what they were involved with would not go back

00:09:07.120 on the second week if they were decent people. So there's not even a double standard, a triple

00:09:13.080 standard going on. But you know that as well as anyone. Imagine the irony of me in Toronto asking

00:09:18.900 him if it's safe for Jews. That Jewish synagogue is very Zionist and very conservative. Not just 0.83

00:09:26.300 conservative in their Judaism, but conservative in their politics. When I was there, I could feel the

00:09:31.900 love for Rebel News. It's a base of support for Melissa Lansman, the conservative MP from there,

00:09:39.000 the former conservative MP Peter Kent. It is true that there are some Jews who are conservative.

00:09:45.520 They're not all liberal. That synagogue is being targeted again and again and again. It's in a

00:09:51.040 residential neighborhood. I showed you the video clip the other day of some pro-Hamas protester who

00:09:58.740 hit a cop, was arrested, but the pro-Hamas mob pulled her away and freed her. And the cops went,

00:10:05.980 huh, oh well. Remember this video?

00:10:07.740 She's a minor! She's a minor! She's a minor! She's a minor! She's a minor! She's a minor! 1.00

00:10:19.200 She's a minor! She's a minor! She's a minor! She's a minor! 1.00

00:10:35.200 She's a minor! 1.00

00:10:40.200 She's a minor! 1.00

00:10:42.200 You just let her go! 1.00

00:10:44.200 You're a fucking asshole! Let's just all stop it if they fucking let her go! She's a 1.00

00:10:50.200 fucking minor! Fuck you, she's a minor! 1.00

00:10:54.200 Go, go, go, go! 1.00

00:11:11.200 Move, go! 0.99

00:11:17.200 Well, having this kind of hate mob blocking a road and in a residential neighborhood with such hateful and insane comments towards Jews, it freaked out a lot of Jews who called their local MP, their local MPP, that's what they call the provincial politician, their local mayor.

00:11:37.880 And they all signed this letter together, the mayor, the member of parliament, the member of provincial parliament, of how they were going to stand by the Jews and nothing, nothing. 0.76

00:11:51.000 There were a lot of police there and they just stood and watched.

00:11:56.200 In fact, you could say they escorted the Hamas protesters.

00:11:59.600 They didn't clear them out because the police across Ontario and I would say across Canada are DEI police, diversity, equity and inclusion police now.

00:12:10.600 Of course, if it were white KKK protesters outside a black church in a black neighborhood, the batons would be swinging and they'd arrest people like they were truckers.

00:12:20.600 But these are Islamic extremist protesters, most of them foreign born from what I can tell. 0.95

00:12:27.100 And they're demonizing Jews who in the main are white, although there's a lot of minority Jews, they're called Sephardic Jews.

00:12:35.040 But so what? Jews are the oppressor class. 1.00

00:12:37.480 So the oppressed class, Palestinians can do anything. 1.00

00:12:41.300 Police did not arrest any of the protesters, but they arrested some of the counter protesters.

00:12:46.920 They arrested a woman who used pepper spray on a Palestinian protester.

00:12:51.160 And I can understand that. That's a weapon.

00:12:52.900 It's like the other day when they arrested a man with a nail gun, who I understand was a Russian Jew.

00:12:59.340 And I'm against people using violence on their own accord.

00:13:03.920 I think that's morally wrong and I think it sets back the cause politically, which is one of the purposes of these Hamas protests is to drive the peaceful residential Jewish communities to some hasty act that they'll later regret. 0.65

00:13:17.960 But I can understand why a woman is terrified by a Hamas mob and uses her pepper spray. 0.99

00:13:25.360 And I can understand why a man is terrified by a Hamas mob and reaches for a nail gun. 0.95

00:13:30.940 I can understand it because they're thinking, oh, my God, the police are actually not going to stop this.

00:13:38.900 They're going to stop us.

00:13:40.360 We have to rely on ourselves or we'll be like lambs to the slaughter.

00:13:46.180 Yesterday was total madness.

00:13:47.620 Our reporter David Menzies was there for hours.

00:13:50.880 The protest started in the middle of the day and it went well into the night.

00:13:55.520 Harassing people on their private property.

00:13:57.900 Torches, too.

00:13:59.660 Imagine. 0.80

00:14:00.880 I mean, that's like the white supremacists at Charlottesville.

00:14:04.180 The torches have come to Toronto. 0.95

00:14:06.100 How would it be, I say again, if the Klan were outside a black church? 0.97

00:14:12.120 You don't need to imagine. 0.59

00:14:13.420 Remember what a single fake swastika flag at the trucker protest in Ottawa did.

00:14:19.900 The entire media was riveted by it.

00:14:22.220 They demonized every trucker because someone took a photo of a Nazi flag that no one else could find.

00:14:28.020 It was obviously a staged agent provocateur.

00:14:30.600 That was enough for the entire media to demonize every peaceful trucker across the country.

00:14:35.980 You have Hamas flags, Hamas chants, genocidal calls from the river to the sea, calls for a violent intifada, calls for by any means necessary.

00:14:46.680 And the media is silent about it.

00:14:49.180 They call it peaceful Hamas, peaceful Palestinian protest.

00:14:53.200 They never say Hamas. 0.94

00:14:54.240 And they say the Jews are the violent ones.

00:14:56.480 It doesn't feel like Canada anymore, does it? 0.76

00:15:00.920 Here, let me play for you a video that David Menzies put together.

00:15:06.280 Now, this is a fairly lengthy video, so it's going to take some time to watch.

00:15:09.880 But I want to show you what his experience was.

00:15:13.080 Take a look at this, and I'll come back on the other end.

00:15:14.920 David Menzies for Rebel News here in Thornhill, Ontario.

00:15:19.460 And, folks, I'm standing outside the Beth Abraham Yosef of Toronto Synagogue.

00:15:25.340 And, well, there's some kind of a real estate exposition going on.

00:15:30.900 And, well, guess who has come?

00:15:33.500 Like so many skunks to the garden party, that would be the pro-Hamas types. 1.00

00:15:39.260 It's a repeat of what happened just four days ago.

00:15:42.140 You might remember, I was just further down Clark Avenue on Sunday,

00:15:48.140 and the same shenanigans took place.

00:15:51.420 Pro-Hamas people outside of a different synagogue.

00:15:55.000 And, not only that, they were chanting chants of genocide

00:15:59.800 from the river to the sea, intifada, and go back to Poland.

00:16:06.580 Can you believe it?

00:16:07.300 Here, check out the evidence.

00:16:08.360 Go back to what? Go back to Poland? 1.00

00:16:17.480 Well, my cameraman, Lincoln Jay, and I just got here.

00:16:20.880 And a growing number of demonstrators are coming along.

00:16:25.300 I haven't heard any chants of genocide yet.

00:16:28.940 But I spoke to a lady on the pro-Israel side.

00:16:35.360 She got here early, and she said they were chanting death to Jews in Arabic.

00:16:43.680 I don't have any way of confirming that.

00:16:46.160 But hopefully somebody has that on video.

00:16:49.440 In any event, we're going to wade in to both sides, see what this recent kerfuffle is about.

00:16:57.280 But, you know, I can't help but think, folks, that if the rules were reversed,

00:17:02.640 if these Jewish demonstrators and their allies went to a mosque in the GTA,

00:17:09.200 and they chanted death to Muslims, would that be tolerated? 0.65

00:17:14.940 Or would that maybe be shut down in a nanosecond? 0.89

00:17:18.940 I think we know the answer to that.

00:17:21.300 So why the double standard?

00:17:23.420 Why the two-tier policing?

00:17:26.900 Hopefully we can get somebody from law enforcement to come on camera too.

00:17:31.320 In the meantime, let's see what both sides have to say.

00:17:36.460 Long live Palestine! 1.00

00:17:38.440 Long live Palestine! 1.00

00:17:40.280 Long live Jerusalem! 0.99

00:17:43.540 If you are speaking the truth, if you are speaking the truth, you will not be called to shut up.

00:17:54.400 All of this, everything that they're saying, is built on a lie.

00:17:58.660 Usually, all I do is I remind people the facts.

00:18:02.940 And the facts are that for thousands of years, the Jews have had a home, and that's Israel.

00:18:10.120 This is a clear sign the Jewish community is under severe threat.

00:18:14.700 It's a complete double standard.

00:18:16.600 This is a place of worship.

00:18:18.000 A church is a place of worship.

00:18:19.660 A synagogue is a place of worship.

00:18:21.600 They are not respecting human values of which our country is founded on.

00:18:25.320 It doesn't even cross our mind to stage a protest if it's important to us, and to go into a Muslim area. 0.93

00:18:32.940 Why?

00:18:33.220 Why would I want to do that?

00:18:34.220 Personally, I believe that everyone should have the right to protest.

00:18:36.760 Everybody should have the right to worship whichever god or religion they believe in. 0.96

00:18:40.700 But to come to a Jewish neighborhood, to come to a Jewish place of worship to protest, I find absolutely disgusting. 1.00

00:18:45.740 I do believe that the police are taking a peace officer approach.

00:18:51.440 In other words, they're less interested in upholding the law than they are in keeping the peace.

00:18:57.120 Anywhere in the world, anytime anyone has called out Islam or even come close to anything, drawing an image, whatever you might call it, it's led to violent, destructive behavior.

00:19:12.320 What I am seeing now, I thought I would never see that in Canada.

00:19:16.820 What a dive, what a dive, what a dive, what a dive.

00:19:36.440 The state of Israel, in my way, represents world unity.

00:19:42.200 He's not a Hebrew rabbi.

00:19:44.320 He said he just arrived from New York.

00:19:47.140 He doesn't have a New York accent.

00:19:49.400 He doesn't have a Hebrew accent.

00:19:51.560 We think it's just an absolute costume.

00:19:54.180 There's no way.

00:19:55.000 Well, they love guys like this. 0.93

00:19:56.500 He's the poster boy for Palestinian terrorism and support of Palestinian terrorism. 0.87

00:20:03.260 It's a very, very small group within the Hasidic community.

00:20:07.580 I don't even think they have 25 people.

00:20:09.460 You see the same two guys showing up over and over again.

00:20:12.680 This crime and genocide is going on in the main subversion of all of Jews. 0.76

00:20:20.980 And that's the end.

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00:21:09.980 Well, not beautiful, it's a pretty ugly face, I'm sorry.

00:21:12.480 How are you doing, sir?

00:21:13.480 Oh, Rebel News.

00:21:14.480 Rebel News.

00:21:15.480 Who is this man in this room?

00:21:19.480 He's a fake journalist.

00:21:21.480 He pretends to be a journalist.

00:21:23.480 Hey, Rebel News, how are you doing?

00:21:25.480 So, sir, why are people...

00:21:28.480 Why are you all in this room?

00:21:31.480 No, no, no, you're not supposed to be on the room.

00:21:34.980 Why are people here chanting genocide to Jews?

00:21:37.980 No one's chanting genocide chants.

00:21:39.480 No one's chanting genocide chants.

00:21:40.980 What was chanting?

00:21:42.980 Yo, hey, hey, hey, hey!

00:21:44.980 Hey, hey, hey! 0.55

00:21:45.980 Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

00:21:46.980 Calm down!

00:21:47.980 You're the .

00:21:48.980 I know, I know.

00:21:49.980 Get your .

00:21:50.980 What are you doing?

00:21:51.980 What are you doing again?

00:21:52.980 Get out of my soul right here. 0.99

00:21:53.980 Get out of your . 0.99

00:21:54.980 Get out of your . 0.54

00:21:55.980 Leave! 0.99

00:21:56.480 Bro, hey, bro.

00:21:57.480 Leave! 0.99

00:21:58.480 Bro!

00:21:59.480 You're going to make him leave right now.

00:22:00.980 Hey, why are you just leaving?

00:22:01.980 Right?

00:22:02.980 I just really don't.

00:22:03.980 I know a minute.

00:22:04.980 It's both ways.

00:22:05.980 Please.

00:22:06.780 Tell him why are you just leaving the mall?

00:22:07.480 Why are you there?

00:22:08.480 That's how you solve things. We're violence, right?

00:22:11.360 Is that right? You can't have a discussion?

00:22:13.780 Well, you know what, folks? Talk about a tale of two cities.

00:22:17.060 We're on the pro-Israel side, and we have civil discussions.

00:22:21.580 We're able to debate the issues.

00:22:23.920 I come over here, and right away, they acted violently.

00:22:28.000 Somebody out of camera range, of course, because that's how they operate,

00:22:31.820 kicked me in the groin.

00:22:33.780 Stop supporting genocide! 0.99

00:22:35.320 Stop supporting genocide!

00:22:37.320 Stop supporting Israel! 1.00

00:22:39.700 They are claiming that we are committing genocide when, in fact, we are not.

00:22:43.600 We are simply defending ourselves.

00:22:45.480 It's important to remember there was a ceasefire on October 6th.

00:22:48.840 On October 7th, they broke that ceasefire.

00:22:51.200 They came over on to our side. They raped our women. 0.99

00:22:53.740 They beheaded babies, burned people alive. 1.00

00:22:55.760 There are Muslims coming from countries that promote this 1.00

00:23:00.120 and that teach Jew hatred, and they come here. They're not vetted. 0.99

00:23:05.060 They have every right to protest. They could do it in a peaceful place like City Hall,

00:23:09.020 but not in front of a synagogue where they're trying to entice hatred.

00:23:12.480 We've had to bear the insult of having our house of prayer be literally spit upon by these protesters.

00:23:19.380 When it comes to our current government, I mean, they're doing an awful job.

00:23:23.340 I think a lot of Canadian Jews at this time are gonna definitely think of what they're saying.

00:23:27.720 I mean, they're doing an awful job.

00:23:28.880 When it comes to our current government, I mean, they're doing an awful job.

00:23:48.280 I think a lot of Canadian Jews at this time are going to definitely think about what their

00:23:53.820 next options are.

00:23:54.820 The Prime Minister has no backbone, no spine, and Mr. Ford, look at the electoral map, and

00:24:06.220 he's playing a double game.

00:24:08.420 Is this your house?

00:24:09.420 Is this your house?

00:24:10.420 Is this your house?

00:24:11.420 The house is down there.

00:24:12.420 What's your house?

00:24:13.420 My house.

00:24:14.420 That's not my house.

00:24:15.420 It's always not her house.

00:24:17.420 You want to come in for coffee?

00:24:20.420 Sure.

00:24:21.420 Do you want to come?

00:24:22.420 Yeah, sure.

00:24:23.420 Why are you wearing a mask outside?

00:24:25.420 Why not?

00:24:26.420 Why are you wearing a mask outside?

00:24:28.420 Why not?

00:24:29.420 These guys are wearing disguises.

00:24:30.420 You're allowed to.

00:24:31.420 Why don't you focus on the crime that occurred?

00:24:32.820 Is COVID a mask when you're breaking the law?

00:24:34.820 Okay.

00:24:35.820 It's not why we're here.

00:24:36.820 Okay.

00:24:37.820 Someone broke the law.

00:24:38.820 We want the police to hold them accountable.

00:24:39.820 What was the law that was broken?

00:24:41.820 Someone sprays up the air.

00:24:42.820 All the water is soaked in water.

00:24:44.820 Do you feel completely safe in Canada anymore?

00:24:48.820 Sure.

00:24:49.820 I mean, you know what?

00:24:51.820 Up until two years ago, I met an Israeli and he was commenting on how safe it is here.

00:24:59.820 We're not there anymore.

00:25:01.820 It's very easy to settle this down.

00:25:03.820 There should have never been, not only should there have never been murders, but why would

00:25:07.820 you in addition take hostages unless you want to barter?

00:25:11.820 I mean, coming to a synagogue to entice hatred is just not okay in today's society in Toronto,

00:25:17.820 Canada.

00:25:26.820 Why are you wearing a disguise, by the way?

00:25:27.820 I can barely hear you.

00:25:28.820 I want to be disguised.

00:25:29.820 That's my choice.

00:25:32.820 You're on the wrong side, buddy.

00:25:33.820 You're on the wrong side.

00:25:34.820 We're not going to talk to anyone that's complicit in the genocide of Palestinians.

00:25:39.820 Is this your property?

00:25:41.820 It doesn't matter.

00:25:42.820 It doesn't matter.

00:25:43.820 You're hosting a Zionist event in a place of worship.

00:25:46.820 I am?

00:25:47.820 How am I hosting anything?

00:25:48.820 Well, you're reporting on it, so go on the other side.

00:25:50.820 So if I report on an event, I'm hosting it?

00:25:52.820 Go to the other side!

00:25:53.820 Go to the other side!

00:25:55.820 No, we're not in Gaza.

00:25:56.820 We're not under Sharia law, sir.

00:25:58.820 Go to the other side!

00:25:59.820 Okay, so I don't think so. 1.00

00:26:01.820 They talk about killing our children, raping our women. 0.99

00:26:05.820 They have pictures with our women's undergarments? 1.00

00:26:10.820 Come on, man!

00:26:11.820 What happened on October 7th?

00:26:16.820 Boy, there's so many people on this side that are wearing disguises.

00:26:19.820 So I thought COVID was over.

00:26:21.820 Why are you wearing a mask?

00:26:22.820 I'm sorry.

00:26:24.820 Can't really hear you that clearly with your face diaper on.

00:26:27.820 I've got to be honest, but...

00:26:29.820 If you believe in something, fine.

00:26:32.820 Why are you covering your face?

00:26:34.820 Are you planning a criminal activity?

00:26:36.820 Stop! 1.00

00:26:37.820 Stop! 1.00

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00:26:55.820 Stop! 1.00

00:26:56.820 Well, you know what, folks?

00:26:57.820 It is coming up for...

00:26:59.820 It's just past 4 o'clock, actually.

00:27:01.820 And there's all kinds of skirmishes breaking out.

00:27:04.820 There's reports of somebody getting hosed by a garden hose, presumably.

00:27:09.820 There's a report of somebody getting pepper sprayed.

00:27:13.820 Hey! 0.99

00:27:14.820 Hey! 0.99

00:27:15.820 Hey! 0.99

00:27:16.820 Hey! 0.99

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00:27:31.820 Hey! 0.99

00:27:32.820 Hey! 0.99

00:27:33.820 Who used pepper spraying?

00:27:34.820 Who used pepper spraying?

00:27:35.820 Who used pepper spraying?

00:27:36.820 Who used pepper spraying?

00:27:37.820 Who used pepper spraying?

00:27:38.820 Who used pepper spraying?

00:27:39.820 Wait tempo!

00:27:41.820 Hold it! 0.98

00:27:42.820 Hold there! 0.99

00:27:43.820 Hold it! 0.98

00:27:44.820 Hey! 0.99

00:27:45.820 Hold it! 0.98

00:27:46.820 Hold it! 0.98

00:27:55.820 Hold it! 0.98

00:27:59.820 So, by the way, my cameraman, Lincoln, was inexplicably assaulted by this individual.

00:28:23.620 Grab my phone, man. 1.00

00:28:26.440 What the fuck? 1.00

00:28:27.040 What did you put your phone away? 1.00

00:28:29.820 Go, go away, go away. We're going to hit you. Go away. 1.00

00:28:32.220 I swear to God, get the fuck out of here. 1.00

00:28:34.460 Wallahi, just get out of here. 1.00

00:28:35.560 Watch your hands, bud. Hey, hey, hey. Just watch your hands. Watch your hands.

00:28:39.560 I think we're going to need more law enforcement. The cops are really outnumbered here.

00:28:51.300 I think we're going to need more law enforcement. The cops are really outnumbered here, and I really fear for the safety of the people here.

00:29:07.080 I can see this quickly getting out of control. There are tempers flaring on both sides. Let's see if some reinforcements come along.

00:29:17.820 I think Toronto needs to do better. I think Canadians need to do better, and I think they really need to read the truth.

00:29:29.560 Our mission is the truth. Our mission is the truth. Our mission is the freedom to be Canadians, to be Jews in the place that we live.

00:29:49.880 We're just asking, release the people that you took, which you shouldn't have, and I know that we're all going to come to the table.

00:29:56.980 You know, a recent opinion poll asked Canadians if they think the country is broken.

00:30:01.260 Seventy percent of Canadians say the country is broken.

00:30:05.760 I take that to mean that most Canadians don't like what they see on the streets in Toronto and Montreal.

00:30:11.160 Most Canadians don't like the anti-Semitism. They don't like this violence.

00:30:15.740 They don't like the threats in residential neighborhoods. I think woke people, college grads, may hate Israel, and Trudeau's Hamas base, his migrants, hate Israel.

00:30:26.660 But I don't know. I've been around for 52 years, and I think that most Canadians don't like this. Most Canadians are not like this.

00:30:35.020 I think most of the hate marchers are actually foreign provocateurs, often paid. Remember the Global News report that there are 700 Iranian agents in Canada.

00:30:47.560 It doesn't take a lot of work to drum up 30 or 40 protesters in a city the size of Toronto.

00:30:52.940 The same people again and again on that bridge over the 401, at the Jewish synagogue, outside a Jewish restaurant.

00:31:01.260 40 or 50 people every day paid to protest with a professional organizer can make an entire community feel defensive.

00:31:10.100 Granted, sometimes there are marchers with thousands, but I think it's a hardcore of probably about 100 or less in Toronto and the same in Montreal.

00:31:17.420 They're not out there to persuade you to support Gaza. They know what they're doing is odious. 0.84

00:31:23.920 It's not about persuasion. It's about dominance. It's about moving the Overton window.

00:31:29.040 It's about normalizing what was not normal before. It's about demoralizing Jews and their allies, dispiriting them. 0.98

00:31:36.460 It's about emboldening the Hamas supporters and radicalizing Muslim moderates. 0.79

00:31:41.540 And it's about showing old stock Canadians who the new untouchable class is, who you can't question, but showing you what the new rules are. 1.00

00:31:53.400 Do we accept it? Trudeau does. He loves it.

00:31:57.920 How about you?

00:31:59.880 Stay with us for more with Joel Pollack.

00:32:02.100 Well, we've been riveted by the near riot, about 20 minutes north of us here in Toronto, in Thorn Hill, outside the Jewish synagogue.

00:32:22.340 I would never in my life imagine that you would have a 12-hour threat hate march, including some violence.

00:32:31.600 Our reporter David Menzies getting kicked, our videographer Lincoln Jay having his phone stolen.

00:32:36.880 Not a single Hamas supporter arrested, rather six Jews who counter-protested were arrested.

00:32:43.920 I just can't believe it. That's where our eyes have been.

00:32:46.880 But out of the corner of our eyes, the United States has its annual State of the Union address.

00:32:54.520 And Joe Biden was on a cocktail of drugs to make him lucid and energetic.

00:32:59.720 Could he keep it together for 45 minutes?

00:33:02.280 Here to tell us about how he did and what he did is our friend Joel Pollack, senior editor-at-large at Breitbart.com.

00:33:09.300 Joel, great to see you again.

00:33:11.160 Good to be with you.

00:33:11.900 I don't know if he was on any drugs, but he was certainly on a very high volume.

00:33:17.560 So he was shouting for quite some time.

00:33:20.900 I believe that he is on a cocktail of meds just to give him boost, moments of lucidity and energy.

00:33:30.180 I truly believe that.

00:33:31.960 I have no evidence of it other than the fact that when he's not on, when he's not on for a big show speech,

00:33:39.340 he mumbles and meanders and falls asleep.

00:33:42.320 So I juxtapose those key moments with the rest of his mumbles.

00:33:47.400 I suppose it's a speculative theory on my part.

00:33:50.180 But let's put that aside.

00:33:52.520 Let's talk about his tone for a bit.

00:33:54.380 It was a little bit unusual, a little bit odd, a little bit partisan, a little bit angry.

00:33:57.900 What do you make of that?

00:34:01.240 Well, it was very odd, very partisan, very angry.

00:34:04.800 We haven't seen a State of the Union address like this in my lifetime and probably ever.

00:34:09.900 We've never seen the State of the Union used in a way to attack the opposition.

00:34:18.220 And that's not where you do this.

00:34:22.440 The State of the Union is not a campaign speech.

00:34:25.940 Of course, it can be political.

00:34:27.700 Of course, it will reflect the president's ideology.

00:34:30.700 Of course, you see the party that supports the president standing and applauding and the party that opposes the president typically sitting down for many of the portions of the speech where the president's talking about his policy agenda.

00:34:44.740 So there's always a partisan element to it, but it's never used to attack the opposition as a focus of the speech.

00:34:52.820 And that's what stood out.

00:34:55.240 Biden used this address to tarnish Republicans, to claim that they're a threat to democracy.

00:35:02.960 He went after Donald Trump.

00:35:05.040 No, he didn't mention Trump's name, but he talked about my predecessor, this, my predecessor, that.

00:35:09.640 Everybody knew who he was talking about.

00:35:12.060 And Trump never did that. 0.50

00:35:13.660 You know, Trump was quite pugnacious.

00:35:17.000 Trump would fight with people, insult people on social media and so forth.

00:35:20.540 But when Trump delivered a State of the Union address, it was really about the presidency and Congress and the grand spectacle of American government.

00:35:29.840 Trump would even say things that would make his opponents stand up and applaud.

00:35:33.240 In 2019, when he lost the House to Democrats, or just after the new Democrats had taken their seats in the Capitol, he earned a standing ovation, even from the likes of left-wing Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, when he devoted part of his speech to praising the role of women in leadership positions in American politics.

00:35:52.100 That's how you do a State of the Union address.

00:35:54.760 You don't abuse the platform to take pot shots at your opponents.

00:36:00.000 He also took shots at the Supreme Court.

00:36:02.120 That hasn't been seen since Barack Obama did the same thing.

00:36:04.860 It was probably the ugliest moment of the Obama presidency, or one of them.

00:36:08.620 I suppose it would be a long list, because Obama had a penchant for doing things like that.

00:36:12.240 But Obama, the great constitutional scholar that we were told he was, took a shot at the Supreme Court.

00:36:18.400 And, of course, the justices seated in front of him, I think six of the nine were there, they're not allowed to respond in any way.

00:36:23.920 They can't react.

00:36:25.160 They're not supposed to say anything.

00:36:26.340 They're supposed to be completely apolitical.

00:36:28.080 They come as a courtesy to the president and to show the three branches of government in one place.

00:36:32.240 But for Obama to insult the Supreme Court was horrible.

00:36:35.600 Biden just did it again.

00:36:37.000 This was not an appropriate State of the Union address.

00:36:39.680 However, it did achieve one great thing for President Biden, which is that it showed he can speak for an hour or more without falling asleep, without falling down.

00:36:51.040 He still has energy.

00:36:52.060 He still has stamina.

00:36:53.640 And he may not be in full command of the country at times or the details of policy, and he forgets names and dates and so forth.

00:37:00.580 But this display was very important as a message to his party that they should not try to replace him before the 2024 election.

00:37:10.540 And actually, before the speech, I said, if you want Joe Biden to lose in November, you should want him to do very well tonight, because the chances of Democrats winning are lower with Joe Biden in office.

00:37:21.680 They're higher with another candidate.

00:37:23.180 If you have another more vigorous candidate who can replace him, then that candidate would theoretically do better against Donald Trump.

00:37:30.920 Joe Biden is possibly the only Democrat who could lose to Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is, in fact, beating him everywhere.

00:37:36.640 So if you want Trump to win or you simply just want Biden to lose, then you needed him to do a good enough job last night to convince his own party it would be a waste of time to replace him.

00:37:48.020 And he did that.

00:37:48.780 He actually delivered the speech.

00:37:50.780 And some Democrats liked all the partisanship.

00:37:52.880 Of course, that's a very short-sighted view, because once the shoe's on the other foot, you can get it back in your face.

00:37:58.320 But that's how people reacted to it.

00:38:01.600 I think that Democrats liked it, and they felt more confident in the president.

00:38:06.360 Everybody else thought, what is this man doing leading our country?

00:38:09.440 He has a temper that he can't control.

00:38:11.800 He did stumble during the speech, despite whatever stimulants or otherwise he might have been on.

00:38:16.840 He stumbled many times.

00:38:18.300 He made mistakes.

00:38:19.580 And there was more heckling than I've ever seen or heard at a State of the Union address.

00:38:24.120 And much of it was well-deserved, because after they had heard the president go after them so viciously, many Republicans decided they'd had enough.

00:38:32.460 People were shouting things about how the president was lying.

00:38:35.720 There was a gold-star father, the father of one of the 13 U.S. servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan in a terror attack during the evacuation.

00:38:44.480 He was there in the gallery, and he started heckling Joe Biden.

00:38:46.800 He was eventually arrested and taken out.

00:38:49.440 But that has not happened.

00:38:51.860 It never happened during Trump speeches.

00:38:53.400 It happened once during an Obama speech, and the congressman who made the interjection at the time apologized profusely and so forth.

00:39:00.580 So it's really a violation of decorum.

00:39:02.620 But Biden basically invited it because he was attacking the opposition.

00:39:06.940 You don't do that in the State of the Union address.

00:39:09.180 One final point I'll make about the address, or maybe a couple.

00:39:13.560 So penultimate point here.

00:39:15.720 Biden started out talking about Vladimir Putin and Russia.

00:39:18.540 Now, I know that for some people that's a very important issue.

00:39:23.260 I care a lot about foreign policy.

00:39:25.580 You would never start the State of the Union by talking about another country.

00:39:29.140 You don't start by talking about Ukraine.

00:39:31.440 He mentioned Sweden and Finland before he mentioned the people of the United States.

00:39:35.560 I don't know who the speechwriters are, and I don't know why Washington thinks that these issues, like NATO expansion, are the number one thing they have to tackle in the State of the Union address.

00:39:45.380 But they put it right up front.

00:39:46.900 It was a terrible, terrible way to start.

00:39:49.160 He didn't even wait for the speaker to introduce him.

00:39:51.100 He just launched right into his speech about Putin and Ukraine and so forth.

00:39:54.540 And this is a moment like World War II and all nonsense, but also just deeply offensive.

00:39:59.620 The purpose of the State of the Union, the constitutional purpose, is the president has to report to Congress about the state of the United States.

00:40:07.980 Don't start with Putin and Ukraine.

00:40:09.840 And the other thing is, you know, we heard over and over again during Trump's presidency about what an anti-Semite he was.

00:40:16.900 While Trump spent a lot of time in his State of the Union addresses dealing with anti-Semitism, criticizing anti-Semitism, praising Holocaust survivors, talking about the Jewish community, speaking out against prejudice, he spent several minutes in 2019 in his speech talking about exactly that.

00:40:32.740 Biden didn't mention anti-Semitism at all, not once during the entire speech.

00:40:37.380 We've got a wave of anti-Semitism here.

00:40:39.720 I know that there are incidents in Canada as well that you just mentioned.

00:40:42.640 Biden didn't say a thing about it, not one thing.

00:40:45.240 So this was a campaign speech.

00:40:47.460 It was not the speech of a man leading a country and really confronting the challenges that Americans face.

00:40:53.500 Yeah, you didn't talk about anti-Semitism, but he certainly scolded Israel, implying that they're invading Gaza the wrong way, because General Joe Biden knows better.

00:41:04.300 I can't talk about Israel in a second.

00:41:06.640 Let me just talk about that.

00:41:07.540 So he did two things.

00:41:08.780 He expressed empathy for Israel, and that was actually good.

00:41:12.960 That was the best part of the speech, actually, because he talked about how Hamas had used sexual violence against Israeli victims and so forth. 0.85

00:41:21.520 That was important.

00:41:23.040 But then, as you point out, he flipped and began saying things about Israel that were deeply offensive.

00:41:29.220 He began to imply that Israel is not allowing humanitarian aid and that Israel isn't trying to avoid Palestinian casualties.

00:41:34.960 And then he came up with this idea of building a port in Gaza to allow for more aid to be shipped into Gaza.

00:41:43.480 Well, that's very nice, and the Israeli government is playing along, because why wouldn't they? 0.88

00:41:47.900 But it's also ridiculous.

00:41:49.700 The problem in Gaza isn't getting aid to Gaza. 0.74

00:41:52.400 It's distributing it within Gaza, because Hamas steals the aid, and the United Nations is incompetent and cannot distribute the aid.

00:41:59.680 So you can bring as much aid as you want.

00:42:02.300 And, in fact, more aid, as the U.S. government has admitted, comes in by truck than could ever come in by airdrop or by sea.

00:42:08.920 But the problem is, how do you distribute it once you get it there?

00:42:12.580 And the best way, in my view, to distribute the aid would be to allow Israel to win the war and the threat of Hamas, and then you can go wherever you like, all over Gaza. 0.72

00:42:21.440 There's no security risk anymore if there's no terrorism.

00:42:26.260 Very strange.

00:42:27.240 Yeah, like I said, we were so focused on Canadian things yesterday.

00:42:31.040 It feel like our whole country—you know what, Joel, 70 percent of Canadians say the country is broken.

00:42:36.320 That's the word that was tested in a poll.

00:42:38.220 Imagine that.

00:42:39.180 I think things are bleaker here even than in the U.S.

00:42:43.540 And I think our leader is more—he's like on a kamikaze run.

00:42:50.240 And the worse he does, the more it's like he just wants to burn the place down.

00:42:54.780 At least Joe Biden knows there's an election coming this year, and he's trying to set himself up to win.

00:43:01.340 Trudeau is in the low 20s in the polls, and I think he's just going to burn the whole place down.

00:43:06.380 And it really is shocking to see.

00:43:08.220 But to watch Joe Biden give priority to the fact that Sweden and Finland are no longer neutral, they're now part of NATO, that's so obscure.

00:43:21.000 And the fact that he was told and he agreed to make that the lead item.

00:43:27.960 When Americans are hurting too, I think Canadians are hurting more.

00:43:31.660 I think we've actually fallen back.

00:43:34.080 And per capita income were where we were 10 years ago.

00:43:37.120 There's a lot of things, new records that are being set in Canada for poverty and stress and cost of living.

00:43:43.740 But it's bad in America too, I think.

00:43:46.000 And I got to think that if anyone was watching it yesterday, they would have just clicked away.

00:43:51.560 Who cares about Finland and Sweden? 0.81

00:43:53.160 I mean, nice people and all, but I really think that most Americans don't give a damn.

00:43:58.220 Do we know what the viewership was?

00:43:59.860 We don't yet know the full viewership because some people watch it online and so forth.

00:44:05.880 But Americans are feeling very uncertain about the future.

00:44:11.640 The unemployment rate is low.

00:44:13.660 The economy is growing.

00:44:14.940 That's good.

00:44:16.000 But inflation has really hurt American households.

00:44:19.780 Yes, the inflation rate has come down.

00:44:21.940 But people are still struggling to pay for things.

00:44:25.160 Groceries are very expensive.

00:44:26.140 And really for an entire generation of Americans, Americans under 50, home ownership has become an impossible dream.

00:44:33.480 There's just no way that middle class families can afford a middle class lifestyle anymore.

00:44:39.480 And Biden and his cohort are completely insensitive to that.

00:44:43.980 And every time Biden talks about the middle class, he falls back on these old ideas of unions and organizing.

00:44:51.040 And that's all well and good, except that is not how most people earn money.

00:44:56.700 They don't have union jobs, most people.

00:44:58.960 And that's not how our economy works anymore.

00:45:00.680 We don't have guaranteed jobs with nine to five and benefits in retirement.

00:45:05.620 People live in an economy that's rapidly changing.

00:45:08.340 That's one of the reasons it's so successful, that people are adaptable and industries change.

00:45:13.380 But things are getting more expensive.

00:45:15.200 And Biden keeps imposing new regulations, new restrictions.

00:45:17.700 He boasted in his State of the Union address about passing legislation to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations.

00:45:26.100 Well, some of us thought that was a pretty good idea.

00:45:29.080 In fact, if there were anything to praise him for, it would be investing in the network that would be necessary for the country to move to electric vehicles.

00:45:38.040 OK, that's a pretty good idea.

00:45:39.080 It's now been more than two years, and we haven't seen, I don't think, more than a handful of these stations built.

00:45:46.800 How can it take two years to build at least a significant portion of the electric vehicle charging stations?

00:45:55.340 The difference between Biden and Trump is Trump is a builder, and he knows how to cut through red tape, and he knows how to get things done.

00:46:01.140 And Biden just is a politician.

00:46:02.700 He wants to pass legislation and hand out money to interest groups, and the Democrats are the party of government, so they apply all the regulations and all the environmental rules and all the rigmarole and the union requirements and everything like that.

00:46:15.580 They're not focused on getting the job done.

00:46:17.920 They're focused on getting paid and keeping the issue alive so that Biden can refer to it in speech after speech.

00:46:22.920 So I think Americans feel that the future is uncertain, not bleak necessarily, and I do think that if our economy weren't growing and we had higher unemployment, people would feel much worse.

00:46:37.320 But I just feel that there's a lack of confidence in our leadership.

00:46:41.460 The approval rating of the president is abysmally low, certainly relative to the economic performance that he's had in office, although the inflation is almost entirely of his own creation.

00:46:51.080 We had 2% inflation when he took office.

00:46:52.980 He then spent all this money that was unnecessary to spend, and the inflation promptly took off.

00:46:58.840 Now, the Fed has had to raise interest rates to bring it back down, and I think that the economy has so far had a soft landing.

00:47:07.480 But people just don't trust Joe Biden's leadership, not since Afghanistan in 2021.

00:47:12.200 They don't trust that he knows what he's doing, and we haven't even talked about the border yet.

00:47:17.200 I mean, the border is the most important crisis facing this country, and Biden is trying to say it's the Republicans' fault because they haven't funded what he wants to fund, and they haven't passed a law that he would sign, which would basically accept current levels of illegal migration, several thousand people crossing the border every day.

00:47:37.600 Well, Republicans won't accept that and can't accept that.

00:47:40.280 And Biden's claiming that it's only because Trump opposed the bill that Republicans have refused to take it up in the House of Representatives.

00:47:46.280 If Trump supported that bill, Republicans would tell him to get lost, just like many Republicans are telling him today that he's wrong about TikTok.

00:47:52.760 Trump somehow decided to defend TikTok, and many Republicans and conservatives, including strong Trump supporters, are telling him he's wrong, that TikTok is a threat to American national security and culture, and it's a threat to kids, and it's not about free speech.

00:48:07.320 It's about foreign propaganda coming into our living rooms and coming into our devices.

00:48:11.640 So people are telling Trump he's wrong about that, and he'll probably change his view.

00:48:16.280 But if Trump supported Biden's border security bill, which really belongs in scare quotes because it's not about border security, then the Republican Party would tell him to get lost because if you read the bill and look at the bill, which they hid for as long as possible, the bill is unacceptable.

00:48:30.100 It does not actually provide border security.

00:48:33.000 The bill simply accepts the status quo, which is a crisis level of migration.

00:48:38.360 So Biden's not grappling with the real challenges facing the country.

00:48:44.140 People like the fact that the economy is growing, but, you know, Americans are so resourceful and entrepreneurial that the economy will almost always grow if you just let Americans do what Americans do.

00:48:54.440 So I'm not even sure how much credit Americans give to Biden, and they really shouldn't give much because the recovery started under Trump.

00:49:00.060 It started in May 2020.

00:49:03.000 There was only a two-month recession under Trump in the COVID period.

00:49:07.160 As hard as that may be to leave because the media downplayed all of Trump's economic accomplishments.

00:49:12.040 But fundamentally, Biden did enough in the State of the Union to show Democrats that he deserves to lead the party.

00:49:18.000 But he also showed the country that he really has run out of things to do as a leader.

00:49:25.040 There's not much more he can do.

00:49:26.200 And we're hearing the same lines over and over again about lowering the prices of insulin, which is something Trump did, and then Biden reversed so that Biden could say he did it.

00:49:35.540 You know, there's no direction left in this administration.

00:49:38.360 And the fact that he started with Russia just tells you how directionless it is.

00:49:42.500 Were there any interesting responses?

00:49:46.580 Of course, the president gives the State of the Union, and there's a time slot for the opposition to respond.

00:49:54.040 I understand that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had a response.

00:49:58.340 Did you see any of those responses, and were any of them interesting?

00:50:01.100 Kennedy's response was interesting only because he said something that I think is important.

00:50:08.100 He's not the first to say it, but I think it is important to say that there is a spiritual and social crisis in America at the moment.

00:50:18.400 People are lonely.

00:50:20.340 And if you look at young people in particular, young people don't go to church.

00:50:24.120 They don't get married.

00:50:25.180 They don't have kids.

00:50:26.260 The birth rate has collapsed.

00:50:27.540 Twenty years ago, when George W. Bush was president, it was fashionable to look at the United States and Israel as two Western countries that had defied the general demographic decline.

00:50:38.300 You could look at Israelis having a lot of kids and Americans having a lot of kids.

00:50:42.480 And Americans and Israelis both have high levels of religious observance.

00:50:45.740 Most Israelis are secular, but there's a huge religious portion to Israeli life.

00:50:49.640 So the U.S. and Israel were in a category on their own.

00:50:52.280 Today, Israel is still religious, and Israelis are having more kids. 0.99

00:50:56.340 But the birth rate in the United States has fallen off a cliff to almost Eastern European post-communist levels because we are not going to church.

00:51:06.260 We're not encouraging young people to meet each other anymore.

00:51:08.900 We're not even encouraging romance.

00:51:11.600 And people have deeply unfulfilling personal lives because they're spending all their time on their phones.

00:51:17.240 And because we're not led by people who set any kind of example.

00:51:21.180 I'm not talking about a moral example that, you know, that was the idea of a president setting a moral example went out of fashion with Bill Clinton.

00:51:29.340 But that's not what we need.

00:51:30.440 We just need examples of adults being grownups and raising families and enjoying themselves and each other.

00:51:36.160 And we don't have that.

00:51:37.660 And that's what Kennedy's address was about.

00:51:39.180 So I think that he is on the right wavelength, even if he's not necessarily talking about the economy and foreign policy and other issues that he talks about in other contexts.

00:51:47.720 The Republican response to the State of the Union was given by Senator Katie Britt, and it was terrible.

00:51:53.200 It was just terrible.

00:51:55.340 I turned it off in the middle because I had to take care of my kids.

00:51:58.520 But there was nothing compelling about it, nothing really worth seeing.

00:52:01.560 So I'm a fan of the guy.

00:52:02.740 I know he's not a true conservative, but he doesn't say he is.

00:52:07.260 He's a true Democrat, which I think is more accurate.

00:52:10.500 But I find him interesting.

00:52:12.580 Joel, great to catch up.

00:52:13.700 No, I'll tell you something about Kennedy.

00:52:15.260 I'll tell you something about him.

00:52:16.360 You know, and a lot of people I know in L.A. know him because he lives in Los Angeles.

00:52:21.120 Everybody who knows Robert Kennedy tells you that he's a fantastic guy.

00:52:25.500 And I have actually had a few opportunities to interact with him.

00:52:29.400 And he is, in fact, a very fine person.

00:52:31.900 And if you look at how much abuse he's taken for supporting Israel against the wishes of

00:52:39.000 the left, you know, he's really a man of the left, but he supports Israel against Hamas.

00:52:44.620 And so he has lost donations.

00:52:46.720 He's lost campaign staff.

00:52:47.980 His campaign manager quit.

00:52:49.740 He has really taken some arrows for supporting Israel.

00:52:53.500 And yet he's still in the fight, polling at around 12 percent nationally.

00:52:57.480 That's not going to win him the presidency, but it makes him a very important spoiler.

00:53:00.820 And possibly a kingmaker.

00:53:03.280 So, you know, he is surviving, hanging in there.

00:53:07.460 But he has, in fact, proved that he's a good guy because he's willing to sacrifice for his principles.

00:53:12.180 Well, and by the way, he's done this at great risk.

00:53:16.800 The Homeland Security Secretary himself personally made the decision to refuse RFK secret service protection,

00:53:26.100 despite the fact that so many members of that family have been assassinated in the past and that it is...

00:53:31.180 It's worse than that.

00:53:32.800 It's worse than that.

00:53:34.260 The Homeland Security Secretary wrote to the Kennedy campaign that he had consulted with a committee of five people with whom he consults about these kinds of decisions.

00:53:43.980 It turns out that four of the five are the leaders of the parties in Congress, Senate majority leader and minority leader, House majority leader and minority leader, or Speaker of the House.

00:53:53.540 And so the committee is comprised of four out of five people who are from rival political parties, and they get to decide whether Robert F. Kennedy, who's running as an independent, deserves secret service protection.

00:54:09.340 It's like a political cartel.

00:54:12.560 Well, you know, we're used to that in Canada, but it's shocking that a decision about security, which is not a political matter, it is a scientific matter.

00:54:19.780 Does he need security? Are there threats?

00:54:21.700 It's a policing matter, an intelligence matter.

00:54:24.140 It's not a political matter.

00:54:25.180 And frankly, shame on those political parties, especially the Republicans who denied him that.

00:54:30.380 That's disgusting and a disgrace, and I certainly hope nothing bad comes from it, although he's spending an enormous amount of money on his own security.

00:54:37.900 Well, very interesting, and it's already March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, eight months till the election.

00:54:46.580 It's coming up quickly, and of course, we care about our Canadian election.

00:54:50.320 A lot will turn on it, but I put it to you that the difference between a Trump or a Biden win, that difference will have a greater effect on Canada.

00:55:00.360 Well, I mean, I suppose a Polyev or a Trudeau win is a big difference, too.

00:55:04.360 But the American decision will have an enormous effect on Canada.

00:55:08.100 Well, listen, I think if I can make a prediction, you know, I'm always wrong.

00:55:13.300 I predicted in 2016 Hillary Clinton would win, so that was wrong.

00:55:16.460 Even though I didn't want her to win, I thought she had to be inevitable because there was so much opposition to Trump.

00:55:21.360 But let me say this.

00:55:22.780 I don't think Joe Biden is going to be reelected as president of the United States.

00:55:28.100 I think Donald Trump is likely to return for a second presidential term, but he will do it with help from Kennedy.

00:55:35.380 I do think that Kennedy is going to spoil the race in enough states to allow Trump to take those states and their electoral college vote.

00:55:43.040 And there will be a huge outcry about it.

00:55:46.740 But Kennedy is where the Democrats are on social issues, especially on abortion and other issues that are very important to female voters. 0.99

00:55:58.120 But he's also where conservatives are in terms of his regard for free speech.

00:56:05.180 And I think that many people who can't bring themselves to vote for Biden are going to choose Kennedy.

00:56:11.940 He's going to hurt Biden more than Trump, even though he'll hurt Trump a little bit.

00:56:16.280 And I think that puts him in a very important position to make decisions or to perhaps serve in a next Trump administration in some capacity or to guide the policies of that administration.

00:56:29.560 I think we could be sitting here in mid to late November this year talking about what Robert F.

00:56:36.060 Kennedy Jr.'s role will be in a Trump administration.

00:56:39.040 Isn't that interesting?

00:56:40.040 Well, you know what?

00:56:40.560 From your mouth to God's ears, I think that would be wonderful.

00:56:43.440 I've never met the man.

00:56:44.560 We actually host in the Democracy Fund, a Canadian civil liberties charity, hosted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for an hour on a giant Zoom screen.

00:56:54.340 We had a town hall meeting with him.

00:56:56.360 I found him very strong charisma and personality, but I found him substantively a thinking man who gave real answers, not just political cliches.

00:57:08.400 A man who cares, who spent a life actually trying to do the right thing in his mind.

00:57:13.280 Like, he's been an activist rather than a political hack.

00:57:17.620 I hope he has a role in American public life, and I hope he has a role in government.

00:57:22.840 Joel, great to catch up with you.

00:57:23.800 Thanks very much.

00:57:25.240 Thank you.

00:57:26.060 All right.

00:57:26.360 There you have it.

00:57:26.760 Joel Pollack, senior editor-at-large of Breitbart.com.

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00:58:15.940 They literally let a woman go who hit a cop.

00:58:18.940 Could you imagine that happening during a trucker convoy?

00:58:22.320 These are dark days, but I think they'll get better.

00:58:24.820 I think removing Trudeau is step one in that.

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Rebel News Podcast - March 09, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canada's anti-Semitism brigade ramps up intimidation of Jewish communities

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