Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT： CBC’s ombudsman criticizes their journalists for smearing conservatives as 'far-right conspiracy theorists'

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Today's show, we're going to talk about the CBC rebuking itself for labeling

00:00:05.700 its enemies far-right conspiracy theories. It's quite something. We'll also have an update from

00:00:11.220 the streets of Israel, where our reporter Avi Amini is covering the war. And finally,

00:00:16.020 a lengthy letter from Maxime Bernier that touches on our show yesterday. That's all ahead. But first,

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00:00:56.800 Tonight, the CBC's own ombudsman criticizes their journalists for smearing conservatives as

00:01:11.420 far-right conspiracy theorists. It's October 13th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:16.220 You're ready for freedom! Shame on you, you censorious bug! 0.52

00:01:26.800 You know, we hear a lot about the phrase misinformation, disinformation, fact-checkers.

00:01:36.980 You almost always hear those words from governments or government-affiliated media.

00:01:43.580 That's another way of saying we are the arbiters of what's right. You aren't. And if we have a

00:01:48.880 difference of opinion, you're the one who's wrong. And it's science because we fact-check you.

00:01:54.740 It's been such a revelation for those who didn't know, or a confirmation for those who did know,

00:02:03.240 to watch the government-affiliated, government-bailed-out media commit the most disinformation

00:02:09.360 about the war in the Middle East. For example, they refuse to say the word terrorist when describing

00:02:15.600 the Hamas terrorist group. But it's not a matter of opinion. They do terrorist things. It is their 0.88

00:02:21.680 modus operandi, but more to the point, they are legally designated a terrorist group on the official

00:02:28.220 list published by the government of Canada. That list is there for a reason, because if something

00:02:32.640 is deemed a terrorist organization, the criminal code applies to certain support for it. If you

00:02:38.020 fundraise, if you support in other ways, if you travel to help them, those are all crimes that only

00:02:43.300 apply to registered listed terrorist groups like Hamas. Isn't it funny then? And that's the one group 0.75

00:02:50.900 they won't say it about. They also, and this is in a CBC memo instructing their reporters not to say

00:02:59.240 terrorists, they won't say that Gaza, from where Hamas launches its attacks on Israel, Gaza was 0.89

00:03:06.920 de-occupied by Israel in 2005. It's been almost 20 years since the last Israelis set foot there.

00:03:15.860 Not only did they move all the Israeli citizens out, they literally dug up the graveyards to remove 1.00

00:03:21.720 the remains of the Jews in the cemetery back to Israel, because they knew Hamas would desecrate it.

00:03:27.020 There was not a single Jew in Gaza. It's what Hitler would call Judenrein, Jew clean, Jew free. 0.59

00:03:35.400 And yet, instead of turning it into their own Arabian version of, I don't know, Arabia is Dubai.

00:03:41.520 Instead of a Dubai or a Singapore or a Hong Kong, I mean, think about it, a city of two million on 0.71

00:03:46.640 the Mediterranean coast, near Israel, across the sea from Greece, Italy, instead of turning that into

00:03:52.460 an amazing place, they turned it into a terrorist base camp. But the CBC will not let reporters let

00:03:58.740 you know that. I saw this incredible phrasing in a series of CBC headlines, tweets, and

00:04:05.320 articles. They said that some people, quote, died in the conflict, as if they were just using that

00:04:13.520 passive anonymous voice. They later made a fake correction, claiming the only reason they said

00:04:19.100 that, because all the facts were not out yet, but that's a lie. I saw yesterday, Global News,

00:04:24.480 British Columbia, said that today was Hamas's, quote, day of action. But Hamas never said that.

00:04:32.720 I went back and I re-watched the announcement, translated from Arabic, that Hamas made. And 0.93

00:04:39.740 today, indeed, was a day, depending on how you translate it, a day of rage or a day of

00:04:44.760 jihad. But Global News changed that. It wasn't an accident. They literally changed it to day

00:04:51.380 of action, because it sounds less terrorist-y than what they actually said. I say again, these

00:04:57.660 journalists who were the first to call you factually wrong, first to fact-check you, to say you're a

00:05:03.720 conspiracy theorist, that you're trading in misinformation, which is mistaken information,

00:05:08.420 or disinformation, which is saying things incorrectly on purpose. They are the ones who did

00:05:14.580 that. It is not an accident to change a translation. It's not an accident to order everyone in your

00:05:20.480 company not to use the word terrorist. That is dictionary definition disinformation. Here's an

00:05:26.460 interesting tweet I saw. The CBC does call some people terrorists. They love calling the Proud Boys

00:05:34.220 terrorists. I don't think the Proud Boys have—I think they had one meeting in Canada. It's just

00:05:39.340 a bunch of good boys who like drinking beer. They haven't engaged in terrorism. But the CBC will call

00:05:44.720 their—them terrorists. They'll certainly call the January 6th Meanderers terrorists, but not actual

00:05:50.900 terrorists. Which brings me to a story I saw the other day in Black Locks. You know what Black Locks

00:05:57.140 is. It's one of the few independent media companies left in this country. Like us, they don't take any

00:06:01.700 money from Trudeau. Here's their headline, Drop the Labels, CBC told. Oh, told by whom? The CBC should

00:06:08.820 rethink news coverage that disparages cabinet critics as extreme or disreputable, warns the network

00:06:15.560 ombudsman. The advisory follows a 2021 attempt by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to act as a

00:06:22.940 political fact-checker. I will take this opportunity to stress to programmers at CBC they assume a great

00:06:28.300 responsibility when they choose to use terms such as misinformation and disinformation in their stories,

00:06:33.940 wrote ombudsman Jack Nagler. When they do so, they had better be right, because if it turns out down

00:06:39.380 the road the information proved to be correct, they can do great damage to their reputation, unquote.

00:06:44.360 Well, that's the thing. They don't care. They know that's their mission. They are on a mission for their

00:06:50.280 paymaster, Justin Trudeau, and their own ideology. Damage to their reputation. What do they care? They get

00:06:55.980 paid whether or not they have a reputation. They take $1.5 billion a year from our tax dollars. I'll keep

00:07:01.980 going. CBC News should reconsider use of the term far-right in stories, added Nagler. Simple presentation of facts

00:07:09.520 is preferable, so, quote, readers can judge for themselves who is reasonable and who is extreme, rather than

00:07:14.340 declaring it for them. Wouldn't that be something if the CBC let you make up your own mind?

00:07:20.220 Labels should be employed with great caution, Nagler wrote in a notice theory or conspiracy theory.

00:07:27.680 Sometimes it would be safer to say there is no evidence for something rather than proclaiming

00:07:31.640 it to be false. Yeah, I think that's right. The ombudsman's comments followed complaints over an

00:07:37.520 August 2022 story by CBC Montreal reporter Jonathan Montpetit. The online article was

00:07:43.440 headlined, Canada's convoy movement waved the Dutch flag. Then conspiracy theory swirled about fertilizer

00:07:49.000 and bugs. It reported a document, quote, deliberate attempts to sow confusion about government policies by

00:07:54.680 far-right media and conservative politicians. I'll just read a little bit more. The article named

00:08:00.720 conservative MP Cheryl Gallant, Alberta Transport Minister Devin Drieschen, the Toronto Sun, the

00:08:06.460 Western Standard, Rebel News Network, Farmers Forum, and the website Counter Signal. Look at this.

00:08:12.280 None were asked for comment. Quote, didn't the CBC have an obligation to go interview people who

00:08:19.260 support the convoy? Wrote ombudsman Nagler. Oh my God, if he keeps talking like that, I think he's going to get

00:08:24.700 fired. The notice on labels followed Facebook Canada's naming of CBC News as a fact checker

00:08:31.220 during the 2021 election. The network's French language service, Radio Canada, was to comment

00:08:37.220 on the integrity of other media's campaign coverage. Do you get that? So the CBC would decide whether or

00:08:45.680 not a story would get promoted or hidden on Facebook. They got paid to do that. Quote, when a fact checker

00:08:52.100 rates a piece of content as false, we significantly reduce its distribution so that fewer people can

00:08:58.300 see it. Facebook wrote in its 2021 Canadian election integrity initiative, we notify people who try to

00:09:03.940 share the content or previously shared it, that the information is false. And we apply a warning label

00:09:09.320 that links to the fact checker's article disproving the claim, unquote. So the CBC can censor their

00:09:15.660 competition. Translation, Trudeau's CBC, Trudeau's state broadcaster can censor his critics. I'll read

00:09:27.260 a little more. Catherine Tate, CEO of the CBC, in 2019 testimony of the Commons Heritage Committee,

00:09:33.200 described the Crown broadcaster as a beacon for truth in a stormy sea of disinformation.

00:09:40.300 Quote, how do you, how do we protect and defend our citizenry from this unbelievable tsunami

00:09:46.760 of disinformation? In a sense, we become a beacon for truth, said Tate. We need the public to feel

00:09:52.260 safe that we are a beacon for that truth. You know, every once in a while, I don't get it a lot now,

00:09:57.600 but sometimes people say, Ezra, you should change the name of Rebel News. I don't like Rebel.

00:10:02.500 Sounds wrong. You should go for truth news. You know, I appreciate people trying to help us out.

00:10:09.920 We're not changing our name. I'll just give you the short answer there. But the longer answer is,

00:10:13.620 look, if you got to say you're the truth news, that suggests that you aren't. It's like Justin

00:10:20.760 Trudeau professing he's such a feminist. Yeah, we, most people who respect women don't go around

00:10:27.000 telling everybody how much they respect women. It's probably him just getting out in front of his

00:10:31.000 disrespect to them. But more to the point, I don't believe that we have a monopoly on truth.

00:10:36.900 We like to tell the other side of the story and we have a motto, follow the facts wherever they

00:10:40.800 lead. But I'm not saying that every single thing we say is correct. We make corrections from time to

00:10:46.820 time. And a lot of the things we say are a point of view that we think is reasonable, but other

00:10:52.180 people can hold an other reasonable or even an unreasonable point of view. I would never call

00:10:56.900 our company truth news because I don't think I'm audacious enough to think that we are the only

00:11:02.280 ones with the truth. But that is what the CBC just said. The CEO said, we are a beacon of truth.

00:11:08.300 That beacon of truth that's being lying to you for the past week refuses to call Hamas terrorists

00:11:13.540 and covers up disinformation wise, the truth of how Canadian murder victims of the terrorist group

00:11:20.480 were killed. You know, it reminds me of one of Trudeau's buddies, Jacinda Ardern. Do you remember her

00:11:26.840 early in the pandemic saying she's your one source source of truth? Remember this atrocious clip?

00:11:32.980 We will share with you the most up-to-date information daily. You can trust us as a source

00:11:39.440 of that information. You can also trust the Director General of Health and the Ministry of Health.

00:11:45.680 For that information, do feel free to visit at any time to clarify any rumor you may hear,

00:11:51.140 COVID-19.govt.nz. Otherwise, dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source

00:12:00.220 of truth. We will provide information frequently. We will share everything we can, everything else you

00:12:07.340 see, a grain of salt. Yeah, just unbelievable. Gee, I can't imagine why New Zealanders got sick of her. 1.00

00:12:14.340 Here's the story that the ombudsman was criticizing originally. It's still on the website, which is

00:12:19.980 incredible. It has not been corrected. It has not been taken down. What's the point of an ombudsman

00:12:26.460 trashing a piece of journalism saying it's absolutely unethical? And then the CBC thing,

00:12:32.940 thanks very much for your opinion. We're just going to keep it. Thank you very little.

00:12:37.020 Let me read a little bit of it because Rebel News makes an appearance. Canada's convoy movement

00:12:41.700 waved the Dutch flag. Then conspiracy theories swirled about fertilizer and bugs. Now, right away,

00:12:48.380 you know that those are not conspiracy theories. If you watch our show, you know that there is a war

00:12:52.860 on nitrogen. It's so bizarre. They, it's like they're trying to take elements out of the periodic

00:12:57.200 table. You just can't. I mean, they have a war on carbon, which is bizarre. They want a war on

00:13:03.060 nitrogen. Trudeau says so. And Holland has proceeded down that right route. Let me, let me get right into

00:13:09.660 the article here. Far right media, conservative politicians stoking misinformation about an early

00:13:17.520 plan to cut emissions. Far right. Hey, I got a question for you. Have you ever, I mean, think back,

00:13:23.980 you've been watching the CBC for a while, likely. Have you ever heard them call anyone far left?

00:13:31.820 And by the way, who's to say we're far right? What does that mean these days? If you ask me what we

00:13:36.980 stand for, we stand for civil liberties and privacy and peace. Is that far right?

00:13:45.160 Let me read a little bit of a passage from it to you. This is a little bit down in the story.

00:13:50.080 Soon after, far right media outlets in Canada seized on the Dutch protests to promote conspiracy

00:13:56.420 theories that reinforced anti-government ideologies. Many of these sites had already been sowing

00:14:03.420 misinformation about food supply issues. So no facts are given. They're calling, uh, conservatives

00:14:09.920 far right. They're saying they've sown conspiracy theories. No evidence given on that. They're just

00:14:13.880 telling you. The Western Standard, a conservative publication based in Calgary, amplified in July,

00:14:21.720 a conspiracy theory that claimed fires were being deliberately set at farms around the world to

00:14:26.380 make populations more dependent on governments. The column, which was shared more than 450 times on

00:14:32.140 Facebook to accounts totaling 136,000 followers, suggested that Global Plot was the real reason

00:14:38.960 behind Ottawa's decision to help fund a cricket processing plant in London, Ontario, even though

00:14:44.520 the facility mostly produces pet food. Let's stop there. We've done stories on that same thing.

00:14:52.040 Hey guys, don't worry about the fact that they are making insect food for humans because

00:14:56.960 mostly it's for pets. So if you say it's a food plant for people, that's a conspiracy theory because

00:15:06.940 a lot of it's for your pets. No, that's not, that doesn't make it a conspiracy theory. Uh, it is a,

00:15:14.840 an interesting fact that not all the food is for people, but it's not a conspiracy theory. Let me read a

00:15:21.780 little bit more. I mean, my point there is that there's no fact checking here. It's just opinion.

00:15:26.960 They're wrong. It's a conspiracy theory. But again, what is the Western Standard? I know those guys

00:15:31.100 pretty well. How are they far right? Or hang on, are they far right or are they conservative? Because

00:15:36.600 they said a bunch of far right media and then they called them conservative. Are they saying

00:15:40.700 conservative equals far right? And I'll read some more from this bizarre article that in itself is

00:15:46.600 disinformation. In the days that followed, Canada's far right media pushed more disinformation to

00:15:53.880 their readers. Rebel News, for instance, claimed the Dutch government had pandered to the radical

00:15:58.880 demands of the World Economic Forum. Okay. Of course we said that. And then look at what they did. Echoing

00:16:05.900 a popular conspiracy theory that maintains the Swiss think tank is secretly forcing governments around

00:16:14.780 the world to adopt left-wing policies. Hang on, hang on, hang on. I have never said that in my life.

00:16:21.980 You've heard me talk about the World Economic Forum a hundred times. I don't see. How would they even

00:16:27.680 force? Like, what does that even mean? But you'll notice we didn't say that. We said the government is

00:16:35.060 pandering to them. That means doing things that they want that they shouldn't. As in the Canadian

00:16:42.780 government, the Dutch government are doing things the World Economic Forum likes. You know what the word

00:16:47.880 pandering means. I didn't say the World Economic Forum is forcing that. So you see what he said.

00:16:55.480 He said, we echo a conspiracy theory of forcing. But we didn't echo. Echo is to repeat it. We didn't

00:17:02.780 repeat it. He's lying. His fact check is factually inaccurate. I'll keep reading. Another far-right

00:17:10.780 publication, The Counter Signal, recirculated the comments of a former far-right Dutch politician. Boy, he's

00:17:16.540 laid in a lot of people far-right with no proof, no evidence. He's just saying it and you've got to

00:17:20.720 believe it. Who falsely claimed the goal of the Dutch climate plan was to confiscate the farmer's land

00:17:26.780 and then give it to the immigrants. Well, how do you know what the goal is? Different people can have 0.98

00:17:30.720 different goals. That's a matter of opinion, not a matter of fact. And we never echoed or repeated

00:17:38.520 or agreed with any of these weird claims. I can't speak for the Counter Signal and the Western Standard.

00:17:43.920 But that line about the World Economic Forum secretly forcing people, that is disinformation

00:17:51.620 from the CBC. You know, this is called a straw man argument. Have you ever heard that logical fallacy?

00:17:57.480 We did not repeat a conspiracy theory. We didn't. So they said we echoed one, which is not true.

00:18:05.060 Echoing is repeating. They just put in what they sort of wished we could say, wished we had said,

00:18:10.720 so they could rebut us. But we didn't say it. They couldn't rebut what we said. We said they're

00:18:15.600 pandering. They couldn't rebut that. That's true, or at least it's an opinion. So they put a straw man

00:18:22.220 argument. Oh, this is sort of like that other thing that I saw somewhere that they're secretly

00:18:26.600 forcing you. That's a straw man argument. Oh, and by the way, the leader of Holland,

00:18:32.480 Holland, Mark Rutte, is a World Economic Forum member. And by the way, Klaus Schwab boasts

00:18:39.280 about penetrating the cabinets. Remember this clip?

00:18:42.240 We are very proud of now the young generation, like Prime Minister Trudeau, President of Argentina

00:18:51.840 and so on, that we penetrate the cabinets. The idea that the CBC would fact check anyone

00:18:59.200 is a laugh. I mean, they're called Proud Boys terrorists, but call Hamas militants at worst.

00:19:05.360 That's the era we're in right now. And I believe that in the next election, fact checking will be

00:19:12.880 the way that Justin Trudeau, not just Facebook, but Justin Trudeau orders internet sites like ours

00:19:20.880 to be downranked, to be hidden. I've told you before about C11, which is now law. C11 gives Trudeau's

00:19:29.920 CRTC the power to order any broadcaster, even online, like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok,

00:19:37.400 Instagram, the power to order them to alter the discoverability of the news. That's the word right

00:19:44.040 there in the law. In the past, it was just Facebook who you saw that would boost or throttle posts

00:19:50.860 based on the CBC's fact checks of us. What a laugh. But now the government itself has the power to do

00:19:57.960 that under Bill C11. I used to think that in some way the government would prosecute us or try to

00:20:05.200 jail us or try and get a court order against us in some way. But I realized that's far too messy

00:20:11.680 and it gives us far too many chances to beat them. No, what I think is going to happen is under C11 1.00

00:20:19.020 and other internet censorship laws, Justin Trudeau will simply tell YouTube, Facebook, Twitter,

00:20:26.440 et cetera, et cetera, to hide us just for discoverability algorithm reasons, to promote

00:20:33.140 trusted news sources. He won't ban us. He'll just make it so no one sees us.

00:20:40.660 Stay with us. Up next, the latest from Avi Yemini in Israel.

00:20:45.060 Yeah, is there another long day here in Israel? Well, we're staying in Jerusalem because I think it's

00:21:04.680 the safest place as they don't tend to target it with the rockets for a number of reasons. One,

00:21:10.940 because 40% of the population here are Arabs. And secondly, there are a lot of sites they don't

00:21:16.980 want to hit. But we head to the south and you can feel it immediately. It's a war zone. It's a war

00:21:24.700 zone and I can't believe it. You know, for all the years that I've visited Israel, I've never seen

00:21:28.640 the war zone inside the borders of Israel. And it was evident as we were reporting, we head towards

00:21:36.400 BRM, which we tried to get in to show the world what, you know, the tragedy, the massacre that

00:21:42.660 unfolded there, the aftermath of it, where people ironically went to celebrate a peace

00:21:49.400 party close to the Gaza border. I think it's only a couple of Ks from the Gaza border.

00:21:56.580 And we saw what unfolded there, Hamas coming in with paragliders and just massacred, butchering

00:22:04.140 people, hundreds of people, raping him, kidnapping him, taking him back to Gaza. And as we got to the

00:22:12.980 checkpoint to get in, you know, as we're waiting for permission, which we're still working on to

00:22:18.740 actually go in there through our contacts. We interviewed a, I was interviewing a man there

00:22:27.260 that's part of a civilian group that are, they've actually been part of the protest movement

00:22:34.560 in the last couple of years, fighting the government. And he was explaining how, even though

00:22:41.740 the left and right were so divided, which is this thing that we were talking about yesterday.

00:22:46.440 Um, and he's very much from the left, anti the government. They've now taken that protest

00:22:52.860 movement and they've, um, used that to try helping in their way, um, with the on the ground

00:23:02.820 operations of, you know, helping civilians, helping people get out, uh, whatever it is, there's

00:23:09.180 a whole range of things. Most of the guys are ex-military and a lot of them are, you know,

00:23:14.800 high ranking officers. But anyways, while he was telling me what, what they're doing and,

00:23:19.640 and what they're about and the history. And suddenly we hear a loud bang and it was a drone,

00:23:26.920 not far, probably again, 150 meters from us, um, hit a, hit a targeting military, um, military

00:23:35.900 personnel. Slightly shaken from the explosion, we waited a few moments until it seemed like

00:23:43.480 the threat had passed and continued our interview. When suddenly shooting began.

00:23:49.320 gunfire, gunfire, gunfire, gunfire. Gunfire. As we were trying to figure out what was happening

00:23:59.160 ahead, I noticed a drone above and bolted for the bomb shelter nearby.

00:24:04.660 gunfire, gunfire, gunfire, gunfire, gunfire.

00:24:07.560 It's a drone.

00:24:08.400 It's a drone.

00:24:12.140 They're trying to take it.

00:24:13.360 There's someone who's a drone.

00:24:14.540 Look at him!

00:24:16.860 Look at him!

00:24:17.700 I got it, I got it. 0.99

00:24:20.440 Why do you not shoot? 0.73

00:24:22.180 Why?

00:24:22.840 Got no video, got no video.

00:24:24.480 I got no video.

00:24:26.640 Come.

00:24:27.480 There's a drone.

00:24:29.340 There's a drone.

00:24:30.380 It's a drone.

00:24:31.380 They're trying, right now.

00:24:31.960 They're trying over us.

00:24:33.380 They're aiming, they're coming back around.

00:24:35.720 They come back around.

00:24:37.420 Where is it?

00:24:38.760 There we go, they're starting to shoot it.

00:24:40.120 It seems like they managed to shoot it down.

00:24:42.360 That's the first time we've been close enough

00:24:43.800 from a shelter to actually get in there in time.

00:24:47.240 But this is the situation here,

00:24:48.900 and it does not look like it's settling down anytime soon.

00:24:53.840 Inside that exclusion zone, 150 meters, like I said,

00:24:58.440 from where we were, and as we're trying to figure out

00:25:02.040 what was going on, and it seemed like the threat had passed,

00:25:06.280 we just continued our interview, and then gunfire from the same space.

00:25:14.060 And as that was unfolding, I look up and I can see a drone coming towards us,

00:25:20.500 and we head straight to the bomb shelter, which was just a couple of meters from us,

00:25:26.760 which unlike yesterday, yesterday when we heard the bangs,

00:25:29.780 and it's the same thing.

00:25:30.340 There's no warning, there's no warning.

00:25:32.040 So in this case, we happened to be a couple of meters from a bomb shelter,

00:25:37.120 and we got straight in there, took cover, waited for it to pass,

00:25:41.920 and we could hear probably a minute or two later,

00:25:45.460 forces in the fields across had, it seemed like, shot it down.

00:25:50.640 But it really brought home the fact that we're in the middle of a war zone,

00:25:57.420 trying to tell the truth, trying to show the world what's happening,

00:26:00.400 but we've ordered body armor because it is scary.

00:26:04.960 I'm not going to pretend like it's not scary, especially a drone.

00:26:09.080 You know, rockets are one thing as scary as they are,

00:26:11.480 but this drone where they've obviously got a camera on there,

00:26:15.180 and they're looking for targets, and we're right there.

00:26:18.300 So I don't know if there wasn't a bomb shelter,

00:26:21.480 if we would have become the next target, don't know.

00:26:24.100 So we have an ordered body armor, which is coming from America on Sunday,

00:26:28.480 and I urge everyone to help us, whoever's interested, that likes

00:26:32.320 and believes in our mission to head over to thetruthaboutthewar.com

00:26:35.940 and chuck in a couple of bucks to help us cover them there.

00:26:38.300 Not cheap, it costs us thousands of dollars just to cover that side of it,

00:26:42.320 which is just one of the many expenses involved in this mission.

00:26:45.840 But I think this mission is already a couple of days in,

00:26:48.880 seems worth it to me.

00:26:50.860 And this is just the beginning tomorrow.

00:26:52.980 We believe tomorrow or tomorrow night,

00:26:55.700 the ground incursion into Gaza is likely to start.

00:27:01.360 So I expect things to get a lot worse,

00:27:05.380 but hopefully we'll have that little bit of protection

00:27:07.420 to make ourselves and our families a little bit more comfortable

00:27:12.440 with what we're doing, but I believe what we're doing is right.

00:27:15.940 So we'll continue doing it.

00:27:19.200 We head back to Jerusalem after that.

00:27:21.460 We thought that obviously Hamas called for a day of action,

00:27:32.040 which is their terminology for jihad, for attacks.

00:27:36.300 It seems that their calls for some reason didn't pan out here.

00:27:44.520 There's a few theories going around.

00:27:46.320 So we actually headed to the old city of Jerusalem to see what,

00:27:54.100 because usually that's where it would really kick off if it would kick off.

00:27:57.640 And I've never seen the old city of Jerusalem so quiet.

00:28:02.200 No one on the streets.

00:28:04.840 I believe that from what I understand that the groups that come,

00:28:10.620 so we were expecting them to come out of Al-Aqsa Mosque

00:28:13.360 and to begin to riot.

00:28:16.340 That's traditionally what happens, but there wasn't anyone out there.

00:28:20.640 After going to the old city,

00:28:22.540 I believe there's two factors that probably played a part in that.

00:28:26.760 One is the fact that the city is so quiet that anyone there is there to cause trouble

00:28:37.140 and it would be quite easy for police to manage.

00:28:39.820 There were a lot of police there at the time.

00:28:43.140 It was clear that they were expecting trouble or they were preparing for the worst.

00:28:47.320 They were not willing to be taken off guard once again.

00:28:51.320 Last weekend was shocking enough.

00:28:53.480 But I also understand the other reason why people believe that there were no rights today

00:29:03.700 is because of the heavy response over the last couple of days.

00:29:08.200 For example, whether you agree with it or not,

00:29:11.180 a tactical decision was taken that a pizza shop that had made a meme

00:29:19.480 mocking the kidnapped mother, they demolished the shop.

00:29:25.640 Now, it sounds authoritarian and, like I said,

00:29:28.760 whether people agree with that action or not.

00:29:31.600 It's possible in a couple of years that a person will go to the Supreme Court here

00:29:36.800 when this war is all said and done and they may even potentially win.

00:29:41.980 But I think from what I understand, the tactical decision to do that is to send a message

00:29:50.700 to those inside of Israel's border.

00:29:53.940 So you have the Israeli Arabs and you also have within the East Jerusalem,

00:29:58.380 you have the Palestinians there that, like in this case, could riot, 0.93

00:30:04.200 could spark up another front, sending them a message that we're not messing around now.

00:30:09.380 This is not a time to open another front because we are going to come down harder

00:30:15.980 than we've ever come down before.

00:30:19.600 That's our day.

00:30:20.560 We've come back here and here I am talking to you.

00:30:23.640 Tomorrow we start nice and early.

00:30:25.540 We do it all again and hopefully on Sunday those vests arrive.

00:30:29.420 Again, thetruthaboutthewar.com.

00:30:33.640 We're going to file up all our reports there

00:30:35.720 and I want to thank everyone that's helping us make this happen

00:30:39.880 because without you, the viewers, I can't be here.

00:30:43.580 It is tough.

00:30:44.500 This is a tough gig on a regular day,

00:30:47.660 but just knowing that we have you guys at home there supporting us

00:30:50.320 makes it that much easier.

00:30:52.240 So thank you, Anesra, until Monday.

00:30:56.100 Stay safe.

00:30:56.600 Well, if you want to see all of Avi's reports,

00:31:11.220 go to thetruthaboutthewar.com.

00:31:13.720 And by the way, we hope to have a bulletproof vest for him and Benji

00:31:17.300 over the weekend.

00:31:18.340 It was hard to find one, as you can probably imagine.

00:31:21.980 Anyways, as you know, I did my show the other day on Maxime Bernier.

00:31:25.040 I invited him to come on the show

00:31:26.900 because I wanted to talk to him about these things.

00:31:28.940 But he said he didn't want to, but he sent me a private message.

00:31:32.340 And I asked him if I could read it on the show.

00:31:34.480 And he said yes.

00:31:35.240 So let me read to you Maxime Bernier's response

00:31:38.380 to the points I made yesterday.

00:31:42.120 He said,

00:31:43.200 Hi, Anesra, I think you misunderstand my statement.

00:31:45.620 I haven't seen any Canadian Jews

00:31:47.300 calling for murdering Palestinians at hate rallies.

00:31:50.260 So I'm talking about those who are bringing this conflict here, 0.91

00:31:53.080 not those who aren't.

00:31:54.320 Well, my reaction is, then why didn't he say so?

00:31:57.060 Because he was conflating the murderers and the victims in his statements.

00:32:01.580 As for calling for Canada to get involved,

00:32:03.920 it may not be the case now,

00:32:05.620 but it doesn't take too long for this to change,

00:32:08.340 as we saw with Ukraine or with Iraq and Afghanistan 20 years ago.

00:32:12.960 Well, his whole arguments were saying,

00:32:15.320 keep that over there, don't get involved.

00:32:16.880 I have not heard any Israeli say,

00:32:19.740 Hey, Canada, can you help us with troops or money or anything?

00:32:23.360 I think Israel's been around for about 75 years.

00:32:25.780 I don't think it ever has.

00:32:27.620 I just disagree with Maxime Bernier here.

00:32:30.700 He continues,

00:32:32.020 I abhor all forms of violence against civilians,

00:32:34.160 but as I tweeted,

00:32:35.600 there are atrocities committed almost every day somewhere in the world,

00:32:38.300 and no one in Canada comments on them

00:32:40.300 or is pressuring me to show empathy and take side in a foreign conflict,

00:32:43.920 even though there are surely some Canadians who came from these areas.

00:32:48.180 Okay, that's obviously true,

00:32:49.980 but this is not just some run-of-the-mill moment.

00:32:52.440 This is a cataclysmic event.

00:32:55.260 The scale of it,

00:32:57.020 the brutality of it,

00:32:59.180 and the fact that it is shaping foreign affairs

00:33:02.100 and frankly causing roiling our institutions in the country.

00:33:06.320 We're seeing people come forward,

00:33:09.160 the Air Canada pilot who supports Hamas terrorists,

00:33:14.400 the Toronto police who support Hamas terrorists.

00:33:17.480 It's not just some foreign thing.

00:33:19.440 It's causing a crisis here in town,

00:33:21.740 here in our country.

00:33:23.720 He continues,

00:33:24.820 I decided several years ago

00:33:27.920 I would stop commenting with thoughts and prayers

00:33:30.400 or denunciations

00:33:31.500 every time something horrible happens in another country, 0.95

00:33:34.020 which had become a silly race 1.00

00:33:35.340 to see who is the fastest to tweet in the strongest words.

00:33:38.880 I only tweet when it directly concerns Canada.

00:33:41.240 If you remember,

00:33:41.900 the press ganged up on me

00:33:42.860 when I said nothing after the Christchurch massacre,

00:33:45.240 which Trudeau exploited for weeks

00:33:46.640 to push his narrative about Islamophobia and white supremacy.

00:33:49.640 I don't see any reason to change this rule now.

00:33:52.040 My only concern is to keep Canada out of this conflict.

00:33:54.380 I don't want to be sucked into the debate

00:33:56.280 about who is good, bad, really, really bad, why,

00:33:58.720 and what can be done about it

00:33:59.840 when there's absolutely nothing

00:34:01.160 or I or even Canada can do about it.

00:34:03.600 I want to focus on Canadian issues

00:34:05.240 on which I have an influence.

00:34:06.740 Why is this not a legitimate position?

00:34:08.560 I hope you understand.

00:34:10.860 I'm not asking for him

00:34:12.140 to come up with a political plan

00:34:14.280 for Israel and Gaza or the West Bank.

00:34:17.240 I'm telling you that the crisis is here in Canada

00:34:20.800 when you have thousands of pro-Hamas people rallying

00:34:24.360 shouting intifada, which means race, riots, pogrom,

00:34:30.260 when they chant from the river to the sea, 1.00

00:34:32.280 which means kill all Israelis. 0.99

00:34:34.680 In other places like Sydney, Australia, 1.00

00:34:37.880 they were saying death to the Jews.

00:34:39.600 I'm sure they were saying similar things 0.98

00:34:41.040 at some of the hate rallies across Canada.

00:34:43.140 When you have Jewish kids being threatened in Toronto 0.53

00:34:46.580 by Arab men on the street,

00:34:50.480 it is very much something

00:34:52.240 that should be of concern to Canadians.

00:34:54.400 And when you have universities

00:34:56.340 and political leaders saying,

00:34:59.220 no, that kind of violence is acceptable,

00:35:02.300 then it becomes a Canadian issue,

00:35:03.920 very much a Canadian issue.

00:35:05.520 By the way, if I was Maxime Bernier,

00:35:07.140 and if I was worried about being shoved off the map

00:35:10.200 by Pierre Polyev,

00:35:11.120 because Polyev is much stronger on the issues

00:35:13.380 than Aaron O'Toole was,

00:35:14.860 if I was Maxime Bernier,

00:35:16.220 instead of saying,

00:35:17.300 I don't care about these images,

00:35:18.940 stop being so emotional,

00:35:20.180 I would say,

00:35:20.860 this is an opportunity for me

00:35:23.120 to differentiate myself from Pierre Polyev

00:35:24.960 by talking about immigration.

00:35:27.040 Pierre Polyev has not said

00:35:29.260 that he will reduce immigration by a single number.

00:35:32.120 He has not said he will vet immigration

00:35:34.180 for cultural fit.

00:35:35.740 If I was Maxime Bernier

00:35:37.200 and wanted to get back

00:35:37.980 in the media and political action,

00:35:40.340 instead of saying,

00:35:41.440 oh, stop being so emotional

00:35:42.740 about pictures of women 0.99

00:35:44.000 being raped and murdered,

00:35:45.780 how about say something practical 1.00

00:35:47.600 like freeze immigration,

00:35:50.880 deport foreign nationals

00:35:52.240 who are at these hate rallies,

00:35:54.200 prosecute support for terrorism,

00:35:57.060 and generally denounce terrorist

00:36:01.080 and woke ideology in our institutions.

00:36:03.480 How's that not the better move?

00:36:05.920 And by the way,

00:36:06.900 I don't know if Pierre Polyev

00:36:08.160 would follow on several of those.

00:36:09.820 I don't think Pierre Polyev would say,

00:36:11.860 yes, we should deport. 0.88

00:36:13.200 I don't think he would say,

00:36:14.400 yes, we should freeze immigration.

00:36:16.020 Don't you think that's a better battlefield

00:36:17.400 for Maxime Bernier

00:36:18.360 than telling people, 0.96

00:36:19.460 oh, stop crying over some raped bodies? 0.97

00:36:21.620 I think he's just tone deaf on this stuff, 0.94

00:36:24.100 and I don't understand what's going on.

00:36:25.920 But I wanted to read to you his reply to me

00:36:27.880 since he did send it.

00:36:29.940 Well, that's the show for today.

00:36:31.120 Until Monday,

00:36:32.720 on behalf of all of us here

00:36:33.780 at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:36:34.780 to you at home,

00:36:36.100 stay safe

00:36:36.860 and keep fighting for freedom.

00:36:38.560 as soon

00:36:43.520 as soon

00:36:44.000 as soon

00:36:45.020 as soon

00:36:45.120 as.

00:36:45.220 We'll be right back.

Rebel News Podcast - October 14, 2023

EZRA LEVANT： CBC’s ombudsman criticizes their journalists for smearing conservatives as 'far-right conspiracy theorists'

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